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Francesca Feliciani-Robles (The UN-REDD Programme) presented on the project Legislative support for REDD+ (LEG REDD+), which aims at assisting countries in strengthening their legal capacity for REDD+ implementation, and how this may link to the PGA process in addressing legal issues and shortcomings identified through the PGA process.

A presentation by Sofi Halling (UNDP - Parliamentary Development Team) highlighting the role and importance of parliaments and parliamentarians for improved governance, and also the possible link between involving parliamentarians for the active use of PGA data in holding governments and decision makers to account.

Mas Achmad Santosa, Deputy Director of the REDD+ Task Force and PGA Expert Panel member in Indonesia, outlined in this presentation how information from the PGA process can feed into the planning and policy-making of the REDD+ Task Force once available.

How to ensure the sustainability of a governance assessment should be addressed early in the PGA process. Who will be using the data eventually, who will make sure the data continues to be collected and shared are all important questions to address while planning the PGA.

 A presentation by Kusharianingsih Boediono, PGA Indonesia team member, on how the data collection instrument will be developed and applied.

Jossi Katharina, a member of the PGA Expert Panel in Indonesia, presented how the process of developing the indicator set as been carried out - through consultations at the national, provincial and local levels.

In relation to which governance challenges to prioritize in a PGA, and in effect "what to measure", anti-corruption has already been identified and prioritzed as a key element in the PGA pilots in both Indonesia and Nigeria. Anti-corruption is likely to be emphasized in the remaining pilots as well. Timothy Boyle, Regional Technical Advisor in The UN-REDD Programme for the Asia-Pacific region, presented what The UN-REDD Programme has done so far in this area and relevant tools available for the PGA practitioners.

With regards to identifying priority information needs, which governance challenges to prioritze in the PGA, and the data required, Jossi Katharina (PGA Expert Panel member in Indonesia) shares insights into the how this specific component of the PGA process has been undertaken in Indonesia. ·