REDD+ Readiness across countries: time for

reconsideration

Peter A MinangWorld Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) &

ASB Partnership For the Tropical Forest Margins

Land and forest governance at multiple levels in supporting climate change mitigation: lessons learned from the tropics

Indonesia Pavillion at UNFCCC COP 21December 3, 2015, Paris, France

Minang et al., 2014

The problem• More than 75

countries engaged in some kind of REDD Readiness

• Attracting upto USD 7.2 Billion of investments committed to supporting REDD+ including Readiness in large part (Creed and Nakhooda 2011)

• YET LITTLE EXISTS IN TERMS OF COMPARING READINESS ACROSS COUNTIRES IN AN OBJECTIVE WAY

• HENCE LEARNING SO

FAR LARGELY ANECDOTAL

REDD+ READINESS PHASED APPROACH

ELEMENTS FROM CANCUN AGREEMENTS- PARA 70 -73 DECISION 1/CP16

REDD Readiness comparison framework

Minang et al., 2014

How about multilevel governance and land in REDD+ Readiness?

Are Agricultural drivers of deforestation being considered?

Selected countries fit along forest transition

Results

Minang et al., 2014

The Indonesia Paper

Some notes on results• Most countries scored really well on process indicators

like R-PIN, R-PP and REDD Strategy- Thanks to FCPF & UN-REDD Support

• Indonesia is the only country that had a full-fledged REDD Policy and also linked REDD+ to a wider economic strategy. Policy, legal & institutional frameworks were patchy for the Peru, Cameroon and Vietnam

• Vietnam stands out in the development of a benefit sharing framework

• Most countries score poorly on benefit sharing, MRV and audit and financing (most financing still external)

Way forward for Indonesia?• Showing leadership in nested approaches to REDD+-

RAD-RNK and RAD-RNK. Provincial Strategy and Planning on REDD+ Implementation (Strategi dan Rencana Aksi Propinsi –SRAP).

• Bringing in more peatland areas through HKM (Village forest) mechanisms would help more high value forest areas come under protected areas and generate local emission reduction and multiple benefits.

• Improving cross-sectoral actions to Readiness speed and effectiveness (would help break path dependency)

• AKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONTRIBUTORS– Agung, Putra– Meine van

Noordwijk– Lalisa Duguma– Atiek Widayati– Sonya Dewi

Merci! Terima Kasih!