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@yale.eduwww.theforestsdialogue.org

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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MARN, INAB, CONAP, MAGA

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Inter Ministries commission of Climate Change

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@yale.eduwww.theforestsdialogue.org

TFD Documents and Publications

Available electronically in english y español at: www.theforestsdialogue.org

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