recoftc unep/unredd durban presentation 011211
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Presentation given at UN-REDD 'Building capacities for REDD+' side event. RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, with financial and advisory support from the Global UN-REDD Programme through the United Nations Environment Programme, assessed the strengths and identified the gaps in the capacity building services being provided in a sample of Asia-Pacific countries against their REDD+ readiness needs. Recommendations were then given on how to improve the REDD+ capacity building process in the region.TRANSCRIPT
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REDD+ in Asia-Pacific: Are capacity building services meeting countries’ needs?
Jim Stephenson RECOFTC - Durban, 1st December 2011
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Why is this assessment needed?1. Capacity building is at the heart of the REDD+ readiness
process
2. $100-200m invested and progress made in capacity building programs in the last 3+ years
3. Little is known of the competencies of capacity building ‘service providers’ in Asia Pacific
QUESTION: Are they meeting REDD+ capacity building needs?
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“There are many good people from universities, research institutes, and government agencies who know very well about issues related to REDD+. The problem is each party is running by its own, so we do not know exactly what capacities building services are being provided.”
Participant in Indonesia workshop
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The objectives of this assessmentIdentify and assess:
• REDD+ readiness service providers in focal countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, The Philippines and Viet Nam
• Long-list of service providers and their activity according to nine capacity building themes
• Main objectives, competencies, types and quality of services offered by short-listed service providers
• Gaps in capacity building services in relation to country needs
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Nine main capacity building themes
1. Awareness raising and REDD+ knowledge dissemination
2. REDD+ Policies and Measures
3. Benefit sharing
4. Monitoring reporting and verification (MRV)/ Information systems (IS)
5. Social safeguards
6. Environmental safeguards
7. Calculating the potential costs versus benefits of REDD+
8. REDD+ fund management
9. Developing the national REDD+ baseline
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Number of service providers addressing capacity building themes
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Key strengths
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1. Awareness-raising
• 88% of the organizations reported activities in this area. However, services have focused on policymakers, NGOs and academia
• Some leading service providers use video (e.g. animated films), television and radio to raise public awareness
• Local-level awareness raising focused on communities living near existing or planned REDD+ pilot projects and pilot districts
Capacity building themes where service provision is highest and speeding up REDD+ readiness progress
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Key strengths contd…
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2. REDD+ policymaking
• Progress in the capacity of local and national organizations, although international consultancies and NGOs still dominant
• % of organizations capacity-building for policy making varies considerably (e.g. 77% of the service providers in Viet Nam vs only 36% in Cambodia)
3. Environmental safeguards
• More than half of organizations provide services for focusing on environmental safeguards
• Opportunity missed ? The knowledge built on environmental safeguards in the conservation sector is not being transmitted to the wider capacity building community
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Key gaps & recommendations to address these gaps
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• Capacity-building themes where service provision is lowest and potentially holding back REDD+ readiness
• To address these gaps we came up with actions to strengthen capacity building
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Key gap 1
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Insufficient attention to awareness raising in the media and in local or tribal languages
• Only half of service providers delivered services in local or tribal languages
• REDD+ terminology is not well defined in national, let alone local and tribal languages, confusion over what REDD+ means
• Exacerbated by poor media understanding of the concept of REDD+ especially at the sub-national and grass-roots level
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Recommendation 1
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Create simplified ‘press friendly’ information materials, design training for key journalists
Focus on radio and television programming
Use local examples in REDD+ training programs
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Key gap 2
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Lack of capacity building services to natural resource industries
20%
80%
Service providers capac-ity building with the natural resource indus-tryService providers not capacity building with the natural resource industry
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Recommendation 2
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Targeted REDD+ awareness campaign aimed at industry roundtables, groups and companies that already show leadership on REDD+
Encourage the sector to participate at a greater scale in national REDD+ planning processes
Provide technical assistance to industry to help take REDD+ into account in land-use planning and supply chains
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Key gap 3
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11%
89%
Service providers capacity building for REDD+ fund managementService providers not capacity building for REDD+ fund management
Inadequate support for REDD+ fund management
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Recommendation 3
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Build capacity of departments of finance and relevant REDD agencies to manage trust fund structures in a transparent manner
These funds could follow existing donor trust fund models, or revolving funds
Financial management capacity building for national and local NGOs receiving and managing private REDD+ finance
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Key gap 4
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Not enough organizations engaged in establishing national REDD+ baselines
421Just 4 service providers have experience in REDD+ baselines in Cambodia, compared to 21 for awareness raising
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Recommendation 4
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Capacity building support to national governments and NGOs in accessing and analyzing remote sensing data for establishing historical deforestation rates
Train government, national/local NGOs and community trainers in:
o The ‘ground-truthing’ of remote sensing data
o Socio-economic analysis to provide reliable business as usual and REDD+ scenarios
o Cross-referencing data from forest bio-carbon inventories, with remote sensing and sample-plot data
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Conclusions
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• Alongside awareness raising, progress has been made in capacity building for REDD+ policy development and environmental safeguards in Asia-Pacific but…..
• Without further attention paid to addressing key gaps, the objectives of national REDD+ plans will not be met within the intended timeframes
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Acknowledgements
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Financial and advisory support The Global UN-REDD Programme through the United Nations Environment Programme
Research support from:
• The Learning Institute, Cambodia• Women's Initiatives for Society, Culture, and Environment
(WISE) , The Philippines• Pak Yando Zakaria (Independent), Indonesia