Achievements

In 2013, the Indonesian Constitutional Court recognised the customary rights of Indigenous Peoples to forests which the state had claimed unilaterally as state forests.

Mai Ndombe will be the first province in Africa to sign an agreement with the World Bank’s Carbon Fund.

The Forest Compass project was instrumental in building monitoring capacity and piloting new monitoring systems among forest communities in Guyana and Brazil.

Through an INTERPOL led action a vessel loaded with illegal Peruvian timber was detained in Mexico.

The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry has released public forest information related to logging permits.

In order to share positive accomplishments and enhance learning between organisations in the Climate and Forest portfolio, Norad asked the Climate and Forest organisations to submit an example of their achievements which could be relevant to others as well. This example came in addition to the regular reporting. 

The Ministry of Environment in Peru (MINAM) invited members of the project team from ICRAF and International Center for tropical agriculture (CIAT) to a workshop. The aim of the workshop was for MINAM to learn from the ICRAF-developed methodology, LUWES.

Efforts by UCS and CA in the framework of the project, lead to the commitments taken by Wilmar, Asia’s leading agribusiness group. This is clearly a success story that the consortium would like to highlight. 

WWF has supported the government of DR Congo in drafting the first and current revised versions of the Emissions Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN) to the World Bank with numerous other organisations also contributing. The REDD+ preparation activities in DRC have also succeeded in demonstrating some of the important co-benefits of REDD+, including the recognition of land rights by indigenous peoples and local communities.  

In December 2013, the village of Merabu, a close-knit community of 235 people of mainly Dayak Lebo descent, was granted hutan desa (village forest). Hutan Desa gives the village the right to manage the forest in their area through an arrangement between the community and the governments.