Institutional Perceptions of Opportunities and Challenges of REDD+ in the Congo Basin

Brown, H. Carolyn Peach; Smit, Barry; Sonwa, D.J.; Somorin, Olufunso A.; Nkem, Johnson

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“…appears to have become the major driver in building awareness of climate change in all the three countries. Government and civil society institutions are interested in the opportunities presented by REDD?, and are also concerned about its challenges in terms of implementation (Brown et al 2011). While REDD?…”

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Climate Change and Forest Communities: Prospects for Building Institutional Adaptive Capacity in the Congo Basin Forests

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Smit

Somorin

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Tropical forests are vulnerable to climatechange representing a risk for indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities. Mechanisms to conserve the forest, such as REDD?, could assist in the mitigation of climate change, reduce vulnerability, and enable people to adapt. Ninety-eight interviews were conducted in three countries containing the Congo Basin forest, Cameroon, CAR, and DRC, to investigate perceptions of decisionmakers within, and responses of the institutions of the state, private sector, and civil society to the challenges of climate change. Results indicate that while decision-makers' awareness of climate change is high, direct institutional action is at an early stage. Adaptive capacity is currently low, but it could be enhanced with further development of institutional linkages and increased coordination of multilevel responses across all institutions and with local people. It is important to build networks with forest-dependent stakeholders at the local level, who can contribute knowledge that will build overall institutional adaptive capacity.

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“…These include insecure tenure, the process for benefit sharing, and the technical capacity for the implementation of such a complex mechanism as REDD? (Rights and Resources Initiative 2008;Brown et al 2011).…”

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Climate Change and Forest Communities: Prospects for Building Institutional Adaptive Capacity in the Congo Basin Forests

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Somorin

et al. 2014

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“…For example, research into national-level discourses on climate change adaptation and mitigation in the Congo basin revealed a variety of discursive framings or positions on REDD+ policy (Brown et al 2011, Somorin et al 2012. Similarly, in the Peruvian Amazon, Evans et al (2014) examined local community perspectives on REDD+, which they contrasted with national and global policy contructs; and Entenmann and Schmitt (2013) identified diverse actor perceptions of the relationship between REDD+ and biodiveristy values.…”

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How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

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ABSTRACT. The implementation of "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" (REDD+) will inevitably be affected by local social and political dynamics, with the potential for success depending significantly on cooperation from a range of stakeholders at the subnational level. Building on recent critical research on REDD+, we look at how global policy is interpreted locally by actors who are likely to be involved in REDD+ implementation. We do this by examining local stakeholder perceptions of REDD+ and forest management in two contrasting provinces of Indonesia, Riau and Papua, where deforestation rates are high and low, respectively. Using data collected from stakeholder workshops, we conduct a discourse analysis that reveals how subnational actors perceive and position themselves around REDD+ and forest governance. The results reveal six discourses common to both case-study provinces, which variously conflict and converge as they are employed by different actors. Seen together, these discourses provide critical insights into the subnational policy environment, which is largely a product of Indonesia's underlying land and forest politics, and they indicate in turn how REDD+ in practice is likely to be interpreted and reconstituted at the local level. A key finding is that local discourses can be grouped around two divergent positions on REDD+: one that supports forest exploitation and sees limited prospects in forest carbon, and one that embraces sustainable forest management and expresses conditional support for REDD+ subject to benefit-sharing and property arrangements. REDD+ practitioners will therefore need to craft policies and project processes that account for these discursive dynamics.

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“…Existing debates have usefully investigated the preparedness of developing countries to adopt REDD+ rules (Kanowski et al, 2011, Minang et al, 2014b as well as their level of stakeholder involvement in national readiness processes (Brown et al, 2011, Cerbu et al, 2011, Vatn and Angelsen, 2009). Yet, several studies (e.g.…”

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Implementing REDD+ at the national level: Stakeholder engagement and policy coherences between REDD+ rules and Kenya's sectoral policies

Atela

Quinn

Minang

et al. 2016

Forest Policy and Economics

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Effective implementation of rules on reduced emission from avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) depends on the compatibility between these rules and existing sectoral policies associated with forests. This paper applies content analysis of policy documents, semi-structured interviews and case study analysis to examine the interplay between REDD+ rules and Kenyan sectorial policies and local socioeconomic

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Institutional Perceptions of Opportunities and Challenges of REDD+ in the Congo Basin

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

Climate Change and Forest Communities: Prospects for Building Institutional Adaptive Capacity in the Congo Basin Forests

Climate Change and Forest Communities: Prospects for Building Institutional Adaptive Capacity in the Congo Basin Forests

How is global climate policy interpreted on the ground? Insights from the analysis of local discourses about forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia

Implementing REDD+ at the national level: Stakeholder engagement and policy coherences between REDD+ rules and Kenya's sectoral policies

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