This document summarizes the key challenges facing scaling up REDD+ efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the country's proposed answers to address each challenge. The three main challenges are attracting and building human resource capacities, absorbing technical and financial resources efficiently, and ensuring an enabling environment. For human resources, the challenges include developing skills and attracting/retaining qualified staff, while DRC's answers center on training programs and incentive structures. For technical and financial resources, challenges involve implementing strategies and raising funds, while answers focus on capacity building, pilot projects, and funding mechanisms. For the enabling environment, challenges involve governance, infrastructure, and international pressures, which DRC seeks to address through mainstreaming REDD+ and partnerships.

1. Scaling up REDD+ in DRC
Challenges and answers
Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism (MECNT)
REDD+ Partnership
June 18th, 2011
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2. Three key areas of challenge
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Attracting Absorbing (capacity) Absorbing (efficiency)
SCALING UP REDD+
(investment phase)
The Human The Technical & The
Resources Financial Environment
Challenge Challenge Challenge

3. Challenge 1: human resources
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Challenges... DRC’s answers...
1  Building on and developing the volume of capacities From REDD+ « summer
Capacities required for scaling up school » to large scale
 Assessing and developing the appropriate skills to fill training programme
« GPEC »
the right jobs
Financial and
 Attract and keep performing staff, motivation institutional
 Ensuring that the right people are at the right place arrangements
(Kinshasa vs. rural areas) « Market Place »
2  Making REDD+ a key topic on top of national political  Dialogue de Haut
Mobilization agenda Niveau, DSCRP2
 Securing leadership and national empowerment  National technical unit
 REDD+ committees,
 Ensuring multisectorial mobilization, avoid « sector-
early action programmes,
based leakages », mobilize administration GCT...
 Build on, mobilize and increase capacities of local  Decentralisation in
shifts for design and implementation province, campaigns in
 Ensuring multi-stakeholders mobilization (civil society, the territories
private sector, international partners and their DRC’s  Civil society readiness
plan, private sector
representation…
forum...

4. Challenge 2: technical and financial resources
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Challenges... DRC’s answers...
Decentralisation in
1  Designing and implementing national and provincial
provinces, GCT, FIP and
Technical shifts strategies, as well as an investment plan based on early action programmes
operational programmes  Pilot activities
 Building on experience and pilot initiatives to scale up coordination
 Research and development capacities in country  Large-scale capacity
building
2  Ensuring transparency on transactions, tracking
Implementation Framework finance and activities, avoiding double accounting  National registry
 Implementing/improving performing institutions  Scoping mission on
(decision-making, planning, coordinating, marketing, implementation
framework
monitoring and reporting, verifying…)
 Work on benefit
 Ensuring a fair mechanism, benefit sharing, sharing
redistribution schemes
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 Raising finance for enabling policies and programmes  FIP, Dialogue de Haut
Finance Niveau...
 Raising ex-ante finance for on-the-ground
 Development Bank for
programmes and projects / reaching various kinds of REDD+, small grants,
stakeholders community-based
 Managing financial flows (executing, MRVing) forestry FIP
 Mobilizing national and international private finance  Fonds National REDD+
 Preventing international money laundry  Private sector forum...
 Accreditation process
4  Monitoring and reporting the impacts of projects,
Performance Assessment programme and policies on carbon or proxies  STSS system for
Durban...
 Monitoring and reporting on safeguards/standards and  Standards, SESA,
benefits in the field of governance and anti-corruption, NORAD/UNDP and WB
social, environmental and economy missions on governance,
 Linking projects/programmes/policies and national household survey...
accounting system  National registry

5. Challenge 3: enabling environment
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Challenges... DRC’s answers...
1  Securing peace and stability Indirect or focused
 Improving the performance of administration (national contribution
State of Law
 Mainstreaming REDD+
and local levels)
in large-scale
 Enhancing rules and enforcing the law programmes to fight
 Preventing red tape, corruption… corruption etc.
2  Mitigating implementation and transaction costs of Assessing REDD+ costs
National structures activities related to lack of infrastructures and financial  Early action
capacities programmes, DSCRP2,
 Mainstreaming REDD in the legal framework of various GCT and REDD+ national
sectors (infrastructures, agriculture, mining, energy…) strategy design
 Early action
 Harmonising and securing land tenure programme, FIP
 Enhancing business environment and access to  FIP, private sector
services (finance, consulting, accounting, geometer, forum, partners
lawyer, manager…) coordination...
3  Improving biased conditions of competition slowing Implementation
International Pressures down national initiatives (food production, transforming framework study, FIP and
industry…) pilot projects...
 Handling and directing pressures related to land  REDD+ national
strategy, accreditation
grabbing (food, energy) related to challenging
process, Dialogue de
international demand, offer, commodity prices… Haut Niveau
 Regulating international markets demand (wood…)  FLEGT, international
and loopholes of international system (tracking…) dialogue...