Tools
TOOLS
Social Impact Assement of Forest Carbon Projects Toolkit
Are land-based carbon projects good for local people? Until recently, there was no clear methodological guidance for carbon project developers to track social and biodiversity impacts. The combination of robust standards for assessing the social performance of projects, and the use of credible methods of social impact assessment could help ensure positive outcomes for local people.
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, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal and Tanzania and piloting in Cameroon, Ghana, MAdagascar and Uganda. See summary and table of contents.
Forest Connect: A Toolkit to Facilitate Support to SMFEs
PROFOR financed the development of 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.
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 in India.
Multifunctional Agriculture and Forest Landscape Mosaics Toolkit
PROFOR supported Ecoagriculture in developing methods for assessing the performance of landscape mosaics through research in Congo, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Honduras and Indonesia. The resulting toolkit aims to help multi-stakeholder groups define and measure the impacts of ecoagriculture/ forest landscape restoration on productivity, local livelihoods, institutions, and ecosystem services and biodiversity.
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.
