Implementing REDD through Community-Based Forest Management: Lessons from Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, E. J. Z.
dc.contributor.authorAlbers, H. J.
dc.contributor.authorLokina, Razack B.
dc.contributor.authorMeshack, C.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-24T13:34:58Z
dc.date.available2016-03-24T13:34:58Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractREDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) aims to slow carbon releases caused by forest disturbance by making payments conditional on forest quality over time. Like earlier policies to slow deforestation, REDD must change the behaviour of forest degraders. Broadly, it can be implemented with payments to potential forest degraders, thus creating incentives; through payments for enforcement, thus creating disincentives; or through addressing external drivers such as urban charcoal demand. In Tanzania, community-based forest management (CBFM), a form of participatory forest management (PFM), was chosen as the model for implementing REDD pilot programs. Payments are made to villages that have the rights to forest carbon. In exchange for these payments, the villages must demonstrably reduce deforestation at the village level. Using this pilot program as a case study, we provide insights for REDD implementation in sub-Saharan Africa. We pay particular attention to leakage, monitoring and enforcement. We suggest that implementing REDD through CBFM-type structures can create appropriate incentives and behavioural change when the recipients of the REDD funds are also the key drivers of forest change. When external forces drive forest change, however, REDD through CBFM-type structures becomes an enforcement program, with local communities rather than government agencies being responsible for the enforcement. That structure imposes costs on local communities, whose local authority limits the ability to address leakage outside the particular REDD village. In addition, for REDD to lead to lower emissions, implementation will have to emphasize conditionality of payments on measurable decreases in forest loss.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRobinson, E.J., Albers, H.J., Meshack, C. and Lokina, R.B., 2013, August. Implementing REDD through community‐based forest management: Lessons from Tanzania. In Natural Resources Forum (Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 141-152).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1376
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNatural Resource Forum, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journalen_US
dc.subjectREDDen_US
dc.subjectcommunity-based forest managementen_US
dc.subjectleakageen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleImplementing REDD through Community-Based Forest Management: Lessons from Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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