Dear Coordinators of IUFRO Divisions,

CC: Vice-President for Divisions,

It is now again the time of the year to start preparing for annual reporting following the IUFRO Strategy Action Plan 2020-2024.

Similar to last year, IUFRO HQ would kindly request you to coordinate the collection of input from within your Division (from Research Groups and Working Parties). Since this is the final reporting in the current Board term (2019-2024), the Board decided at its meeting in March 2023 (Dehradun, India) that all units should report on the activities undertaken in 2023 and plans until June 2024 (until World Congress 2024) using the filtered Strategy Action Plan as a guiding framework (Board Meeting Action 19). 

For your convenience and as done last year, the updated Word version of the filtered action plan that can be used to collect input from within your Division has been attached to this e-mail. Last time round, some of you had uploaded the Word document and circulated it as a shared online document. For your information and in case useful, also the full IUFRO Strategy Action Plan 2020-2024 has been attached to this e-mail message. 

IUFRO HQ would thus like to ask you as Division Coordinators to submit the final aggregated report of activities of your Division through the following online form: https://forms.office.com/e/PDcB1DdJzK. Each Division is asked to enter into the text field of each relevant action not more than three (3) bullet points describing the activities/progress towards implementing a specific action in year 2023 and not more than three (3) bullet points describing plans until June 2024. Please submit your input latest by 31 January 2024.

In addition to using your reports for various suitable purposes within IUFRO HQ, e.g., for developing the Annual Report, your reports from the entire Board term will be further analyzed and assessed by the IUFRO Strategy Action Plan evaluation Advisory Committee (to be formally approved by the Board shortly). The task of the committee is to evaluate both quantitatively and qualitatively the implementation of the whole IUFRO Strategy Action Plan 2020-2024, based on the submitted reports for 2021, 2022, 2023 and half of 2024. The results and recommendations from the analysis will be presented to the MC and the Board in June 2024, and these will serve as a basis for the proposal for the next IUFRO Strategy Action Plan post-2025. 

In case of any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you in advance and best wishes from Vienna,

Andre

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Andre Purret

Operations Manager

International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)

IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat

Marxergasse 2, 1030 Vienna, Austria

Tel.: +43-1-877-0151-13 / Fax: +43-1-877-0151-50

Mobile: +372 5370 6685

Website: https://www.iufro.org/

E-mail: purret@iufro.org  

Skype: andre.purret

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