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  A “Delphi Exercise” as a tool in Amazon Rainforest valuation

  World Bank, 2014

  The Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown.
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  Mid-term evaluation of the Clean Energy in Africa Programme of Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway)

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  The Clean Energy in Africa programme is a five-year programme (2012-2016) where Naturvernforbundet is cooperating with the Pan-African organization Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement International (JVE) and Fórum de Energias e Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Moçambique (FEDESMO).
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  Mainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014

  Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, yet the strategic prioritization of sector anti-corruption initiatives is still the exception. The National Water Directorate in Mozambique is one of the few public sector departments in the world known to have allocated its own resources to developing a sector-specific anti-corruption strategy.
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  Elephants over the cliff: explaining wildlife killings in Tanzania

  Elsevier, 2015

  Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other Africancountries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we showin this case study, however, not all violence against elephants is driven by the ivory trade.
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  Technology Transfer in India: CBD, institutions, actors, typologies and perceptions. Sector: Herbal Medicines (biopharmaceuticals, botanicals and personal care products and cosmetics)

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  The Convention on Biologcal Diversity (CBD) recognises that both access to and transfer of technologies are essential for the attainment of its objectives. This report explores a number of issues related to technology transfer with a particular focus on India asking questions on: typologies, actors, and institutions, perceptions and mechanisms.
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  REDD+ in India: managing carbon storage and biodiversity safeguarding in national forest politics?

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  The report analyses India's approach towards the mechanism on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhance-ment of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), with particular attention to India's handling of both carbon and biodiversity matters.
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  Power to protect? Participation in decentralized conservation management: the case of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  This report is based on a case study of participation in and decentralized management of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) in north-eastern Nepal.
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  Instituting REDD+: An analysis of the processes and outcomes of two pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  REDD readiness is about developing national strategies for REDD+ including the necessary systems to ensure reduced DD, encompassing systems for monitoring/carbon accounting and distribution of international compensations. Establishing REDD+ is a process of change not least regarding actions on the ground.
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  The Ongo Community Forest REDD+ pilot Project, Uganda: A socioeconomic baseline survey

  Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 2012

  This report aims to synthesise information on current socioeconomic conditions within the villages that are to be involved in the Ecotrust Pro-Poor REDD+ pilot project in the Masindi district of western Uganda.
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  The Kilosa District REDD+ pilot project, Tanzania: A socioeconomic baseline study

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013

  Tanzania has decided to embark upon a national REDD programme to meet its obligations of managing its forests sustainably while responding to poverty reduction initiatives. As part of the REDD Readiness phase, nine pilot projects are being carried out in different areas of the country to draw lessons to assist in structuring a successful REDD+ in the future.

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