Writeshop: Economics of forest restoration

About the writeshop

This two-day writeshop will focus on data analysis and manuscript development. In addition to the principal investigator and the advisors, country team leaders and some of their team members from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka will attend the workshop physically in Nepal, whereas the other team members will attend virtually.

Background

SANDEE is collaborating with research partners from four countries in South Asia – Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan – to implement our research project on ‘Economics of forest restoration’. The research aims to understand the economics of forest restoration as a carbon mitigation option and its distributional impacts on gender and marginalised communities.

The research project is funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada. Led by Mani Nepal, Programme Coordinator, SANDEE, ICIMOD, as Project Leader (Principal Investigator), the project duration is four years (February 2022–January 2026). Two SANDEE advisors, Jeff Vincent, Professor at Duke University, and François Libois, Professor at the Paris School of Economics, are involved in the research as technical advisors for providing technical backstopping. Research teams from the four South Asian countries are an integral part of the research project.