RT null T1 Developing Capacity for National Forest Monitoring Systems: UN-REDD Support and Innovative Solutions for Collecting, Managing and Reporting Forest Data. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A1 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, K1 forest management K1 data collection K1 environmental monitoring K1 forest conservation YR 2024 FD 2024-02 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/44925 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/44925 NO National forest monitoring is a process that includes generating information to allow for the monitoring of changes and trends in forests over time, usually from cycles of data collection (both remote-sensing and field inventory data). The UN-REDD Programme has supported national forest monitoring capacity development in many countries, including for technical capacities, such as data collection and management, and for functional capacities, such as forest inventory planning and implementation, data management and sharing, quality assurance and continuous improvement.National forest monitoring remains a male dominated field, but the Programme has worked to achieve gender parity by striving to ensure that at least 30 per cent of participants in its training events and among those holding professional roles are women. Interestingly, with the shift to online events owing to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, women’s participation has increased, a trend which needs to be better understood to help to enable women’s participation in the future. DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 24, 2026