CERDA: Ensuring effective participation of indigenous people in global & national REDD+ processes

Location: North of Vietnam

Start date: October- 2009

Duration: One year, 2009-2010

Funding: Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD)

Executive Agency: TEBTEBBA - Indigenous People’ International Centre for Policy and Education, Baguio, Philippine

Implementing Agency: Centre of Research and Development in Upland areas (CERDA)

Objective:
Objective 1: To gather and present data on the drivers of deforestation; and existing national laws and policies on forests, land tenure, indigenous peoples and their rights, climate change and REDD+.
Objective 2: To present and analyze the processes and mechanisms of designing in the piloting phase, implementing, monitoring and evaluating REDD+ and private stakeholders programs, activities and initiatives that directly affect indigenous peoples and their forests
Objective 3: To identify issues and challenges on the REDD+ programs that affects indigenous peoples and their rights
Objective 4: To identify the various actions and responses to these issues and challenges and to demonstrate how these are undertaken
Objective 5: To offer/provide recommendations on how to address these issues and challenges that affects the forests and the indigenous peoples

Status: Completed

Partneship with 7 countries, CERDA participates in the Climate and Forest Initiative 2009 Project specifically entitled, “Ensuring the Effective Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Global and National REDD+ Processes” funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD), coordinated by Tebtebba. The project implemented the following major components: Education and awareness raising, Advocacy and Research. The research component undertakes on two levels: Policy and Program Analysis at the national level in 8 countries composed of Nicaragua, Peru, Kenya, Cameroon, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Nepal and all partners work within Indigenous People Forum on Climate Change with a range of climate change conferences under the UNFCCC, including COP15.

This research in Vietnam with the title “Ethnic minorities, Forests and REDD+” has been done. The research provides analysis of issues that directly affect ethnic minority peoples and their forests during implementation of REDD+. As planed the research report will be publicized and delivered in Cancun, 12.2010.

Within the one year project duration, POLICY AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS research report is completed. The report covers follow results

Output 1: Database of forest and relevant policies, laws, land use or indigenous people right… established

Output 2 :Impacts of REDD+ and other relevant programs to indigenous people realized and analyzed

Output 3 :Direction of solutions for issue of indigenous people found out