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International development assistance is increasingly concerned with good governance. Without good governance, countries are fighting a losing battle to reconcile poverty reduction with environmental objectives. Complicating matters, good governance encompasses a range of issues which can be intangible and hard to measure. However, perhaps more than any other sector, the forest sector has long struggled with - and thereby given life to - a range of these issues. Experience in the forest sector clearly demonstrates how a combination of inappropriate regulation and weak governance can erode the assets of the poor and increase their vulnerability. What lessons can we learn from the pioneering governance reforms in the forest sector and how can we apply them to promote wider gains in good governance and pro-poor change?
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A public events series.
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Good governance has come to be a leading theme for donors. This event aimed to re-examine how effectively bilaterals had tackled the complexity of the problem.
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Speaker: Hilary Benn - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, Department for International Development
Chair: Baroness Margaret Jay - Chair, ODI Council
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An ODI public event
in the Rethinking Good Governance in the Forestry sector
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This event investigated what the forest sector has to teach us about the meaning of ‘good governance’ and how to achieve it.
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Speakers: Jon Lindsay - FAO Development Law Service. On ‘Is ‘participation’ a poor excuse for democracy? A lawyer’s Perspective’. Timothé Fometé - University of Dschang, Cameroon & member of National Team for Cameroon’s Forest & Environment Sector Programme. On ‘Forests and democratic development in Cameroon’.
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An ODI public event
in the Rethinking Good Governance in the Forestry sector
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This meeting addressed two key questions: Is Decentralisation Good for the Environment? and Is decentralisation good for the environment and poverty - with lessons from the forestry sector in Indonesia.
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Speakers: Dr Jesse Ribot - World Resources Institute On ‘Is Decentralisation Good for the Environment? Some Reflections on Power Transfer and Institutional Choice’.
Dr John McCarthy - Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University
on ‘Is decentralisation good for the environment and poverty? Lessons from the forestry sector in Indonesia’.
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An ODI public event
in the Rethinking Good Governance in the Forestry sector
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This meeting pulls together the themes of previous meetings under this series, including participation, decentralisation and the role of donors, and will address whether global environmental policy can make a difference.
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Speaker: Dr Gill Shepherd - ODI Chair:
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An ODI public event
in the Rethinking Good Governance in the Forestry sector
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The seminar will ask what lessons we can learn from pioneering experience in the tropical forest sector with governance reform, and will explore the implications for donors and aid agencies seeking to promote democratic development and pro-poor change.
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Speakers: Jim Douglas - Senior Forestry Adviser at the World Bank Roger Wilson - Chief Governance Adviser at the Department for International Development (DFID) Jeff Sayer - recently retired as foundation Director-General of the Centre for International Forestry (CIFOR), and now Senior Adviser with WWF International Richard Tarasofsky - Senior Fellow, Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin. Chair: Andrew Bennett - Chief Natural Resources Adviser, DFID.
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