This document summarizes an IUCN project funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment to facilitate the design of pro-poor benefit-sharing schemes for REDD+. The 3-year project aims to pilot benefit-sharing mechanisms for early REDD+ actions consistent with national strategies, identify policy arrangements to efficiently deliver performance-based payments, and generate lessons about pro-poor benefit-sharing design and implementation. Activities will take place in Ghana, Mexico, and Peru to inform global and regional analytical tools developed by IUCN and partners. Year 1 activities include developing a performance-based payment methodology, socioeconomic baselines, a pro-poor benefit-sharing approach and mechanisms, and analyzing legal frameworks.

1. THE REDD+ BENEFIT-SHARING
PROJECT:
Facilitating countries and communities in designing
pro-poor REDD+ benefit-sharing schemes
Duration: 3 years (2013– Nov 2015)
Donor: German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE

2. Global Forest & Climate Change Programme
(GFCCP) Work on REDD+
Our work is centred on three mutually supporting themes of:
1) Climate Change Mitigation,
2) Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), and
3) Locally Controlled Forests (LCF)
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3. Global Forest & Climate Change Programme
(GFCCP) Work on REDD+
On REDD+ specifically, IUCN-GFCCP aims to enable:
1) policy environments for operation of frameworks
that reduce deforestation and degradation while
delivering multiple benefits to the poor
2) knowledge creation, consolidation and
dissemination around the “pro-poor REDD+”
concept in order to influence policy processes
3) community of practice around pro-poor REDD+
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4. PRO-POOR PRINCIPLES
1. Ensure that vulnerable groups are
Climate informed, consulted and participate
Change 2. Guarantee rights and access to
Mitigation information about processes and
outcomes of REDD+
3. Clarify and secure the rights to
Pro-poor resources
Frameworks
for REDD+ 4. Ensure equitable and transparent
sharing of benefits
5. Be built on the understanding of
the nature and scope of forest
FLR LCF dependency
6. Enhance resilience of vulnerable
livelihoods
7. Recognise and integrate
customary practices and values
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5. BMU Benefit-Sharing Project
The goal of the project is that:
• “early REDD+ actions are enabled by appropriate,
fair and pro-poor benefit sharing mechanisms that
are sufficiently robust to be mainstreamed into
long-term national and international REDD+
frameworks”
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6. BMU Benefit-Sharing Project
Where & who?
National & local activities:
– Ghana (Wasa Amenfi)
- Forest Commission, Tropenbos International
– Mexico (Chiapas) – CONAFOR, CONABIO
– Peru (San Martin) – Aider, CI
That inform global, & regional analytical tools
– IUCN GFCCP, IUCN regional & national offices
– The Forest Dialogue
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7. BMU Benefit-Sharing Project
In this project, we will undertake 3 categories of activities:
1. Piloting and assessing pro-poor benefit sharing mechanisms for
performance-based REDD+ proxy actions that are consistent
with national REDD+ strategies
2. Identifying and promoting policy and institutional arrangements
required to equitably and efficiently deliver performance-based
payments for REDD+ activities
3. Generating and promoting lessons about the design and
implementation of pro-poor REDD+ benefit-sharing
mechanisms

8. BMU Benefit-Sharing Project
Select Year 1 Activities
1. Performance-based payment methodology & approach
2. Socio-economic baselines and approaches
– Including Human-Nature-Poverty linkages
3. Benefit-sharing approach & mechanisms that are pro-poor
oriented
4. Legal & regulatory frameworks that are pro-poor oriented
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9. THANK YOU
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