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    REDD+ country profile: Colombia

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2014
    Colombia’s REDD+ Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) identifies the main drivers of deforestation and degradation as being the extension of agricultural and livestock frontiers, illicit crops, settlements or displacement of populations, infrastructure, and mining, among other aspects.
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    Lessons learned from community forestry in Asia and their relevance for REDD+

    Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities, 2014
    This report reviews lessons learned from community forestry in Asia over the last three and a half decades. It argues that efforts to promote Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) can achieve greater impacts if they build upon relevant lessons learned from experiences in community forestry.
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    Seeing the wood for the trees: forestry governance in the DRC

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    This case study on forestry governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forms part of a three-year project entitled Strengthening the Governance of Africa’s Natural Resources, conducted by the Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme (GARP) of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).
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    REDD+ Country Profile: Nepal

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2014
    This document is part of a series of REDD+ Country Profiles designed to provide a snapshot look at the progress of a country to design and implement a REDD+ national strategy and its components. The profiles examine key components of REDD+ in each country, including: governance, tracking REDD+ Progress, achieving REDD+ and REDD+ for People and Nature.
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    Payments for environmental services: a market mechanism protecting Latin America’s forests

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014
    In Latin America, payments for environmental services schemes are the preferred market mechanism for forest conservation and reforestation. Success stories from the region provide a range of valuable lessons for other countries still struggling to curb deforestation.
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    Readiness and avoided deforestation policies: on the use of the REDD fund

    Chaire Economie du Climat, 2013
    This paper investigates links between the funding of the first phase of the REDD+ mechanism and the quantity of avoided deforestation that will happen during the following phases. The aim of the first phase (the readiness phase) is helping countries to improve their capacity to carry out national forest inventories, notably to assess land-use changes and forest carbon stocks and fluxes.
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    Aligning Biodiversity Compensation and REDD+: a primer on integrating private sector conservation financing schemes in the tropics and sub-tropics

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2013
    This paper presents a conceptual framework to begin integrating biodiversity compensation and REDD+ at project level. The additionality assessment from linking project-level conservation areas is covered at great length and the authors argue that this issue is resolvable, on a project-by-project basis through a joint additionality assessment.
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    Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities (FCMC)

    FCMC is a global project funded by the United States Agency for International Development, and implemented by Tetra Tech along with a coalition of partners.
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    Building REDD+ for People and Nature: from lessons learned across Indonesia, Peru and the Democratic Republic of Congo to a new vision for REDD+

    WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2013
    This publication reports on WWF’s forest and climate work between 2010 and 2013 which sought to develop models for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) that secure scalable forest ecosystem management while engaging those communities that live in and depend on forests in way improve their livelihoods.
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    Community forestry in Asia and the Pacific: Pathway to inclusive development

    The Centre for People and Forests, 2013
    As the demand for land intensifies, people and governments are facing increasing pressure on the access, management and governance of land and forests. Although there are policies, legislation and institutions to manage land resources nationally, this report argues that these tools have yet to collectively address the fundamental causes of land conflict and resource mismanagement.

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