Making REDD+ work for communities and forests: three shared lessons for project designers

Resource

PDF

Filename: iied_making_redd_work_for_communities_3_lessons.pdf
Size: 1.71 MB

Summary

Read how the Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative (MCDI) in southeastern Tanzania successfully involved communities in participatory forest management, Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certification and REDD+. Steve Ball and Jasper Makala offer their experience and share three lessons: why you should start with quick and dirty calculations on what drives deforestation; why you need to design ‘backwards’ from REDD+ market requirements; and how you can deal with some of the challenges of introducing to communities the commercial element (carbon contracts) necessary for REDD+.

Authors

Ball, S.
Makala, J.