Findings from a workshop on implementing safeguards in Jambi Province. Safeguards introduced as part of the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) programme aim to address potential impacts on Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs). But how do these safeguards work, and what barriers may block them? Safeguards have been conceptualized...Read More

As South America’s most heavily forested country, Brazil has also received the largest amount of funding in the region for reducing deforestation. Its Amazon Fund, launched in 2008, was the world’s largest programme for financing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Suspended in 2019, when former Brazilian President Jair...Read More

In the context of the 2023 annual work plan of the AFF-UNREDD partnership project on “ Strengthening REDD+ implementation in Africa: capitalizing on lessons learned for an evolving environment” AFF is recruiting six national experts, one each for Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of Congo, and Uganda to take stock of progress made...Read More