Economic terms: Over a year after the global pandemic, there is not much of the specific strategy that has been put forward in the forest sector within the East Africa sub region and its Member States. The forest sector which is largely not given priority in the national resource allocation and budgetary systems were thinly included in the macro plans/strategies at country levels. The forest sector, especially commercial forestry, where timeframes for return on investment are much longer, many investors have the ability to hold the forest assets and wait for relatively longer time for economic recuperation. Attracting private investment in the forest sector should be the driver of sustainable future growth, as the previous year has shown economic downfall in all sectors including the forest sector.
Environment terms: The
initial assessment identified several environmental impacts that happened in
due course of the pandemic. Many of the environmental impacts happened even
before the pandemic, but they have been very much compounded with Covid 19.
Member States had put forward commitments on forest restorations with more than
16 million hectares of forests. These commitments will need to be pursued
through aggressive tree planting campaigns and massive land management to
sustain ecological systems and their functionality that supports agriculture
and tourisms in all Member States.
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