5. CLOSING ITEMS

Summary of the day - provided by Wil de Jong.

Next meeting of AFP.

Suggested options:

In Convination with

• UNFF meeting in Geneva
• ITTC meeting next year in Yokohama

Tokiharu Okazaki

To ensure participation of NGOs, cost for travel should be considered. For instance, Geneva is too far for NGOs to participate because of high cost for travel. If there are no financial supports, many of NGOs cannot participate and excluded from the meeting.

Patrick Durst

In April 2004, Asea Pacific Forestry Commission will meet in Fiji. That would be at the level of Director Generals. FAO would be willing to help make arrangements to make that happen.

Edwin Brown

AFP should have some activity to have some kind of side-event in connection with the next FLEG (possibly in April??).

Yuji Imaizumi.

Some people from Japan will be present at the Fiji meeting. However, a full partnership meeting would be too early. Next meeting should focus on monitoring the ideas of the work plans proposed today. Possibly progress of initiatives could be observed first, and based on that a next meeting could be called for.

Byron Sigel (TNC)

It does make sense to have some kind of mid-term meeting some six months from now. We should have something very concrete shortly, and should bring that to the world some six months from now.

Bambang Murdiono.

Indonesia also sends people to Fiji, but by then there will not be too much progress. Rather we could make use of the opportunity of the other meetings to discuss different aspects of the AFP.

Edwin Brown

The communication should be organized through a single communicator. If we have a good communicator there is less need to have a next meeting soon. If not, the meeting needs to be held again soon, so everybody gets updated about progress.

Takehi Toma

      At least, afp@cgiar.org is the e-mail address where all partners may announce their focal point as well as opportunities for collaboration.

Chair person

It is most likely that there will be no central communicator. Each proposal needs to have a clear focal point.

The logical choice of timing of the next full AFP meeting seems to be just before the next ITTC meeting, December 2004. Supplementary meetings may be held in the meantime. That could be at Fiji, or at the UNFF meeting in Geneva.

[Agenda of Meeting] [1. Opening session] [2. Reports] [3. Organizational Matters of Asian Forest Partnership] [Presentation and Discussion on Concrete Actions] [Clossing items] [Feed back from the participants] [List of Participants]