UICN - Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature

Duration of Project: 4 years

Introduction
Objective
Estimated  Results
Geographical Scope
Target groups
Main Activities
Components
Donor
Contacts
 

Introduction
Towards pro-poor REDD: Building synergies between forest governance, equitable benefit sharing and reduced emissions through sustainable forest management in five tropical countries.
The concept of reducing emissions by reducing deforestation and forest degradation rates was much discussed within the UNFCCC  framework in the run-up to the Kyoto Protocol but it was left out of the final agreement .Interest in the concept continued, however and pioneers began to undertake REDD pilot activities-prospects and programmes in support of REDD-although carbon generated was only saleable in the voluntary carbon market .The issue of including REDD policies in Kyoto was reintroduced at the 11th congress of party(COP) in Montreal in 2005,where it derived its current title and a working group was directed to research the viability of including REDD in the package of strategies countries could use to meet their obligations in any post Kyoto agreement
The decision to include REDD strategies  in future climate policies sent s strong signal to the private,governmental,non-governmental  sectors that emissions reductions from avoided deforestation would likely play a role in any post-Kyoto agreement. As the UNFCCC process develops, multilateral organization, countries, NGO’s, community groups, and others have been moving ahead, and pioneering ways to allow nations to receive recognition for reducing their deforestation rates. In some cases this work is just beginning and in other cases projects are functional.

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Objective
The overall objective to which the action will contribute is that early REDD national pilots demonstrate a tangible reduction of deforestation, a direct improvement of forest dependent livelihoods and, ultimately, long term security of forest-based carbon stocks in key forest rich regions.

Estimated  Results

• Knowledge and analysis of how ongoing forest governance reform processes and other pro-poor institutional and policy arrangements could be better deployed to support and reinforce synergies between REDD initiatives, equitable and sustainable forest management and reform of tenure and land-use rights are collated.
• Bottlenecks that increase costs and risks or that prevent benefits from natural resource  markets (including payments for ecosystem services) reaching the rural poor identified, and innovative opportunities to circumvent these in future REDD mechanisms reviewed and promoted.
• Innovative best-practice guidance for local pro-poor RED²D governance, finance and benefit sharing developed, applied, assessed and improved.
• Key stakeholder groups in target countries, including government, private sector, NGOs, forest dependant communities and of women know and fully understand the governance requirements and benefit distribution options available to make post-2012 REDD initiatives pro-poor and have the capacity to convert this knowledge into policy and programmatic action. 
• Key and relevant findings in the governance requirements and benefit distribution options available to make post-2012 REDD initiatives pro-poor are collected and prepared for feeding climate change negotiations at regional and international level.

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Geographical Scope
The zones identified for the implementation of REDD initiative are three African countries; Ghana, Liberia and Cameroon.

Target groups
A tripartite approach will be applied in each country. Even specific arrangements in each country will be different, it is expected that the action will target the following groups:

• Decision makers in forest climate change, development and local authorities
• local civil society organisations including those that directly represent communities,indegineous ,women and other forest dependent people including forest owners(government,privates,communities and indigenous groups)
• private sector, multilateral investors, national and sub national financial institutions and brokers within the carbon offsets markets
• International negotiators on climate change under the UNFCCC and forest related international conventions and fora

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Main Activities
The project will involve analytical, awareness raising, capacity building and communication activities. It will also seek to ensure strong policy-practice linkages by developing and testing governance and benefit sharing guidance along side early REDD pilot activities.

Components

• Synergies between REDD pro poor mechanism and good forest governance;
• Connection between the local and the national level for REDD;
• Knowledge and communication for building and implementing REDD.

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Donor: Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Contacts: Cleto.ndikumagenge@iucn.org/Adewale.Adeleke@iucn.org