Public Disclosure of Information annex is the ninth annex out of 10 annexes of FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA).
The annex on public information describes the documents and information stakeholders think should be made publicly available to strengthen governance in the forest sector and enable monitoring of the implementation of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA).
Transparency and access to information about a country’s forest sector are important to national stakeholders and to international markets, which need to understand the systems a country has in place. VPAs create an opportunity for countries that already make information about the forest sector public to demonstrate this transparency to domestic and international audiences.
In some VPA partner countries, civil society organizations with roles as independent observers have taken the lead on public information in VPA negotiations because access to information is critical to their work as observers.
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