Author Cowling, P., DeValue, K. & Rosenbaum, K.

Year of publication 2014

The remedy to poor governance starts with understanding where governance is weak. If we can measure forest governance, we can diagnose problems, advance reforms, and monitor their impacts. Forest governance comprises all the social and economic systems that affect how people interact with forests, including bureaucracies, laws, policies, traditional norms and culture, patterns of land tenure, and markets. This book is a guide to measuring or assessing forest governance. It presents a step-by-step approach to planning forest governance assessmentor monitoring, collecting data, analising it, nd making the results available to decision makers and other stakeholders. It also presents five case studies to illustrate how assessment or monitoring initiatives have applied the steps in practices, and it includes references and links to sources of further infirmation. This guide aims to be useeful to everyone involved in a forest governance assessment. Some readers will want to go through the whole guide to have a full picture of the process. Others will find what they want in particular chapters on planning, data collection, analysis, and use of data.