What to do with REDD? A manual for indigenous trainers
Christian Erni and Helen Tugendhat (eds), Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Pact, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, Forest Peoples Programme, Tebtebba, 2010 | ISBN: 978-87-91563-71-3
This training manual has been written for indigenous trainers who intend to facilitate a training on REDD for indigenous leaders. It has been devised for a proposed five-days training programme with five modules. The manual includes suggestions for the objectives of each module, activities and methods, materials and a schedule. It is to be used together with the information booklet “What is REDD?”. The training has two aims: to help indigenous leaders gain a deeper understanding of how REDD works and what the issues related to REDD are which are most relevant for indigenous peoples; and to help indigenous leaders improve their skills in supporting their communities when dealing with REDD. Download the manual [pdf] …
REDD+ in dryland forests: Issues and prospects for pro-poor REDD in the miombo woodlands of southern Africa
Ivan Bond, Muyeye Chambwera, Brian Jones, Monica Chundama, Isilda Nhantumbo, Natural Resources Issues no. 21, IIED, 2010 | ISBN: 978-1-84369-764-0
This report draws and builds on the work of three separate studies in Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia. It suggests that the miombo woodlands of eastern and southern Africa provide an important opportunity for developing pro-poor payments for avoided deforestation and degradation, for two reasons: firstly, there is strong scientific evidence that the loss of woodlands is associated with a decline in livelihoods; secondly, there are two decades of successful community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the miombo region. Challenges associated with REDD+ include, among others, legal and policy issues in order to clarify who owns the carbon and who should benefit from its conservation: organizational barriers often include conflicts between modern political and traditional management authorities and clashes between traditional and customary laws and modern political systems. The authors conclude that the lessons from CBNRM in the miombo ecoregion provide a basis on which REDD+ in dryland forests can build. In a region where poverty is high and is also a key driver of land use change, REDD+ mechanisms need to be pro-poor, explicitly addressing and building the assets and capability of the poorest households at policy level and in practice. They also need to pay for the value of land uses that the poor could have otherwise pursued in the absence of REDD+ as well as the costs of facilitating the implementation of REDD+ in environments where forest resources are often jointly owned or managed by communities. Download the report [pdf] …
