Executive summary

Table of contents

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Acknowledgements

Section 1: Corruption risks in REDD+: The context and evolving forest governance perspectives. Background ; REDD+ in Ghana: progress and the way forward ; The case of corruption risks in Ghana's REDD+ ; Objectives ; Structure of the report

Section 2: Corruption risk assessments in REDD+. Corruption in the forestry sector ; REDD+ and corruption risks ; What is corruption risk assessment?

Section 3: Methodology. Study area ; Data collection ; Inception workshop and identification of corruption risk issues ; Sampling approach and data collection methods ; Limitations of the study ; Data analysis

Section 4: Findings and synthesis of the study. Characteristics of respondents to the questionnaire survey ; Stakeholder groups involved in the study ; Engagement in anti-corruption activities ; Perceived corruption risk in the forestry sector ; Most serious perceived corrupt practices in various forestry activities that lead to deforestation and forest degradation ; Most serious corrupt practices associated with law enforcement and monitoring of forestry activities ; Most serious corrupt practices in reforestation, timber harvesting and permitting that lead to deforestation and forestdegradation ; Most serious corrupt practices in benefit sharing. Social Responsibility Agreement (SRA) negotiations and securing community consent that lead to deforestation and forest degradation ; Most serious corrupt practices in employment afforest workers that lead to deforestation and forest degradation ; Most serious corrupt practices in funds allocation and disbursement that lead to deforestation and forest degradation ; REDD+ corruption risk analysis ; The likelihood of occurrence of potential corrupt activities that could impact the implementation of REDD+ ; Likelihood of forestry sector actors to commit corrupt activities in relation to REDD+ ; Impact of corrupt activities in the forestry sector ; REDD+ Corruption Risks in Ghana ; Most severe corruption risks in Ghana's REDD+ processes ; Reasons for the possibility of corrupt practices in the implementation of REDD+ ; Interventions to manage corruption risks in REDD+

Section 5: Conclusions and recommendations. Conclusions ; Recommendations

References

Annex 1

Annex 2

Annex 3.