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The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.

The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.

This report presents a study and account of the adoption of the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Opportunity Assessment for Rwanda (the ‘ROAM’ assessment) recommendations by the Government of Rwanda (GoR) in partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). It has been prepared for IUCN on behalf of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) KNOWFOR programme using an episode study approach.

IUCN Bangladesh has established a methodology to assess wetland biodiversity and its management and written this manual in Bengali, which will be helpful for the target audience (mainly local fishermen, farmers and other stakeholders). This book contains easy methodologies to assess fish production, species richness and wildlife diversity as well as to assess biodiversity management and habitat health by monitoring indicator species (fish, dolphin, birds, herpetofauna, etc.).