The national forest fund of Moldova constitutes 13.2% of the country’s territory (446,400 ha). Most of land covered with forests (81.7% or 328,700 ha) is in the state public property, the rest being held by municipalities (12.7% or 48,100 ha) and only 0.6% (2,500 ha) are privately owned. Although having yet a relatively insignificant share, private forests are increasing and compared to 2005 their area actually tripled. According to actual records, there are about 130,000 ha of forests and other forest vegetation (forest plantations, trees and shrubby vegetation, gardening etc.) and about 330,000 thousand ha of pasturelands (gazing areas, hayfields) owned by the municipalities and/or individuals. In total, these two categories of holders manage about 460,000 hectares of forest and pastoral resources, or approximately 14% of the country’s area. All these resources are, in most cases, handled with great deficiencies, drawing only about 10-20% of their potential. Forest management planning (FMP) is the key tool in the implementation of the forest regime. It is both a science and a practice dealing with structural-functional organization and management of forests in accordance with the environmental, economic and social aspects of forestry. FMP is based on the concept of sustainable development, respecting the principle of continuity, functional effectiveness, preserving and improving biological diversity. The research directions and organization of work within the planning works are focused on: analysis of implementation of forest management planning; description of forest stands; measurements and graphical reporting; inventory of trees; forest typology, forest soil science; conducting technical interim and final receptions; I and II conferences of forest management planning; design works of forest management planning; development and publishing maps etc. Another important link in the process of ensuring uniform management of community forests through the correct and appropriate technical regulations in this area is the National Forestry Consultancy Office (NFCO). It was established in 2015 under the assistance from FLEG within the Forest Research and Management Institute (FRMI). Its main task is to guide forest owners (state forestry entities, municipalities, private persons, etc.), provide advice, expertise, and technical, economic and legal assistance for sustainable management of owned natural resources. Over the last two years, NFCO provided consulting services to more than 300 beneficiaries from 22 administrative districts, municipalities and ATU Gagauzia. According to Forest Code (clause 73), FMP activities are being financed by the state budget Forest Code. So far, only forest lands managed by Agency Moldsilva received support from the budget, while municipalities and private persons did not. This was partially solved using international support. Thus, over the last 10 years FRMI cooperated with various national and international programs (e.g. Japanese grant Development of community forests; Japanese grant Program to support communities for sustainable and integrated management of forests and carbon sequestration through afforestation; ENPI FLEG Program I and II; National Ecological Fund, Clima East Moldova) and implemented FMP woks in circa 22,000 ha of forests and other types of forest vegetation outside Moldsilva, making about 16% of the needs. Nonetheless, most communal forest resources still need to be evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively in order to assess their real environmental and socio-economic potential. Pastoral resources of Moldova represent an unexploited local potential. At the current state and productivity, 1 ha of pasture can provide the fodder for 0.3 of cattle or 2 sheep on average. If well managed, the grasslands could support 1.5-2.0 cattle or 10-14 sheep per 1 ha. National legal and regulatory framework (Law on livestock; Government Decision no. 667 from 23.07.2010 on Regulation for grazing and mowing etc.) requires that local public authorities (LPAs) must have pastoral management plans and plans for maintenance, improvement and rational exploitation of public pastures. Such pastoral management plan should be a document containing technical, organizational, economic and financial measures for improving grassland management for at least 10 years. Very limited financial and institutional capacities within LPAs make these legal provisions unfeasible because of lack of funds from local budgets. Since 2014, for the first time in national practice, FRMI (within Clima East Moldova project) has started the development of pastoral management plans for selected communities in Orhei National Park. A total of 18 communities and 4500 ha of pasturelands within benefited from this project. Pastoral management planning was undertaken for each pasture sector based on a detailed study of both vegetation and environmental conditions that influence and determine the type of vegetation and management intervention. It is obvious that management plans (both forest and pastoral) represent an effective way of estimating the quantity and quality of local communal forest and pastoral resources by offering real possibility of capturing social benefits (ecological, socioeconomic). It is also obvious that the current pace cannot ensure compliance with the cycle of 10 years of work and efforts must be actively implemented and supported by the state. Eventually, both forests and pasturelands require a certain level of constant investments; and if abandoned, these forests and pasturelands will quickly lose their ecological and socio-economic values, requiring much more investment and technical efforts for restoration.