This publication contains transparency report card used for the gathering of data on the level of public access to information, as a means of assessing transparency and any progress made towards the improvement of forest sector policy and practice. This report card takes a rights-based approach; it is both top-down (looking at the legal obligations each state has to enhance transparency and participation in decision-making - including reference to the individual country's constitution, Freedom of Information legislation, and sector-specific laws - and bottom-up (working with forest-dependent communities to identify information needs, so that communities can assert their rights, and hold duty-bearers to account). The report card assesses 70 transparency indicators/questions across 15 themes ranging from  ‘Are forest land use / ownership maps available?’ to ‘Are logging contracts made public?’ and ‘Is there a Freedom of Information Act?’

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