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technological transfer and technical cooperation, law enforcement and information
networks;
(k) Enhance and facilitate access to and transfer of appropriate,
environmentally sound and innovative technologies and corresponding know-how
relevant to sustainable forest management and to efficient value-added processing of
forest products, in particular to developing countries, for the benefit of local and
indigenous communities;
(l) Strengthen mechanisms that enhance sharing among countries and the
use of best practices in sustainable forest management, including through freewarebased information and communications technology;
(m) Strengthen national and local capacity in keeping with their conditions
for the development and adaptation of forest-related technologies, including
technologies for the use of fuelwood;
(n) Promote international technical and scientific cooperation, including
South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation, in the field of sustainable
forest management, through the appropriate international, regional and national
institutions and processes;
(o) Enhance the research and scientific forest-related capacities of
developing countries and countries with economies in transition, particularly the
capacity of research organizations to generate and have access to forest-related data
and information, and promote and support integrated and interdisciplinary research
on forest-related issues, and disseminate research results;
(p) Strengthen forestry research and development in all regions, particularly
in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, through relevant
organizations, institutions and centres of excellence, as well as through global,
regional and subregional networks;
(q) Strengthen cooperation and partnerships at the regional and subregional
levels to promote sustainable forest management;
(r) As members of the governing bodies of the organizations that form the
Collaborative Partnership on Forests, help ensure that the forest-related priorities
and programmes of members of the Partnership are integrated and mutually
supportive, consistent with their mandates, taking into account relevant policy
recommendations of the United Nations Forum on Forests;
(s) Support the efforts of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests to develop
and implement joint initiatives.
VII. Monitoring, assessment and reporting
8.
Member States should monitor and assess progress towards achieving the
purpose of the present instrument.
9.
Member States should submit, on a voluntary basis, taking into account the
availability of resources and the requirements and conditions for the preparation of
reports for other bodies or instruments, national progress reports as part of their
regular reporting to the Forum.
VIII. Working modalities
10. The Forum should address, within the context of its multi-year programme of
work, the implementation of the present instrument.
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