Stream C: Analysis, Concept and Methodology Development
Parallel C1
Information for Accountability: Capturing progress and lessons learned from efforts to improve the transparency of spatial data
Spatial information about the world’s forest resources is increasingly available to the general public in digital form. Geographic information systems assemble layers of data including boundaries of protected and indigenous/customary forest areas, concessions, private property, along with changes in canopy cover – including deforestation and forest degradation. This session will focus on a geographically diverse set of experiences in which the democratization of spatial information has had a transformative impact on the forest sector.
When?
Day 1, October 29th 14:00 – 15:30
Where?
Parallel Room 3 (Meeting Room Telemark)
Session moderator:
Daniel Zarin, Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA)
Speakers:
Boika Mahambi Yela Barthélemy, Natural Resources Network (RRN)
Estelle Fach, UN-REDD Programme
Tjokorda Nirarta Samadhi, The President's Delivery Unit for Development and Oversight, Indonesia (UKP4)
Tasso Rezende de Azevedo, Socio-environmental entrepreneur and consultant
Background material
Ensuring Inclusive, Transparent and Accountable National REDD+ systems: the Role of Freedom of Information - English version. Click here to download the document in French or Spanish (Estelle Fach, UN-REDD)
Parallel C2
Under what conditions is REDD+ a threat/opportunity to local rights?
This session will discuss the importance of the rights-based approach for REDD+ sustainability and how the tenure and REDD+ agendas can be mutually beneficial, even if not directly interconnected. As readiness on REDD+ progresses, the needs of legal reforms for clarifying tenure rights as well as for carbon rights have been acknowledged as fundamental. Panelists will discuss challenges and lessons learned from country experiences in addressing tenure rights, the contribution of community forest management to effective deforestation reduction and forest conservation and the importance of having community rights legally secured.
When?
Day 1, October 29th 16:00 – 17:30
Where?
Parallel Room 3 (Meeting Room Telemark)
Session moderator:
Thais Linhares–Juvenal, UN-REDD programme
Speakers:
Myrna A. Safitri, Epistema Institute
Yunus Yumte, Samdhana Institute
Solange Bandiaky-Badji, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)
William Sunderlin, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Background material:
RRI - Why a rights-based approach for REDD+ PowerPoint (Solange Bandiaky-Badji, RRI)
Right and REDD Policy Brief-Final (Yunus Yumte, Samdhana Institute)
Parallel C3
How can REDD+ policies, programs, and projects support transformative change for gender and poverty?
This session will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss how REDD+ initiatives can be designed to advance social, economic, and political opportunities for women and the poor. Much attention in the REDD+ community to date has focused on a project-level safeguard agenda to prevent harm to vulnerable groups and avoid exacerbating inequality. This session will build on lessons learned to date in managing risks to rights and well-being, and explore a positive agenda to include policy- and program-level interventions to utilize REDD+ as an opportunity to transform social and gender paradigms and secure and enhance livelihoods.
When?
Day 2, October 30th 09:00 – 10:30
Where?
Parallel Room 3 (Meeting Room Telemark)
Session moderator:
Isilda Nhantumbo, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Speakers:
Andrea Quesada-Aguilar, Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
Ahmad Kusworo, Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Indonesia
Matilda Walimbe, Environmental Protection and Development Association (EPDA Cameroon)
Maria Easterluna Santos Canoy, Kitanglad Integrated NGOs (KIN)
Background material
Community Forest Ecosystem Services - Plan Vivo PIN - FFI (Ahmad Kusworo, FFI)
Kusworo ppt (Ahmad Kusworo, FFI)
Gender and REDD+ road maps (ETFRN News 53 - Article 4.3 only) (Andrea Quesada-Aguilar, WEDO)
WEDO - Factsheet gender and REDD (Andrea Quesada-Aguilar, WEDO)
REDD+SES. Getting Gender Right in the REDD+ SES. Booklet 1 (Andrea Quesada-Aguilar, WEDO)
REDD+ SES. Getting Gender Right in the REDD+SES.Booklet 2 (Andrea Quesada-Aguilar, WEDO)
Parallel C4
Improving national systems for REDD+ monitoring and MRV – from national to the community level
Measuring, Reporting and Verifying (MRV) emission reductions, as well as broader forest monitoring, is a fundamental part of REDD+. In addition to providing the opportunity to assess every participating country’s REDD+ performance and report on that, a well-established and developed MRV and forest monitoring system is a potentially powerful decision making tool, and therefore also has a broader development significance than reporting on REDD+ results.
This session will reveal experiences from Guyana as an example of a REDD+ country that has very rapidly increased its monitoring and reporting-capacity, from experts involved with community forest monitoring, from actors involved in capacity building and evaluation of different monitoring issues and impact processes on the subject. One focus of the session will be on the identification of enabling and limiting factors for MRV and forest monitoring development.
When?
Day 2, October 30th 11:00 – 12:30
Where?
Parallel Room 3 (Meeting Room Telemark)
Session moderator:
Martin Herold, Wageningen University
Speakers:
Esombo Botamba, The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), DRC
Pradeepa Bholanath, Guyana Forestry Commission
María José Sanz Sánchez, UN-REDD programme/FAO
Patrick David Hardcastle, LTS International