Table 3. Criteria of investigating the target countries for ODA in forest sector.

Process Appropriateness of forest ODA
Category Criteria
Identification Cooperation target All countries in the world (n=231)
Deforestation Ratio of Deforestation is more than 4% (n=45)
Screening Countries via ODA strategy of a donor country Major and general ODA target countries in ROK including
PriorityofODAtargetcountries(respectively27and43countries)
Bilateral cooperation agreement in the field of forestry (n=33)
Countries via ODA rationale of a recipient country in socio-economic condition Least Development Countries by GDP per capita (n=44)
Development stage of economic (WEF, 2018)
Social infrastructure (Corruption Perception Index; CPI)
Countries via ODA rationale of a recipient country in Rio marker area Inclusion of forest and REDD+ in NDC and readiness of Warsaw
Framework for REDD+ (WFR)
Forest area is bigger than 10million ha
High biodiversity number (n=50; top 50 countries among 231)
Submitting LDN to combat desertification (n=127)
Included Ambitious climate change Group 1) with high carbon reduction potential
1-1) Asia, 1-2) America, 1-3) Africa
General climate change Group 2) with high deforestation
2-1) Asia, 2-2) America, 2-3) Africa
Biodiversity Target group 3) Conserving biodiversity
3-1) Asia, 3-2) America, 3-3) Africa
Target group 4) Mitigating climate change with conserving biodiversity
4-1) Asia, 4-2) America, 4-3) Africa
Desertification Target group 5) Mitigating climate change with combating desertification
5-1) Asia, 5-2) America, 5-3) Africa