Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to a side event at the XV World Forestry Congress on Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:30 - 20:00 KST (UTC/GMT +9) (Hybrid Event) Evaluating policy impacts: How to best assess the effectiveness of international forest policy? Conference Room 318C, COEX, Seoul, Korea Online participants: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85112807086 Description Over the past decades, large areas of the world’s forests have been depleted and degraded worldwide. To respond, several international policy approaches and instruments have emerged. Although many of them are being widely implemented, there is less agreement and a lack of systematic knowledge about their effects and impacts. This session aims to present and discuss up-to-date research approaches and ongoing studies that employ a variety of methodological approaches to explore the impacts of two major international forest governance initiatives: FLEGT and REDD+ Convening organizations * European Forest Institute, * Center for International Forest Research, * Technical University of Dresden, Moderator: Yitagesu Tekle, Team leader, European Forest Institute Introduction: Lukas Giessen, Chair of Tropical and International Forestry; TU Dresden/Germany<https://tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/forst/inter/tropen/die-professur/inhaber-in?set_language=en> Panellists: * Fredy Polo (TU Dresden): Systematic literature review on the impacts of FLEGT VPAs on tropical countries * Paolo Cerutti and Jean Newbery (CIFOR-ICRAF): Perception-based methodology to assess FLEGT VPA impacts across seven countries * Sven Wunder (EFI): Rigorous impact evaluaon of REDD+: a global meta-study * Anna Sanders (CIFOR-ICRAF): Actor-based, ethnographic approaches to understand REDD+ impacts * Closing remarks: Georg Winkel (WUR) Best regards, Dr. Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne Team Leader - Global Forest Governance Coordinator, Circular Bioeconomy Alliance European Forest Institute, Bonn Office Mob: +49 173 6581630 Skype: Yitagesu.tekle www.efi.int<http://www.efi.int/>