The Knowledge and Skills Needed to Engage in REDD+: A Competencies Framework

By Luis Barquín, Mario Chacón & Steven Panfil

This framework report gives key concepts, policy benchmarks, technical elements, tools and other resources for 10 REDD+ themes.

It also provides guidance on designing REDD+ programs, along with case studies. It emphasizes ways to ensure that all of those affected by such programs have the knowledge and skills needed to contribute to REDD+.

Each section includes further resources for information on that topic. The 10 themes are:

  • The science of climate change and the roles of forests
  • REDD+ policies under the UNFCCC
  • The scale of REDD+ national and sub-national systems (jurisdiction and projects) and nested approaches to REDD+
  • REDD+ readiness
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Perspectives on free, prior and informed consent
  • REDD+ social and environmental safeguards
  • Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV)
  • Reference levels (RLs) and reference emission levels (RELs)
  • REDD+ funding and finance
It includes profiles of REDD+ programs being carried out by The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC); The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE); the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International (CI). It also has a glossary of key REDD+ concepts. 
Sectors
Natural Climate Solutions, Adaptation
Strategic Objective
Mitigation
Topics
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation (REDD+), Mitigation, Land Use, Forest/Forestry, Emissions, Carbon
Region
Global

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