Year of publication 2010

The toolkit offers simple methods for capturing data concerning the role of forests and trees in poverty reduction, including both indications of the direct cash contributions to poverty reduction that the forest may make, but also the wide range of non-cash income that poor people derive from the forest. The toolkit is intended to generate information primarily for audiences to be found at national government levels. There are also other potential audiences who are both user and audience. While the toolkit was originally conceived simply as a means of making key national level institutions more aware of the key role that forests play for the poor, it is already clear that its field component has a wider set of potential users, including local NGOs and CBOs, national-level NGOs and international agencies—such as IUCN and FAO, which have already used the toolkit.