SDC Pilot Phase

RECOFTC, with funding support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), conducted a pilot REDD training program in 2009 to test approaches for raising awareness of REDD at the grassroots level.

During this program, RECOFTC worked with in-country partners in Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Nepal to deliver a series of two-day REDD training courses in local languages. The courses provided local stakeholders with basic but important information about REDD in an accessible format that met their specific, practical needs.

This includes three briefing notes:

REDD 101: Introduction to REDD and Readiness

REDD 102: Methods for REDD Success

REDD 103: Implementing REDD: Managing, Measuring, Monitoring

Vietnam, March 2009

Located in Hue, this training targeted local government officials from provinces where current forest management systems and projects may include future REDD pilot projects.

REDD Learning Briefs in Vietnamese 101, 102, 103

Cambodia, March 2009

Forest Administration staff from Oddar Meanchey learnt about REDD through a real-life example; a 60,000 ha PACT/Forestry Administration/Clinton Foundation pilot project.

REDD Learning Briefs in Khmer 101, 102, 103

Lao PDR, March 2009

Provincial staff from the Department of Forestry and National Land Management Agency from six provinces in southern Laos participated.

REDD Learning Briefs in Lao 101, 102, 103

Nepal, April 2009

Representatives from forest-based civil society groups gathered in Kathmandu for a two-day introductory training and two-day strategic planning session to develop a coordinated agenda to influence international negotiations on REDD.

Tanzania, May 2009

In collaboration with CARE International and based on the Nepal training, RECOFTC will deliver a four day course to civil society representatives from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

For more information please contact:

Chandra Silori, Project Coordinator/Senior Program Officer Regional Grassroots Capacity Building for REDD

Capacity Building Services

Phone: 66-2-940-5700 Ext. 2714

E-mail: chandra.silori@recoftc.org

Project Links

Preparing the Grassroots

Project Background and Rationale

Indonesia

Lao PDR

Nepal

Informational Materials