Community-based REDD+
projects for climatechange mitigation andadaptation

Our approach: promote sustainable land management inforests landscapes• Forests
landscapes:
forestecosystem withmultiple landuses.
• Support local
managers of
the lands forland use
planning in aforestlandscape.

Local communities are responsable for the managementof more than 30% of the forests in Peru
• Indigenous and peasantcommunities with comunal land
titles in the Amazon and dryforests(collective property of the land)• Farmers with individual land titles inAmazon and dryforests (individualproperty of the land but withcollaborative actions withneighbours).
• Communities in the buffer zone orinside protected areas in theAmazon and dryforests.

Sustainable management of forests landscapes is a major
challenge for local communities• Weak land governance at local level: threatof land invasions, deforestation, ilegal logging
and mining.
• Current forest-based economic activities do
not generate enough resources: low family
incomes and activities for sustainable forest
management (control and surveillance,silviculture, restoration) are not funded.
• AIDER’s proposal: implementation ofCommunal Forest Management models thatincorporates the value chain approach topromote socially inclusive and sustainablebusinesses in lands of communities,including REDD+ as complementary financial
strategy.

Communal Forest Management models• Strengthening of communal governance andthe control and surveillance of communallands.
• Implementing a business organization
structure in communities and benefit-sharing
mechanism according to the socio-economic
and cultural context.
• Implementation of sustainable businesses on
the use of timber and non-timber forest
products, commercial forest plantations withnative species, organic cocoa production inagroforestry systems and handcrafting.

Communal Forest Management models• Estimation of emissions reductions as aresult of forest management andvoluntary market agreements for carbon
credits (REDD+)• Facilitating agreements between
communities and the private sector forthe development of sustainablebusinesses, based on relationships oftrust and equity.
• Promoting agreements between
communities and government entities tosupport the management of communal
forests.

Peruvian Government: Protected Areas Office
Policy of co-management of protected areas with civil society.
Administration
Contract (AC)Existing mechanism of the Government for implementing its
policy of participative management of protected areas in Peru

AIDER: Peruvian CSO
Signed an Administration Contract with Government for comanaging Tambopata protected area (including its buffer zone).
AC provided legal security to the role of AIDER as an enabler ofmultiactor partnerships in Tambopata. Mechanism that triggered
collaboration among key actors and lead to trust relationships for a
REDD+ project
Indigenousorganizations

High impact investor
interested in emission
reductions (REDD+)

Organized farmers fromvillages and indigenous
communities

Service provider:associativity andlink to markets

Local committes
Local CSOs

Achievements of Tambopata Project

1 250 hectaresof degraded land
underrestoration withagroforestry
with cocoa.
100 tons ofcocoa exported
in 2019

500 ruralfamilies
sustainably
managing theirlands andparticipating in
biodiversity
conservation.

01 farmers
cooperative
operating for
cocoa
production, with
500 membersthat will increase
their incomes infair andequitablepartnership withprivate sector

500 000
hectares of
biodiverse
forests
conserved andmonitored
under acollaboration
betweenGovernment,communitiesand CSOs

FOREST ALLIANCE: MULTI-STAKEHOLDER
ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNAL FOREST
MANAGEMENT• Generate minimum enabling conditions required for sustainable
management of communal forests and sustainable and inclusive
businesses.
• Invest private and public funds in lands of seven native communities forthe restoration of more than 500 hectares with agroforestry systems andforest plantations, sustainable logging and handcrafting for the validationof the proposal of sustainable businesses articulated to the managementof communal forests.
• Reduction of deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) andagreements for carbon credits transactions.
• Make available the community forest model and its sustainable businessproposal for replication and scaling in partnership with the private andpublic sector.

MULTI-STAKEHOLDER ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNAL FOREST
MANAGEMENT IN PERUVIAN AMAZON
Sustainable
logging andharvest of NTFP
Forestplantations

Handcrafting
Agroforestry:
cocoa, banana,others

Fisheries andpisciculture

CAPACITY BUILDING FORCOMMUNAL
MANAGEMENT OFDRYFORESTS IN THE
NORTH COAST OF PERU
• Increase of awareness on the importance ofdryforests.
• Support capacity building activities for local
officers and key stakeholders.
• Identification of funding opportunities.
• Promote dryforest management activities incommunities: management of natural regeneration,reforestation, REDD+.

Increase of awarenessSensibilización encolegios

Creación de personajes“Algarrobito” y“Shinanp”

Videos sobre
bosques secos

Activación en OpenPlaza

Microprogramas
radialesKey elements in community-based REDD+• The objective is the sustainable management of community forests. REDD+ is afinancial strategy that leverage from one of the multiple benefits of forest
management: emissions reductions/carbón.
• Look for equitable, fair and harmonic partnerships along the value chain of forest
and agroforestry products from communities: capacity building, awarenessraising, filling current gaps: Multi-stakeholders partnerships based in trust• Multi-purpose use of the forests: use of different forest resources and economic
valorization of ecosystem services: diversification for increasing benefits andcommunity resilience.
• Socioeconomic organization model that articulates all economic activities incommunal lands, with equity and justice, and that facilitates the development andstrengths of knowledge and skills of men, women and youth.
• Recovery and use of traditional knowledge in all activities of forest management
including forest-based entrepreneurship.

• Transparent benefit-sharing mechanism of the overall sustainable forest
management, built by the communities.
• Communal land governance is a relevant enabling condition for sustainable forest
management and REDD+: strengthen capacities