PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PHILIPPINES NATIONAL REDD+ STRATEGY ON

PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT

3rd Meeting of the REDD Development Dividend Task Force02 – 05 April 2012, Nairobi, Kenya

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

• Background information about the Philippines• The Philippine National REDD-Plus Strategy

(PNRPS)• Process• Vision• Components

• Opportunities of the Private Sector under the PNRPS

• Challenges ahead

PHILIPPINES - Basic statistics

Land area: 30 million ha Forestland area: 15.8 million ha Forest cover: 7.2 million ha Population: more than 80 million

Source: Environmental Science for Social Change, 1999

Extent of Natural Forest Cover Loss in the last 100 years

70 % 60 % 40 %

34 % 23.7 %

18.3 %

Forest Management

All forestlands and natural resources are owned by the government (Regalian doctrine)

Mode of access – production sharing, joint venture and co-management

Issuance of tenure instrument valid for 25 years and renewable for another 25 years

No. LTI Type No. Area (has.)1 Timber License Agreements (TLA) 4 252,510

2Integrated Forest Management Agreements (IFMA) 145 1,017,655

3Socialized Industrial Forest Management Agreements (SIFMA) 1822 36,941

4 Agroforestry Farm lease Agreements (AFFLA) 17 4,7765 Tree Farm Lease Agreement (TFLA) 88 9,742

6Forestland Grazing Management Agreements (FLGMA & FLGA) 364 97,019

7 Special Land-use Permit (SLP) 198 2,0638 Special Land Use Lease Agreement (SPLULA) 18 99

9Forest Land Use Agreements for Tourisim Purposes (FLAGt) 31 968

10 Special Forest Land Use Agreement (FLAg) 11 2,580

Management Arrangements Inside Forestlands

No. LTI Type No. Area (has.)

11Community-Based Forest Management Program (CBFMP)

11.1 CBFM Agreement 1790 1,633,892

11.2Other CBFM Tenure (CSC,FLMA,CFSA,CFP etc) 3314 3,200,024

12 Approved CADT and CALT 414 4,276,63913 PACBRMA 58 22,240

14Areas under other Management Arrangements

14.1 Philippine National Oil Corporation (PNOC) 266,32614.2 National Power Corporation (NPC) 337,72114.3 National Irrigation Administration (NIA) 22,24314.4 Co- Management Agreements with LGUs 153 485,537

TOTAL 8,427

11,668,975 Total forestland 15,805,325 Tenured 11,668,975 Untenured 4,136,350

Management Arrangements Inside Forestlands

The Philippine National REDD+ Strategy (PNRPS) Process

Workshop 1- Nov 2009 – principles, results,components

Component workshop groups – Dec-March 2009

Workshop 2 – March 2010Writeshop

Draft written up by an integratorApril 2010

National presentation – April 2010

Critique and review by experts, regional and sectoral consultations

NRPS Action Planning & Budgeting August 2010

National & Regional ConsultationsApril – Aug 2009

The PNRPS …

• is a strategy that articulates the common vision and direction that the Philippines would want to pursue in relation to REDD-Plus development and implementation.

• presents a broad range of strategies and corresponding activities over a 10-year time horizon (2010-2020).

• defines the need to prepare forestland managers throughout the country to assume responsibility in implementing REDD-Plus programs, research, projects and activities with the support of the international, national and local agencies, NGOs and other support groups.

The PNRPS envisions…

Empowered forest  managers and support groups sustainably and equitably managing forestlands and ancestral domains with enhanced carbon stock and reduced greenhouse gases emission. Within the vision framework, the impact areas include:

Reduced forest degradation and deforestation

Poverty reduction

Biodiversity Conservation

Improved governance 

Components of the PNRPS 4 Major Components 

1.Enabling Policies to support and promote REDD-Plus2.Forest Sector Governance3.Forest Resource Use, Allocation and Management4.Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV) Conditions

3 Cross-Cutting Components

1.Capacity Building and Communication2.Research and Development3.Sustainable Financing

 

•Establish national legislation on REDD+•Carbon Ownership,•National emission targets•Clear legal mandates of REDD+ institutions•Social & environmental safeguards

•Consult broad consultation & meaniningful engagement•Integrate REDD+ in sectoral plans•Estabalish national and sub-national REDD+ coordinating agencies

•Complete the delineation of permanent forest line•Improve mngt of protection & prodn forest for REDD+•Secure Land tenure and carbon rights•Enhance C stocks thru forest restoration, rege-neration & reforestation

•Develop comprehensive R & D program on REDD+•Analyse Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation•Identify science-based conservation intervention•Establish pilot/demo projects on REDD+

•Promote REDD+ thru IEC activities •Estabalish REDD+ Continuing Education mechanism•Establish REDD+ community of practitioners

•National-level MRV system complemented by sub-national•Reference emission levels•Community-based accounting•Guidelines for non-carbon reviews•Increase capacities for current and future requirements of MRV

•Proposals for voluntary funding•Explore long-term financing schemes•Seek diverse fund mechanisms•Capitalize on existing national capacities and resources

The Philippine National REDD+ StrategySeven Major Components

EnablingPolicy

EnablingPolicy

GovernanceGovernance R&DR&D Capacity Building

Capacity Building

Resource Use ,

Allocation & Mgt.

Resource Use ,

Allocation & Mgt.

Measurement

Reporting& Verification

Measurement

Reporting& Verification

Sustainable Financing

Sustainable Financing

Opportunities of the Private Sector in REDD+ under the PNRPS

Under Forest Resource Use, Allocation & Management Component As REDD+ projects’ implementers

Under Sustainable Financing Component As REDD+ projects’ funders (CSR)

Under Governance Component As member of the national and subnational REDD+ coordinating

agencies – National Multi-Stakeholder REDD+ Council (NRMC)

Proposed NMRC composition

Government: agencies involved with forest management and/or REDD+

Non-Government: representatives from the indigenous peoples, CBFM POs, NGOs, academe/university and private sector groups involved in forest management

Proposed NMRC functions and responsibilities

Primarily to serve as the coordinating and governing body for the implementation of the PNRPS;

Coordinate with national agencies and local government units in the implementation of PNRPS in their respective sectors and areas;

Recommend policy and other measures to ensure the effective implementation of PNRPS;

Ensure meaningful representation and active participation of the indigenous communities, forest communities and other affected basic sectors;

Oversee, monitor and recommend measures to ensure the effective formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies, programs and resource allocation and management of the PNRPS;

Oversee and monitor the implementation of MRV;

Advocate for the mobilization of funds by the national and local governments to support REDD-Plus projects.

Opportunities of the Private Sector in REDD+ under the PNRPS

Under Forest Resource Use, Allocation & Management Component As REDD+ projects’ developers and implementers

Under Sustainable Financing Component As REDD+ projects’ funders (CSR)

Under Governance Component As member of the national and subnational REDD+ coordinating agencies –

National Multi-Stakeholder REDD+ Council (NRMC) Under Policy Component – thru consultation process

Under R & D Component – thru their project area as research site

Challenges ahead … For the government to issue a national policy or

legislation on REDD-Plus clarifying, among others, carbon rights/ownerships or benefit sharing and private sector engagement

For the government to establish and operationalize the National Multi-stakeholder REDD-Plus Council (NRMC)

For the private sector to be more involved in forest management

Maraming Salamat Po!

THANK YOU!

Mayumi Quintos-NatividadChief Forest Management Specialist

Forest Management BureauDepartment of Environment & Natural

ResourcesPHILIPPINES

Email: mayquin@mozcom.com

For any queries, you may contact:

•Complete the delineation of permanent forest line•Improve mngt of protection & prodn forest for REDD+•Secure Land tenure and carbon rights•Enhance C stocks thru forest restoration, rege-neration & reforestation

•Proposals for voluntary funding•Explore long-term financing schemes•Seek diverse fund mechanism•Capitalize on existing national capacities and resources

The Philippine National REDD+ StrategySeven Major Components

EnablingPolicy

EnablingPolicy

GovernanceGovernance R&DR&D Capacity Building

Capacity Building

Resource Use ,

Allocation & Mgt.

Resource Use ,

Allocation & Mgt.

Measurement

Reporting& Verification

Measurement

Reporting& Verification

Sustainable Financing

Sustainable Financing

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