1. Scaling up REDD+ in DRC
Challenges and answers
Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism (MECNT)
REDD+ Partnership
June 18th, 2011
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2. Three key areas of challenge
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Attracting Absorbing (capacity) Absorbing (efficiency)
SCALING UP REDD+
(investment phase)
The Human The Technical & The
Resources Financial Environment
Challenge Challenge Challenge

3. Challenge 1: human resources
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Challenges... DRC’s answers...
1  Building on and developing the volume of capacities From REDD+ « summer
Capacities required for scaling up school » to large scale
 Assessing and developing the appropriate skills to fill training programme
« GPEC »
the right jobs
Financial and
 Attract and keep performing staff, motivation institutional
 Ensuring that the right people are at the right place arrangements
(Kinshasa vs. rural areas) « Market Place »
2  Making REDD+ a key topic on top of national political  Dialogue de Haut
Mobilization agenda Niveau, DSCRP2
 Securing leadership and national empowerment  National technical unit
 REDD+ committees,
 Ensuring multisectorial mobilization, avoid « sector-
early action programmes,
based leakages », mobilize administration GCT...
 Build on, mobilize and increase capacities of local  Decentralisation in
shifts for design and implementation province, campaigns in
 Ensuring multi-stakeholders mobilization (civil society, the territories
private sector, international partners and their DRC’s  Civil society readiness
plan, private sector
representation…
forum...

4. Challenge 2: technical and financial resources
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Challenges... DRC’s answers...
Decentralisation in
1  Designing and implementing national and provincial
provinces, GCT, FIP and
Technical shifts strategies, as well as an investment plan based on early action programmes
operational programmes  Pilot activities
 Building on experience and pilot initiatives to scale up coordination
 Research and development capacities in country  Large-scale capacity
building
2  Ensuring transparency on transactions, tracking
Implementation Framework finance and activities, avoiding double accounting  National registry
 Implementing/improving performing institutions  Scoping mission on
(decision-making, planning, coordinating, marketing, implementation
framework
monitoring and reporting, verifying…)
 Work on benefit
 Ensuring a fair mechanism, benefit sharing, sharing
redistribution schemes
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 Raising finance for enabling policies and programmes  FIP, Dialogue de Haut
Finance Niveau...
 Raising ex-ante finance for on-the-ground
 Development Bank for
programmes and projects / reaching various kinds of REDD+, small grants,
stakeholders community-based
 Managing financial flows (executing, MRVing) forestry FIP
 Mobilizing national and international private finance  Fonds National REDD+
 Preventing international money laundry  Private sector forum...
 Accreditation process
4  Monitoring and reporting the impacts of projects,
Performance Assessment programme and policies on carbon or proxies  STSS system for
Durban...
 Monitoring and reporting on safeguards/standards and  Standards, SESA,
benefits in the field of governance and anti-corruption, NORAD/UNDP and WB
social, environmental and economy missions on governance,
 Linking projects/programmes/policies and national household survey...
accounting system  National registry

5. Challenge 3: enabling environment
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Challenges... DRC’s answers...
1  Securing peace and stability Indirect or focused
 Improving the performance of administration (national contribution
State of Law
 Mainstreaming REDD+
and local levels)
in large-scale
 Enhancing rules and enforcing the law programmes to fight
 Preventing red tape, corruption… corruption etc.
2  Mitigating implementation and transaction costs of Assessing REDD+ costs
National structures activities related to lack of infrastructures and financial  Early action
capacities programmes, DSCRP2,
 Mainstreaming REDD in the legal framework of various GCT and REDD+ national
sectors (infrastructures, agriculture, mining, energy…) strategy design
 Early action
 Harmonising and securing land tenure programme, FIP
 Enhancing business environment and access to  FIP, private sector
services (finance, consulting, accounting, geometer, forum, partners
lawyer, manager…) coordination...
3  Improving biased conditions of competition slowing Implementation
International Pressures down national initiatives (food production, transforming framework study, FIP and
industry…) pilot projects...
 Handling and directing pressures related to land  REDD+ national
strategy, accreditation
grabbing (food, energy) related to challenging
process, Dialogue de
international demand, offer, commodity prices… Haut Niveau
 Regulating international markets demand (wood…)  FLEGT, international
and loopholes of international system (tracking…) dialogue...