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Manual: An analysis of corruption in the forestry sector- Protocol to Conduct a Risk Assessment and a Risk Management
Corruption, Framework, Civil Society, Global IntegrityThis framework outlines a generic methodology for prioritizing the corrupt practices that pose the greatest risk to governance—i.e., those practices that are the most likely to occur and have the greatest impact. These anti-corruption tools serve as the focus for TI’s forestry programme—including its monitoring, outreach, and advocacy. A greater understanding of the corrupt...
Informe: Evaluación Participativa de Gobernanza - Event Report Quito 2011
Event Material, Local Governance and Decentralization, Other UN AgencyInforme de la Primera Misión Exploratoria: 17-18 Nov. 2011, Quito, Ecuador. This workshop was held in November 2011 to launch the UN REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Participatory Governance Assessment (PGA) and REDD+SES programmes in Ecuador. The background for this workshop was to provide a forum for initial discussions on the PGA approach, potential...
Realising rights, protecting forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation: Case studies from the Accra Caucus
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyThe Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008. The Caucus works to place the rights of indigenous and forest communities at the centre of...
Abstract: Quantifying the Impacts of the quality of governance on deforestation
Article / Working Paper, Land Governance, Academic/Think TankThe quality of governance is known to have effects on deforestation, together with other social and economic factors. However, assessing the impact of governance quality is a challenging task due to the complex and diverse mechanisms of deforestation as well as limited data availability. In this paper, interrelations between governance quality and deforestation rates are analysed on a global...