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partners’ capacity and actively engage in dialogue with all stakeholders, bringing the latest insights on
forests, trees, landscapes and people to global decision making.
CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.
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improving people’s lives.
Evaluating policy impacts: how to best assess the effectiveness of international forest policy?
Large areas of the world’s forests have been depleted and degraded over the past decades. To respond, several international policy approaches and instruments have emerged. Although many of them are being widely implemented, there is less agreement and a lack of systematic knowledge about their effects and impacts.
Speakers at this session will present and discuss up-to-date research approaches and ongoing studies that employ a variety of methodological approaches to explore the impacts of two major international forest governance initiatives: FLEGT and REDD+.
Introduction
Speaker
Lukas Giessen
Chair Holder, TU Dresden
Presentations
Perception-based methodology to assess FLEGT VPA impacts across seven countries Paolo Cerutti and Jean Newbery (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Systematic literature review on the impact of FLEGT VPAs on tropical countries Fredy Polo (TU Dresden) and Yitagesu Tekle (European Forest Institute)
Rigorous impact evaluation of REDD+: a global meta-study Sven Wunder (European Forest Institute)
Actor-based, ethnographic approaches to understand REDD+ impacts Anna Sanders (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Senior Researcher, European Forest Institute (EFI)
Sven Wunder
Principal Scientist, European Forest Institute (EFI)
Anna Sanders
CIFOR-ICRAF
Panel discussion
Closing remarks
Speaker
Georg Winkel
Wageningen University and Research
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