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Tropical Forest Conservation Act

The Tropical Forest Conservation Act program enables eligible low and middle income countries to substitute some portion of their debt obligations to the United States for domestic tropical forest conservation and protection activities.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The Administration has developed a tool to help manage and measure the success of existing and pending agreements. This evaluation sheet measures the success of country boards and oversight committees in developing a strategic plan that specifies key objectives, conservation and funding priorities, target dates in meeting those objectives, and key efficiency measures.
  • While the program measures the loss of forest cover in TFCA program countries, the program has been unable to measure its impact on increasing tropical forest conservation.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Using information presented in evaluation sheets for existing programs to develop recommendations for improved program management, and to justify future funding requests.
  • Track findings and implement recommendation of independent evaluations of existing programs with additional emphasis on effects of the programs on the beneficiary country's forests.
  • Refine the timing of fund obligation and outlays for the cost of debt reduction.

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