his webinar focuses on planning and collecting data for your assessment. The discussion will be organized along 2 main challenges:

Planning for Data Collection, helps practitioners refine their plans to produce practical tools for collecting needed information, set concrete measurement aims, identify potential data sources, select data collection methods, develop specific data collection tools, and capture everything in a data collection manual.

Collecting the Data, covers the steps you need to take to actually acquire your data. These include assembling and training a data collection team, collecting data, and taking steps to assure its quality as well as taking note of some of the ethical considerations that come with data collection activities.

This podcast will begin with the reasons for why policymakers should concern themselves with forest governance. It will describe the FAO-PROFOR 3-pillar framework on forest governance. It will discuss how the framework can be used as an assessment tool--for measurement, diagnosis and monitoring forest sector governance challenges.

An introduction by Marisol Estrella to the MOOC on Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate starting January 2015

A podcast on Engaging the Private Sector in Fast Start NAMAs presented by Gareth Phillips, Chairman of the Project Developer Forum.

Synergies and trade-offs are inherent in the attempt to achieve the triple wins of food security, increased resilience and mitigation to climate change. This PODCAST is an introduction to better understanding of economic and social synergies and trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and food security and provides an insight into integrated models and decision-support tools for national decision makers in order to help prioritize agricultural actions, technologies and practices.

Renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are essential elements of low carbon development strategies as Dr. Nathan Hultman, Director of Environmental Policy program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy discusses in his presentation.

At 4:30 AM the morning of Sunday December 11, 2011, some 36 hours later than the official closing time, the 17th meeting so the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (or COP-17) came to an end in Durban. The broad agreement reached by the 194 participating countries is the subject of Neeraj Prasad presentation.