This report summarizes the main findings and recommendations of the assessment, updated to reflect the most recent (April 2019) refugee population figures. These are expected to guide WB support to the Government of Uganda (GoU)—including the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) and an IDA disbursement window for refugee-affected...

Uganda is host to more than 1 million refugees who have fled famine, conflict and insecurity in the neighbouring countries of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan. The recent influx of refugees from South Sudan prompted one of Uganda’s most severe humanitarian emergencies and led to...

The two waves of refugees from the Central African Republic has provoked one of the most severe humanitarian crises in Central Africa and in the South of Chad. The different camps around the city of Goré host a population of more than 90 000 individuals of which 35% are refugees,...

There are more than 600 species of rattans, of which only about 10 percent are traded internationally. A wide variety of terms and terminologies were used in the rattan sector worldwide, often with different meanings, or which were not well understood by many rattan users. An expert consultation on rattan,...

To effectively respond to changing needs, forest agencies must ask themselves: What are the objectives of re-invention? How can others’ experiences be used? Is re-invention through a gradual, evolutionary approach preferable to “big bang” reform? Can fundamental and superfluous institutional changes be distinguished? Can hijacking of “re-invention” by vested interests...

Many organizations and institutions have been, or are currently, testing or piloting multi-stakeholder dialogue mechanisms, aimed at improving decision making in the forestry sector. However, to date, little or no systematic assessment of the effectiveness of the various mechanisms has been conducted. The FAO Regional Office for Asia and the...

Emily Kramer, Manager of Distribution Vegetation Management, ComEd reports the lessons learnt on the recent heavy storm impact on the electic utilities at the 2014 Urban Tree Conference. The speaker specifically focuses on activities performed to decrease the number of outages due to storms through vegetation management such as preventive...

2010 documentary detailing the Ballarat Region Treegrowers "Biorich Plantation" project at Lal Lal Victoria.

The principles and practices for forest harvesting in Indonesia (2000) have been developed to provide a uniform set of minimum standards for logging practices in the production and limited production forests in Indonesia. They provide the standard for WHAT is involved in planning and implementing logging activities in natural forest...

The Tropenbos-Guyana Series publishes results of research projects carried out in the framework of the Tropenbos-Guyana Programme. The Tropenbos-Guyana Programme operates within the framework of the international programme of the Tropenbos Foundation. The multidisciplinary Tropenbos-Guyana Programme contributes to: conservation and wise utilisation of forest resources in Guyana by conducting strategic...