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Forests Sourcebook : Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development CooperationThe Forests Sourcebook is divided into two parts. The first contains an introduction to the book plus seven chapters covering topics associated with enhancing the contribution of forests to poverty reduction, engaging the private sector, meeting the growing demand for forest products, optimizing forest functions at the landscape level, improving forest governance, mainstreaming forest considerations into macro policy dialogue, and monitoring forest sector activities. Each chapter provides relevant background and context with a general overview of the fundamental issues, constraints, policies, and institutional requirements that need to be considered for specific topics. The second part provides guidance for implementing the World Bank's safeguard on forests. This section of the Forests Sourcebook has five chapters. Chapter eighth provides a brief introduction to the World Bank's Forests Policy (OP 4.36). Chapter ninth is on applying OP 4.36. This chapter includes a discussion of the main requirements of OP 4.36, guidelines for implementation (including preparation, appraisal, and supervision requirements), definitions, and guidance on identifying critical forests and critical natural habitats through environmental assessment, which includes a discussion on protecting forests through conservation offsets. Chapter tenth is on consultation and communication in forest projects. Chapters eleventh and twelfth discuss the Forest Certification Assessment Guide and the World Bank's Indigenous Peoples policy, respectively.
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The Rainforests of Cameroon :
 Experience and Evidence from a Decade of ReformIn 1994, the Government of Cameroon
 introduced an array of forest policy reforms, both
 regulatory and market-based, to support a more organized,
 transparent, and sustainable system for accessing and using
 forest resources. This report describes how these reforms
 played out in the rainforests of Cameroon. The intention is
 to provide a brief account of a complex process and identify
 what worked, what did not, and what can be improved. The
 barriers to placing Cameroon's forests at the service
 of its people, its economy, and the environment originated
 with the extractive policies of successive colonial
 administrations. The barriers were further consolidated
 after independence through a system of political patronage
 and influence in which forest resources became a coveted
 currency for political support. These deeply entangled
 commercial and political interests have only recently, and
 reluctantly, started to diverge. In 1994, the government
 introduced an array of forest policy reforms, both
 regulatory and market based. The reforms changed the rules
 determining who could gain access to forest resources, how
 access could be obtained, how those resources could be used,
 and who will benefit from their use. This report assesses
 the outcomes of reforms in forest-rich areas of Cameroon,
 where the influence of industrial and political elites has
 dominated since colonial times.
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The Rainforests of Cameroon : Experience and Evidence from a Decade of ReformIn 1994, the Government of Cameroon introduced an array of forest policy reforms, both regulatory and market-based, to support a more organized, transparent, and sustainable system for accessing and using forest resources. This report describes how these reforms played out in the rainforests of Cameroon. The intention is to provide a brief account of a complex process and identify what worked, what did not, and what can be improved. The barriers to placing Cameroon's forests at the service of its people, its economy, and the environment originated with the extractive policies of successive colonial administrations. The barriers were further consolidated after independence through a system of political patronage and influence in which forest resources became a coveted currency for political support. These deeply entangled commercial and political interests have only recently, and reluctantly, started to diverge. In 1994, the government introduced an array of forest policy reforms, both regulatory and market based. The reforms changed the rules determining who could gain access to forest resources, how access could be obtained, how those resources could be used, and who will benefit from their use. This report assesses the outcomes of reforms in forest-rich areas of Cameroon, where the influence of industrial and political elites has dominated since colonial times.