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Putting PEN to Paper
More than 40 PEN partners and resource persons
gathered from the 23rd -28th of March 2009 at the CIFOR headquarters
in Bogor, Indonesia for the 5th PEN workshop. The title of the
workshop – Putting PEN to Paper – reflects the current stage of the
PEN project. Data collection is complete and the task ahead is to
clean and analyze the data, see what stories emerge from the results
and to publish the stories in journal articles, book chapters and
PhD theses.
A large part of the workshop was spent on
presentations of results from individual PEN studies (see links at
the end), which were well-received by fellow researchers. "This was
arguably the most exciting workshop to date,” said Nick Hogarth, who
did his fieldwork in southern China. “For the first time in the
project history, much of the partners’ data has been cleaned and
analyzed. Therefore, there was some insight into the shape of the
global results to come. Everyone was engaged and contributing and
there was a general buzz and feeling of excitement." more
List of presentations click
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" -- Winston Churchill
The
single largest cluster of PEN studies is being
undertaken by the ‘Danida-PEN’ project. This is
a four year (2007-10) PEN based research project
with approximately USD 1 million in funding and
supported by the Research Committee of the
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project
uses PEN methods for extensive fieldwork in
Cambodia, Burkina Faso and Ghana (presented
below). In addition, the project includes
support for PEN’s central operation at CIFOR.
Field work in the three countries is coming to
an end, following at least four visits to more
than 1500 households and data entry almost
completed.
This October, project participants met in
Cambodia’s capital Phnom PENh to share
experiences, look at some results and map a way
forward. The workshop was hosted by the Cambodia
Development Research Institute (CDRI),
Cambodia’s leading independent development
research institute. more
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PEN PROJECT: Forest Research Institute (Ghana): Wet and dry
The Danida-PEN study in Ghana is being executed by the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi, and aims to: (i) establish whether local communities’ dependence on forests is significant to their livelihoods, including their role as safety nets, (ii) examine the benefits to local people of forest revenue, (iii) examine the impacts on household income of current resource tenure system and alternative options, and (iv) identify the economic impacts of collaborative forest management arrangements on rural livelihood.
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PEN flyer - a brief description of the PEN project
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PENEWS 2008-3/4 (December): PEN in Phnom PENh
How reliable are own-reported values? Most socio-economic studies, such as PEN, use own reported volume and value data for agricultural and forest products. The reliability of these data is often a point of contention. more...
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