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  Improving forest justice

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This tool kit aims to help forest institutions support law enforcement agencies and others create systems to eliminate illegality and corruption and install justice for forest-linked livelihoods.
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  Local government accountability

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This tool, based on experience in decentralisation of forestry in Malawi, describes ways to help rural citizens to bring local authorities to account. It is aimed at change agents in rural locations. It raises community expectations about the quality of service provision – and describes a set of steps to install improvements.
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  Feasibility study for a long-term reforestation project in Eluai village, Monduli District, Tanzania

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  Without trees, the important symbiotic relationship between the agro-pastoralist Maasai and their environment will be destroyed.
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  Avante consulta!: effective consultation

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This tool proposes a set of steps that aim to empower communities in local consultations intended to identify:who has the rights to manage natural resources in an area, andhow this management should be carried out and monitored.The tool has been written within the context of the policies regarding land and forestry rights in Mozambique.
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  Gleanings on governance

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2004

  This report describes the successes and failures of recent efforts to improve forest governance in Mozambique, and outlines some important lessons for future implementation of good forest policy.Good forest governance involves shaping what people and institutions do, above and beyond what they say they will do. In Mozambique the content of forest policy is new.
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  Associations of small and medium forest enterprise: an initial review of issues for local livelihoods and sustainability

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2004

  This paper provides an introduction to recent literature on the benefits of small and medium enterprise (SME) associations and how to achieve them. An introduction is given to some of the language used by different disciplines that may have something to offer the forest sector.
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  Good, average and bad: law in action

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This tool aims to support the scrutiny and the improvement of positive outcomes of laws for rural communities. It explores the reasons behind variable practical outcomes (good, average and bad) then suggests changes in how to develop laws, put them into practice or enforce them.
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  Forest certification: sustainable forestry or misleading marketing?

  American Lands Alliance, 2005

  This article compares two forest certification systems, namely the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).
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  Time to measure the impacts of certification on sustainable forest management

  Fern, 2005

  This report assesses the benefits and developments relating to forest certification schemes which have been evolved over the last ten years.It gives a brief overview of current certification schemes and also makes the following points:certification has led to increased consumer demand for timber products from well managed sources, with certified forest products now having a market share
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  In search of excellence: exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This publication reflects the outcome of an initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the most promising ideas, methods and approaches.

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