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Lesson Learned

Developing more specific logic for the Forestry Activity at the Compact’s outset could have resulted in the refinement or limitation of certain implemented activities.

Developing more specific logic for the Forestry Activity at the Compact’s outset could have resulted in the refinement or limitation of certain implemented activities. Planting a seed to harvest wood to link to a value chain (as an order for sale of wood) is a very ambitious proposition for a short term intervention. Including and considering explicit program assumptions at the outset related to (1) the weather, (2) experience levels of producers on small parcels, (3) the amount of time it takes to grow and harvest the wood, (4) the time needed to add value to the wood, and (5) the challenges inherent to linking into fledgling value chains, likely would have led to stronger results.