ASIA-PACIFIC FCPF CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT ON REDD+

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Phase 3 of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Capacity Building Program (CBP) on REDD+ for forest dependent indigenous peoples (IPs), Southern Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and other forest dwellers (OFDs; in the REDD+ context, OFDs are often referred to as local communities, LCs) in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) and South Asia (SAR) regions aim to strengthen the engagement of targeted forest-dependent beneficiaries in REDD+ processes and decision making at the country and regional levels . The Asia-Pacific FCPF Capacity Building Project on REDD+ will be financed through a US$920,000 Recipient- Executed Trust Fund/small IPF from the FCPF CBP, and implemented by Tebtebba and ANSAB, based in the Philippines and Nepal, respectively, through financing agreements with each organization. Tebtebba will channel resources to, and supervise, sub-projects for IPs in the three participating countries, (Fiji, Nepal, Vietnam) while ANSAB will do the same for civil society and local communities in the three countries. The FCPF CBP in Asia-Pacific (EAP and SAR) consists of three components: Component 1: National Capacity Building and Awareness Raising. Component 1 will support REDD+ capacity building and awareness raising sub-projects for forest-dependent IPs, ethnic minorities, civil society, and their representative organizations and networks in 3 FCPF countries: Fiji, Nepal, and Vietnam. Sub-projects will implement as pilots’ key elements of REDD+, such as safeguards, grievance redress mechanisms, benefit sharing arrangements, monitoring, and carbon accounting. In Nepal, Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) guidelines will be developed as part of the sub-project. Component 2: Regional Exchange and Sharing of Lessons Learned. Component 2 will finance a launch workshop at the beginning of the project and once sub-projects have been signed, and a lessons-learned workshop after the closing of sub projects. Component 3: Management, M&E, and Reporting. This component will finance the overhead costs of secretariats within Tebtebba and ANSAB, which will manage the project, including their respective sub-projects, and the joint workshops. Each secretariat will carry out planning (preparation of annual work plans and budgets), procurement, financial management, environmental and social standard assurance, M&E, and reporting for its respective activities.