Regional Highlights of R-PINs - Africa
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Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
Regional highlights of R-PINs
Africa Region
By FCPF Technical Advisory Panel
FCPF Steering Committee Meeting
Paris, July 9 and 10, 2008
10 countries from Africa submitted
their R-PINs before May 30, 2008
R-PINs submitted for consideration by SC
were complete and used the latest R-PIN
template
Overview
8 countries being considered in the SC
meeting
Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Gabon (in French)
Ghana
Kenya
Liberia
Madagascar
Republic of Congo
Africa: A variety of situations
Forest rich, low deforestation:
Gabon
Republic of Congo
Forest rich, high deforestation:
DR-Congo variety of situations (humid, mountains, savanna)
Liberia after conflict situation, revamping of forestry activities
Central African Republic degradation in humid forest zone
Ghana fragmentation of forests, agricultural expansion
Forest poor, high deforestation:
Madagascar poverty, population growth, biodiversity hotspots
Kenya intensive use of dry lands, energy
With commercial logging:
Gabon, Republic of Congo,
DRC, CAR, Ghana
Without commercial logging:
Kenya, Madagascar, Liberia
REDD – Issues on Methodologies
Forest degradation is not routinely monitored
/ estimated
General
Observations
National capacity to monitor forest cover
changes is crucial to REDD Programmes –
includes techniques to estimate both above /
below ground biomass
Low national capacity to monitor forest cover changes
major bottleneck
Use of projections of future DD scenarios
proposed by many countries
Many countries make the link to the larger
Environmental Services agenda
REDD – Policy Issues
Coordination among national
agencies will be complex but
important to address
General
observations
Countries showed strong support to
involving communities in forest
management
Land tenure - complex governance
issue that could jeopardize REDD
Clarifying Emission / carbon rights reaching the poor is a priority
Ownership of R-PIN and REDD Agenda
Interest up to the highest political
level to tackle the issue of DD with
new tools and instruments;
General
observations
however
Countries are at different stages of
discussions of REDD at the national
level;
Interest among countries is high
though in some countries there was
substantial inputs from external
consultants – a capacity constraint
Congo Basin countries (CAR, DRC, Gabon, Rep. of
Congo) proposed a regional approach to monitoring
forest cover, through COMIFAC’s OFAC (Central
Africa Forest Observatory)
Monitoring
Systems and
Reference
Scenario
CAR, DRC and Rep of Congo have proposed
impressive methods to estimate biomass hence
carbon stocks
Ghana proposes an integrated forest monitoring
system
DRC presents a concrete case of the need for
modeling future deforestation/
degradation. Issue of palm oil plantations
Liberia already has an impressive national grid of
sample plots to assess forest carbon stock
Madagascar proposes a “participatory ecological
monitoring” for biodiversity
CAR, DRC and Republic of Congo - emphasis on
improving their forest concession management
(maintaining existing carbon stocks)
Gabon implementation of REDD projects based
on future deforestation scenarios, including PES
(Payment for environmental services) for forestdependant people
REDD
Strategies
Kenya proposes activities “outside forests”
(agriculture & energy) to address deforestation
and degradation and promotion of PES schemes
Liberia proposes to integrate REDD into its “3
C’s” strategy to forests – communities,
conservation & commericial
Madagascar proposes a nested approach
(combined national and project level approach)
Gabon, Ghana and Kenya envisaging
establishment of PES schemes to change
land use behavior
Infrastructure
to implement
REDD
activities
Liberia suggests the establishment of
strong institutional mechanism to
coordinate REDD activities (National
Carbon Working Group) with the overall
sustainable development agenda
Madagascar has a national “REDD Group”
in place that meets regularly, discussing
issues such as the development of a REDD
revenues distribution mechanism
DRC is currently implementing the first forest
carbon finance project in the country: Bateke
fuelwood plantations
Gabon is currently improving its large scale
forest concessions (CFADs) system and has
created 13 new protected areas
Potential
effectiveness
of proposed
REDD
strategies, and
previous
experiences
Ghana has very active policy dialogue w/
donors on forest resources, through a multidonor operation (Natural Resources and
Environmental Governance) – high chance of
success for REDD
Kenya has experience in A/R CDM, the
Greenbelt Movement’s reforestation project (w/
BioCF support)
Madagascar has experience w/ three ongoing
REDD projects on the ground (two linked with
protected areas, one to the development of a
national REDD concept)