Delivering Multiple Benefits from REDD+ in Southeast Asia

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Contact

SNV Netherlands Development
Organisation
Overall project management coordination and monitoring of the
project as part of an expanding
Vietnam and Asia regional REDD+
programme.

For more information please contact:

Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST)
All activities pertaining to REDD+
in Vietnam; the REDD+ Office will
be the lead government agency
facilitating implementation.

Steve Swan
Technical Advisor
Tel.: +84 4 3845 3791
E-mail:

Nguyen Vinh Quang
Project Leader
Tel.: +84 4 3845 3791
E-mail:

and visit our website:
www.snvworld.org/redd

This project is part of the International Climate Intitiative.
The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation
and Nuclear Safety supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag.

Delivering Multiple Benefits
from REDD+ in Southeast Asia


The Project

REDD+ could contribute to a range of policy
goals above and beyond climate change
mitigation. These include pro-poor rural
development, better forest governance and
protection of basic human rights as well
as biodiversity conservation and enhanced
ecosystem service provision.
How can these ‘multiple benefits’ be delivered, together with emissions reductions, through design
and implementation of national REDD+ strategies
and programmes?
The VNFOREST-SNV project ‘Delivering Multiple
Benefits from REDD+ in Southeast Asia’ (MBREDD) project aims to support the governments
of Vietnam and Laos in implementing national
REDD+ programmes that promote broader social
and environmental benefits beyond REDD+’s
central climate change mitigation purpose. This
will be achieved through identification of nationally
appropriate options for responding to international safeguard commitments for REDD+, together
with participatory forest monitoring, integration of

multiple benefits into subnational planning, and
pro-poor REDD+ benefit distribution systems.
Through the MB-REDD project, SNV and partners
are exploring ways to maximise the multiple benefit potential of REDD+, which serves as an underlying theme cutting across priority intervention areas
of the SNV REDD+ programme.

Results

The VNFOREST-SNV project will be conducted over a six-year period between
2011 and 2016, with funding from the
International Climate Initiative (ICI) of the
German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear
Safety (BMU).
Delivering REDD+ multiple benefits will
require the introduction of innovative
mechanisms to support sustainable livelihoods and biodiversity conservation,
while delivering greenhouse gas emission reductions from forestry and other
land use sectors. Under this project
these mechanisms will be designed and
tested through demonstration, ‘proofof-concept’ pilots, from which lessons
will be shared with multi-stakeholder
platforms, such as national REDD+ working groups, as well as the international
REDD+ community.

Project sites:
•

Vietnam (Lam Dong and Ca Mau
Provinces)

•

Lao PDR

The overall outcome of the project is that, by 2016,
the technical knowledge and political capacity to
deliver multiple benefits from national REDD+ programmes is established, tested and disseminated in
Vietnam, and potentially replicated in Laos.

The expected outputs of the project include:
1. Knowledge products on how to deliver REDD+
multiple benefits produced for international
audiences;
2. National government-led environmental and
social safeguard roadmaps produced as part of
national REDD+ programmes;
3. Provincial REDD+ action plans, promoting emission reductions and multiple benefits, demonstrated at two sites in Vietnam;
4. Participatory forest monitoring, for demonstrating multiple benefit performance, developed
through government-led pilots; and
5. Local REDD+ benefit distribution systems, which
promote multiple benefits, introduced to national policy fora and subnational planning.