Considering:
_ The importance of forestry resources for the social, economic and environmental development of the countries;
_ The technical, institutional and socio-economic problems of the forestry sector;
_ The direct or indirect consequences from the degradation of forestry resource on the daily life of the North African populations;
_ The importance and advantage to dispose of a forestry sector outlook to direct on a solid ground the forestry sector development towards the year 2020, and to put at the disposal of the concerned countries a tool that can help them in planning and implementing forest policies in their respective countries;
_ The strong motivation shown by the FOSA Focal Point when preparing the country outlook papers, and motivation shown also during the workshop sessions; and
_ The difficulties encountered to collect information and establish multidisciplinary working groups for the elaboration of national outlook papers,
The participants' recommendations are the following:
At the level of FOSA focal points
_ That the exchanges between the FOSA Focal Points continues and be reinforced;
_ That the country papers be completed by 15 January 2001 ;
coordinator
_ That some extra funds be identified for the organisation of additional working group sessions;
_ that the sub-regional consultant be supported in his work .
At the level of the sub-regional consultant
_ That the Sub-regional Consultant reviews the country outlook papers and suggests ways to improve them;
_ That he speed up the information exchange with the national FOSA focal points;
_ That he keeps regular contact with the FOSA Focal Point to inform them about the progress of the study at sub-regional level, of the different methods followed and the scenarios proposed,
At the level of the FAO
_ That FAO puts at the disposal of the FOSA Focal Point a copy of all the national outlook documents and all the additional sub-regional studies done within the framework of FOSA;
_ That FAO informs the FOSA Focal Points regularly on the situation of the study and on the organisation of the 3rd FOSA workshop ;
_ That FAO facilitate contacts and exchanges between FOSA Focal Points through TCDC (Technical Cooperation between Developing Countries) or other type of contracts.
