b'The Pulte InstituteforGlobal DevelopmentSustainabilityResearch Empowers Local Communities With New Forest Management ToolA new tool to support local communities to effectively stewardInstitutions (IFRI) research program (now part of FLARE) into a their forest resources was released at FLAREs 2023 fallmuch smaller set of questions that can generate new insights meeting in Kenya. The Community Forestry (CommFor) Toolon community forest attributes, governance, and changes. Led is an app developed to help communities better understandby Notre Dames Miller together with Indian School of Business and monitor their forests. CommFor leverages research onProfessor Ashwini Chhatre, and University of Michigan Professor community forestry, one of the most prominent ways in whichArun Agrawal, CommFors development has included pilot-forests are managed globally, together with advances in digitaltesting at dozens of community forest sites in 17 countries. The technology to capture data for use by local communities inapp includes a visualization engine to compare a single forest to forest management.others like it and allows for the automated download of satellite imagery. Future releases will also offer early indications of The app distills hundreds of questions developed overareas of forest management that require attention and a user three decades by the International Forestry Resources andcommunity forum.On this page: Prof., Fr. Emmanuel Katongole from the Keough School pictured with two professor colleagues from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The group contributed to the development and piloting of the CommFor tool there.2725 | 2023-24 Annual Review'