REDD+ Readiness progress across countries: time for reconsideration

Abstract

Policy relevance Policy makers, researchers and analysts helping to plan and implement REDD+, environmental services and climate change would find this paper potentially helpful. The paper explores progress on REDD+ Readiness across four countries (Cameroon, Indonesia, Peru and Vietnam) and provides broad lessons, recommendations and examples across these countries for further improving REDD+. The paper also suggests an innovative, credible and universally applicable set of criteria and indicators derived through a systematic review that could serve further global comparative analysis of readiness for REDD+ and relevant national environmental services delivery systems, including climate change mitigation.

REDD+ projects and national-level Readiness processes: a case study from Kenya

“…First, interactions between the KC project and the national-level processes in Kenya in terms of key participation in REDD+ dialogues as well as interactions with other relevant stakeholders are examined. Second, the REDD+ Readiness framework suggested by Minang et al (2014) …”

Tropical forest-transition landscapes: a portfolio for studying people, tree crops and agro-ecological change in context

“…However, the variability of these interactions across the tropics is much less addressed. Geographically targeted, evidence-based policies for managing sustainable development trade-offs are scarce (Minang et al 2014b). To support the development of such policies, the characterization of variability and extrapolation domains is important for deepening our understanding of sustainability in the tele-connected context of ruralurban and local-global relationships.…”

The role of forests in climate change mitigation : a discursive-institutional analysis of REDD+ MRV

“…First, as Korhonen-Kurki et al, 2013;LTS International, 2013;Minang et al, 2014;Romijn et al, 2012; suggest that the three countries are at different stages in developing technical and institutional capacity to conduct forest monitoring for REDD+. As such, they offer interesting contrasting cases to analyse and compare.…”

“…This is driven by the increasing recognition of the role that forests could play in mitigating global environmental challenges such as climate change, and the attendant need for information on developing countries' forests at the national and international level. This need has sparked investments in national forest monitoring systems in several developing countries (Joseph et al, 2013b;Korhonen-Kurki et al, 2013;Minang et al, 2014;. Studies show that these investments have improved technical and institutional capacity for forest resource assessments in some countries.…”

“…Indeed, several studies have highlighted that majority of REDD+ countries have low technical and institutional capacity to measure and report on their forests in a manner that meets international standards (Grainger and Obersteiner, 2011;Ochieng et al, 2016a;Romijn et al, 2012;. Others, while pointing at the large and varying technical capacity gaps (Romijn et al 2012), also show that progress is being made in some countries (Korhonen-Kurki et al, 2013;Minang et al, 2014;Ochieng et al, 2015;, suggesting that institutions for forest monitoring in developing countries are adapting to accommodate the new demands. These studies thus provide arguments for an emerging discourse that highlight the need for institutional change while indicating countries capacity to do.…”