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Children with Illegal Charcoal, Rwanda. Source: flickr/John and Mel Kots
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Resource front coverChanging aid delivery and the environment - Can General Budget Support be used to meet environmental objectives?
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Opinion paper coverReconciling international accountability with national interests: Verification of legality in the tropical timber trade
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Forestry provides an important entry point for governance initiatives. The very factors that make forestry such a challenging sector also mean that it offers valuable ways of understanding governance, governance failures, and assessing the impacts of public policies on the poor and the environment.

Forestry has the capacity to work at the local, national and international levels in ways that few other sectors can. It also engages powerful industrial forces in different parts of the world.

Current areas of work

The Forests, Environment and Climate Change Programme is working to demonstrate how progress in the forest sector, in areas such as public participation, accountability, the rule of law, public sector service delivery and decentralisation, can leverage far wider gains in good governance, environmental stewardship and pro-poor change.

Key areas of Programme involvement include:

  • Global forest policy, including multilateral environmental agreements;
  • National forest programmes and sector-wide approaches;
  • Forest and environmental dimensions of poverty reduction strategies;
  • Environmental democracy and environmental rights;
  • Forest sector regulation in a framework of equity;
  • The governance and poverty impacts of illegal logging;
  • Community involvement in forest management;
  • Platforms for pro-poor research and natural resource management.

Key projects
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VERIFOR: Institutional Options for Verifying Legality in the Forest Sector
Verifying timber   VERIFOR is concerned with the policy, institutional and legal challenges around the issue of illegal logging. It seeks to help tropical producer countries verify that their timber has been legally harvested...
David Brown, Cecilia Luttrell, Adrian Wells, Neil Bird, Kate Schreckenberg February 2005 - January 2009
Budget Support, Aid Instruments and the Environment - The country context
Masai man (on the road to Masai Mara) Source: flick/angela7 http://flickr.com/photos/angela7/   Examining country experience of public expenditure on the environment and how this is influenced by development partners.
Neil Bird, Cecilia Luttrell, Lidia Cabral and Andrew Lawson February 2008
Evidence-based Policymaking in Vietnam
Street child in Pnohm Pehn Source: http://flickr.com/photos/9036575@N06/   This project, funded by ODI's Civil Society Partnership Programme, aims to provide an understanding of the role of research institutes and think-tanks in policymaking in Vietnam and in so doing provides an understanding of the role of one specific element of civil society in a transition country.
Cecilia Luttrell and the RAPID team 2005 - Ongoing