MEMORIA DE LA SERIE DE INTERCAMBIOS DE EXPERIENCIAS DE BANCOS DE DESARROLLO NACIONALES SOBRE LA GESTIÓN DE INSTRUMENTOS DE FINANCIAMIENTO PARA EL SECTOR FORESTAL

El objetivo de este documento es proveer un análisis inicial sobre el financiamiento nacional e internacional dirigido a actividades REDD+ en México hasta la fecha y en el futuro previsible, con el fin de informar la toma de decisiones sobre las prioridades y estrategias del país para financiar la implementación plena de la Estrategia Nacional para REDD+ (ENAREDD+).

Jurisdictional Approaches to REDD+ in Africa: Emerging Lessons

This info brief captures the UN-REDD Africa Regional Knowledge Exchange 2018 “REDD+ Implementation at Scale: Emerging Lessons on Jurisdictional Approaches and Linkages with National Policy Frameworks” that was held on 2–3 October 2018 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Scoping Private Sector Opportunities in Ethiopia: How to Stimulate Both Economic Development and REDD+ Implementation?

Ethiopia is one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Agriculture (subsistence and commercial) employs 80% of the population, contributes to 50% of the gross domestic product and provides 60% of export revenues, highlighting the importance of the sector for Ethiopia’s economy. At the same time, the country is experiencing ongoing deforestation, with agriculture being the principal driver of deforestation in Ethiopia. There are 2 national strategies - the climate-resilience green economy (CRGE) and the second-growth transformation plan (GTP2) - to shift the country to a more sustainable development paradigm while growing to middle-income status by 2025. Ethiopia has ample indigenous bamboo resources: the largest area of bamboo in Africa with 1 million hectares with a potential of 3 million hectares. Based on desk research and interviews, this report concludes that investments in bamboo carry the highest potential to restore, protect or recover forests as Ethiopia committed in 2014 to restore 15 million hectares by 2030. In doing so, there may be possibilities to harness the potential of both international development finance institutions as well as domestic financial institutions, given that Ethiopia is at the moment an underbanked country with little domestic or international funding flowing to forest-friendly projects that contribute to REDD+.

This info brief is in Burmese. This info brief is supported by the UN-REDD Programme and published by the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. It is the first in a two-part series that is intended to demonstrate the economic and financial benefits of a deforestation-free approach to lending and investment in Myanmar and to provide recommendations for financial institutions on how to reduce their exposure to the forest-related risks arising from their clients/ investees’ activities. 

ဤအ ်ဥ္းခ်ဳပ္သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၌ ေငြထုတ္ေခ်းျခင္းႏွင့္

ရင္းႏွီးျမွဳပ္ႏွံမႈအေပၚ သစ္ေတာျပဳန္းတီးမႈ  င္းလြတ္ေသာ

ခ်ဥ္း ပ္မႈနည္းလမ္း၏ စီးပြားေရးႏွင့္ ဘ႑ာေရး

အ ်ိဳးေ ်းဇူးမ်ား ို သရုပ္ေဖာ္ျပရန္ ရည္ရြယ္ေသာ

ႏွစ္ပိုင္းတြဲအခန္း ဆ ္မွ ပထမပိုင္းျဖစ္သည္။

Banking on Forests in Myanmar

This info brief is supported by the UN-REDD Programme and published by the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. It is the first in a two-part series that is intended to demonstrate the economic and financial benefits of a deforestation-free approach to lending and investment in Myanmar and to provide recommendations for financial institutions on how to reduce their exposure to the forest-related risks arising from their clients/ investees’ activities.

A REDD+ National Strategy or Action Plan may not be sufficient to fully guide REDD+ implementation, and may need to be complemented by more detailed, operational document(s) at national and/or subnational level. As agreed in the Warsaw Framework for REDD+, a National REDD+ Strategy and/or Action Plan is one of the prerequisites for accessing results-based payments (RBPs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These strategies present an overall vision, over the medium to long term, setting aspirational goals and outlining a general approach to achieving them. However, they often lack the operational elements required to fully frame REDD+ implementation: an explicit theory of change with clear priorities for implementation; a budget coupled with a financing plan and funding mechanism; and/or a REDD+ results framework with an associated monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. This infobrief examines how to operationalise and finance National REDD+ Strategies from programming and financing implementation to results-based payments.

Economic and Financial Challenges to Scaling Up Sustainable Cocoa Production in Côte d'Ivoire - Executive Summary

Agroforestry can play a key role in addressing the critical situation of Ivorian forests. It would also ensure the future of cocoa farming, a key sector of the country’s economy. To that end, a national agroforestry definition including quantitative elements is needed to guide investments consistently with national policy objectives. It would also harmonize socio-economic and environmental objectives. This study highlights several elements that can guide the development of this definition. The latter should consider the factors that influence cocoa yields in the arbitration between environmental and economic costs and benefits for the different actors in the cocoa value chain.