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Real-time evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative. Empowerment of indigenous peoples and forest dependent local communities through support to civil society organisations
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2017The Terms of References (ToR) of the present evaluation have the following objectives:DocumentComparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives - IOPscience
IOPscience, 2017The central role of forests in climate change mitigation, as recognized in the Paris agreement, makes it increasingly important to develop and test methods for monitoring and evaluating the carbon effectiveness of REDD+.DocumentCo-Operation or Co-Optation? NGOs’ Roles in Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017This paper investigates non-governmental organisation (NGO) involvement in policy processes related to Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) comparing four countries: Norway, Brazil, Indonesia, and Tanzania. Based on documents and interviews, NGO involvement is mapped using a conceptual framework to categorise and compare different roles and modes of engagement.DocumentReal-time evaluation of Norway's international climate and forest initiative. Literature review and programme theory.
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2016The report presents findings of a baseline for a new wave of real time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). Two separate but closely connected studies have been conducted following an extensive literature review, workshops, and interviews.DocumentREDD+ as performance-based aid: general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway
2013REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets.DocumentState of the rainforest 2014
Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2014Destruction of the rainforest and other tropical forests continue on a dramatic scale in spite of unprecedented global attention to the issue of deforestation and the role of forests in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.DocumentREDD+, Indigenous peoples, The role of the state, NGOs and other actors, Monitoring, Implementation and tenure rights
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2012This brief summarises relevant findings regarding the emergence of the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It draws evidence from several Masters theses published by Norwegian institutions between 2009 and 2012 as well as from presentations in the Beyond Carbon conference organized byDocumentRights-based rainforest protection Why securing the rights of forest peoples is the right way to save the forest
2012The loss of the world’s rainforest has for decades been recognised as a serious, global environmental problem, both by rainforest nations and the international community. Still, 13 million hectares of tropical forest disappear every year. There is, thus, an urgent need for intensified efforts at the appropriate scale and with the right approach.DocumentThe Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
Ministry of the Environment, Norway, 2012Through its international Climate and Forest Initiative, the Norwegian government aims at supporting efforts to slow, halt and eventually reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+).DocumentIrrational numbers: why the FAO’S forest assessments are misleading
Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2005This report argues that the Global Forest Resources Assessments (GFRA) of FAO is failing to do its job. The GFRA should be providing accurate information and credible data describing the state of forests in the world.