Metla Project 7219

Support to the forest sector reform in the Russian federation related to best practices of selected other transition countries

Duration: 2006-2008 Keywords: Russia, best practices, forest policy, forest sector reform, transition countries
Research project group: Developing Forest Sector in Russia and Central and East European Countries - Impacts in Finland

Objectives

The idea of the project is to strengthen the human resources and capacities in forest policy and institutional development processes of selected Russian experts currently employed in the state forest sector both at strategic federal and regional levels in Northwest Russia. The project is aiming at the transfer of experiences and lessons learnt from other transition countries on relevant policy instruments and their impacts on regulatory framework and institutional development in those countries.

Realisation of the project

The project will be realised by selecting six Russian experts to study the situation in forest policy development in six new EU member countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Each expert will analyse one of the selected countries in a form of a case study. According to the project plan, work will be done in following phases:

Analysis of the selected transition countries in order to understand their development strategies in the state forestry.
Formulation of conclusions and recommendations on how to transfer the best practices to the Russian state forest sector.
Development of short and medium term action plans for ARICEF and the territorial forestry agencies in Northwest Russia.

Results

Conference "Supporting the Forest Sector Reform in Russia and in the Southeast European Countries by Assessing the Experience from the New EU Member States" Pushkino, Venäjä, 21.-22.3.2007

Ilavsky, J. & Välkky, E. (eds.) 2007. Proceedings of the International Conference "Supporting the Forest Sector Reform in Russia and in the Southeast European Countries by Assessing the Experiences of the New EU Member States", 270 p. (pdf 15,6 Mb)

Ilavsky, J. & Välkky, E. (eds.) 2008. Material meždunarodnoj konferencii ”Podderžka reform v lesnom sektore Rossii i stran Ûgo-Vostočnoj Evropy opytom stran – členov Evrosoûza", 263 p.

Project leader: Ilavsky, Jan

Other researchers: Välkky, Elina (2007-08)

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