INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE

RIGHTS FOR REDD+ OR REDD+ FOR RIGHTS?

SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCES AND REMAINING CHALLENGES

WORKSHOP 0775:

IUCN WCC JEJU, 7 SEPT 2012

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Program outline

Ideas

•Rights and REDD+: viewpoints

Cases

•Experiences: Guatemala, Cameroon, Indonesia

Debate

•Discussion – what do you think?

•Choices – what is the priority for action?

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Framing the discussion

Some of the big questions on REDD and rights:- Is recognition of rights a pre-requisite for

REDD+? Or can REDD+ go ahead without recognition of rights?

- Are there trade-offs between efficient emissions reductions and recognition of rights? What are they and how do we negotiate them?

- What are the choices to move forwards with REDD+ and rights?

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Framing the discussion

• What do we have to work with?–The IUCN Pro-poor REDD Project

Draft ‘seven principles for Pro-poor REDD+’

–FFP and FFI work on REDD+ and rights Inspiration from the Whakatane initiative

–The Conservation Initiative on Human Rights Recommendations from discussion

And a room full of experience, ideas and questions in this workshop....

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Framing the discussion

7 principles and 22 recommendations, organised into four themes:

1. Participation in REDD decision making

2. Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC)

3. Land Tenure, Resource Rights and REDD+

4. Equitable sharing of benefits

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Keynote 1

Justin KenrickForest Peoples’ Program

www.forestpeoples.org/

justin@forestpeoples.org

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Keynote 2

Linda RosengrenFauna Flora International

www.fauna-flora.org/

Linda.Rosengren@fauna-flora.org

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Case study 1

Mario EscobedoIUCN Meso-Americas Office

www.IUCN.org

Mario.ESCOBEDO@iucn.org

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Case Study 2

Albertine TchoulackCentre d’Appui aux Femmes Rurales, Cameroon

altchoulack@hotmail.com

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Case Study 3

Yunus YumteSamdhana Institute, Indonesia

www.samdhana.org

Papua_y@yahoo.com

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Discussion

- Is recognition of rights a pre-requisite for REDD+? Or can REDD+ go ahead without recognition of rights?

- Are there trade-offs between efficient emissions reductions and recognition of rights? What are they and how do we negotiate them?

- What are the choices to move forwards with REDD+ and rights?

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Your ideas and choices

•Break-out groups (20 mins)

•Rapid Report Back (1 min each)

•Voting (10 mins)

•Workshop outputs

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Your ideas and choices

Break-out Groups:• Group 1: Participation in REDD decision

making• Group 2: Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC)• Group 3: Land Tenure, Resource Rights and

REDD+• Group 4: Equitable sharing of benefits

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Your ideas and choices

Break-out Groups:

“produce a set of recommendations for action on REDD and Rights under your theme”• Review the principles• Amend and correct the recommendations• Produce a list of brief, clear proposals for

voting• Capture ideas and highlight differences

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Your ideas and choices

Voting on the group proposals:- Everyone has the same number of sticky dots- You vote by putting a dot on a proposal- You can vote for proposals for any of the

groups- You can put as many dots as you want on each

proposal- You have ten minutes for voting!

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What next?

Outputs from this workshop:- Will be part of the congress report back- For full documentation of this workshop, please

leave an email address with one of the team

Other events at the Congress...

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Other events - today

TODAY

13.00 – 14.30 Poster: Pro-Poor REDD

Lobby, 1st Floor, ICC

13.00 – 14.30 REDD and Gender Just World Pavilion, ICC

14.30 – 16.30 Workshop: Safeguards and IPs (spanish)

Room 101, ICC

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Other eventsTOMORROW, SAT 8 SEP

09.00 – 18.00 Cons. Campus: Law and Governance for REDD+

Pearl Room, Lotte Hotel

09.00 – 18.00 CC, REDD and adaptation – training for IPs

Crystal ballroom 3, Lotte Hotel

19.00 – 21.00 Workshop: Mainstreaming pro-poor Approach to REDD

Halla A, ICC

MONDAY 10 SEP

19.00 – 21.00 Whaktane Mechanism: human rights and protected areas

Room 202, ICC

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Thank you!

Have a great congress