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(y) Enhance access by households, small-scale forest owners, forestdependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to
forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income
diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest
management.
VI. International cooperation and means of implementation
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To achieve the purpose of the present instrument, Member States should:
(a) Make concerted efforts to secure a sustained high-level political
commitment to strengthen the means of implementation of sustainable forest
management, including financial resources, to provide support, in particular for
developing countries and countries with economies in transition, as well as to
mobilize and provide significantly increased, new and additional financial resources
from private, public, domestic and international sources to and within developing
countries, as well as countries with economies in transition;
(b) Reverse the decline in official development assistance for sustainable
forest management and mobilize significantly increased, new and additional
financial resources from all sources for the implementation of sustainable forest
management;
(c) Take action to raise the priority of sustainable forest management in
national development plans and other plans, including poverty-reduction strategies,
in order to facilitate increased allocation of official development assistance and
financial resources from other sources for sustainable forest management;
(d) Develop and establish positive incentives, in particular for developing
countries as well as countries with economies in transition, to reduce the loss of
forests, to promote reforestation, afforestation and rehabilitation of degraded forests,
to implement sustainable forest management and to increase the area of protected
forests;
(e) Support the efforts of countries, particularly developing countries as well
as countries with economies in transition, to develop and implement economically,
socially and environmentally sound measures that act as incentives for the
sustainable management of forests;
(f) Strengthen the capacity of countries, in particular developing countries,
to significantly increase the production of forest products from sustainably managed
forests;
(g) Enhance bilateral, regional and international cooperation with a view to
promoting international trade in forest products from sustainably managed forests
harvested according to domestic legislation;
(h) Enhance bilateral, regional and international cooperation to address illicit
international trafficking in forest products through the promotion of forest law
enforcement and good governance at all levels;
(i) Strengthen, through enhanced bilateral, regional and international
cooperation, the capacity of countries to combat effectively illicit international
trafficking in forest products, including timber, wildlife and other forest biological
resources;
(j) Strengthen the capacity of countries to address forest-related illegal
practices, including wildlife poaching, in accordance with domestic legislation,
through enhanced public awareness, education, institutional capacity-building,
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