Resources tagged "participation"
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REDD Realities: Learning from REDD pilot projects to make REDD workStakeholders in Tanzania are working on REDD through national programme development, awareness raising, advocacy and project implementation. Nine REDD pilot projects have been implemented and cover different regions of Tanzania. Some primarily focus on REDD readiness activities, such as establishing permanent monitoring plots and carbon baselines, and training government staff and community m...
AOSIS in the UNFCCC negotiations: from unity to fragmentationSmall island states were able to obtain some remarkable achievements in the climate change negotiations by building a cohesive coalition, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Yet, This working paper argues that this cohesiveness has come under stress by a growing fragmentation of the UNFCCC regime. The multiplication of issues on the climate agenda and the increasing number of negotia...
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility 2010 Annual ReportIn the past year, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has strengthened its partnership of countries and stakeholders working together to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+). Significant progress has been made in moving from a planning stage to preparati...
Harvesting Knowledge on REDD+: Early lessons from the FCPF Initiative and BeyondThe FCPF initiative is a performance-based pilot of REDD+: this working paper reports lessons learnt so far by the FCPF's Facility Management Team in implementing, financing and managing REDD+ projects in various countries. The relevance to low carbon development can be found on p.17 which contains a useful diagram linking REDD+ strategies to low carbon development based on experience in the ...
Pilot Forest Carbon Trust Fund: Rewarding local communities for forest conservationThis infobrief presents the first Forest Carbon Trust Fund in Nepal, and lessons learnt from this pilot project. It provides insights for understanding what kind of governance system will be required for implementing REDD+ at the national level when communities are actively involved in forest management. The project will also contribute to global learning on how to build the capacity of local...
GMS Forest Policy Brief 04: Policies and institutionsWith demands on forests expanding and diversifying, and the forestry agenda becoming increasingly fragmented, institutions responsible for forest management must compete with and complement other sectoral interests to prove their worth to society. This policy brief suggests that institutional restructuring or “reinvention” may be necessary to grasp opportunities and ensure that society’...
Understanding forest-dependency for REDD+This briefing paper illustrates how participatory assessment tools can inform REDD+ decision-making about important links between forests and livelihoods. The Forests‐Poverty Toolkit is a rural assessment tool and it contributes to a better understanding of the full extent of the direct, non-cash contribution of forests to livelihoods. It also collects data on villagers’ assessments of th...
Snapshot of REDD+ in Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea has been a leading proponent of REDD+ at the international level. However, domestic conditions have frustrated efforts to create an enabling environment for REDD+, and the progress of readiness3 activities and pilot projects has been slow. This snapshot aims to provide a brief overview of the context for REDD+ in Papua New Guinea, the evolution of REDD+ to date, and key issue...
No Regrets: Maintaining Forests for Adaptation and MitigationThe author argues that while governments will face trade-offs in deciding how to respond to climate change, they should not lose sight of the opportunities to capture synergies between approaches that meet both short-term and long-term objectives. Improved forest management is presented as a win-win solution that provides many such synergies, as well as opportunities for jointly advancing cou...
Decision making for ecosystems in a changing climate: time to mainstream ecosystem-based approachesAn 'expert perspective' on ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and what changes need to be made, for example to the role of stakeholders, in order to adopt this approach to climate change adaptation.