The Forests Dialogue (TFD) & IUCN REDD’s impact on Communities, Capacity and Corruption Gary Dunning The Forests Dialogue UNFF9 1 February 2011 New York, New York
The Forests Dialogue (TFD) & IUCNREDD’s impact on Communities, Capacity and Corruption
Gary DunningThe Forests Dialogue
UNFF91 February 2011New York, New York
Welcome
Panelists
• Stewart Maginnis(IUCN)
• Mario Rodriguez(INAB – Guatemala)
• Gerhard Dieterle(World Bank)
• Lambert Okrah(CEN-RCE)
Initiative Sponsors
The Forests DialoguePurpose and Mission• Established in 2000 by
NGO and Business Leaders• Reduce conflict among
stakeholders in the forest sector
• International platform and process to discuss key SFM and conservation issues
• Build mutual trust, enhanced understanding and commitment to change
Structure • Steering Committee• Secretariat • Network of Partners
TFD InitiativesPriority SFM Issues • Forests and Climate• Free, Prior, and Informed
Consent • Investing in Locally
Controlled Forestry• Forests & Poverty
Reduction and Rural Livelihoods
• Intensively Managed Planted Forests
• Illegal Logging and Forest Governance
• Forests and Biodiversity Conservation
• Forest Certification
How TFD’s Initiatives Work
Dialogue Phase• Scoping Dialogue• Experiential Field Dialogue• Wrap-Up WorkshopOutputs• Co-Chairs Summaries• TFD Reviews• Commissioned Papers• Consensus-based
recommendations /guides/ suggestions.
Outcomes• Trust among leaders• Next Phase of Engagement• Meetings with decision
makers• Coalitions• Impact on policy
TFD Statement“Consensus on forests is rare. When it is achieved, the world should listen. When it offers a solution to climate change, the world must listen.”
Launched October 2008
Contents
• Executive Summary
• Guiding Principles
• Indicative Actions
• Briefing Notes
Investing in REDD-plus
Launched October 1st, 2009 during UNFCCC Climate Change talks in Bangkok:
Twenty-six recommendations and an executive summary & matrix 100 Stakeholders Agreed recommendations Fed into IWG-IFR and
UNFCCC processes
Key Messages• Broad elements of REDD-plus should include: reducing
emission from deforestation and degradation; conservation; SFM; enhancement of carbon stock
• Base REDD-plus firmly on sustainability principles: ecological integrity; social integrity; atmospheric integrity; economic integrity
• REDD-plus finance mechanism must be: effective; efficient; equitable
• Financial stability for REDD-plus can only be achieved through a portfolio approach with a combination of public and private funding and with country’s commitments
• The implementation of REDD-plus requires forest-governance reforms through inclusive processes that build on existing forest-governance systems.
REDD Readiness Field Dialogues
250 Stakeholders 5 Dialogues:
• Brazil-10.09• Ghana-11.09• Guatemala-1.10 • Ecuador- 6.10• Cambodia-11.10
Country Reports and Review Paper
Initiative Objectives
• Build a “Community of practice”
• Link international MSD platform and national REDD related processes
• Catalyze stakeholder engagement processes and create & support on-going local mechanisms
• Build locally-rooted well-connected REDD protagonists
Initiative Objectives
• Raise awareness and promote exploration of national REDD readiness challenges among a wide spectrum of local and international stakeholders
• Provide well-targeted recommendations at the local, national and international levels
Context of Dialogue Conclusions
• Not an evaluation of individual countries’ REDD process to date
• REDD moving very quickly and unpredictably • Working with country and international
stakeholders to build a learning experience that complements on going efforts
• Identify additional measures critical for enhancing REDD Readiness process
Common issues from REDD Readiness Dialogues
• Information• Participation• Rights and tenure• Benefit Sharing Mechanisms• Integration with other
sectoral and national development plans
• Institutional and Policy Reform
• Endorsement of REDD+
Key Challenges
Challenge 1: Access to, and use and availability of, information and its use in capacity-building
Issues: • Real information gaps at local
level – not just among communities
• Lack of understanding by governments about scope and nature of forest dependency
• Limited two way flow
Key ChallengesWays forward: • Collate information on forest-
related dependency (gender!!)• Prioritize education and training
programs on REDD-plus• Improve interagency
collaboration particularly on policy analysis
• Develop and fund a national REDD communication strategy
• Establish information centers on REDD-plus to facilitate two way information flow
Key Challenges
Challenge 2: Effectiveness of multi-stakeholder participation and engagement mechanisms and processes
Issues: • There is some degree of stateholder
engagement but seldom coherent and systematic
• Stakeholder mapping is rarelycomprehensive (gender not treatedsystematically)
• Talking about major transformative change in land use but poorengagement outside forest sector
Key ChallengesWays forward: • Establish a well resource package
and process for stakeholder inclusion• Map stakeholders and spend time
identifying appropriate engagement mechanisms
• Establish a multi-stakeholder platform(s) outside national REDD Steering Committees.
• Build on and integrate existing national mechanisms
• Reinforce links with international learning platforms
• Urgent need to close funding gap (MRV receives x3 resources allocatedfor info, capacity building and stakeholder engagement
Key ChallengesChallenge 3: Reform of policy and
legislative frameworks, particularly those on tree and carbon rights
Issues: • Perennial problems of forest and
tree tenure could be major stumbling block
• Contradictory land-use policies• Where good policy exists lack of
enforcement• How do carbon rights related to
tree and land rights
Key ChallengesWays forward: • Conduct an analytical review of key
legal and political stumbling blocks • Initiate process to help establish
legally robust and practically secure rights for landholders to trees outside reserves
• Clarify how carbon rights link to tree and land rights
• Strengthen capacity among stakeholders to engage in legal reforms
Key ChallengesChallenge 4: Establishment of a
revenue and benefits distribution system
Issues: • Elephant in the room!!• Long history in many countries of
weak benefit sharing arrangements when it comes to natural resources
• Commonly regarded as an issue to address late in phase II
• Wide range of expectations
Key ChallengesChallenge 4: Establishment of a
revenue and benefits distribution system
Ways forward: • Canvass local views on legitimate
benefit distribution mechanisms• Develop a framework for REDD-
plus under share-cropping arrangements
• Develop dispute-resolution procedures and capacity
• Learn from & share with other countries’ experiences
Key Challenges
Challenge 5: Integration of REDD-plus policies with broader land-use plans and other sector and development plans
Issues: • Major vested interests in other land-use sectors (and
sometimes linked to political elites)• Lack of coordination between Government Departments• REDD still seen in narrow sectoral terms• Weak conceptualisation of what REDD really involves – aims
to turn around established land-use practices and patterns –not simply an issue of paying to keep trees (and carbon) standing
Key Challenges
Challenge 5: Integration of REDD-plus policies with broader land-use plans and other sector and development plans
Ways forward: • Develop an effective cross-sectoral awareness and
engagement mechanism • Differentiate REDD-plus plans by land-use system• Identify conflicts and synergies with other sectoral land-use
plans• Periodically reassess land-use change processes• Extend focus on forest landscape restoration and agricultural
enhancement• Install REDD-plus in key national development frameworks
Thank You!
The Forests Dialogue SecretariatYale University
New Haven, CT, USA
+1 203 432 5966
TFD Documents and Publications
Available electronically in English at: www.theforestsdialogue.org
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The REDD Readiness process in Guatemala, with dialogue and participation
Rafael RodríguezPreinvest INAB
Amauri MolinaDeputy Director. INAB.
The REDD+ Readiness process in Country
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Content of the Presentation
• Guatemala: Phase 1. Readiness• Some advances in Phase 2.
Guatemala Is a FCPF Country, not founded yet..
• Phase 1. Readiness– Implementing national strategy against Ilegal
Login.– Preparing the National Strategy to Reduce
Deforestation and Forest Degradation.• REDD+ is a chapter or mechanism to implement
this strategy.– Preparation of legal framework for REDD
implementation, carbon rights, Benefit sharing mechanisms..
– Adapting the national forest resources assessment for REDD+ MRV.
• Phase 2. … finding phase 3– Preparing a Sub-national base line for REDD+– At least 4 pilot REDD projects with Forest
Communities, Indigenous Peoples in process.– A Climate Change Law, in discussion in
Congress.– National Forest Incentives program: for forest
restoration, management, conservation, reforestation.
A forest governance Reform with a new law to include IP s, FDC; Small land TENURES;
Both programs: funded with at least 1.5% of national gov erment
• Challenges in the process
– We have: legal, technical, social, economic, …– But one specific: To Build a national
PARTICIPATORY AND INCLUDENT process.• At least 23 ethno linguistic groups; more than 40% of
forest is tenure and managed by IP s and FDC.
– We need to create and strength local, sub-national and national schemes for consultation, building and implementation of National Strategy.
• International Initiatives like TFD, has supported our national process– Supporting the national discussion about forest
issues like REDD; Local Forest Controls, Ilegal Loggin, etc.
– Sharing experiences from other countries.– Allowing the participation of national key
stakeholder (IP s, Forest Communities, Private Sector, Gov) in forest dialogues in other country realities.
– Updating and providing feedback about the key forest issues. Eg. REDD+ around the world.
• TFD REDD in Guatemala (January, 2010) allow discuss about:
• International REDD process• To build a national strategy supported by previous national experiences• The government Rol• Involvement of deforestation drivers sectors• How to extend and strength the mutistakehoders platforms and dialogues• Land tenure and land rights liked with carbon rights?• Sharing benefit mechanism• REDD method s issues• Expectations management• MRV System and Reference levels• National Investments.
¡Muchas Gracias!THANK YOU.
•Rafael Rodríguez, Preinvest INAB, Guatemala •Amauri Molina, Deputy Director. INAB, Guatemala
Thank You!
The Forests Dialogue SecretariatYale University
New Haven, CT, USA
+1 203 432 5966
TFD Documents and Publications
Available electronically in english y español at: www.theforestsdialogue.org
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