Support for setting up a Brazil-DRC bilateral cooperation on REDD+ Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo
AGRICULTURE 
ENVIRONMENT 
FORESTRY 
TRANSVERSAL
Services: Technical and economic advice, Technical assistance, Diagnostics and feasibility studies
Countries: Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dates of intervention: 2014/02 - 2014/07
Amount executed: 49 900 €
Total amount of the service: 49 900 €
Main backer: European Forest Institute - Client
Main beneficiary: National REDD+ Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Co-contractors:
Support provider: SalvaTerra
Experts: Olivier BOUYER, Jérôme MAURICE
Certificate of satisfactory executionSouth-South cooperation opportunities for tropical forest countries on REDD+ and forest governanceTechnical assistance for the scoping of South-South Cooperation oppportunities between Brazil and the democratic Republic of Congo in REDD+ and Forest GovernanceAssistance technique pour identifier les opportunités de cooperation Sud-Sud entre le Brésil et la République Démocratique du Congo en matière de REDD+et de gouvernance forestièreIdentifier les opportunités de coopération Sud-Sud entre le Brésil et la RDC en matière de REDD+: Rapport de synthèse
Context of the service
Brazil supports the DRC in Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) for REDD+, by supporting the Terracongo platform in the DRC. To support such South-South cooperation initiatives, the Brazilian Government has provided the Amazon Fund with a window dedicated to such initiatives.
Specifically, the DRC and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding in September 2013 with the objective of "promoting cooperation between the parties in the field of environment, nature conservation, climate change and sustainable use of forest resources".
In this context, this study commissioned by EFI aimed to identify concrete opportunities for knowledge exchange and transfer between the two countries in the fields of REDD+.
Services provided
Three short missions were organized in the DRC (2) and Brazil (1) to conduct the following analyses: Identification of the most relevant South-South cooperation themes for the DRC; Evaluation of the initiatives implemented in Brazil on the identified themes; Analysis of the replicability of initiatives in the context of the DRC and formulation of priority projects.
At the end of this study, four concept notes of priority projects were formulated in the following areas:
- Support for the implementation of the National Forest Monitoring System;
- Cooperation on land tenure security for local communities;
- Cooperation in the field of spatial planning;
- Roadmap on REDD+ benefit sharing and complaint resolution.
Summary of the service
Support for the setting up of a Brazil-DRC bilateral cooperation on REDD+: Identification of relevant themes for both countries; Development of four concept notes of priority projects (forest monitoring, securing land tenure for local communities, spatial planning, REDD+ benefit sharing and complaint resolution).