The document discusses The Forests Dialogue (TFD) and its work on REDD+. TFD is an initiative that aims to build understanding and find solutions to key forest issues through multi-stakeholder dialogue. It has conducted dialogues on REDD+ readiness in several countries. Some common challenges identified include: ensuring access to information for capacity building, establishing effective participation mechanisms, reforming policies around land and carbon rights, developing benefit sharing systems, and integrating REDD+ with other sector plans. TFD dialogues help countries discuss these issues and share experiences to strengthen national REDD+ processes.

1. The Forests Dialogue (TFD) & IUCN
REDD’s impact on Communities, Capacity and Corruption
Gary Dunning
The Forests Dialogue
UNFF9
1 February 2011
New York, New York

2. Welcome
Panelists
• Stewart Maginnis
(IUCN)
• Mario Rodriguez
(INAB – Guatemala)
• Gerhard Dieterle
(World Bank)
• Lambert Okrah
(CEN-RCE)

3. Initiative Sponsors

4. The Forests Dialogue
Purpose and Mission
• Established in 2000 by
NGO and Business Leaders
• Reduce conflict among
stakeholders in the forest
sector
• International platform and
process to discuss key SFM
and conservation issues
• Build mutual trust,
enhanced understanding
and commitment to
change
Structure
• Steering Committee
• Secretariat
• Network of Partners

5. TFD Initiatives
Priority SFM Issues
• Forests and Climate
• Free, Prior, and Informed
Consent
• Investing in Locally
Controlled Forestry
• Forests & Poverty
Reduction and Rural
Livelihoods
• Intensively Managed
Planted Forests
• Illegal Logging and
Forest Governance
• Forests and Biodiversity
Conservation
• Forest Certification

6. How TFD’s
Initiatives Work
Dialogue Phase
• Scoping Dialogue
• Experiential Field Dialogue
• Wrap-Up Workshop
Outputs
• Co-Chairs Summaries
• TFD Reviews
• Commissioned Papers
• Consensus-based
recommendations /guides/
suggestions.
Outcomes
• Trust among leaders
• Next Phase of Engagement
• Meetings with decision
makers
• Coalitions
• Impact on policy

7. TFD Statement
“Consensus on forests is rare.
When it is achieved, the world
should listen. When it offers a
solution to climate change, the
world must listen.”
 Launched October 2008
 Contents
• Executive Summary
• Guiding Principles
• Indicative Actions
• Briefing Notes

8. Investing in
REDD-plus
Launched October 1st, 2009
during UNFCCC Climate Change
talks in Bangkok:
Twenty-six recommendations and
an executive summary & matrix
 100 Stakeholders
 Agreed recommendations
 Fed into IWG-IFR and
UNFCCC processes

9. Key Messages
• Broad elements of REDD-plus should include: reducing
emission from deforestation and degradation; conservation;
SFM; enhancement of carbon stock
• Base REDD-plus firmly on sustainability principles: ecological
integrity; social integrity; atmospheric integrity; economic
integrity
• REDD-plus finance mechanism must be: effective; efficient;
equitable
• Financial stability for REDD-plus can only be achieved through
a portfolio approach with a combination of public and private
funding and with country’s commitments
• The implementation of REDD-plus requires forest-governance
reforms through inclusive processes that build on existing
forest-governance systems.

10. REDD Readiness
Field Dialogues
250 Stakeholders
 5 Dialogues:
• Brazil-10.09
• Ghana-11.09
• Guatemala-1.10
• Ecuador- 6.10
• Cambodia-11.10
 Country Reports and
Review Paper

11. Initiative
Objectives
• Build a “Community of
practice”
• Link international MSD
platform and national
REDD related processes
• Catalyze stakeholder
engagement processes
and create & support on-
going local mechanisms
• Build locally-rooted well-
connected REDD
protagonists

12. Initiative
Objectives
• Raise awareness and
promote exploration of
national REDD readiness
challenges among a wide
spectrum of local and
international stakeholders
• Provide well-targeted
recommendations at the
local, national and
international levels

13. Context of Dialogue Conclusions
• Not an evaluation of individual countries’ REDD
process to date
• REDD moving very quickly and unpredictably
• Working with country and international
stakeholders to build a learning experience that
complements on going efforts
• Identify additional measures critical for
enhancing REDD Readiness process

14. Common issues from REDD
Readiness Dialogues
• Information
• Participation
• Rights and tenure
• Benefit Sharing Mechanisms
• Integration with other
sectoral and national
development plans
• Institutional and Policy
Reform
• Endorsement of REDD+

15. Key Challenges
Challenge 1: Access to, and use
and availability of,
information and its use in
capacity-building
Issues:
• Real information gaps at local
level – not just among
communities
• Lack of understanding by
governments about scope and
nature of forest dependency
• Limited two way flow

16. Key Challenges
Ways forward:
• Collate information on forest-
related dependency (gender!!)
• Prioritize education and training
programs on REDD-plus
• Improve interagency
collaboration particularly on
policy analysis
• Develop and fund a national
REDD communication strategy
• Establish information centers on
REDD-plus to facilitate two way
information flow

17. Key Challenges
Challenge 2: Effectiveness of multi-
stakeholder participation and
engagement mechanisms and
processes
Issues:
• There is some degree of stateholder
engagement but seldom coherent and
systematic
• Stakeholder mapping is rarely
comprehensive (gender not treated
systematically)
• Talking about major transformative
change in land use but poor
engagement outside forest sector

18. Key Challenges
Ways forward:
• Establish a well resource package
and process for stakeholder inclusion
• Map stakeholders and spend time
identifying appropriate engagement
mechanisms
• Establish a multi-stakeholder
platform(s) outside national REDD
Steering Committees.
• Build on and integrate existing
national mechanisms
• Reinforce links with international
learning platforms
• Urgent need to close funding gap
(MRV receives x3 resources allocated
for info, capacity building and
stakeholder engagement

19. Key Challenges
Challenge 3: Reform of policy and
legislative frameworks, particularly
those on tree and carbon rights
Issues:
• Perennial problems of forest and
tree tenure could be major
stumbling block
• Contradictory land-use policies
• Where good policy exists lack of
enforcement
• How do carbon rights related to
tree and land rights

20. Key Challenges
Ways forward:
• Conduct an analytical review of key
legal and political stumbling blocks
• Initiate process to help establish
legally robust and practically secure
rights for landholders to trees outside
reserves
• Clarify how carbon rights link to tree
and land rights
• Strengthen capacity among
stakeholders to engage in legal
reforms

21. Key Challenges
Challenge 4: Establishment of a
revenue and benefits
distribution system
Issues:
• Elephant in the room!!
• Long history in many countries of
weak benefit sharing
arrangements when it comes to
natural resources
• Commonly regarded as an issue
to address late in phase II
• Wide range of expectations

22. Key Challenges
Challenge 4: Establishment of a
revenue and benefits
distribution system
Ways forward:
• Canvass local views on legitimate
benefit distribution mechanisms
• Develop a framework for REDD-
plus under share-cropping
arrangements
• Develop dispute-resolution
procedures and capacity
• Learn from & share with other
countries’ experiences

23. Key Challenges
Challenge 5: Integration of REDD-plus policies with broader
land-use plans and other sector and development plans
Issues:
• Major vested interests in other land-use sectors (and
sometimes linked to political elites)
• Lack of coordination between Government Departments
• REDD still seen in narrow sectoral terms
• Weak conceptualisation of what REDD really involves – aims
to turn around established land-use practices and patterns –
not simply an issue of paying to keep trees (and carbon)
standing

24. Key Challenges
Challenge 5: Integration of REDD-plus policies with broader
land-use plans and other sector and development plans
Ways forward:
• Develop an effective cross-sectoral awareness and
engagement mechanism
• Differentiate REDD-plus plans by land-use system
• Identify conflicts and synergies with other sectoral land-use
plans
• Periodically reassess land-use change processes
• Extend focus on forest landscape restoration and agricultural
enhancement
• Install REDD-plus in key national development frameworks

25. Thank You!
TFD Documents and
Publications
Available electronically in English at:
www.theforestsdialogue.org
Follow us on Twitter: @forestsdialogue
Like us on Facebook: the forests dialogue
The Forests Dialogue Secretariat
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
+1 203 432 5966
tfd@yale.edu
www.theforestsdialogue.org

26. The REDD Readiness process in
Guatemala, with dialogue and
participation
Rafael Rodríguez
Preinvest INAB
Amauri Molina
Deputy Director. INAB.

27. The REDD+ Readiness process in
Country
CIVIL SOCIETY:
Stakeholder on REDD Readiness
Inter Ministries PROCESS
commission of
Climate Change
REDD
Forest Communities Organized
Sub-national forest roundtables
INSTITUTIONAL FOREST, BIODIVERSITY
National Roundtable of CC.
GOVERNMENT GROUP AND CLIMATE
NGO’ Local Organizations
CHANGE GROUP
MARN, INAB, CONAP, MAGA
Indigenous People.
Private Sector
ACADEMY

28. Content of the Presentation
• Guatemala: Phase 1. Readiness
• Some advances in Phase 2.
Guatemala Is a FCPF Country, not founded
yet..

29. • Phase 1. Readiness
– Implementing national strategy against Ilegal
Login.
– Preparing the National Strategy to Reduce
Deforestation and Forest Degradation.
• REDD+ is a chapter or mechanism to implement
this strategy.
– Preparation of legal framework for REDD
implementation, carbon rights, Benefit sharing
mechanisms..
– Adapting the national forest resources

30. • Phase 2. … finding phase 3
– Preparing a Sub-national base line for REDD+
– At least 4 pilot REDD projects with Forest
Communities, Indigenous Peoples in process.
– A Climate Change Law, in discussion in
Congress.
– National Forest Incentives program: for forest
restoration, management, conservation,
reforestation.
A forest governance Reform with a new law to
include IP´ FDC; Small land TENURES;
s,

31. • Challenges in the process
– We have: legal, technical, social, economic, …
– But one specific: To Build a national
PARTICIPATORY AND INCLUDENT process.
• At least 23 ethno linguistic groups; more than 40% of
forest is tenure and managed by IP´ and FDC.
s
– We need to create and strength local, sub-
national and national schemes for consultation,
building and implementation of National
Strategy.

32. • International Initiatives like TFD, has supported
our national process
– Supporting the national discussion about forest
issues like REDD; Local Forest Controls, Ilegal
Loggin, etc.
– Sharing experiences from other countries.
– Allowing the participation of national key
stakeholder (IP´ Forest Communities, Private
s,
Sector, Gov) in forest dialogues in other country
realities.
– Updating and providing feedback about the key
forest issues. Eg. REDD+ around the world.

33. • TFD REDD in Guatemala (January, 2010)
allow discuss about:
• International REDD process
• To build a national strategy supported by previous national experiences
• The government Rol
• Involvement of deforestation drivers sectors
• How to extend and strength the mutistakehoders platforms and dialogues
• Land tenure and land rights liked with carbon rights?
• Sharing benefit mechanism
• REDD method´ issues
s
• Expectations management
• MRV System and Reference levels
• National Investments.

34. ¡Muchas Gracias!
THANK YOU.
•Rafael Rodríguez, Preinvest INAB,
Guatemala
•Amauri Molina, Deputy Director. INAB,

35. Thank You!
TFD Documents and
Publications
Available electronically in english y español at:
www.theforestsdialogue.org
Follow us on Twitter: @forestsdialogue
Like us on Facebook: the forests dialogue
The Forests Dialogue Secretariat
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
+1 203 432 5966
tfd@yale.edu
www.theforestsdialogue.org