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  • Knowledge | Making Benefit Sharing Arrangements Work for Forest Dependent Communities

    10.05.11

    Building on a report titled Rethinking Forest Partnerships and Benefit Sharing: Insights on What Makes Collaborative Arrangements Work for Communities and Landowners and field work in Latin America and Africa, PROFOR is supporting a study drilling down on two questions of particular interest in the context of REDD initiatives: how to identify legitimate beneficiaries, and how to identify appropriate mechanisms for sharing benefits.

  • Knowledge | Information Management and Forest Governance

    07.12.11

    Forest Governance 2.0: A Primer on ICTs and Governance explores a range of information and communication technology uses, including increasing public participation and bolstering law enforcement and economic efficiency, to improve forest governance. It draws on current and planned initiatives, both from within the sector as well as outside, from secondary sources and country reports from Ghana, Finland and Uganda.

  • Knowledge | Defining Forest Governance Indicators

    05.10.11

    In 2009 a World Bank report called Roots for Good Forest Outcomes provided the framework for a comprehensive look at forest governance in terms of five building blocks and their principal components and subcomponents. The next step was to develop a simple and actionable governance diagnostic tool which would help benchmark and pinpoint areas requiring reform. 

  • Field Notes | Measuring Virtue?

    09.22.10

    When wildfires swept across Russia this summer amid exceptionally hot and dry weather, they left behind more than 50 dead, thousands of destroyed homes and the stark realization of just how much good forest governance matters...

  • Knowledge | Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit

    08.01.10

    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.

  • Knowledge | Multifunctional Agriculture and Forest Landscape Mosaics (toolkit)

    12.31.08

    A toolkit 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.
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