Real-Time Evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative Contributions to National REDD+ Processes 2007-2010. Country Report: Tanzania

The purpose of this country level evaluation is to assess Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)´s support to national REDD strategy development and other REDD readiness efforts in Tanzania. Norway and Tanzania signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) on a Climate Change Partnership focussed on REDD in April 2008. The purpose of the Partnership is to “implement programmes on adaptation and mitigation of climate change”. To operationalise the Partnership, NICFI has committed NOK 500 million (about US$ 83 million)1 over a five-year period. This evaluation sets a baseline of 2007, before NICFI and the Tanzania-Norway Partnership were in place, then compares this baseline with the situation in 2010, assessing the contributions that NICFI has made over that period.