management, forest land use planning and zoning, and forest and logging control. However, there is no team or area dedicated specifically to REDD+. Climate change related themes are addressed horizontally by the Climate Change Technical Group, composed of specialists from each of the four SERFOR directorates. At the regional the ARAs/National Resource Management Directorates are concerned with the environmental aspects of integrated territorial planning and development, and as a result, collaborate closely with the Economic Development Directorates (EDDs) within the regional governments and the Management Committees of the Forestry and Wildlife Management Units of SERFOR. Nevertheless, technical capacity related to REDD+ is limited in all of the regional governments. Although Peru has made great strides in technical progress and supervision of REDD+, a number of gaps are evident. Perhaps most importantly, at present there is no national REDD+ Coordinator in charge of the operational coordination of REDD+ who can effectively integrate individual projects as well as technical units. This gap is in the process of being filled, but will need to be consolidated and operationalized. A REDD+ monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system is needed for compiling and tracking information on overall REDD+ goals, projects, activities, resources, and persons/institutions responsible; project-based information (goals, activities, budgets, chronograms, actors); and the characteristics of emissions reductions. Operative responsibility for M&E of Readiness it is of the MINAM. At the regional level, there is a need to strengthen the technical capacities of the regional governments, especially with regards to improving overall REDD+ organizational and technical capacity and coordination. Indicator 4. Technical supervision capacity. Progress Acceptable Partial Further Development Required Little or None Evaluation is responsible for REDD+ operations and for overall technical supervision at the national level. At the moment, exist the Area of Programs and Inversion Projects at NPFCCCM responsible for technical supervision and the operative budget of REDD+ projects. At the regional level this role is performed by the Regional Environmental Authorities (ARA) or Regional Directorates of Natural Resource. At the national level, technical capacities are adequate, and coordination is under the Vice Minister for the Strategic Development of Natural Resources. An M&E system is also needed for compiling and tracking information on REDD+ projects. At the regional level, organizational and technical capacities need to be improved. 4.5. Indicator 5: Funds management capacity
SA1.5 Complete land use planning, zoning, and the assignment of rights to forests and surrounding areas. SO 2: Increase climate change resilience and adaptation of forests and their human populations. SA2.6 Monitor the impacts and foreseeable effects of climate change on forests and local human populations, incorporating the results in national planning. SA2.7 Increase the resilience of forest ecosystems, especially those that are highly threatened and that generate goods and services for local human populations. SA2.8 Decrease the vulnerability of local forest-dependent human populations to climate change by incorporating traditional knowledge. Currently, Peru is pursuing a phased approach for the development and implementation of REDD+ requirements (see Figure 7), in which some activities are in a preparatory stage while others are being implemented. Strategic elements (e.g. reference levels or carbon measurement methodologies) are gradually being improved as national capacities increase. Figure 7. Articulation of the four pillars of REDD+ within the NSFCC. Some examples of REDD+ actions considered by the Strategy are shown below. However, these actions need to be prioritized for target areas by incorporating results of social and environmental impacts identified as part of the social and environmental strategic assessment (SESA) process (see section 5.13). The development and access to markets that value and adequately compensate sustainable forest-based products and zero net deforestation agricultural products Agroforestry systems Technologies for eco-efficient and climate agriculture Sustainable forest management and low impact logging Community forestry management in line with community aspirations Sustainable non-timber forest products, bio-commerce, and ecotourism Incentives for forest conservation, such as direct conditional transfers, especially associated with payments for ecosystem services Strengthening of national and regional forest conservation programs
Strategy and monitoring of the implementation of new laws – Indicator 19 6. A consultancy is needed to analyze the impact of new laws and regulations, the factors that affect their effectiveness, and the design of systems to monitor their future implementation and impact. Sub-total: $100,000 Implementation guidelines for the Strategy including the distribution of benefits - Indicators 20 y 21 7. Continue progress with the design of a benefit distribution system and the formulation of guidelines related to: the management and distribution of results-based payments and their interaction with social and environmental safeguards; the mechanism for the resolution of conflicts; the integration of multi-sectoral and actions; the determination of the future relationship between jurisdictional and approaches. This will require the hiring of various consultants as well as a prolonged process of consultation. Sub-total: $500,000 REDD+ Registry - Indicator 22 8. The pilot experience of the REDD+ Registry should be analyzed. Necessary modifications should be incorporated and the Registry should be linked with reference levels, MRV, rights to benefits of emission reductions, and existing registries (INFOCARBONO, the National GHG Inventory, and the Sole Registry for the Compensation of Ecosystem Services). This will require specialized technical assistance with data management systems as well as a consultant to work with the pilot Registry. Sub-total: $200,000 Sub-total, Component 2 $1,200,000 3. Reference Level Improve measurements of carbon pools – Indicator 26 9. As part of a step-wise approach, the following aspects of the reference level should be improved: Measurements related to carbon stocks and flows, the estimation of aboveground tree biomass based on allometric equations, estimates of carbon stocks of non-forest land as well as other forest pools, and the application of current methodologies to Andean and coastal dry forests. This will require various office-based as well as field consultancies, and the gathering and analysis of field data at numerous sites. Continue the development of data bases and measurement methodologies related to land use change in the 3 biomes, based on the analysis of remote sensing images and field verification. Sub-total: $1,000,000 $500,000 $500,000 Sub-total, Component 3 $1,000,000 4. System of forest and safeguards monitoring Institutional arrangements and capacities of the forest cover 10. on the results of a consultancy presently underway, continue consolidating the institutionality of the Forest Cover Monitoring Unit. Sub-total: $300,000