Description: In order to advance sustainable forest management and unlock all forest contributions to sustainable development, key finance questions remain: • How to incentivize and leverage private finance and expertise to flow especially in the countries and landscapes where it is most needed? • How to ensure that finance reaches and benefits smallholder and producer organizations? • How to promote vertical and horizontal integration as strategies to improve access to finance? The expert meeting aims to: 1. Present and discuss the Forest Finance Information Hub concept proposal; 2. Assess potential synergies and complementarities with other similar/relevant initiatives both within FAO and with other partners; 3. Collect inputs from stakeholders on best approaches to implementing the FFIH, including priority areas; and 4. Draft a roadmap for developing collaborative approach to implement the FFIH. It is expected that the expert meeting will result in: 1. A set of recommendations for FAO for the development of the FFIH; 2. Identification of key stakeholders, relevant to make the FFIH effective; and a roadmap with prioritized actions, milestones, areas of collaboration and interested partners