Topic: governance

The Forest Investment Program (FIP) is a targeted program within the framework of the Climate Investment Funds that supports developing countries’ efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). The FIP Results Framework is a tool to monitor and evaluate the implementation of FIP funds. Following are WRI’s comments suggesting ways to improve the FIP Results Framework.

Developing countries are expecting billions of dollars to fund a clean energy transformation. How can they ensure this money is spent in the public interest?

Last month, WRI convened a group of international experts to discuss policies and incentives for increasing the use of renewable energy in the developing world. WRI’s Davida Wood and Lutz Weischer discuss the key lessons learned at the workshop and their work on helping developing countries make the transition to renewable energy.

An update from the International Anti-Corruption Conference.

Can new SEC disclosure rules help bring transparency to Uganda’s oil sector?

Lalanath de Silva, Director of WRI’s Access Initiative, answers questions on how the “right to know” is evolving in both developed and developing countries.

CAR government and people will now be able to track and monitor the country’s forests and logging concessions.

A new WRI project will quantify forest degradation and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the forests of the Republic of Congo.

Can forest-rich countries learn from the mistakes of extractive projects and avoid unleashing their own resource curse?

WRI’s Davida Wood answers questions on the current situation in Kyrgyzstan and its link to electricity governance.