A Decade of REDD+: Stakeholder Perceptions of its Implementation

To date, evidence indicates that the impacts of REDD+ interventions on biodiversity, as well as on livelihoods and other economic and social outcomes, are uneven and often highly context dependent. This is one of the findings of the report "Forest, Climate, Biodiversity and People: Assessing a Decade of REDD+" published by IUFRO's Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) Programme earlier this year.

Back-to-back with the report, GFEP has conducted extensive stakeholder consultations in Asia and Latin America to identify factors that would need to be improved for better carbon and non-carbon outcomes of local REDD+ activities. The new publication "A Decade of REDD+: Stakeholder Perceptions of its Implementation" synthesizes the responses and comments from the nearly 200 stakeholders who were interviewed on REDD+ implementation on the ground.

The author Dr. Nelson Grima, GFEP Manager, explains, "We cooperated with local experts who talked with stakeholders of a wide range of backgrounds, from Indigenous Peoples to academics and policy makers. Based on semi-structured interviews, the stakeholders provided their views on the impacts of REDD+ implementation and potential ways to improve it further. Interestingly, despite the intrinsic differences between the regions covered - Asia and Latin America - the factors that need to be improved according to the interviewees are similar and include social, economic, environmental, governance, and technical aspects."

Regarding the GFEP report, stakeholders see a huge potential for the use of this assessment to guide public policies. Nevertheless, they also point out that this potential is conditioned to the will of national governments to work towards improving the forest sector and its associated socioeconomic impacts.
 

Read the publication at:  https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/science/gfep/bfmr-followup/bfmr-followup-stakeholder-publication.pdf
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