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REDD+ Safeguard Information Systems: Vietnam’s nascent response

REDD+ Safeguard Information Systems: Vietnam’s nascent response. Stevo Swan. Contents. Current status Near-future interventions Take-home messages. Background. Vietnam – one of the first countries to engage in REDD+ FCPF - R-PIN (2008) → R-PP (2010; mid-2012 inception)

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REDD+ Safeguard Information Systems: Vietnam’s nascent response

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  1. REDD+ Safeguard Information Systems:Vietnam’s nascent response Stevo Swan

  2. Contents • Current status • Near-future interventions • Take-home messages Title

  3. Background • Vietnam – one of the first countries to engage in REDD+ • FCPF - R-PIN (2008) → R-PP (2010; mid-2012 inception) • UN-REDD – first country programme (Phase I: 2009-2012; Phase II: in prep.) • Numerous NGO interventions (SNV largest and most diverse REDD+ prog.) • Vietnam - not one of the earlier starter safeguard countries in 2011 • Responding to Cancun safeguards - number of national processes instigated • Brazil (Acre); DRC; Ecuador; Indonesia (Central Kalimantan) Nepal; Tanzania • Responses driven by external multilateral initiatives (SEPC; SES; SESA) Title

  4. Readiness efforts • Vietnam – focus of readiness efforts to date: • Institutional development • Stakeholder engagement • Benefit Distribution System • Reference (Emission) Levels • MRV framework • National REDD+ Programme • Vietnam - focused on main elements of national REDD+ architecture • Institutional foundations • System of accounting for emission reductions/enhanced removals • System of compensating local actors for implementing REDD+ activities • Next key piece of REDD+ architecture to be designed and installed – SIS…? Title

  5. UN-REDD activities • National MRV Framework Document • ‘With reference to safeguards information’ – web-based portal by Phase II • Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) • Guidelines developed, applied and evaluated in one pilot province • Benefit distribution system (BDS) • R-coefficients (payment weighting); self-selection procedures for BDS models • Participatory governance assessment (PGA) • Multi-stakeholder assessment (instigated March 2012) • Participatory carbon monitoring (PCM): • Technical manual developed and tested in one pilot province Title

  6. ‘High-biodiversity REDD+’ Title

  7. International intervention How to operationalize Cancun safeguards and deliver co-benefit performance? Title

  8. National intervention • Technical assistance from UNEP-WCMC • SNV remains product-neutral; focus on facilitating multi-stakeholder process • Make significant and necessary contributions to forestry sector-wide policy • (Circular guiding strategic environment and social assessment in forestry - 2012) Title

  9. Subnational and local interventions Title

  10. STWG-SG overview • Sub-technical working group on safeguards (STWG-SG) • 1 of 6 STWGs: BDS; governance; local implementation; MRV; private sector • Inaugural meeting (28 March 2012); 2nd meeting (19 April 2012) • Chaired by VNFOREST-Vietnam REDD+ Office and SNV (HB-REDD+ PMU) • Objective • Co-ordinated technical assistance delivered to GoVand other stakeholders • Operationalising safeguards to promote social and environmental co-benefits • At national, subnational and local levels Title

  11. STWG-SG results • STWG-SG established and operationalized • 2012 indicator – six STWG-SG meeting agendas and minutes • Options for operationalizing REDD+ safeguards in Vietnam identified • 2012 indicator - options paper - existing and potential safeguard actions • National REDD+ programme environmental & social safeguards developed • 2012 indicator – first coherent draft of national REDD+ safeguards • National safeguard information system (SIS) developed • 2012 indicator – first coherent draft of SIS framework document Title

  12. National SIS Title

  13. Concluding remarks • There are a range of options available for operationalizing safeguards: national policy strengthening, integrated subnational planning, regulatory and economic instruments and improved monitoring systems • Incorporating co-benefits into a national REDD+ strategy or programme doesn’t necissitate the creation of brand-new systems or technologies but the re-evaluation and enhancement of those already at a country’s disposal • REDD+ countries are already committed to environmental and social outcomes in the forestry sector. Integrating co-benefits into REDD+ could reduce investment and transaction costs of delivering these outcomes • It is important to adopt national-level standards as a direct intervention that demonstrates political commitment to environmental and social co-benefits, but they are not the totality of a country’s safeguard response Title

  14. National REDD+ Programme Title

  15. Thank you • Further information: • www.vietnam-redd.org • www.snvredd.com • www.forestcarbonasia.org Title

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