The goals of the Forestry policy include the following:
(i) Improvement in the living standards of the citizenry through poverty reduction and forest resource enhancement initiatives;
(ii) Institutional empowerment for effective decentralized forest resource management
(iii) Encouragement of coordinated efforts a nd inflow of assistance into the forestry sub-sector as defined in the National Development Framework.
(iv) Improvement in Department of Forestry?s absorptive capacity and effective management of forest resources;