environmentally sensitive sectors such as energy, transport, water and sanitation, agriculture, and forestry. In these cases, there is … an obvious need for careful analysis of environmental, natural resource, and forestry impacts. In other cases, such as …

population of the developing world. Forests also are central to growth in many developing countries through trade and industrial … development. However, mismanagement of this resource has cost governments revenues that exceed World Bank lending to these …. Nearly 90 percent of terrestrial biodiversity is found in the world's forests, with a disproportionate share in the forests …

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 … communication in forest projects. Chapters eleventh and twelfth discuss the Forest Certification Assessment Guide and the World Bank …

This policy note was prepared in response to a request from the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) for World Bank … Peace Agreement (CPA); and (c) suggest priority solutions and actions towards revitalizing the forestry sector. Key policy …

buy-in and ownership are required to support the transition to more adaptive management in forestry. This transition is …