Publications
This brief is part of a series of briefs on lessons for gender-responsive landscape restoration, shared at the Global Landscapes Forum meeting held in Nairobi in August, 2018. Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) aims to achieve ecological integrity and enhance human well-being in deforested or degraded landscapes. Evidence shows that addressing gender equality and women’s rights is critical for addressing this…
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The study in this publication was developed as a national status quo analysis to the CEPF coordinated and World Bank PROFOR Programme financed project addressing the South East European (SEE) sub-region's forest policy development concerning private forests. The project addressed this issue in all three target countries within the policy frame of the respective national forest programme or strategy processes (Albania, Macedonia, Serbia). In SEE, non-state forestry organisations are still less developed and are in need for policy assistance and capacity building. Private and community…
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The study in this publication was developed as a national status quo analysis to the CEPF coordinated and World Bank PROFOR Programme financed project addressing the South East European (SEE) sub-region's forest policy development concerning private forests. The project addressed this issue in all three target countries within the policy frame of the respective national forest programme or strategy processes (Albania, Macedonia, Serbia). In SEE, non-state forestry organisations are still less developed and are in need for policy assistance and capacity building. Private and community…
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Forest resilience—“the ability of forest ecosystems to return to a pre-condition state following a disturbance, including maintaining its essential composition, structures, functions and process rates”—is fundamental to the well-being of the people, economies, and ecosystems that depend on and are inextricably linked to forests. Forests provide a critical carbon sink, absorbing nearly a third of fossil fuel emissions, with the potential to absorb even more. Unfortunately, forest resilience is challenged on many fronts: deforestation, degradation, fires, population growth,…
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This 4-page brief shares practical suggestions as to potential gender-responsive activities and actions, and indicators to measure progress towards gender outcomes, that WBG clients/ project teams can potentially include in their forest landscape projects, programs and investments.
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The goal of PROFOR-funded activities is to play a catalytic role, whether that be through unlocking additional finance, spurring innovation in forestry, promoting linkages with other sectors, or spreading new knowledge and creating dialogue spaces on various topics. This means that oftentimes it is difficult to put an exact value on the influence that an activity has had, in numerical terms, or, the numerical calculations need to be qualified with some assumptions. Nevertheless, we have made a preliminary attempt to value the impacts of PROFOR funded activities, using some plausible…
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Secure land tenure in rural landscapes is widely recognized as an essential foundation for achieving a range of economic development goals. However, forest areas in low and middle-income countries face particular challenges in strengthening the security of land and resource tenure. Forest peoples are often among the poorest and most politically marginalized communities in their national contexts, and their tenure systems are often based on customary, collective rights that have insufficient formal legal protection. This study on Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development aims to…
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"Forest-smart" describes a development approach that recognizes forests’ significance for sustaining growth across many sectors, including agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and water. It is sustainable and inclusive in nature, emphasizing that forests are part of a broader landscape and that changes in forest cover affect other land uses as well as the people living in that landscape. It transforms how sectors operate by identifying opportunities for mutual benefit and creating practical solutions that can be implemented at scale. Forest-smart realizes the importance of…
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