This presentation describes the new CIFOR project of the same name. The project’s objectives, structure and main research questions or activities are outlined.

1. REDD+ Benefits Sharing

2. Project Objective
 To provide REDD+ policymakers and practitioners with policy
options and guidance to improve the design, development
and implementation of REDD+ benefit sharing mechanisms.
 Target groups:
• Policy makers in developing and developed countries
• Governments of the six case study countries
• REDD+ project developers and investors

3. Project Structure
 Structured as seven interlinked work packages that
together will generate evidence-based policy options which
are framed by experience and best practices in six focal
countries.
 Builds on, and links with work ongoing in GCS.
 Establishes partnerships with academia, non-governmental
organizations, research institutions.
 Timeframe: 2012-2015

4. Project Structure
WP2: Outreach and dissemination
WP5: Review of existing performance-based
mechanisms
WP3: WP6: WP7: WP1:
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Household REDD+

5. WP5: Review of existing performance-
based mechanisms, lead: M. Brockhaus
 Objective:
• To understand the experiences and lessons from existing
distribution and benefit sharing mechanisms for design of
more equitable mechanism.
 Research questions:
• To what extent can past experiences be harnessed in the
design and development of a REDD+ benefit distribution
mechanism?
• What are criteria for selection of an adequate mechanism?
• What are key elements of an efficient, effective and
equitable mechanism?
• What policy and governance mechanisms need to be in
place?

6. WP3: Estimating the costs and benefits
of national REDD+ Policies and
Measures (PAMs), lead: S. Wunder
WP3 seeks to develop PAM design principles that promote
REDD+ cost effectiveness and equity
Major research questions:
1. Which PAM design features determine REDD+ cost-
effectiveness and welfare/equity impacts?
2. How can PAM best be combined (`policy mix`) in
different national contexts of major REDD+ candidate
countries?
⇒ National-level policies (incl. federal states/ provinces)

7. WP 4: Estimating the costs and benefits
of REDD+ projects, lead: W. Sunderlin
 Objectives:
• To investigate how the costs of REDD+ projects affect
opportunities and design of benefit sharing systems at
project- and national-level
• To assess efficiency and equity in benefit sharing as
systems of REDD+ conditional incentives are implemented
 Activities:
• Develop costing framework/model to assess costs of
REDD+ at two project sites in three countries.
• Apply knowledge on sub-national REDD+ costs to develop
benefit sharing systems

8. WP 6: Understanding multi-level forest
governance lead, lead: A. Larson
 Objectives:
• To analyze multi-level forest governance mechanisms and
related experiences for a just and transparent benefit
sharing system
• To improve understanding of (1) who decides how benefits
are shared; 2) who manages benefit sharing systems; (3)
who bears the costs; (4) who gets benefits and why; and
(5) who monitors/controls the system
 Activities:
• Assess the institutional context in forest and other related
sectors at multiple scales, and lessons from initiatives such
as FLEGT
• Identify options for institutional design and organizational
structures

9. WP7: Accessing rights to REDD+
benefits, lead: E. Mwangi
 Objective:
• To generate policy guidance on land tenure arrangements
and institutional frameworks for REDD+ benefit sharing
mechanisms to provide tangible benefits and enhance
forest management.
 Activities:
• Examine benefit sharing at household and community-
levels, and the interaction with property rights regimes.
• Analyze sub-national and local-level institutions, rules and
norms.
• Apply field experimental approach to identify causal
factors and determinants of benefit sharing preferences.

10. WP1: Options assessments to guide
development of REDD+ benefit-sharing and
distribution mechanisms, lead: G. Wong
 Objective:
• To synthesize results from the other research components
and identify what works in terms of developing efficient,
effective and equitable benefit sharing and distribution
mechanisms
 Activities:
• Develop a common analytical framework, in discussion
with different groups of stakeholders in the focal countries
• Conduct a comparative assessment of the policy,
institutional and legal arrangements shaping REDD+
benefit sharing in the focal countries
• Build a coalition of research and implementing partners in
each of the focal countries

11. Geographic coverage
Brazil Peru Tanzania Cameroon Indonesia Vietnam
WP1
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WP 3 X X X
WP 4 X X X
WP 5 X X X X X X
WP 6 X X X
WP 7 X X X