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Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF)

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is an informal, voluntary arrangement among 15 international organizations and secretariats with substantial programmes on forests. These agencies share their experiences and build on them to produce new benefits for their respective constituencies. They collaborate to streamline and align their work and to find ways of improving forest management and conservation and the production and trade of forest products.

The members are also forming close and valuable strategic partnerships with one another, benefiting from shared expertise and pooled resources.

The core functions of the CPF are to:

  • Support the work of United Nations Forum on Forests and its member countries; Provide scientific and technical advice to the Forum and governing bodies of other CPF members, at their request;
  • Enhance coherence, cooperation as well as policy and programme coordination at all levels, including through joint programming and the submission of coordinated proposals to members’ governing bodies, consistent with their mandates;
  • Promote the implementation of the UN Forest Instrument and the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests as well as the contribution of forests and trees to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other major forest-related agreements.
Activity period 2001–2024
Last CoAct update n/a
Web URL https://www.fao.org/collaborative-partnership-on-forests/en
Output effectiveness
0.68
Accountability Index
0.33
Inclusiveness Index
0.35
Num. actors 15
Functions Knowledge production, Knowledge dissemination, Standards and norms, Campaigning, Funding
SDGs 6 7 9 11 12 13 15 17
Themes land use
Policy focus Mainly mitigation
Sectors Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Implementation countries Indonesia, Kenya, Mongolia, Nigeria, Senegal, United States of America (the), International
Target Target type
By 2020 protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains forests wetlands rivers aquifers and lakes Area target
: By 2020 ensure conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements Area target
Invest in a realistic target of restoring 150 million hectares of degraded lands by 2020 Area target