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Kenya’s updated Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Climate Change Agreement, submitted to the UNFCCC in 2020 identified the forest sector as a priority area to move Kenya towards a low-carbon, climate resilient development pathway. The updated NDC identified the forest sector as having a mitigation potential of 40.2 million tonnes CO2 by 2030 of which 20.8 million tonnes CO2 is committed in the NDC. Kenya seeks to establish and operationalize its REDD+ architecture, as an incentive mechanism, in line with the policy frameworks developed as requirements for REDD+ implementation under the UNFCCC. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry, with the support of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and financing from the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), embarked and delivered on the key REDD+ instruments for Kenya. The REDD+ National Strategy is one of the pillars delivered thus putting Kenya in the league of UNFCCC countries that have developed the REDD+ Architecture. The Safeguards Information System and its accompanying instrument (Country Approach to Safeguards- CAS,SESA and ESMF) was developed through an intensive, and wide stakeholders’ engagement. 

This National REDD+ Strategy demonstrates Kenya’s preparatory process towards REDD+ implementation.  This strategy completes REDD+ readiness elements indicated in Decision 1 of COP 16 Para 71 of the Cancun agreements, namely, the National Forest Monitoring System, a Forest Reference Level and Safeguard Information System.

This policy brief provides an overview of the potential for scaling up community participation in forest management in Zambia as part of the country's REDD+ investment strategy. The report gives some insight on the legal and policy context for community forest management, joint forest management, and private forest management. It also describes the land tenure context, gives examples of good practice in Zambia, and presents a series of investment options.

This assessment report provides a comprehensive review of Malawi's tenure regime in the context of developing the country's national REDD+ program.  The document includes information on the historical context, legal and policy framework, sources of land tenure insecurity, gender issues, and other cross-cutting governance challenges.  A set of recommendations for next steps is included in the conclusion. 

This technical paper emphasizes the opportunity that REDD+ and the global climate agenda represents for countries to engage more actively in securing land and resource rights for indigenous peoples and local communities. At the same time, it stresses how collective tenure rights represent a key element to achieve long-lasting and successful results for REDD+, contributing to addressing global climate change.

Secure tenure rights can make a substantial contribution to reducing deforestation and forest degradation and to enhancing sustainable development. This Information brief1 focuses on the key contribution of collective tenure rights towards mitigating climate change, paying particular attention to the links with national strategies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Over 2.5 billion rural people rely on this age-old form of property rights for their livelihoods. Furthermore, the customary claims of indigenous peoples and local communities cover more than half of the global land mass (RRI, 2018) – including some of the most important and biodiverse forest areas in the developing world. Recognition of these rights could facilitate scaled-up approaches to bring about needed transformational changes in the landscape.