DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REDD+ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA‘TOWARDS DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK OF
GLOBAL REDD+’SCALING UP OF DEMOSTRATION ACTIVITIESAND INTEGRATING PLAYERS’ ROLES
Presented at the Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
8 th February 2012
Evarist Nashanda,
Tanzania Forest Services
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism
P.O.Box 9372
Dar-Es-Salaam+255-789333168
evarist.nashanda@gmail.com

PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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1. Location of the country
2. Background
3. REDD+ Readiness in TZ
4. Institutional Structure and Coordination for REDD+Activities
5.The national redd+ strategy
6. Stakeholder Consultations and Communication
7. REDD+ pilot projects across tz
8. Baseline Establishment, Monitoring, Reporting, andVerification
9. Capacity Building programme
10. National REDD+ Safeguard system
11. Identified challenges

LOCATION OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OFTANZANIALOCATION OF THE UNITEDREPUBLIC OF TANZANIABACKGROUND
 For the past two decades, the GoT has

attempted to curb problem ofdeforestation and forest degradation byinstituting policies that promoting
community forest management aiming
at producing sufficient amount of forest
products and services to meet both local
demands and promoting the forest
contribution to global environmental
conservationBACKGROUND ….

 In Tanzania, participatory forest management (PFM) is

an overall term for decentralised forest management
models: a genuine shift of management over forest
resources from government to local community.
Two distinct setups for PFM:
(i) Community Base Forest Management (CBFM)
 Takes place in ‘village land’ Villagers takes full ownership and management responsibilities
 Villagers collect forest royalty from sale of forest products(ii) Joint Forest Management (JFM) Takes place in Government Forest Reserves
 Is a collaborative management approach: divides
management responsibility between Govt and thecommunities.
 The community gets user rights through signing of formalized
management agreements

BACKGROUND……
 Tanzania has signed and ratified a numberof international agreements andconventions including UNFCCC
 Under REDD+ mechanisms, developing
countries would, on a voluntary basis, aim
to reduce the rate at which their forests
are being lost compared to baseline Tanzania sees PFM approach as avehicle/entry point for the implementationof REDD+ as communities owns forest
resources in their village lands.

REDD+ READINESS IN TZ
In April 2008 Tanzania/Norway partnership on
Climate change and forest, a bilateral agreement
was entered through Letter of Intent
Area of Focus
 REDD+ policy development processes;
 Public, private and community piloting of REDD
mechanisms and actions (“REDD pilots”);
 Research, training and education on REDD;
 Institutional development, including MRV systemdevelopment; Development of a REDD financing mechanism /performance-based financing
 83USD is earmarked for REDD+ readiness phase (5years)

INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND COORDINATION FOR
REDD+ ACTIVITIES Vice President Office-Division of Environment

has legal mandate to coordinate all
Environmental issues in Tanzania including
REDD+
 The apex body as far as REDD+ isconcerned, is the National Climate Change
Steering committee. It’s members are
Permanent Secretaries of the key 13ministries
 Also in place is the National Climate
Change Technical Committee.( Directors ofthe key ministries, private sector rep,NGO/CSO rep, and some expertsINSTIT…….
 The National REDD + Taskforce was formed

in January 2009 and has been broadened byformation of five REDD+ Technical Working
Groups which are cross-sectoral in nature(GoT Institutions (CG and LG), Private sector,Academia, CSOs , NGOs, Forest dependantcommunities ).
 TWGsOn MRV system
Policy, legal, governance and REDD+ safeguards
Financial mechanism for REDD+
Energy drivers
Agricultural drivers

INSTIT…..
 The NCMC together with the NCAS-Tanzania will be established soon tocoordinates REDD+ MRV matters inTanzania. In conjunction NCMC
establishment, The establishment ofNational Forest Carbon Trust Fund ison going. The Fund will ensure
equitable and fair distribution ofbenefits accruing from carbon trade.

THE NATIONAL REDD+ STRATEGY
REDD+ STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS hasundergone 3 phases:
Preliminary analytical phase, involved scoping studies toidentify potentials for REDD+ in Tanzania, access capacities for
REDD+ implementation, and to identify gaps and issues to beaddressed.

strategic analysis and piloting phase; a number of in-depth
studies and pilot projects were commissioned i.e policy, legal andinstitution framework review for REDD+

consolidation phase of the Strategy; stakeholders workshops

were done to share the draft strategy, comments from different
groups were incorporated to improve the strategy
The strategy consist of 10 Key Result Areas (KRA), activities andindicators . The 1st KRA is on how MRV system will be addressed
and the 10 th KRA is on how Drivers of D&D will be addressedSTAKEHOLDER CONSULTATIONS AND COMMUNICATION
Consultations at national and local level and withcivil society began in 2009, as a result REDD+National Strategy formulation framework wasdeveloped and is being used to develop Draft
National REDD+ Strategy.
 A plan to follow up on consultations during REDD+Readiness phase has been developed and adheredto.
 Tanzania has also developed its own REDD+ website(www.reddtz.org) and Communication strategy forthe stakeholders to use.
 The Draft National REDD+ Strategy is ready and will
be subjected to both participation of more
stakeholders and social and environmental
safeguards
REDD+ PILOT PROJECTS ACROSS TZ

SOME ACTIVITIES UNDER REDD+ PILOTS PROJECTS
Preparation Village Land Use Plans and Village Forest
Management Plans
 Building capacity towards understanding of REDD+
mechanisms in view of participating in future forest.carbon trade Data collection for both carbon measurement and socioeconomic, focusing on establishment of baselines Awareness raising on free , prior and informed consent
on REDD+ activities
 Piloting REDD+ payment system (JGI, TFCG, MCIP,TATEDO)
 Development of equitable and effective communities
forest management strategy
 Initiated schemes to reduce charcoal consumption
 Establishment of communities carbon enterprise Information sharing and networking on REDD+
 Formation and capacitate institutional framework for
REDD+ implementation at community levelVILLAGE LAND USE PLAN

BASELINE ESTABLISHMENT, MONITORING, REPORTING,VERIFICATION
Tanzania has began to establish a participatory and functional MRV
system to monitor;
Deforestation and forest degradation and respond to the needs fordata collection, synthesis and analysis of data and information andprovision of information on all aspects of REDD+. Eg Land- use Land
Cover maps, carbon maps, forest biomass, tree outside the forest,socio-economic data, governance, forest cover change detection,
species etc
 The monitoring system will be implemented at national, sub-national
and local levels. A total of 850 PSP have bee geo-referenced forfuture monitoring under the National Forest Resources Monitoringand Assessment Project.
 The MRV system will also monitor rural livelihoods, conservation ofbiodiversity, key governance factors related to REDD+
implementation and assess the impacts of the Strategy in the forest
sector.

NATIONAL FOREST RESOURCES MONITORING ANDASSESSMENT PROJECT- DATA COLLECTION ACROSSENTIRE COUNTRYDEVELOPMENT OF A REFERENCE SCENARIO
 Nine piloting projects, and addition work by

NAFORMA will provide useful information on
MRV, baseline data for carbon stocks andsocio-economic data.
 NAFORMA project is instrumental as far asdevelopment of Reference scenarios areconcerned in Tanzania. Already ¾ of sample
plots have been measured to support
development on a Reference scenario andthe Monitoring system especially theformation of National carbon Monitoring
center (NCMC) and National Carbon
Accounting System (NCAS) for Tanzania.

CAPACITY BUILDING RESEARCH AND TRAINING Tanzania has developed a Training andResearch Programme- CCIAM (ClimateChange Impacts Adaptation andMitigation)- 15 Phd, 50 Msc and 15researches Capacity building for Tanzania Forest
Services staff and other Govt Agencies
on remote sensing, GIS and mapping,
LiDAR Technology

NATIONAL SAFEGUARDS SYSTEM FOR REDD+Although REDD+ is envisaged to bring about positive impacts, but it isalso potential for negative impacts, eg ownership land , food security et According to Cancun Agreement(2010) each country will craft their own

safeguards, in conformity with the international policy framework.
National safeguards system to be credible and approved at internationallevel Safeguards built under cross-stakeholder consensus and to be operative

 Tanzania has decided to review it’s national safeguards (Policy and LegaFrameworks) and existing International Safeguards such as UNFCCC
guidelines and principles, SESA(WB), SES of CCBA/CARE and UN-REDD
Safeguards principles and criteria and craft a comprehensive National
REDD+ Safeguards.
Training of core group of stakeholders that will guide the process was conductedlast year.

DRIVERS OF D& D IN TZAGRICULTURE AND CHARCOAL (ENERGY)OVERGRAZING, SETTLEMENT, TRANSPORT OF ILLEGAL TIMBERFIRE- MINING-ILLEGAL LOGGINGC

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