Strengthening Forest Data For Sustainable Development: Advancing Bangladesh’s National Forest Monitoring System - UTF/BGD/092/BGD
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The Government of Bangladesh has prioritized the forestry sector as essential to achieving national climate change adaptation and mitigation goals. In this context, the National Forest Inventory (NFI) serves as a foundational tool for sustainable forest management by providing systematic, up-to-date data on tree and forest resources across all land uses.Following the successful implementation of the first cycle (NFI 1) from 2016 to 2019 by the Bangladesh Forest Department (BFD) with technical assistance (TA) from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a second cycle (NFI 2) was launched under the Sustainable Forests and Livelihoods (SUFAL) project. This second phase was designed to update forest resource data and analyse trends to support evidence-based policymaking. Planned as a about one and a half year initiative with World Bank funding, NFI 2 was eventually implemented in two parts, with FAO responsible for the biophysical inventory and socioeconomic survey, and the Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) managing the updated land cover map. Despite implementation delays and coordination challenges, FAO successfully completed its component within a compressed timeframe, concluding in early 2025.