Bangladesh Announcements
In the UN-REDD Programme's November 2013 issue, we share highlights from the Programme’s Fifth Anniversary celebrations at the UNFCCC COP19 and the Oslo REDD Exchange. Also read more on the UN-REDD Programme's latest success story from Viet Nam, the programme’s work on Stakeholder Engagement and Anti-Corruption, as well as REDD+ updates from Bangladesh, Cambodia, the DRC, Ecuador and Sri Lanka.
New Photos from “Initial REDD+ Consultation Workshop" and "REDD+ Training Workshop in Manus” from Papua New Guinea’s gallery are available on the Asia-Pacific webpage. See more photos from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, and Regional Activities, and other updates on the Programme in the Asia-Pacific webpage, click here
FAO is seeking a Chief Technical Advisor (CTA, P-5) for an USAID-funded FAO project to strengthen capacities of the Ministry of Environment and Forests in Bangladesh. To read the full vacancy announcement, please click here.
Pictures from the focus group discussions undertaken in Modhupur and Sreemongol as part of research for the Bangladesh REDD+ Integrity Study are now posted in the Bangladesh Targeted Support folder. These discussions will occur in two more regions and a full report is coming shortly.
A technical mission on 13-20 September will support the first series of focus group discussions with the sawmill industry, local government, local NGOs and CSOs and forest-dependent communities to discuss and gather inputs into Bangladesh's "REDD+ Integrity Study" that will inform the development of its National Programme. The focus group discussions and key informant interviews will take place in Mondhupur and Sreemangal, with other field discussions planned in Chittagong later this month.
As part of UN-REDD targeted support, two anonymous online surveys have been independently launched to assess Interity Risks and Opportunities in REDD+ in Kenya and Bangladesh. If you have knowledge or experience with or in these countries, please take a few minutes to complete the Bangladesh survey and/or Kenya survey. The surveys will run for two weeks.
In the UN-REDD Programme's April 2013 issue, read more on REDD+ updates in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Côte d’Ivoire, South Sudan and Zambia. Also get details the UN-REDD Programme's work on Green Economy, Social and Environmental Safeguards and Stakeholder Engagement.
A new policy report by UNU-IAS, "Governing the Forests: An Institutional Analysis of REDD+ and Community Forest Management in Asia" has been released in February 2013. This report aims to serve as a useful reference for policymakers, professionals and practitioners as they work to promote REDD+ in ways that tackle climate change and biodiversity loss but also respect concerns and listen to the voice of local stakeholders. It presents background on REDD+, explores ways to link REDD+ to community forestry, and provides lessons learned and recommendations.
Three missions - to Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan - are planned in the next few weeks to accompany the anti-corruption targeted support currently underway.
A fourth FAO international course on Tropical Forest Monitoring has been carried out from 1-12 October 2012 at the Amazonian Regional Center of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE-CRA) in Bélem, Pará, Brazil. Country delegations from Bangladesh and Cambodia were trained on TerraAmazon, the Brazilian open source software platform developed by INPE for the estimation of the annual rate of deforestation (PRODES, the Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Project is considered as the world's largest and most robust forest monitoring system). Read more.
A second National Consultation on Bangladesh REDD+ Readiness Roadmap took place in Dhaka, 17 January 2012. With support from FAO and UNDP, Bangladesh Forest Department held a consultation workshop to share and discuss progress on the national REDD+ Readiness Roadmap that has been made since the first national consultation meeting that took place in October 2011. Documents and presentations from both meetings are available here. Read more.
A second National Consultation on Bangladesh REDD+ Readiness Roadmap took place in Dhaka, 17 January 2012. With support from FAO and UNDP, Bangladesh Forest Department held a consultation workshop to share and discuss progress on the national REDD+ Readiness Roadmap that has been made since the first national consultation meeting that took place in October 2011. Documents and presentations from both meetings are available here. Read more.
Bangladesh took its first steps on the road to REDD+ Readiness with a programme of national and sub-national consultations. Read more about the national and regional workshops held in Dhaka and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, respectively, on 25-27 October.
UNDP launched a guidebook aimed at helping decision makers in developing countries to better take advantage of the billions pledged to address climate change by assisting them to design a National Climate Fund. The guidebook, titled Blending Climate Finance Through National Climate Funds, targets decision-maker at the national and sub-national levels and features REDD+ and the UN-REDD Programme. Read more
In the August issue of the UN-REDD Programme newsletter, we welcome Bangladesh, Bhutan, Central African Republic, Colombia and Guatemala as new partners to the Programmel highlight recent UN-REDD support to REDD+ readiness activities in Latin America; and report on the outcomes of our governance side event at the August Climate Change talks in Bonn.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Central African Republic, Colombia and Guatemala recently expressed formal interest in joining the UN-REDD programme as partner countries.