Strengthening the Enabling Environment to Promote Innovative Approaches to Sustainable Forest Management

The institutional and policy framework supporting the development of the forestry sector in Cambodia plays a vital role in ensuring a coherent approach to addressing the overarching development goals of the sector, as defined in the National Protected Area Strategic Management Plan 2016-2030, the National Green Growth Roadmap and the National Forestry Programme 2010-2029. In order to achieve these goals, however, more efforts are needed. The current policy framework needs to be revisited and streamlined in order to enable modern and innovative approaches and result-oriented forestry initiatives to be identified, planned and implemented. In addition, greater coordinated inter-institutional and intersectoral collaboration is required to address the complex and multistakeholder forestry domain and to develop it into an informed, effective, well-structured and innovating area of work, including for private actors.