Sharing REDD Benefits with

Forest Dependent Communities

Benefit Sharing Partners Partner Role and Contribution

National Government

National REDD program management

Carbon Developers

Project design, carbon modeling, brokering, certification, implementation

Civil Society Capacity building, training, institutional support

Private Sector Financial Support

Forest Dependent Communities

Field project implementation,

mitigation of D and D, forest monitoring

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

Primary Components, Activities and

Mechanisms for Community Benefit Sharing

Component Activity Mechanisms

REDD project implementation

Identifying drivers & mitigation activities

Contracts, budgets, and workplans

Compensation for loss of income under REDD

Livelihood activities

Micro-finance institutions,

Small enterprise groups

Net revenue

sharing

Criteria setting and monitoring

Project and CF management

committees

Identifying Drivers & Mitigation Activities

Drivers of Deforestation

Mitigation Activities

Forest fires,

Illegal logging

Fire lines, watchers, patrols, assisted natural regeneration

Migrant encroachment

Mapping, legal recognition of CF, boundary markers

Agricultural expansion

Land use planning, intensified farming systems

High fuelwood consumption

Fuel efficient stoves & mosquito nets

Existing and Alternative

Livelihood Activities

Existing Livelihood

Activity

Alternative Livelihood

Activity

Closure of cattle and goat pasturage

Stall fed pigs and chickens

Reduction of Shifting cultivation

Horticulture, agro-forestry

Charcoal manufacturing, quarrying

Small Enterprise (ag processing, tailoring, motorcycle repair)

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

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

Formalizing Benefit Sharing

Contracts Parties

Community forest conservation resolution

Internal agreement among participating communities

Carbon contract Communities and carbon seller

Annual workplan and budget

Communities and implementing body

Net revenue sharing agreement

Agreement among project partners

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