REDD Countries Database Overview

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WHAT IS THE REDD COUNTRIESDATABASE?

The REDD Countries Database is a centralised

and collaborative database of the diverse and

rapidly evolving range of ongoing REDD

Readiness activities in tropical forest owningnations. Organized and aggregated by country,

it summarises key information across a range

of areas including policies, plans, statistics and

activities. The REDD Countries Database does

not attempt to assess activities or offer any

kind of normative analysis but will instead use

a common analytical framework to allow quick

comparison within and between countries.

WHO IS INVOLVED?

The REDD Countries Database is a

collaboration between the Global Canopy

Programme (GCP), the Forum on Readiness

for REDD (and its secretariat the Amazon

Environmental Research Institute - IPAM),

Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB), the

Institute for the Conservation and Sustainable

Development of Amazonas (IDESAM) and the

Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC).

The GCP and Forum, as well as being

cofounders for the REDD desk, providesecretariat services for the REDD Countries

Database; ASB, IDESAM and RECOFTC are

regional partners, gathering and synthesising

data from Africa, Latin America, and SE Asia

respectively.

WHO IS THE DATABASE FOR?

Stakeholders in the REDD process have

overwhelmingly expressed the need for a

central clearinghouse of information to

capture and catalogue resources, share best

practices, and facilitate global stakeholder

collaboration. This need has been identified by

diverse civil society actors, stated formally by

Parties and observers to the UNFCCC, and has

been better understood through detailed

surveys and workshops with the REDDstakeholder community conducted by the

Forum on Readiness for REDD and the Global

Canopy Programme.

WHAT INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE?

Following on from a series of consultations

and workshops, the REDD Countries Database

presents information across eight key areas.

Dashboard

The dashboard provides a snapshot overview

of the state of REDD Readiness within a

Figure 1 The REDD Countries Database landing page


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country. The dashboard presents the key

elements of REDD readiness within a country

graphically using simple icons and charts.

Readiness Overview

The Readiness Overview aims to provide a

summary of a countrys REDD readiness

across seven key elements. The elements

provide a way to compare REDD readiness

across different countries as well as within

countries. The elements, which have been

arrived at from a series of workshops and

consultations, are as follows:

Governance: What are the institutional

arrangements? What is the coordination

across institutions?

Stakeholder Engagement:Who are the

stakeholders and how are they being

informed, consulted and included in the

process? Has there been free, prior and

informed consent?

Rights and Tenure:How are issues of

rights and tenure addressed?

Enforcement:How is REDD being

enforced?

Methodologies: What methodological

approaches are being used including the

calculation of reference levels and co-benefits?

Co-benefits:How are co-benefits being

delivered?

MRV:How is monitoring reporting and

verification addressed in the country?

Finance:How is finance being delivered?Coherence: What is the level of integration

between policies, plans and activities?

Statistics

The statistics section draws on informationsuch as the FAO Forest Resource Assessment

and the World Banks World Development

Report to provide detailed information on

forest cover, deforestation rates and forest

ownership, as well as key socioeconomic

indicators including GDP, governance and

population density.

Institutions

The institutions section provides an overview

of key governmental, NGO, IGO, private sector

and academic institutions working in a

country. This section covers institutions that

are active in REDD within a country and can

therefore include international and donor

institutions.

Legal Framework

Relevant REDD, climate change, natural

resource management and rights and tenure

laws have been summarised in the legal

framework section. Laws are grouped into

international, national, and state level laws

with links to source documents where they are

available.

Policies and Plans

This section summarises government policies

and plans for REDD. Policies and plans are

both non-legally binding, and can be at either

the national or state level. Plans are

summarised using the elements of REDD

elaborated on above.

Activities

The activities section presents key information

on national, state and project level activities.

Activities are also summarised using the

elements of REDD. In addition, for carbon

project activities, specific project-level

information is also captured.

Financing

The financing section shows the institutions

that are financing REDD activities within a

country. Donors can be both governmental andnon-governmental as well as domestic or

Figure 2 A sample Dashboard for Vietnam


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overseas. This section groups institutions by

international, national and state-level.

WHEN WILL THE REDD COUNTRIESDATABASE BE LAUNCHED?

The REDD Countries Database will belaunched in beta in February 2011. The initial

platform will present three countries: Brazil,

Cameroon and Vietnam. Additional countries

will then be released throughout the year by

the secretariat and our regional partners. We

will also aim to continually update existing

counties as new information becomes

available.

WHAT IS THE REDD DESK?

The REDD Desk, initially launched as a pilot

by the Global Canopy Programme and the

Forum on Readiness for REDD at COP 15, is a

multi-language knowledge platform, designed

to gather and package readiness information in

one place in a simple and useful format;

organize information by country, connecting

with existing resources where appropriate; and

enable stakeholders within and between

countries to share information and collaborate.

It is online at www.theREDDdesk.org.

HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?

REDD stakeholders that are interested in

learning more about the REDD countriesdatabase can sign up to the REDD desk at

www.thereddesk.org/user/register. As a user

you will receive updates, and you also will be

able to: add resources; rate and comment on

existing content on the REDD desk; receive

news, updates and upcoming events; feedback

on country information; and in future releases

interact with other users on the REDD desk.

CONTACT US

We are constantly seeking to improve the

REDD desk and your feedback is valuable to

us. Please send any comments or suggestions

to:

[email protected]

Thank you The REDD Desk team.

Figure 3 The new REDD desk home

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