PEN workshop 2009

1. PEN workshop2009 PEN: status and next steps Arild AngelsenPEN coordinator

3. PEN is a • large • tropics-wide collection of • detailed and high-quality data by • (mainly) PhD students on the • poverty-forest (environment) nexus, coordinated by • CIFOR Aim: most comprehensive (breath and depth) analysis of poverty-forest ever

4. What’s really unique? Modus operandi High quality data Size Social capital

5. The PEN project (2004-2011) 0. Planning and preparations: 2004-2006 • Prototype questionnaire, guidelines, Access database • Three methods workshops (Bogor 04, Brisbane 05, Copenhagen 06) 1. Data collection: 2005-2008 • Fieldwork & data collection • Funding applications secured the financial base (DFID, Danida, USAID, IFS + CIFOR core) 2. Analysis and dissemination: 2008-2011 • Three workshops/conferences (Barcelona 08, Bogor 09, UK 10) • Creation of PEN global data set • Methods book • Data analysis and writing: cases, thematic & global • Synthesis publications (book or special issue of journal) • Dissemination and policy work

6. What have achieved scince Bogor 2004? Did most what we planned Did much more than planned • Questionnaire • # studies (38 vs. 20) • Guidlines and assistance provided • Adaprive co-management Several PhDs completed Some results produced and dissiminated Half of the job is still ahead

7. Some lessons PEN is a maraton (7+ years) • Keep focus and motivation • People come and go Good research takes time (TTT) • ”No shortcuts to progress” • Attention to details • Time needed for data cleaning and management is commonly underestimated

8. … a chain is only as strong as its weakest link … There are plenty of opportunities to mess up things

9. We have done the data collection ….We are cleaning the 294 150 questionnaire pages to manage them in a data set of 17 348 734 data cells ….We then have to extract the good stories and tell them load and clearly

10. The stories should be about:

11. Themes • Livelihoods: forests role as supporting current consumption, safety net, and pathway out of poverty What is the • Forest tenure, joint/communal/local forest management, decentralization • Markets: local integration and functioning of markets • Poverty impacts of deforestation and land use changes • Payment for forest environmental services, including tourism • Climate ??

12. Some preliminary results

13. Poverty profile

18. There are a lot of exciting stories and good research to be done (some which goes well beyond the forest-poverty debate)

19. Publications and dissemination Some central management of key outputs, then AA Science article Special issue journal and book(s)? Regional synthesis Thematic work

20. This workshop PEN business Field stories –> global analysis Writing ( = research)

21. Programme

22. PEN songs 2005: “You’ll never walk alone” 2006: YMCA Young man, are you listening to me?I said, young man, what do you want to be?I said, young man, you can make real your dreams.But you got to know this one thing! No man does it all by himself 2008: The PEN song: This is the survey that never ends

23. ”Fix You” (Coldplay) When you try your best but you don't succeedWhen you get what you want but not what you needWhen you feel so tired but you can't sleep Stuck in reverse.And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can't replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse?Lights will guide you home And ignite your bonesAnd I will try to fix you