Making the Forest Sector Transparent - Annual Transparency Report 2012
Since 2009, Making the Forest Sector Transparent has documented how well governments have met their commitments to improve forest sector governance and transparency. Forests are under severe threat from logging, mining and other industries, yet poor management and corruption facilitate their destruction and mean that the rights of those who live in them are often ignored. This single document combines a summary and country-specific report cards for seven countries: Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia and Peru. (The links take you directly to the individual reports on www.foresttransparency.info.)
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Transparency is essential for ensuring that people get the information they need to have a real say in decisions affecting their forests. Governments have made numerous commitments to improve forest sector transparency, and governance, but too few of them are effective in practice and not one forest authority is meeting all of its obligations. In the last four years there have been some positive steps towards improving access to information and participation in decisionmaking, but progress has been slow and implementation has been weak. At the same time, bureaucracies characterised by secrecy and corruption have allowed vested interests to continue to exploit forest resources and contribute few real benefits to either local communities or the national economy. |
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