Boletin Anual De Transparencia

Making the Forest Sector Transparent

Annual Transparency Report 2009

Prepared by Global Witness November 2010

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Perú Derecho Ambiente y RecursosNaturales (DAR) www.dar.org.pe Jr. Coronel Zegarra N°260 Jesús María Lima, Perú Project Leader: Hugo Che Pui Deza dar@dar.org.pe

Ghana Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) www.cikodgh.org PO Box MD Madina, Accra, Ghana Project Leader: Willie Laate wilraby@yahoo.com

Cameroon Centre pour l’Environnment et le Développement (CED) www.cedcameroun.org BP 3430 YaoundéCameroon Project Leader: Germain Djontu ced@cedcameroun.org

Liberia Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) www.sdiliberia.org PO Box 5678, Duarzon Village Robertsfield Highway Monrovia, Liberia Project Leader: Jonathan Yiah listserve@sdiliberia.org

Table of Contents
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Foreword 1 Introduction: Making the Forest Sector Transparent 2 Why is transparency important to the forest sector?Transparency and the right to information 2.1.1 What do we mean by transparency? 2.1.2 The benefits of transparency 2.2 Features of the right to information 2.3 Some reasons why public authorities are not transparent Making the Forest Sector Transparent and the right to information 2.3.1 2.4 Transparency and environmental information: three pillars 2.5 Transparency in the forest sector 2.6 Civilsociety, transparency, and the attempt to achieve good forest sector management Other initiatives on assessing forest governance and transparency 2.7 What are Report Cards and how do they help? Applying Report Card methodology to forest transparency A forest transparency Report Card Country cases

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3 Methodology
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4

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4 Cameroon
4.1 4.24.3 4.4 4.5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 8.1

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5 Ghana

Methodology Data Analysis Conclusions Recommendations Methodology Data Analysis Conclusions Recommendations Methodology Data Analysis Conclusions Recommendations Methodology Data Analysis Conclusions Recommendations Analysis

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6 Liberia

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7 Peru

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8 Analysis of the four Report Cards together 9 Conclusions and recommendations
9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Overall conclusions Opportunities Emerging issues Recommendations

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Annex 1 Annex 2 Annex 3 References

2009 Transparency indicators Country data 2009, by theme Making the Forest Sector Transparent project partners

92 101 107 1091

Abbreviations
CED Centre pour l’Environement et le Développement (Cameroonian partner in Making the Forest Sector Transparent) CFDC(s) CIFOR CIKOD Community Forestry Development Committee(s), Liberia Center for International Forestry Research Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (Ghanaian partner) CITES C-MRV Convention on International Trade in Endangered...