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EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL VIII DEVELOPMENT |
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Data Collection and Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in ACP Countries - Linking National and International Efforts |
EC-FAO PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME (1998-2001)
Tropical forestry Budget line B7-6201/97-15/VIII/FOR
PROJECT GCP/INT/679/EC
Review And Improvement Of Data Related To Wood-Products In Gambia
By Lamin Bojang
Assistant Director
Forestry Department
August, 2000
Banjul, Gambia
This report has been produced as an out put of the EC-FAO Partnership Programme (1998-2000) - Project GCP/INT/679/EC Data Collection and Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management in ACP Countries - Linking National and International Efforts. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the EC or the FAO.
This paper has been minimally edited for clarity and style
1. Overview
1.1. Situation of Wood – Products in the Gambia2. Current status of National Forestry Statistics Related to Wood-products
2.1. Type of information collected on the wood-products3. Evaluation of the data collected and the methodology used
2.2. Existing methodologies for data collection
2.3. Existing Methods for data compilation, validation and dissemination.
3.1. Evaluation and assessment of the reliability of the currently available information on wood products (production, consumption of trade)4. Improvements of National Forestry Statistic Process
3.2. Strength and weaknesses in the existing system of National data collection, analysis and dissemination
3.3. How Data is used and Disseminated to related agencies, Public and press
4.1 Measures for improvement of Data collection, data processing and Regular dissemination of statistics related to wood-productsReferences:
4.2 Integration of proposals into the existing organisation
