1. Presentation “Preparation for piloting REDD+ payment at commune level”
NGO Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) Monthly Meeting Hanoi, Aug. 2, 2012
Presentation “Preparation for piloting REDD+ payment at commune level”
by Vu Thị Hien, Director of CERDA

2. Project
“Pilot of capacity building for ethnic minority community’s readiness for REDD Plus in two communes, in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam”
Duration: June 2010 – May 2013
Funded by Norad
In partnership with 10 organizations in 10 countries and Tebtebba is the coordinator and trainer

3. Pilot area and beneficiary
Project area: two demo communes in Vo Nhai and Dai Tu district, Thai Nguyen province, North of Vietnam
Local beneficiaries: ethnic minority groups and local community who live in or near forest
+ Binh Long: 1,312 households in 20 villages
+ Phuc Luong: 229 households in 5 villages

4. REDD+ piloting ? Pilot under two system of forest land management:
Forest is under the community management (1,300 ha natural forest in 20 villages, Binh Long commune)
Forest is under the household management (220 ha of natural forest in 5 village in Phuc Luong commune
Work on “+ /Plus”
Kind of forest
Natural forest
Multi- native species forest

5. What is the project goal?
“Ethnic minorities in the pilot areas are ready to the REDD Plus program with full participation and fair benefits; The results of the pilot shared at national level for development of carbon/REDD+ based policies and a tool for better forest management in upland areas in Vietnam”

6. Approach
Landscape approach: REDD+ interventions considered as an emission reduction service. All people living in the same landscape who contributes to “emission reductions from forest” is eligible to enjoy REDD+ benefit
Integrated and holistic intervention economically, socially and environmentally;
Rights-based approach,
Promotion of customary institution and traditional knowledge
Full FPIC
Social and environment safeguards
Ethnic minorities works as legal entity/independent stakeholder through their legal institution

7. Intervention before and in parallel with REDD+ ?
Forest land allocation to communities
Livelihood

8. Intervention to work on REDD+ at commune level
Institution development
REDD+ aspect
Capacity building
REDD+

9. Interim results: Forest land allocation
1,300 ha forest land allocated to 60 CBOs in 20 villages with full FPIC application…
Boundaries of 220 ha of natural forest in 5 village in Phuc Luong commune and 1,300 ha in 22 villages in Binh Long commune defined in reality
Note:
All boundaries done by villagers who trained on GPS and mapping.
Forest land map referred from the official source

10. Interim results: Alternative livelihood
New income from commodity production basing on organic oriented agriculture by Promoting compost, reducing chemicals; Commercial potatoes/ginger production; Edible canna grow and process for commercial powder; Increase income from agriculture with lower emission and more benefit: compost, no plough, less rice seeds and fertilizer …

11. Interim results: Institutional development to create the appropriate structure for REDD+
Mapping of all relevant stakeholders
Awareness on customary laws on forest protection and management, CBOs and its networking, co-operative and its network
78 CBOs and 3 CBO-based co-operatives
Network of co-operatives
Key leaders of CBOs and management board of co-operatives voted and trained
Regulations/rules for the CBO and Co-operative to ensure FPIC

12. Interim results: Institutional development (con’t)
REDD+ technical group
Community monitoring group
Complaint mechanism
Information system
Benefit sharing mechanism
Village convention for forest management with full FPIC

13. Interim results: REDD+ aspect
1) Awareness raising and discussion with all stakeholders on
Impact of climate change;
Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and plan if REDD+ implemented;
Role of natural forest;
REDD+ and solution for REDD+ at locality
FPIC
Social and environment safeguards
MRV
BDS

14. Interim results: REDD+ aspect (con’t)
2)Preparation for REDD+ proposal/payment
Mapping forest with specific categories under REDD+, define area (refer official data and check randomly in reality)
Clarify kinds of intervention /activities on forest for REDD+
Carbon mapping
Carbon MRV
Non –carbon MRV
BDS

15. Interim results: Capacity building
Contents: improve knowledge, methods and skills for heads of CBOs, of co-operative, local authority and villagers:
Relevant laws, REDD+ governance
Operation of CBOs, co-operative, network of co-operative
Pilot REDD+ until payment
Implementing livelihood activities: commodity production, sales contract through co-operative and its network, low emission agriculture

16. Interim results: Capacity building
Capacity building for REDD+ technical group
- GPS
- Database maintain
- Carbon measurement and mapping
- Carbon MRV in field

17. Pictures of activities

18. Advantages and Challenges
Local people and local authorities at all level strongly involves in REDD+ piloting project and they aware that they should do all project activities by themselves
Participation, REDD+ governance -related issues in forest is totally new, it takes time.

19. Thank you very much
for your attention