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Organizational Setting
The Forestry Division (NFO) leads FAO's work in promoting sustainable forest management and providing leadership on the environmental, social and economic dimensions of forestry, including contributions of forests and trees to poverty reduction and food security and nutrition. Staff of the Division liaise with Members, civil society and the private sector in aspects ranging from development of effective forest policies to forest conservation and management issues and strengthening the role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The Division also collects, analyses and disseminates information on the world's forest resources and on the production, trade and consumption of wood and non‑wood forest products.
The Forest Monitoring and Data Platforms Team of the Forestry Division supports FAO Members on all aspects of forest monitoring to provide reliable information for forest and land use related policy development, planning, sustainable management and for satisfying international reporting requirements under the UNFCCC, the Paris Agreement, and the CBD's Global Biodiversity Framework. The Team also supports countries on technical issues related to National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS), the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Restoration Monitoring, the development of Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) with environmental integrity and eligibility and monitoring requirements for forest finance initiatives such as the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF).
The team also develops and maintains Open Foris and System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL) platforms. It works closely with the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) team. The work of the team supports implementation of Programme Priority Areas for a better environment under the FAO Strategic Framework.
Reporting Lines
The Forestry Officer (Tropical Forest Forever Facility /TFFF) reports to the Forestry Officer (Measuring, Reporting and Verification) in the Forest Monitoring and Data Platforms Team, under the overall supervision of the Senior Forestry Officer/Team Leader, FMDP and in close collaboration with the Chief Technical Advisor (CTA) of AIM4
Forests programme.
Technical Focus
The Forestry Officer (Tropical Forest Forever Facility /TFFF) supports domestic forest monitoring based on modern technologies and technical innovation for international and as appropriate, domestic reporting. The incumbent contributes to the implementation and future planning of AIM4
Forests (Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests) and SEPAL and in specific to the expansion of support on TFFF eligibility and monitoring, providing country support and supporting technical discussions of the Ad‑hoc working group on degradation and providing inputs to the periodic updates of the eligibility and monitoring sections of the TFFF Operations Manual.
Key Results
Research, technical analysis and project related services to support the delivery of programme projects, products and services.
Key Functions
Researches and analyses technical, social, economic, environmental, institutional, and technology related information, data and statistics and/or related policy issues to support the delivery of programme projects, products and services.
Produces a variety of technical information, data, statistics and reports as well as input for technical documents and web pages.
Provides technical support/analysis to various assessments, studies and initiatives and provides technical backstopping to field projects.
Collaborates in the development of improved/updated tools, systems, processes and databases.
Participates in multidisciplinary teams and/or leads working groups/teams collaborates with other Divisions/Offices/Centres on work groups and committees and promotes best practices.
Collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development activities within Members such as policy support, organizational development and individual learning events…
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