Forty representatives of civil society and of indigenous and local communities involved in the external forest monitoring gathered to share experiences and knowledge gained over the past decades. After intense reflection and evaluation of the practice of external forest monitoring, these actors have identified lessons, and made proposals to make more efficient the practice of external forest observation in particular and monitoring / control of logging in general. These lessons were initially submitted to other stakeholders for their appreciation at a press conference, and relevant reactions and comments were taken into account.