Chronological list of current and completed projects from the ODI Forests, Environment and Climate Change Programme.

Current projects
VERIFOR: Institutional Options for Verifying Legality in the Forest Sector
		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
Carbon Offsets: Researching Opportunities for poor rural communities
		Over the last two years, there has been a growing interest in carbon offsetting through the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and voluntary credit schemes. The number of CDM projects increased exponentially between 2002 and 2006 and, as of October 2007, there were 803 registered projects, and approximately 2,000 more are at the validation stage <more>
		David Brown and Leo Peskett	June 2008 - April 2009
Making REDD work for the poor
		The main objective of thsi project is to improve and build on the REDD-PEP background paper and to further refine the analysis of the social iplications of REDD. It is hoped that this work will serce as the basis for developing principles, criteria and indicators that could fuide best practice for pro-poor REDD activities
		Leo Peskett and Cecilia Luttrell	February - June 2008
New Global Environmental Funds
		The purpose of this study is to obtain all pertinent information and to present an analysis of recent developments and trends in global environmental finance.
		Neil Bird and Leo Peskett	February - June 2008
Development co-operation and climate change adaptation
		Guidelines on how to incorporate climate change adaptation into development co-operation are currently being prepared and will provide guidance to both development partners and national governments in developing countries on how to incorporate climate change adaptation concerns into policy and development operations.
		Neil Bird and Lidia Cabral	February - May 2008
Review of the Miombo community land use and carbon management pilot project
		The aim of the pilot project 'Miombo community land use and carbon management' (financed by the EC) is to develop forestry and land use practices that promote sustainable rural livelihoods in participation with rural communities in a way that raises living standards and to asses the potential of these activities to generate verifiable carbon emission reductions.
		Kate Schreckenberg and Leo Peskett	March 2008 - May 2008
Public environmental expenditure within multi-year budgetary frameworks
		This study, undertaken with the OECD Environment Directorate, examines how multi-year budgetary processes work in practice in both high income OECD countries ( Australia and the Netherlands) and in aid-receiving countries (Armenia, South Africa and Uganda). A main objective of the study is to identify the opportunities for, and limits to, financing environmental management through general budget support.
		Neil Bird, Geoff Handley and Edward Hedger	November 2007 – March 2008
Voluntary carbon markets and the poor
		Research aiming to identify ways in which the voluntary carbon markets might be made more beneficial for the poor.
		Leo Peskett, Cecilia Luttrell and David Brown	2006-present
Support to the Government of Indonesia Working Group on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Indonesia (REDD)
		ODI's Forests, Environment and Climate Change Programme is providing advice and support to the Working Group on REDD in Indonesia. The Working Group was established by the Ministry of Forests and contributes to the development of an Indonesian Forest Climate Alliance (IFCA).
		Leo Peskett and Adrian Wells	August - December 2007
Design of a Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP) for India
		In response to the growing importance of climate change in DFID’s strategic priorities, DFID India plans to create a Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP). The goal of CCIP is to strengthen the resilience of India’s poor to climate change. The purpose is approaches tested to help the poor adapt to climate change and to access opportunities in the carbon market.
		Leo Peskett and Priya Deshingkar	July 2007 - December 2007
The Poverty-Forests Toolkit: showing what forests mean to the poor
		Forestry often has a low profile within national policies and strategies for poverty reduction because the contribution of forest products and services to rural livelihoods is not sufficiently understood. The Poverty-Forests Toolkit aims to address this gap
		Neil Bird	February 2007-June 2008
Budget Support, Aid Instruments and the Environment - The country context
		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	July 2007 -February 2008
Linking Land Tenure Regularization and Forest Management in Honduras
		The overall objective of this initiative is to support the GoH's efforts to regularise forest land tenure in the country by examining different arrangements of forest ownership and access/control rightsand their implications for responsible use and equity.
		Adrian Wells, Filippo Del Gatto and David Brown	January 2006 - ongoing
Action Research on Poverty Impacts of Participatory Forest Management (ARPIP)
		Aims to make participatory forest management (PFM) approaches more "pro-poor". PFM is taken to include community forestry, joint forest management, co-management and community-based forest management.
		Cecilia Luttrell and Kate Schreckemberg	April 2005 - Ongoing
Evidence-based Policymaking in Vietnam
		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 - 2007

Completed projects
Assessment of Recent Bushmeat Research and Recommendations to Her Majesty's Government
The study aims to provide non-partisan advice to the IDMGb on the relative importance of the bushmeat trade...
David Brown, John Fa and Leonie Gordon		January 2007
Evidence-based Policymaking in Vietnam
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		2007
Addressing environmental objectives in the context of budget support
Investigating which aid instruments are best suited to promote environmental management that contributes to poverty reduction and development, and under which circumstances.
Neil Bird, Lidia Cabral, Andrew Lawson and David Brown		2006
Forest Sector Studies, Papua New Guinea
ODI prepared three papers, to be presented at the "Seminar on Trees and Tree Products for the Future of Papua New Guinea" in December 2006: History of the Forest Sector; Audit of the Forest Sector; and Potential of the Forest Sector. The studies form part of a programme aiming to ‘provide a forum for a participatory approach to drawing up a plan for the future of the forestry industry in Papua New Guinea'.
Neil Bird, Adrian Wells , Flip van Helden and David Brown		December 2006
Customary Rights and the Forest Sector in Indonesian Papua
This project provides policy advice to senior policy makers and support to legal drafting. It aims at more equitable allocation of forest lands, the re-designation of commercial concessions and the grant of community forest management rights.
Adrian Wells		December 2006
Understanding and addressing the constraints to and information needs for evidence based policy in Ghana
This 'collaborative project' between Civic Response and PDO aimed to provide case study material on, and improve ODI's understanding of, the ways in which environmental CSOs in Ghana use research to promote policy and ways in which constraints that they face in doing so can be tackled.
Cecilia Luttrell		September 2005
Review of Independent Forest Monitoring
Drawing on a number of recent experiences, consideration is given to the way in which independent monitoring might be structured, and some of the issues which need to be borne in mind when decisions are made as to what forms of monitoring to deploy
David Brown, Cecilia Luttrell and Research Associates in Cambodia, Cameroon, Indonesia and the Philippines		January 2005
Support to Norwegian People's Aid on Rights-Based Approaches
Since the official adoption of a Rights-Based Approach (RBA), Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) has engaged in discussions on how the approach can best be operationalised. This requires developing a consistent understanding of the approach across an organisation, identifying what needs to change and what can be built upon, including how to combine service delivery and a RBA, and developing a communication strategy and tools to put the approach into practice.
Cecilia Luttrell and Laure Helene Piron		May 2005
Wild Meat, Livelihoods Security and Conservation in the Tropics
This project is funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, and will research the human and social dimensions of hunting for consumptive use in tropical forests, including bushmeat and the bushmeat trade
David Brown		September 2004
PRSPs and the Productive Sectors
PRSPs have poverty reduction as their goal, and yet rarely have productive sector strategies which match up to that goal. (Cecilia was responsible for the Vietnam case study research on this project)
Cecilia Luttrell		2005
Developing an analytical framework for understanding the political economy of sectors and policy arenas
DFID are interested in the factors influencing pro-poor policy making, and in mapping the reasons why policies appear
Cecilia Luttrell and Joy Moncrieffe		2005
Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities and Resource Management in Coastal Communes in Vietnam
This study was intended to demonstrate practical applications of the SL approach to poverty reduction and community development planning
Cecilia Luttrell		November 2004
Understanding pro-poor political change: the policy process in Vietnam
Study analysing trajectories of change in the Vietnamese political system and their implications for pro-poor policy-making, drawing in particular on the central concepts of political tradition, institutions and regime type.
Cecilia Luttrell		April 2004
Poverty Dimensions of Public Governance and Forest Management in Ghana
This was a scoping study to investigate how innovations in governance and forest policy have been mediated by institutions for NR management at the forest margins
David Brown		March 2003
Appropriate ownership models for natural product-based small and medium-sized enterprises in Namibia
The objective of this consultancy was to present a critical review of options of ownership models for natural product-based SMEs based on an assessment of the situation in Namibia and with reference to relevant international experiences.
Kate Schreckenberg		2003
Sustainable Commercialisation of Non-Timber Forest Products in Highland and Lowland Forest in Mexico and Bolivia
The value of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as an important tool in addressing poverty of marginalised forest-dependent communities has long been acknowledged.
Kate Schreckenberg		October 2003
Poverty and Sustainable Forest Management in the Context of Decentralisation: Adding Value, Sharpening Policy
This project plans to build a 'Shared Learning Partnership' between local and central government, research institutions, civil society and the private sector, on poverty and its relationship to sustainable forest management.
Gill Shepherd and Adrian Wells		April 2003
Conservation through use of the tree species diversity in fragmented Mesoamerican dry forest
The objective of this project was the evaluation of the potential for conservation of tree species diversity through use within the farm-forest landscape in the tropical dry forest zone of Mesoamerica (specifically southern Honduras and the Oaxaca coast, Mexico)
Kate Schreckenberg and Michael Richards		2003
To investigate the opportunities and constraints faced by resource-poor farmers in the humid lowlands of West Africa (HULWA) in investing in the planting and improvement of indigenous trees for income generation
The project aims to test the proposition that substantial opportunities exist in West Africa for improving rural livelihoods by cultivating indigenous fruit trees on-farm.
Kate Schreckenberg		December 2002
Strategic Researchable Constraints in Participatory Forest Management
Participatory forest management (PFM) has been an important theme for DFID technical assistance for the last 15 years, but the subject of relatively little focused research.
Cecilia Luttrell and Kate Schrekenberg		2002
Governance and Poverty Impacts of the Illegal Timber Trade in Central America
This project aims to catalyse institutional and policy change with regard to the illegal timber trade in Honduras and Nicaragua through the creation of an accessible information base on the nature, extent and dynamics of this illegal trade, and by building awareness, dialogue and 'coalitions for change' amongst political institutions, government agencies, donors and civil society.
Adrian Wells and Michael Richards		2002
Preparation of the Second Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by the European Community, and Thematic Reports on Forests, Alien Species and Benefit Sharing
This project aims to support DG Environment in the preparation of the Second Report from the European Community to the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Gill Shepherd and Adrian Wells		2001
A Programme of EU Tropical Forestry Information Consolidation, Networking and Dissemination
This project was concerned with the tropical forestry activities of the EU Member States
David Brown, Gill Shepherd, Kathrin Schreckenberg and Micheal Richards		1996-2000