This document discusses monitoring governance in REDD programs and initiatives. It outlines a framework for REDD monitoring that includes monitoring both emissions and safeguards, including governance indicators, at both the national reporting level and local implementation level. It reviews several existing governance monitoring initiatives for forests, logging, and REDD. It envisions a common base for governance monitoring across scales and a vision of integrating governance monitoring with overall monitoring, reporting and verification systems to measure change over time in key areas like stakeholder participation, legislation and enforcement, and accountability and transparency.