1. Why and How should Indigenous
Peoples and forest communities
engage with NFMS and monitoring
within REDD+ ?
Grace Balawag - Tebtebba
Vu Thi Hien – CERDA
Indigenous Peoples’ Global Partnership on Climate
Change, Forests and Sustainable Development

2. Why ?
• Indigenous Peoples have always been monitoring their
resources. Traditional knowledge and customary laws
are effective tools for monitoring, especially for forests
and biodiversity resources
• Indigenous peoples are doing their own forest/carbon
inventory and biodiversity monitoring by using
traditional knowledge and practices; and when provided
with additional training on new required technologies,
they can do monitoring and information systems for
REDD+ and safeguards;
• Have high potential to collect and monitor data with
high accuracy since they live within the forests and high
biodiversity areas
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3. Why?
• Provides opportunity for cost effectiveness in implementing
REDD+ at local levels and monitoring safeguards implemented
at ground level
• With the respect of rights, traditional knowledge, and the full
and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples in REDD+
processes including FPIC, they will have ownership of REDD+ or
any other forest management initiative, as well as, the
monitoring process
• Great potential in scaling up and sustainability of any forest
initiative;
• Forests are well protected with constant monitoring and reliable
information systems by Indigenous Peoples

4. How ?
Example, some evidences from
“Pilot Model of Indigenous Peoples’
Community-led REDD+ Initiative in
Vietnam”
Project “Pilot model of capacity building for ethnic
minority communities’ readiness to REDD Plus
in Thai Nguyen, North of Vietnam
Implemented by CERDA, in partnership with Tebtebba
Funded by NORAD

5. Measuring forest area for mapping & doing forest inventory
to allocate forest to communities done by the trained
indigenous villagers
Data officially recognized by
the district government with its
high accuracy; it helps reducing
the cost of forest allocation (1/3
compared with government cost
norm)

6. Measuring forest area and making boundary to make
the demarcation map by the technical villagers

7. Timber/Carbon inventory for pilot of result-based payment

8. Creating the route in the map by
the local forest experts for biodiversity monitoring
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9. Monitoring of tree, plant, animal … species and
water sources in the field
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10. PPiicctutrue roef s taken by villagers by camera with positioning

11. Thank you!
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