Forest governance & trade (FLEGT) and forest sector reforms

Some of the recent assignments undertaken by Acacia in the field of forest governance include:

• Team Leader on evaluation of the EC-funded Forest Governance Learning Group initiative, being implemented across ten countries in Africa and Asia (with visits to Mozambique, Uganda and Vietnam)
  Client – International Institute for Environment and Development – UK

• Team member on appraisal of Finnish government support to the forest sector in Kenya
  Client – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland

• Team Leader on re-design of forest sector reform programme in Kenya (Miti Mingi Maisha Bora)
  Client – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland

• Design of a national conditional block grant mechanism to local governments with the objective of supporting community based natural resources management across mainland Tanzania
  Client – Government of Norway

• Team member on a scoping study for the preparation of a National Biomass Energy Strategy in Tanzania
  Client – GTZ, Germany

• Prepared a policy brief on the importance of stakeholder participation in the development of National Forest Programmes
  Client – Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome, Italy

• Team leader on final evaluation of the joint World Bank, FAO, IIED and IUCN “Growing Forests Partnership” programme, with visits to Ghana, Liberia and Guatemala

• Team leader for a review of The Forests Dialogue, for the period 2000 – 2013.
  Client – Yale University School of Forestry

• Evaluation of the work of the DFID-EU funded Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Facility, hosted by the European Forest Institute
  Client – Department for International Development, UK

• Team leader for final evaluation of the WWF Denmark / FAO-FLEGT Facility-funded Sustainable Forest Management Programme implemented by Worldwide Fund for Nature, Uganda Country Office
  Client – WWF Uganda Country Office

• Team leader for a five-country study to assess timber trade flows, actors and impacts of illegal logging with a view to developing appropriate FLEGT actions for WWF UK and partners in Indonesia, Malaysia, Ghana, Central African Republic and Colombia
  Client – WWF UK

• Team leader for evaluation of the EU-FAO FLEGT Programme that supports forest governance reforms and voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) processes in 33 countries worldwide.
  Client – FAO-Rome