The Forest Law Enforcement and Governance partnership is a multidonor trustfund established at the Bank in 2004 to support regional FLEG Ministerial processes. In partnership with donor agencies, governments, NGOs and industry, the Bank has taken a lead in facilitating regional Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) initiatives, beginning first in 2001 with the East Asia and Pacific initiative. Subsequently such a process was initiated in Africa in 2003 and such a process is currently underway in Europe and North Asia. The establishment of the FLEG partnership at the Bank formalized the Bank’s leadership role in these initiatives.
Through support and coordination of these regional FLEG initiatives the Bank hopes to reduce the level of illegal logging activities and thereby curb the associated degradation of forests, loss of government revenue from uncollected fees taxes, and support the development of a more level playing field for legitimate forest operators. The FLEG partnership supports follow up activities to implement outcomes from the ministerial processes.
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