Can we learn something from REDD+ for TFFF?

Can we learn something from REDD+ for TFFF?

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  Christopher Martius 13 November2025 UNFCCC COP30, Belém Can we learn something from REDD+ for TFFF?
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  Key lessons fromREDD+ (What worked, what didn’t) 1. Project-focus origins created fragmentation and credibility issues • Early REDD+ centered on projects, outside national systems: Led to fragmentation and integrity concerns 2. Jurisdictional REDD+ has much improved integration but left gaps • National/subnational systems (e.g., FCPF, ART-TREES) reducing project fragmentation 3. Safeguards & benefit-sharing: good foundations, inconsistent practice • Cancun safeguards established strong principles, but quality of operationalization varies: • IPLC inclusion and fair benefit-sharing need better guidance and stable funding 4. Unfavourable for HFLD Countries • Countries with high forest cover but low historical deforestation disincentivized • HFLD windows exist but remain limited 5. Finance: Real but insufficient • ~ US$8.3 billion paid out (2009–2021): (Atmadja, unpubl. - based on OECD data) • Funding remains well below the level needed to maintain tropical forests
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  Key lessons fromREDD+ (What worked, what didn’t) 5. Monitoring capacity improved • A main result triggered by REDD+ is that countries built strong national forest monitoring systems and they continue improving
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  Key lessons fromREDD+ (What worked, what didn’t) 6. Social and governance dimensions of transparency are under-developed • Assessing social benefits requires good social science design and is costly • Broader transparency issues— governance, participation, accountability—remains uneven • Integrating safeguards with TACCC principles helps addressing these gaps https://www.cifor-icraf.org/transparent-monitoring/
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  Key lessons fromREDD+ (What worked, what didn’t) 6. Social and governance dimensions of transparency are under-developed https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor-icraf/009394
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  REDD+ lessons • Mobilizelarge-scale, predictable forest finance • Shift to national systems and avoid fragmentation • Ensure fairness and incentives for HFLD countries • Leverage jurisdictional REDD+ and available monitoring systems • Operationalize safeguards and benefit-sharing consistently • Improve participation in design and decision making • Strengthen social and data dimensions of monitoring and verification systems to address governance, participation, and accountability gaps
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