ABSTRACT
This chapter is more directly pragmatic than the rest of this book. Its aim is to provide an evolving tool that will enable users – readers, project planners and implementers, local and regional governments and (with help) communities – to conduct a comparatively quick assessment of local-level governance, typically within a village or district. Such tools may be particularly important for assessors of schemes participating in the United Nations’ programme of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), a popular approach to mitigating climate change. Assessors for payments for environmental services (PES) projects, an idea with a longer history, may also find it useful.
