All role players need to commit to a shared vision for the forest industry and seek win-win approaches to tackling the transformation challenges arising. This needs to be underpinned by a common understanding of the challenges facing the sector and its sub-sectors, and a commitment to implement the strategies and instruments for sustainable growth and broad-based empowerment throughout the forestry value chain. This Charter represents the sector stakeholders' shared vision for broad-based empowerment with growth for the Forest Sector, namely: