During this podcast, Tarun Bathija interviews Michael Kleine (IUFRO-SPDC Project Coordinator) to get a better understanding of the International Union of Forest Research Organization's - Special Program for Developing Countries. The mission of the Special Programme for Developing Countries (in short IUFRO-SPDC) is "to expand and foster forest research capacity in developing and economically disadvantaged countries". According to the programme's strategy for 2007 to 2010 the IUFRO-SPDC activities cover the following five priority areas: Enhancing core scientific competence; Improving information management and dissemination; Enhancing science contribution to policy processes; Promoting communication and multi-stakeholder learning processes, Providing institutional support to regional forest research networks.