Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit : Overview and National Level Engagement

Over the past few years there has been a growing interest in the role that forests play in supporting the poor, in reducing their vulnerability to economic and environmental shocks, and in reducing poverty itself. International workshops in Italy,...

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Main Author:	PROFOR
Format:	Economic & Sector Work
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURE BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION CAPACITY OF FORESTS CASH INCOME CATCHMENT CHRONICALLY POOR CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE COLLECTION SYSTEMS COMMUNITY FOREST COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY FORESTRY DEFORESTATION DEFORESTATION RATE DIMENSIONAL NATURE OF POVERTY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FODDER FOOD AVAILABILITY FOOD BASKET FOOD SECURITY FOREST FOREST ACCESS FOREST AREA FOREST AREAS FOREST CONTROL FOREST COVER FOREST DATA FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST DEVELOPMENT FOREST INVENTORIES FOREST LAWS FOREST LEGISLATION FOREST LOSS FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGERS FOREST PRODUCT FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST RESEARCH FOREST RESOURCE FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENT FOREST RESOURCES FOREST SECTOR FOREST SERVICES FOREST STAKEHOLDERS FOREST TYPES FOREST USE FOREST UTILISATION FORESTERS FORESTRY COMMISSION FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FORESTRY INSTITUTIONS FORESTRY MINISTRIES FORESTRY PERSONNEL FORESTRY PROGRAM FORESTRY PROGRAMS FORESTS FORM OF POVERTY GLOBAL POVERTY HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME POVERTY INDICATORS FOR POVERTY INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY LACK OF INFORMATION LAND USE LOCAL FOREST PRODUCTS NATIONAL FOREST PROGRAM NATIONAL FOREST PROGRAMS NATIONAL FORESTRY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCES NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTS PLANTING POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR PEOPLE POOR WOMEN POORER HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY DATA POVERTY INCREASE POVERTY INDICATORS POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAPS POVERTY MONITORING SYSTEM POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS QUALITY OF LIFE REDUCTION OF INCOME REDUCTION OF POVERTY REFORESTATION REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION REGIONAL OFFICE REGIONAL TRAINING REGIONAL WORKSHOP REMOTE AREAS RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL INCOMES RURAL LIVELIHOODS RURAL PEOPLE RURAL PEOPLES RURAL POOR SOCIAL PROTECTION SUBSISTENCE SUSTAINABLE FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT TIMBER TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS TIMBER PRODUCTION TIMBER SALES TREES TROPICAL FORESTRY TROPICAL FORESTRY RESEARCH TROPICAL FORESTS UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY VEGETABLES VILLAGE LEVEL WAR WILDLIFE WOODLAND
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16561348/poverty-forests-linkages-toolkit-overview-national-level-engagement http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12618

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Summary:	Over the past few years there has been a growing interest in the role that forests play in supporting the poor, in reducing their vulnerability to economic and environmental shocks, and in reducing poverty itself. International workshops in Italy, Scotland, Finland and Germany have focused on the contribution of forests to livelihoods and the policies needed to strengthen that contribution. At the same time, Forestry Ministries, though they are now beginning to feel challenged to demonstrate the ways in which forests contribute to poverty reduction, are for the most part moving only slowly to collect new kinds of data to meet this challenge. There are two main reasons why the role of forests in poverty reduction has not so far been reflected in any significant way in either national level Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) processes or in national forest programs (NFPS). First, most countries have little data available to illustrate how forests contribute to the livelihoods of poor households. Second, the data that does exist rarely gets presented in ways that are meaningful to those designing PRSPs and NFPS. On the poverty side, there is a tendency to underestimate the contribution of forests and off farm natural resources in general, to livelihoods. On the forestry side, reporting is typically in terms of the physical resource (trees planted, forest cover improved, timber sold) rather than livelihoods, with the sole exception of recording the number of people formally employed in the forest sector. Such reporting sheds no light on the contributions made by forests to the lives of the poor. Their previous experience of data collection has not prepared them for this. The objective of the partnership was four-fold: first, to devise a rapid methodology for appraising forest-livelihood linkages from field exercises; second, to undertake more extended research through a series of case studies in six countries; and third, and most importantly, the objective was to devise ways by which locally gathered data could enrich national level and in due course national level processes such as PRSPs (Poverty Reduction Strategy Processes) and NFPS. Finally, the availability of this data would better equip countries for international country reporting on forests, and for participation in the international dialogue on forests. This toolkit is the key product from the partnership. It has been tested in Indonesia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar and Uganda, with the help of external agencies. It is also worth noting that as the toolkit methodology is directed at strengthening the 'voice of the poor' in national policy debates it has relevance to other policy processes beyond poverty reduction.

Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit : Overview and National Level Engagement

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