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This infographic allows you to navigate the process for a community seeking formal land rights in Indonesia, versus for a company securing an oil palm concession.
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by Mikaela Weisse and Katie Lyons - March 20, 2018GLAD alerts on Global Forest Watch can spot changes in forests around the globe, showing forest regions at risk now in Indonesia, Cameroon and Brazil.
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by Stephanie Ratté - March 11, 2015Differences in the ways men and women understand and use forests mean natural resource policies can result in significant gender-differentiated impacts that oftentimes put women at a disadvantage.
Cécile Ndjebet, a partner of WRI’s Governance of Forests Initiative, explains the challenges rural, forest-dependent women face in Cameroon, as well as solutions for overcoming these problems.
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by Lauren Williams - December 06, 2013The world’s forests and the people who depend on them face a host of challenges—including deforestation, rural poverty, and degradation of critical ecosystem services. These negative outcomes are often exacerbated by weak forest governance, including low levels of transparency and participation in forest decision-making and as well as poor oversight of forest activities. To tackle these issues, decision-makers need better information about the institutional, political, and social factors that drive governance failures.
An updated tool from WRI’s Governance of Forests Initiative aims to help policy-makers, civil society organizations, and other forest stakeholders evaluate governance of their countries’ forests. Assessing Forest Governance: The Governance of Forests Initiative Indicator Framework updates the original GFI indicators, which were published in 2009 and piloted by WRI’s civil society partners in Brazil, Cameroon, and Indonesia. Using the indicators, stakeholders can identify strengths and weaknesses in forest governance and develop reforms that benefit both people and planet.
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by Crystal Davis, Lauren Williams, Sarah Lupberger and Florence Daviet - November 2013Weak governance is often blamed for poor development outcomes, such as poverty and unsustainable levels of natural resource depletion. In the context of forests, a lack of transparency and accountability is often associated with problems such as illegal logging and corruption.
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The Forest Atlases are online platforms that help countries better manage their forest resources by combining government data with the latest forest monitoring technology.
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by Lauren Williams - July 16, 2013In January 2013, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility approved USD $3.6M to fund Cameroon’s Readiness Preparation Proposal—a roadmap detailing how Cameroon will develop a national REDD+ strategy to help protect its forests. Cameroon, like many other REDD+ countries, now faces the challenge of delivering on commitments made in its Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP). Doing so will require significant efforts to address historical forest sector challenges, including weak governance. I recently participated in the National Dialogue on REDD+ Governance in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where these challenges were at the top of the agenda. The Dialogue, co-sponsored by Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme-Cameroon (BDCPC), Cameroon Ecology, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED), and WRI’s Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI), provided a forum for government and civil society members to talk frankly about strengthening governance as part of Cameroon’s REDD+ program.
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by Benoit Mertens, Gideon Neba Shu, Matthew Steil, Bertrand Tessa, Susan Minnemeyer, Pascal Douard, Jean-Daniel Mendomo Blang, Andrew Leach, Duclaire Mbouna, Pierre Mboua, Adeline Fuezing, Pierre Methot and Huguette Nglilambi - October 2012The Interactive Forest Atlas of Cameroon is a living forest information system hosted in the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) and supported by a joint team including members from MINFOF and the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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by Joseph Foti and Lalanath de Silva - May 2010For more information, and to watch a webcast of the launch of "A Seat at the Table," visit the Access Initiative website.
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by Karl Morrison, Phil René Oyono and Paolo O. Cerutti - December 2009This report documents a study carried out on the Cameroonian forest taxation system, particularly covering: (i) the distribution practices of the government, as demonstrated through transfers from the central government to the local authorities and from
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by Karl Morrison, Matthew Steil, Paolo Omar Cerutti and Phil René Oyono - December 2009In Central Africa, most governments have introduced mechanisms to redirect more of the benefits from the extractive use of forests to the regions where logging is taking place. Several governments are in the process of designing or implementing
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by Kemen Austin, Susan Minnemeyer, Fred Stolle, Guy Patrice Dkamela and Félicien Kabamba Mbambu - December 2009The scarcity of information on local and indigenous perspectives on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) may inhibit the development of effective REDD-related measures in the Congo Basin. The World Resources Institute (WRI), along with the
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The median of annual BOP per household spending on health for Cameroon is $33.89.
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by Benoit Mertens, Matthew Steil, Susan Minnemeyer, Gideon Neba Shu and Lawrence Ayenika Nsoyuni - March 2007ATLAS ONLINE. You can also access the map server for the Interactive Forestry Atlas of Cameroon online!
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by Rene Oyono - June 2005Since the mid-1990s, Cameroon has launched a process of decentralization of the management of its forests. Among other innovations, this decentralization process has transferred powers over forests and financial benefits accruing from their exploitation to local communities.
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by Susan Minnemeyer, Jim Beck, Otodo Kede, Frederic Medjo, Roger Ngoufo, Lawrence Ayenika Nsoyuni and Maria Jacoba Van de Pol - March 2005The Interactive Forestry Atlas of Cameroon (Version 1.0) is one of the principal products of the ongoing Cameroon Ministry of Environment and Forest (MINEF) - Global Forest Watch (GFW) collaboration.
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June 2004This paper focuses on democratic – not instrumental – decentralization in Cameroon’s forest management. On the whole, it presents an evaluation of accountability in this process. That is how do representatives elected at the village level account – or not account – to those they represent?
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by Prudence Tangham Galega and Phil Rene Oyono - April 2004This policy brief highlights the existing incentives that provide an opportunity for legislators to effectively perform as well as the disincentives which impede the legislator’s effectiveness.
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by Jean-Gael Collomb and Henriette Bikié (Global Forest Watch Cameroon) - October 2000Forest sector planning and management policies can help ensure long-term yields of timber products while minimizing the environmental and social costs of logging and other development.