Governance structures for REDD+ Experiences from Tanzania
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2016
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Climate Change Iimpacts and Adaptation and Mitigation Project (CCIAM) - Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
Abstract
This chapter discusses national governance structures for REDD+ in Tanzania.
It also documents experiences from REDD+ pilot projects and discusses what
findings from these imply for the national REDD+ strategy. The present strategy
is advocating a national/fund whereas NGOs favour a market solution. Our
research shows that establishing REDD+ will demand substantial developments
in local land/forest governance structures including clarifying property rights
and developing management plans. Capacities and competences at district, but also at national levels are weak. There are also important challenges related
to ensuring participation and handling of conflicts that REDD+ implies.
In this regard, a ‘fund’-based model seems favourable to ensure democratic
accountability as well as national capacity building and avoidance of leakage.
However, Tanzania’s public administration faces serious problems regarding
transparency and managing of decentralisation. Thus, involving NGOs in
the REDD+ Fund will help enhance openness. Moreover, learning from their
experiences with engaging local communities in REDD+ is also helpful in
making decentralisation effective.
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Lessons and Implications for REDD+ Implementation Experiences from Tanzania, chapter 13, pg. 111-335
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National governance structures, REDD+, NGOs favour, REDD+ Experiences, Tanzania