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Strengthening Indigenous Peoples'

Adaptation and Mitigation

Strategies & Food Security throughDirect Access to the GCF

Paris, 1 December 2015


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Presentation on

Pilot model of “Community-based

ownership of REDD+ Initiative”

in Vietnam, as Climate Adaptation

and Mitigation Intervention

Presented by Vu Thi HienCentre of Research & Development in Upland

Area (CERDA), Vietnam


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About the project ?

Project “Pilot model of capacity building for

ethnic minority community’s readiness to

REDD+ in Thai Nguyen province, North of

Vietnam”

Being a part of the global project,

Funded by Norad, Coordinated by Tebtebba Foundation;In partnership with Indigenous People Organization in 10

countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.


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Long-term objective of the project ?

Ethnic minorities and local communitiesaccess to forest tenure, are able to handle

their own initiatives on REDD+, biodiversity conservation, livelihoodsustainability as independent stakeholderswith legal status through co-operativesfor poverty reduction and long-termsustainable development


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About the pilot area ?

Area: Binh Long commune,

Target groups: Ethnic minorities and local communities

Beneficiaries in Binh Long, 1.434 households, 20 villages

Main problems before project

55% of households do not have the forest land/forest

Poverty rate: 50%;

Local people face with the poverty and degradation of

natural resources (water, forest, soil… ), illegal timber

logging, and negative climate change impact.


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Dak Nong•FCPF

Dien Bien•JICA

Bac Kan•ICRAF

•UN-REDD

Lao Cai•UN-REDD

Ha Tinh•UN-REDD

Binh Thuan•UN-REDD

Quang Binh•GIZ

•FCPF

Ca Mau•UN-REDD

•MB-REDD

Thanh Hoa•VFD

Nghe An•VFD

Quang Tri•FCPF

Lam Dong•UN-REDD

•LEAF

•MB-REDD

Thai Nguyen•CERDA

Provinces (13) with

provincial REDD+ projects

“The FSSP Annual

Meeting” organized by

VNForest and , Jan 21,

2014

Presentation by a

voluntary group of

REDD+ development

partners (CERDA, ICRAF,JICA, FCPF, GIZ, LEAF,

RECOFTC, UN-REDD, VFD)

FSSP: Forest Sector Support

Partnership


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Project approaches

Strengthening rights Forest tenure to communities

Collective action

Legal community institutional development

Implementation of state law and involvement of localgovernment authorities and agencies

Traditional knowledge and customary governance

Community-based monitoring and information system

(CBMIS) promotion Landscape approach covering forests and agricultural land

Integrating economic, social, and environmental aspects

into a holistic intervention.

Evidence-based policy advocacy


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Kinds of Interventions

At ground level:

Communities access to 50 year forest use rights

Establishing legal community organization and institution:

Co-operative and Alliance of Co-operativeCapacity building to communities though Co-op and Alliance

ensuring they are capable to own their initiatives:

1)Forest: Pilot “Community based ownership of REDD+

initiative” and Traditional conservation initiative on forest biodiversity, operating Community-based monitoring

information system (CBMIS);

2)Improving income: Agriculture commercial products ; Sell-

supply of agriculture input; Soil quality improvement;


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Results ?


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Results ?

1. Community institution development60 self-governing groups (SGGs) , Legal 2 cooperatives,

1,342 member;

2. Forest allocation to SGGs and community forestprotection: 60 self-governing groups (1,342 households)

received 1,116 ha of natural forest with 50 year use rights

1,116 ha of natural forest is well protected, illegal logging

stopped by communities who are in the post of forest owner

3. Indigenous knowledge recognized for application:

Village convention on forest protection with full customary

law approved by District authority and applied in reality;


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Results

4. Pilot “Community based ownership of REDD+initiative” facilitated by CERDA with capacity building and

trainings through co-op network;

CBMIS operated by community cooperatives which conduct

demarcation, mapping of lands and forests, carbon measuring ,

biodiversity resource inventory which decided, planned and

implemented and recorded by the local ethnic minorities thought

their legal co-ops;FPIC team of co-ops are able to consult with villagers on

REDD+ related issues;

Benefit sharing system developed and piloted through carbon

advanced payment piloting in 480 ha of natural forest;

Results ?


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Results ?

5. Income improvement New technical job created from REDD+ pilot model ;

Local people get new income when receiving forest

Soil quality becomes more fertile by using compost and

agriculture products is more competitive, more profit; New commercial product with new market (set up the link

with companies)

Self-provision of agriculture input at lower price and

guaranteed quality (set up the link with companies)

Co-op runs the revolving fund and self-provision of

agriculture input from carbon advance payment to reduce

financial burden for household level caused by high interest

loan in free market


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Policy impact

CBMIS is appreciated by local authorities and agencies(Forest area measuring, forest timber inventory ... )

District government officially accepted the data on forest

area and timber volume collected by local experts for forestallocation which is reduced significantly the cost (Now the

approach has been scaling up in other 4 communes under

the EU-REDD Facility and EFI funded project and in other

commune project in the other province ) Intervention and approaches of pilot of “Community Based

Ownership of REDD” has been used as a demonstration to

develop the Provincial REDD+ policies in Thai Nguyen

province


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Messages

The project has shown that indigenous and local

communities living in or around the forest are crucial

stakeholders in national REDD Plus;

Traditional knowledge and customary law are crucialfactors for maintaining forest sustainably

The indigenous and local communities are able to prevent

illegal logging with cost effectiveness, contribute to success

of REDD+ if they are provided opportunities to forest

tenure, appropriate capacity building, financial sources for

their own REDD+ initiatives and other income generating

initiatives through their legal institutions;


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Pictures on project

activities


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Local technical team of co-operative who are farmers to

do mapping of lands and forests by GPS, carbon


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Demarcation map for

forest allocation. All

data collected in the

field by the technicalteam of the co-op and

the data is

recognized officially

by district authority

Green area is under

the REDD+ pilot (480

ha)


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Random

points tomeasure

Carbon

of the pilot

REDD+

forest

L l h i i h F C ifi d


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Local authority issues the Forest Certificate and

Forest Protection Convention with full of customary

laws to 60 SGGs/communities


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Vice chair of District People Committee hands over the demarcation

map to two directors of two co-operatives – all data to make the map

collected by the local technical villagers


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Carbon measuring in field done by technical villager group

C lt ti ith S lf i ’ b


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Consultation with Self-governing group’s members on

benefit sharing done by the consutation team (FPIC)

Training on development of the methodology: creating the


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Training on development of the methodology: creating the

route in the map by the local trained forest experts for

Forest Species Diversity inventory.23


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Locating the tree in forest by GPS during

inventory of forest species


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Identifying the species of timber tree and

recording data and pictures

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Making compost at home


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Villgers produce commercial potatoes (without tilling) sold to

company through sales contract at their cooperative

S lf i i f f tili th h t


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Self provision of fertiliser through co-ops at

lower price and guaranteed quality


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Increase the green tea quality by organic fertiliser

and compost, more competitive and profit


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Please, see the video about the model of

“Community based ownership of REDD

Plus Initiative” through the below link https://youtu.be/GhsTad-UNfY

https://youtu.be/GhsTad-UNfYhttps://youtu.be/GhsTad-UNfY


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Thank you very much for your attention

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