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Country Forest Notes (CFNs) are a centerpiece of the World Bank Group’s Forest Action Plan (FY16–20) and Climate Change Action Plan (2016–2020). They provide a thorough assessment of the current status of forests, the forestry sector, and the investment needs to sustainably manage this valuable renewable natural resource. As stated in the World Bank Group’s Forest Action Plan the World Bank aims to support client countries’ efforts to implement priority actions linked to forests and their development priorities, by focusing more deliberately on the positive contributions that forests make to the poverty reduction, food security, economic development, building resilience towards climate change and climate change mitigation. The Benin CFN was developed through a participatory process involving national government actors for forestry development. Interviews and validation of the report took place in Benin with the participation of key actors and institutions for forest development. The objectives of a CFN are to identify the key challenges and opportunities that exist for sustainable forestry and forest-smart interventions and the ways to address them. Consistent with the Forest Action Plan, the Benin CFN was developed using the Productivity, Rights, Investments, Markets, Ecosystem (PRIME) framework, which is used as a tool to further assess the nexus between forests and economic development and the role of forests as pathways out of poverty.