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Nature and Biodiversity
This is how planting trees could pull 60,000 Rwandans out of poverty
Planting trees can increase land productivity as well as increase food security, allowing Rwandans to grow their own produce to sell.
Dow Maneerattana is the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for the Forests Program. She is responsible for guiding overall monitoring and evaluation effort to systematically capture and demonstrate initiative results and impact. She works closely with Global Forest Watch, the Global Restoration Initiative, and Forest Legality Alliance on M&E for proposal design, monitoring tools and systems, reporting, and evaluations.