Presentation by Mark Poffenberger, Community Forestry International.
Social impacts of REDD initiatives, Forest Day 3.
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Benefit Sharing Partners
Partner Role and Contribution
National National REDD program
Government management
Carbon Project design, carbon
Developers modeling, brokering,
certification, implementation
Civil Society Capacity building, training,
institutional support
Private Sector Financial Support
Forest Field project implementation,
Dependent mitigation of D and D, forest
Communities monitoring
3. Benefit Sharing &
Forest Dependent Communities
- Mitigate impact of local drivers of
deforestation
- Require compensation for loss of
income under REDD
- Provide cost-effective forest
management
- Legitimate tenure claims to corest
resources
4. Primary Components, Activities and
Mechanisms for Community Benefit Sharing
Component Activity Mechanisms
REDD project Identifying Contracts,
implementation drivers & budgets, and
mitigation workplans
activities
Compensation Livelihood Micro-finance
for loss of activities institutions,
income under Small enterprise
REDD groups
Net revenue Criteria Project and CF
sharing setting and management
monitoring committees
5. Identifying Drivers & Mitigation Activities
Drivers of Mitigation Activities
Deforestation
Forest fires, Fire lines, watchers, patrols,
Illegal logging assisted natural
regeneration
Migrant Mapping, legal recognition
encroachment of CF, boundary markers
Agricultural Land use planning,
expansion intensified farming systems
High fuelwood Fuel efficient stoves &
consumption mosquito nets
6. Existing and Alternative
Livelihood Activities
Existing Livelihood Alternative Livelihood
Activity Activity
Closure of cattle and Stall fed pigs and
goat pasturage chickens
Reduction of Shifting Horticulture, agro-
cultivation forestry
Charcoal Small Enterprise (ag
manufacturing, processing, tailoring,
quarrying motorcycle repair)
7. Net Revenue Sharing
CFI’s community partners suggest activities
that benefit the entire community and
target low income households:
a. Improve community water systems
b. Develop irrigation systems with
preferential access for landless and land
poor families
c. Funding of community microfinance
organizations with preferential loans to
cash poor households and students
8. Community-based Forest Carbon
Monitoring
Forest Inventory Plot establishment
and monitoring
Annual workshops to discuss project
performance (carbon, hydrology,
biodiversity, community economy).
Stakeholder meetings to review
revenues and project costs
9. Formalizing Benefit Sharing
Contracts Parties
Community forest Internal agreement
conservation among participating
resolution communities
Carbon contract Communities and
carbon seller
Annual workplan Communities and
and budget implementing body
Net revenue Agreement among
sharing agreement project partners