Beijing, 9 June 2026 – APFNet officially released its Fourth Strategic Plan (SP4) for 2026–2030, setting an ambitious and inclusive roadmap to advance forest landscape restoration and sustainable management, strengthen climate response, biodiversity conservation and livelihood development, and deepen regional cooperation across the Asia-Pacific. 

"SP4 marks a fundamental shift from output tracking to outcome measurement," said Dr. WANG Chunfeng, Executive Director of APFNet. "We are embedding sustainability and inclusion into every aspect of our work. This strategy positions APFNet as a regional enabler of transformative, on-the-ground change."

SP4 is built around six mutually reinforcing strategic goals that together address the region’s most pressing forest challenges through advancing forest landscape restoration, fostering resilient and inclusive forest-based livelihoods, strengthening forest governance and policy coherence, improving human capital and institutional capacity, promoting regional collaboration and innovation, and ensuring financial resilience and sustainability.

To achieve these goals, it is essential to further strengthen the synergy among the four interconnected strategic pillars: Capacity Development and Institutional Strengthening, Field Demonstration and Innovation for Sustainable Forest Management (SFM), Regional Policy Dialogue and Coordination, and Knowledge Management, Communication, and Outreach. The pillars are in turn reinforced by five cross-cutting enablers: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), Innovation and Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Exit Planning, and Financial Resilience and Resource Mobilization, which serve as the operational backbone of the strategy, ensuring that every initiative is measurable, inclusive, innovative, sustainable, and adequately resourced.

A Results-Driven Approach Aligned with Global Frameworks

SP4 introduces a comprehensive Results Framework with measurable 2030 targets designed to track progress, strengthen accountability, and foster adaptive learning. Moving decisively beyond output counting to outcome measurement, the framework ensures that APFNet’s contributions to forest restoration, climate action, and sustainable development can be credibly demonstrated to members. In parallel, SP4 explicitly aligns with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. By supporting climate-smart forestry, and biodiversity conservation, APFNet will assist member economies in advancing their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), and other multilateral commitments.

The full APFNet Strategic Plan 2026–2030 is available at: www.apfnet.cn/SP4