A delivery plan for the strategy

 

Forestry Commission England and Natural England (NE) are currently leading the development of a Delivery Plan. The Plan will set out what needs to be done to achieve the five Aims of the Strategy. A number of Government Departments and organisations have been involved to date.

The first Delivery Plan will be launched in autumn 2008 and will cover the period up to March 2012.

The ETWF Strategy can only be delivered if all the various interests included within its wide scope can act together. The breadth of scope of the ETWF Strategy means the opportunities for this collaboration are potentially very great indeed. The Delivery Plan will seek to focus and prioritise effort and will identify the pivotal actions or changes that are needed to achieve the aims of the Strategy.

Over the past months up to the end of May 2008 we have developed our thinking with a number of national stakeholders culminating in a Forum held on 1 May.  We received many helpful comments and contributions (PDF 20kb) for which we are most grateful. We are now preparing a final draft of the Delivery Plan and aim to seek Ministers' approval in July.

Future contributions to the Delivery Plan

It is recognised that many other organisations can also contribute, but perhaps not at the national level. Indeed, much of this Strategy’s vision can only be achieved through collaboration at national, regional and local levels. Regional Forestry Frameworks and their associated action plans are the appropriate places to hold this level of action. The national Delivery Plan will, therefore, only relate directly to national work. It will however provide a strategic framework for ongoing regional planning and help with decisions about local action on trees, woods and forests.

Once the Delivery Plan is agreed and published we will also publish on the Internet a record of the individual national actions that other departments and organisations have taken or plan to do.  There will also be opportunities for any contributor to add to or revise the record of actions during the life of the Plan.  This will serve as a valuable information based to help Departments and organisations make co-ordinated decisions over where their own resources might be best applied to meet their own objectives as well as contribute to the Trees, Woods and Forest Strategy.