Tools
TOOLKITS
Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit
An estimated 1.2 billion people rely on forests for some part of their livelihoods. However, the importance of forests is often overlooked in national development processes such as poverty reduction strategies due to inadequate evidence documenting how forests sustain the poor. To build better knowledge on this critical relationship, PROFOR developed a “Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit” to facilitate relevant data collection and analysis. The Toolkit was created in partnership with CIFOR, IUCN, ODI, and Winrock International, on the basis of case studies in Guinea, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Mexico and Tanzania and piloting inCameroon, Ghana, MAdagascar and Uganda. Click here to download the Toolkit.
Forest Connect: A Toolkit to Facilitate Support to SMFEs
PROFOR financing is helping to develop a toolkit to facilitate the support to small and medium forest enterprises – helping to build social, economic and environmental sustainability amongst SMFEs and their associations by connecting them to emerging markets, service providers and national forest programme (nfp) processes.
OTHER TOOLS
Forest Landscape Restoration Map
Across the globe lie more than a billion hectares of lost and degraded forest land that could be restored. It's a vas area with the potential to enrich communities, their environment and enterprises large and small. It's a opportunity we can't afford to miss.
Mapping Emerging Ecosystem Service Markets
What is the composition and size of the global market for payments for ecosystem services (PES)? In an effort to answer this question, PROFOR supported an endeavor to devise a matrix which maps the size, environmental and community impacts, participants and shapers, and market trends for PES in the forestry and other sectors. The in-depth study resulted in a state-of-the-art PES Matrix chart, report, and summary brief.
Forest Enterprise Information Exchange (FEINEX)
Access to markets is fundamental to the goal of improving livelihood security in the current scenario of a growing number of micro entrepreneurs. the FEINEX initiative is currently evaluating the processes and systems that have enhanced efficiency in the agri-SME sector, especially in increased efficiency of the service delivery environment . It will then incorporate and adapt lessons to enable increased profits – economic and ecological for the forest enterprise sector.
