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Social Aspects of REDD. Ken MacDicken and Gelsey Bennett Forestry and Natural Resource Management Winrock International November 6, 2008. Winrock’s work in REDD. Began in 1995 in Belize (Rio Bravo) and Bolivia (Noel Kempff) Project Design Documents (PDD) Mapping and Imagery (GIS)
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Social Aspects of REDD Ken MacDicken and Gelsey Bennett Forestry and Natural Resource Management Winrock International November 6, 2008
Winrock’s work in REDD • Began in 1995 in Belize (Rio Bravo) and Bolivia (Noel Kempff) • Project Design Documents (PDD) • Mapping and Imagery (GIS) • Carbon stock measurements • More recently in using the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards for Project Design
Using the CCB design standards to protect community benefits • CCB design standards are intended to ensure compliance with biodiversity and community safeguards • Winrock application of CCB-Community Standards in Peru, Indonesia and Vietnam • Social analysis using participatory and sociological/anthropological tools
Methods - Approach • Framework of Analysis for CCB-Community Standards: Sustainable Livelihood Framework • Assets: Financial, Human, Social, Natural, and Physical • Vulnerabilities: Shocks, Trends, and Seasonality • Transforming Structures (i.e.. government, private sector) and Processes (i.e. law, culture, institutions)
Methods - Tools • Semi-structured interviews and guided conversations with stakeholders • Participatory land-use mapping • Farm/land values questionnaires • Goal: empowerment, honest opinions, gathering information for thoughtful project design
Peru example • Location: along the InterOceanic Highway, Madre de Dios, Peru • Consulted with people from 20 different towns or settlements
Results • Interviewees supported planting bamboo • Intercropping scheme with food or cash crops recommended by farmers • Net benefits described in plan – to be monitored during project implementation • Need for capacity building: skills to plant, harvest, and utilize bamboo
Conclusion • Climate, Community and Biodiversity project design standard ensures delivery of benefits are measured/monitored • Recommendations and opinions from local population will guide project design, in particular issues regarding capacity building and trainings • Capacity building would be central for the success of the project: skills needed for proper growing, harvesting, marketing, and utilization of bamboo • Dual livelihood development/poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation goals
Acknowledgements • Blue Moon Fund (Peru REDD/bamboo project support) • Asia Regional Biodiversity Conservation Program (USAID RDM/A) • Global Eco-Rescue (Indonesia)