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CIFOR’s Component 1 of the global comparative study on

REDD+

About the GCS-REDD project

The Global Comparative Study on REDD (GCS-REDD) is a four-year global comparative research project on first-generation REDD demonstration and

readiness activities in selected countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. More

countries will begin implementing activities in 2010 and, depending on funding,

additional countries will implement in 2011. The project consists of four

components: national initiatives around policy processes and strategies; REDD project sites; monitoring and reference levels; and knowledge sharing. The overall

goal of the project is to provide REDD policy makers and practitioner communities

with the information, analysis and tools they need to ensure effective and cost-

efficient reduction of carbon emissions with equitable impacts and co-benefits such

as poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation – the ‘3E+’ criteria.

Links and options for comparative analysis with COMPON cases

In 2009, CIFOR began implementing GCS-REDD in 4 countries: Bolivia, Brazil,

Cameroon and Indonesia. Component 1 of this study analyses how national

processes that formulate and implement REDD policies, reflect diverse interests at

all levels1. Component 1 researchers have adjusted and incorporated the COMPON approach as one of the methodologies it will use for analysis. COMPON’s scientific

goal of the project is to explain the variation in national response to global climate

change under the emerging international regime. In analyzing national REDD

strategies, CIFOR researchers have developed five work modules (country profile,

strategy assessment, media analysis, policy network analysis, and a fifth flexible module: specific policy studies to respond to emerging research needs. In 2 of the

component’s 5 work modules we will rely on COMPON methodology (media analysis

and policy network analysis). See Table and Figure 1.

1 For further information please see http://www.forestsclimatechange.org/

or contact Maria Brockhaus for information on Component 1 [email protected]

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Table 1: Methods for analysing national REDD strategies, their key objectives and description.

Method Objective and description

Country profile

Provides an in-depth description of the national context relevant to REDD, the options for REDD under discussion and an

overview of the policy dynamics outlining the key issues and challenges in the country.

Describes drivers of deforestation, general and forest sector governance, natural resource and carbon tenure, relevant

sector policies and programmes, and design options for REDD in terms of monitoring, reporting and verification;

financing; benefit and cost sharing; alignment of institutions and policies; coordination; and key actors, consultation and

policy events. The profile includes a summary assessment of the 3E+ implications.

National REDD strategy assessment

a. Situational analysis

b. Policy scoring assessment of

readiness preparation proposals

(R-PP)

Provides detailed analysis of the 3E+ content of existing national strategies, based on the country profile and existing

strategies, such as the R-PP. Includes an assessment of country context factors and REDD design elements that enable

or constrain the 3E+ content. The analysis will be based on assessment frameworks (see Tables 2 and 3) for the 3E+

content of REDD design elements and effects of governance context.

Media discourse analysis

a. Media coding

b. Media informant interviews

Analyses predominant discourse in the media to examine:

Existing REDD discourse and the way in which it is shaping the options negotiated in the national REDD arena

Reforms under discussion, both specific to REDD and of broader relevance

Actors influencing or using specific discourse

3E+ implications of the various discourses.

Policy network analysis

a. Expert panel

b. Actors in-depth interviews

c. Social Organizational Survey

Assesses the actors and structural aspects of the REDD arena and considers implications for the 3E+ content of REDD

strategies.

Examines questions including:

Who is involved in national REDD policy making?

What are their perceptions, interests, and power relations?

What are their networks of information and influence?

Repeated annually, this method can assess dynamics and power relations over time. Results of policy outcomes

emerging from Components 2 and 3 will allow us to assess the efficiency outcomes.

Policy studies

Conducted continuously, as

appropriate

Covers specific policies, political economy questions, or options, such as biofuel or soya policies. Reviews specific lessons

from reforms or mechanisms such as existing environmental trust funds. Provides insight into political economy aspects

of REDD+ and the implications for 3E+ REDD design. Flexible application of this method allows for rapid response to

emerging research questions.

Global comparative analysis

1. Qualitative comparisons of country

case research modules

2. Comparative network analysis

3. QCA (qualitative comparative

analysis)

Provides guidance for second-generation REDD design to address problems appearing in national policy arenas from first

generation initiatives. Various analytical lenses will be applied, for example the 3E+ criteria, governance factors and

country context variables (see Tables 2–4). Draws on data derived from all methods above and provides comparison

across national case studies within each method, such as a global comparative media analysis, and across methods.

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Figure 1. The research design