International Programs

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service International Programs, also known as International Programs, is a civilian agency within the U.S. Forest Service that manages international forestry, conservation, and natural resource management initiatives globally. The agency promotes sustainable forest management, conservation efforts, and environmental resilience through partnerships with foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, and local communities worldwide. Its work encompasses combating deforestation, supporting biodiversity conservation, improving wildfire management capabilities, enhancing carbon monitoring, and building institutional capacity in partner countries to address climate change and environmental challenges.

The Forest Service International Programs has awarded numerous contracts to support its global initiatives, primarily through delivery orders under a $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with Management & Engineering Technologies International Inc. (METI), a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business. The delivery orders, ranging from approximately $5,600 to $552,000, fund a diverse array of technical services including carbon mapping and modeling, fire management consulting, sustainable forestry expertise, conservation law enforcement, and specialized program coordination. Geographic focus areas include Mexico, Honduras, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, Peru, Ghana, Bangladesh, and the Philippines, demonstrating the agency's global scope of operations.

These contracts support specific programmatic priorities such as sustainable landscapes initiatives in Mexico, forest landscape restoration in the Democratic Republic of Congo, wildfire prevention and training in Honduras and Colombia, carbon flux monitoring in Latin America, and disaster management consulting in the Asia Pacific region. Many delivery orders provide for in-country coordinators, specialists, and consultants who implement projects related to forest cover mapping, peatland emissions reporting, urban forestry, youth conservation programs, and legal frameworks for sustainable forest management. The agency also contracted services for organizational capacity assessment from Training Resources Group and awarded one larger delivery order ($283,825) to Olgoonik Worldwide Services LLC, an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business, for consultant services supporting Latin America and Caribbean initiatives.