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PROFOR – Program on Forests

PROFOR – Program on Forests. Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit Dr Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen. What are we going to do?. General introduction to PROFOR and poverty-forest linkages toolkit (MR) Experience with the PROFOR toolkit in Ghana (AB)

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PROFOR – Program on Forests

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  1. PROFOR – Program on Forests Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit Dr Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen

  2. What are we going to do? • General introduction to PROFOR and poverty-forest linkages toolkit (MR) • Experience with the PROFOR toolkit in Ghana (AB) • Learning by doing: application of part of the PROFOR toolkit in class • Q & A

  3. What is PROFOR? • Multi-donor trust fund programme funded by DFID, FINNIDA, the Japanese International Forestry Cooperation Office, SDC and the German government • Initiated by UNDP in 1996, but housed at the World Bank since 2002

  4. What is PROFOR aiming at? • Harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty • Integrating forests in sustainable economic development • Protecting global forest values

  5. Why a Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit ? • 1.2 billion people rely on forests for some part of their livelihoods • But importance of forest products often overlooked in poverty reduction strategies due to lack of evidence • Toolkit to facilitate relevant data collection and analysis

  6. Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit developed by

  7. Features • Developed based on case studies in Guinea, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Mexico and Tanzania • 8 components

  8. Components (1) • Tool 1: Wealth Ranking  Understand how poor households use and depend on forest resources • Tool 2: Local Landscape Situation Analysis  Understand how villagers use local resources • Tool 3: Timeline and Trends Record changes in forest resources, agriculture, local livelihood strategies and income • Tool 4: Livelihoods Analysis Determine the cash and subsistence reliance on forests and the proportion of annual income from forests

  9. Components (2) • Tool 5: Forests Problem and Solution Matrix Identify and rank forest problems (related to policy, regulation or tenure/access) and suggest solutions • Tool 6: Trees and Forest Products Importance Rank forest products by importance for cash or subsistence use • Tool 7: Millennium Development Goals Chart To show the contribution of forests to the achievement of the MDGs • Tool 8: Monetary Values To express the contribution of forestry in monetary terms

  10. More info on: http://www.profor.info/profor/node/3

  11. Example from Tool 4 Livelihood analysis in Ghana by Andy Bell

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