Links

Useful websites related to forest sector transparency

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Global Witness website
Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement (CED) website (French)
Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) website
Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) website
Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) main website (Spanish)
Grupo FARO website (Spanish)
Ut'z Che' website (Spanish)
Réseau Ressources Naturelles (RRN) website (French)
Logging Off website tracking VPAs
REDD Monitor website tracking REDD initiatives

Other indicator projects

Chatham House action on illegal logging: indicators of progress
is a methodology for assessing the effectiveness of the global response to illegal logging and associated trade.

World Resources Institute Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI)
provides a common definition and concept for understanding forest governance across a variety of developing country contexts, based on widely agreed principles of good governance.

Relevant media items

The Economist 6-Jan-11: International rankings - Wrong numbers

Global league tables are interesting, but not always reliable

The hunger for crunchy comparisons of everything from venality to brainpower is huge and growing. It is tempting to try and pin ideas down by turning them into figures. Such measures can be handy. But they have serious flaws. Read original article.