Transcript Vietnam`s nascent response

REDD+ Safeguard Information Systems:
Vietnam’s nascent response
Stevo Swan
April 10, 2016
Contents
1. Current status
2. Near-future interventions
3. Take-home messages
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Background
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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.)
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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)
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Readiness efforts
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Vietnam – focus of readiness efforts to date:
1. Institutional development
2. Stakeholder engagement
3. Benefit Distribution System
4. Reference (Emission) Levels
5. MRV framework
6. National REDD+ Programme
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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…?
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UN-REDD activities
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National MRV Framework Document
 ‘With reference to safeguards information’ – web-based portal by Phase II
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Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
 Guidelines developed, applied and evaluated in one pilot province
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Benefit distribution system (BDS)
 R-coefficients (payment weighting); self-selection procedures for BDS models
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Participatory governance assessment (PGA)
 Multi-stakeholder assessment (instigated March 2012)
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Participatory carbon monitoring (PCM):
 Technical manual developed and tested in one pilot province
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‘High-biodiversity REDD+’
INTERNATIONAL mechanisms to foster
high-biodiversity REDD+ schemes explored
and supported
Biodiversity safeguards are recognised and
operationalised as part of the NATIONAL
REDD+ programme
Biodiversity monitoring framework designed,
tested at the SUBNATIONAL level and integrated
into the safeguards information system
Participatory forest (carbon and biodiversity)
monitoring system developed and piloted at
the LOCAL level
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International intervention
How to operationalize Cancun safeguards and deliver
co-benefit performance?
• National policy strengthening and coherence
Conceptual
framework
- broad
options for
national
governments
• Integrated subnational planning
• National REDD+ programme-level standards
• Regulatory approaches
• Economic incentives
• Monitoring and reporting
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National intervention
Harmonised national safeguard response
1. Comparative analysis - Cancun safeguards, SESA, SEPC, SES
• Institutional processes; purposes; content; applications
2. Options assessment → developing national safeguards approaches
• basis for developing generic guidance
• multiple sets of safeguards addressed in a single country-led process
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Technical assistance from UNEP-WCMC
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SNV remains product-neutral; focus on facilitating multi-stakeholder process
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Make significant and necessary contributions to forestry sector-wide policy
(Circular guiding strategic environment and social assessment in forestry - 2012)
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Subnational and local interventions
Participatory Forest Monitoring (PFM)
• cost-effective contribution to SIS…?
• 3 areas of intervention:
• Technical
• development and field testing of global best practice methodologies
• currently limited to development of global best practice PCM and
PBM
• Operational
• frameworks identifying entry points in existing monitoring systems
• proposing options modifications to accommodate PFM data
• Political
• engaging national and (pilot) provincial governments in policy
dialogue
• using operational framework as a communications vehicle
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STWG-SG overview
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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)
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Objective
 Co-ordinated technical assistance delivered to GoV and other stakeholders
 Operationalising safeguards to promote social and environmental co-benefits
 At national, subnational and local levels
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STWG-SG results
1. STWG-SG established and operationalized
 2012 indicator – six STWG-SG meeting agendas and minutes
2. Options for operationalizing REDD+ safeguards in Vietnam identified
 2012 indicator - options paper - existing and potential safeguard actions
3. National REDD+ programme environmental & social safeguards developed
 2012 indicator – first coherent draft of national REDD+ safeguards
4. National safeguard information system (SIS) developed
 2012 indicator – first coherent draft of SIS framework document
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National SIS
Novel system
or part of
existing
systems?
Integrate with
MRV or not?
Some indicative
activities?
• Forest Management Information System (FORMIS)
• National Forest Inventory (NFI)
• Forest and Forest Land Monitoring (FFLM)
• No commitments to MRV under UNFCCC
• Responding to UNFCCC SBSTA and CBD SBSTTA guidance
• Defining information protocols and standards
• Elaborating an operational framework
• Designing web portal architecture
• Identification of capacity building needs
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Concluding remarks
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There are a range of options available for operationalizing safeguards:
national policy strengthening, integrated subnational planning, regulatory and
economic instruments and improved monitoring systems
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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
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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
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It is important to adopt national-level standards as a direct intervention
that demonstrates political commitment to environmental and social cobenefits, but they are not the totality of a country’s safeguard response
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National REDD+ Programme
Draft indicates environmental and social
safeguard policy commitments
• Overall objective
• Specific objective
• Guiding principles
• Policy integration
• Fund management
• Benefit distribution
• International co-operation
Reiterates Cancun safeguards but does not
prescribe actions
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Thank you
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Further information:
 www.vietnam-redd.org
 www.snvredd.com
 www.forestcarbonasia.org
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