The document summarizes CIFOR's Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS-REDD+). The study aims to support REDD+ policy and practice with science-based information, analysis, and tools to help ensure REDD+ outcomes are effective, efficient, and equitable. The GCS-REDD+ structure involves policy analysis of 12 countries since 2009 and project analysis of 6 countries with 23 REDD+ project sites across 190 villages and 4,524 households. Key modules examine REDD+ strategies, project sites, monitoring and reference levels, and carbon management at landscape scales. Results are disseminated through publications, trainings, and workshops to influence REDD+ policies, strategies, and practices.

1. CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+
Christopher Martius
Norad meetings, 28 May, 2013

2. Global Comparative Study on REDD+
GCS-REDD+
Objectives
• support REDD+ policy arenas and
practitioner communities with sciencebased
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information
- analysis
- tools
• ensure 3E+ outcomes
-
effectiveness
efficiency
equity
co-benefits

3. Thanks to

4. GCS-REDD
Structure

5. Where GCS works

6. Where GCS works
Policy analysis
12 countries since 2009
Laos added 2013
Ethiopia, Mexico 2014

7. Where GCS works
Project analysis
6 countries
23 REDD project sites
190 villages
4524 households

8. Module 1
REDD+ strategies,
policies and measures
new research
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-
links of national &
international political
processes
benefits-sharing

9. Module 2
REDD+ Project Sites
“BACI” research design
Comparison
Control
Project site
Intervention
Control
before
Control
after
Intervention
before
Intervention
before
Before
After

10. Module 3
Monitoring and Reference Levels
Improve procedures &
practices for estimating
& managing carbon
stocks
Hallmark:
Stepwise approach to
RELs & MRV (considers
countries’ capacities)

11. Module 4
Carbon management at the landscape scale
Improve the design of
multilevel institutions
and processes
to overcome economic
and policy barriers to
REDD+ and other low
carbon land use policies

12. GCS output & results
2009
2008
+ country profiles
+ scientific publications
2012

13. From Research to Impact: Theory of Change
Boundary partners
Knowledge uptake
CIFOR and research partners
Knowledge generation
Effective, efficient and
equitable REDD+
new climate
change
regimes
controllable indicators
Internalization and
uptake by boundary
partners
national / NGO
MRV, develop
ment
strategies
Partner-centered
knowledge dissemination
download
rates
trainings
conferences
stakeholder
workshops
Rigorous, salient, ethical
science
peer-reviewed
publications
Co-production of science
non-controllable indicators

14. Non-controllable indicators
 national partners (Module 1) providing high quality
information for national REDD+ policy processes
 research used by
 Indonesia: development of national strategy (scientist seconded
to work on national REL), negotiations over the NOR-IND LoI
 Ethiopian REDD+ taskforce: developing national MRV roadmap
 Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
 integration of “stepwise” idea into UNFCCC decisions
 our expertise called upon by national and sub-national
governments and roundtables (e.g. Mesa REDD Peru)
 solicitation to contribute to REDD+ efforts by other
international organizations (e.g. RECOFTC, JRC)

15. GCS Phase I results
 Results bar
Information
across levels:
comprehensive
and fact-based
Carbon: stepwise
approach to RELs
and MRV
Scale matters
Tenure security:
needed
locally, enforce
nationally