Forests are ubiquitous in the Democratic Republic of Congo; they touch the cultural and economic life of most of the population and have enormous global environmental significance. After years of conflicts and mismanagement, reconstruction is key to improving living conditions and consolidating...

The originality of the REDD proposal is its incentives-based mechanism designed to reward the governments of developing countries for their performance in reducing deforestation as measured against a baseline. This mechanism is founded on the hypothesis that developing countries ‘pay’ an...

Reforms implemented to improve forest sector governance in Central Africa have yielded mixed results. There cannot be effective market-based sector regulation without the strict enforcement of a regulatory framework and a neutral administration. To improve governance, it would be more...