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REDD+ Partnerships: National Workshops for Government & Civil Society 24-26 February 2010, Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Jointly organized by RECOFTC and IGES February - March, 2010

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REDD+ Partnerships: National Workshops

for Government & Civil Society

24-26 February 2010, Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Jointly organized by

RECOFTC and IGES

February - March, 2010

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Table of contents

1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 3 2. Objectives.......................................................................................................................... 3 3. Composition of participants ............................................................................................ 4 4. Methods adopted for training ......................................................................................... 4 5. Course content .................................................................................................................. 4

REDD+ Basics ............................................................................................................... 4 Key REDD concepts ....................................................................................................... 4 REDD implementation and the role of local people ...................................................... 4 National context: REDD, local people, and next steps .................................................. 5

6. Key Outputs and Findings .............................................................................................. 5 7. Conclusions and recommendations ................................................................................ 9 8. Annexes ............................................................................................................................... 10

8.1. Workshop agenda on REDD-plus Partnerships for Government and Civil Society .... 10 8.2. List and profile of the participants ................................................................................ 12 8.3. List of resource persons, facilitators and organizers ..................................................... 14 8.4. Presentations and Hand Outs ........................................................................................ 14 8.5. Synthesis Feedback Resource Persons .......................................................................... 29 8.6 Synthesis Evaluation ...................................................................................................... 30 8.7 Abbreviations Used ........................................................................................................ 30

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1. Introduction

Forest-dependent people, particularly indigenous people and local communities, have a crucial role to play in climate change mitigation. This was a message echoed loudly and clearly at COP 15 and other international events last year. The latest developments in the proposed mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD-plus) highlight this role particularly strongly. To become an accepted part of international efforts to address damaging climate change, REDD-plus must not only reduce carbon emissions but must also promote sustainable management of forests and combat poverty. In Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam; a number of REDD-plus pilot projects are already planned or underway. Government and civil society have started to work together, through initiatives such as UN-REDD, to form national-level working groups and multi-stakeholder networks for the planning, and eventually the implementation, of REDD-plus. REDD-plus has developed steadily from an innovative idea towards a practical reality, but there is still some way to go before it can be fully implemented. Both government institutions and civil society organizations, working closely together, are essential to realize the potential environmental, social, and economic benefits of REDD-plus. Keeping up to date with the latest developments in REDD-plus is challenging. Within the contexts of each country, there are numerous links between REDD-plus, wider forestry issues and non-forest sectors. Coordination between all institutions and stakeholders with an interest in the forest sector is needed to develop the frame conditions, in terms of rights, benefits, and governance, necessary for REDD-plus to succeed. To help meet these challenges, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, are organizing three national-level workshops in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam, to be held in February and March 2010. The aim is to build government and civil society awareness on REDD-plus; to foster and strengthen national REDD-plus networks; and to identify and address critical capacity-building needs. Each workshop will bring together key government and civil society participants for three days of learning, sharing, and planning. Regional and national capacity building experts will be available as facilitators and resource people to enhance plenary and group discussions. The workshops will be delivered in national languages and tailored to the national context.

2. Objectives

Overall Objectives

1. To establish a shared knowledge basis for participants and their organizations on REDD+, including backgrounds, key concepts, stakeholder analysis and the implementation process.

2. To update participants on recent international and national REDD+ developments.

3. To identify key competencies, and potential gaps, for REDD+ for different key stakeholders from government and civil society.

4. To strengthen the existing and foster new, partnerships between Government and Civil Society.

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Key Questions

1. What drives deforestation and forest degradation, and what are the potential responses?

2. What is REDD+, how did it evolve, and what are its key concepts? 3. How can REDD+ work on the ground? 4. What is the national situation on REDD readiness, and what are the next steps?

3. Composition of participants

The workshops target a mixture of government officials and civil society organizations that have already, or are planning to, engage with REDD+. They represent different levels in society, including national level – provincial level and local level organizations and institutions. A complete list of participants is provided in annex 9.2.

4. Methods adopted for training

The methodologies selected attempt to provide a mixture of information sharing and exchange. They include:

- Presentations - Case Studies - Exercises - Group Work - Plenary Discussions

5. Course content

An overview of the main contents and issues addressed: Climate change, deforestation, and forest degradation The relationship between forests and climate change Management of forests in the context of climate change Drivers and causes of deforestation and forest degradation National patterns of deforestation and degradation, and national responses REDD+ Basics Climate change: science and politics History: from RED to REDD+ Managing forests for carbon International actors in REDD+, who they are, what they do Key REDD concepts Definitions: additionality, leakage, permanence Baselines and reference levels Safeguards: social and environmental Monitoring, reporting, and verification REDD implementation and the role of local people Risk analysis Benefit sharing and distribution Stakeholder analysis

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Local people and forest management Local people and carbon monitoring National context: REDD, local people, and next steps National developments

- project/nested/national approaches - policies, programs and networks - achievements, issues, and challenges

Roadmap: capacity building needs and action plans

6. Key Outputs and Findings

6.1. Updated information on REDD+.

A brief introduction to REDD and REDD readiness. The international and national responses to climate change and the roles of REDD as well

as the brief concepts of REDD and its challenges. More information is available through the following link.

6.2. Overview of discussions and Q&A1

a. What activities are eligible to potentially benefit from REDD and REDD+?

Can the existing community forestry in Cambodia claim carbon credit from REDD+? Can biodiversity conservation claim carbon credit from REDD+? Can the government’s efforts reducing forest degradation claim carbon credit from

REDD+? Any efforts that were aimed to reducing forest degradation, deforestation or lead to additionality, are qualified for carbon credit. b. Does Cambodia have a roadmap for REDD program yet? The progress status of Cambodia roadmap was briefly updated. Cambodia does not have a REDD roadmap yet, but is preparing it. This is because Cambodia recently joined the UN-REDD program in January 2010. Several discussions and consultations are needed before a complete roadmap is finalized. MOE, MAFF/FA, FAO, UNREDD and UNDP are drafting the guideline. Two meetings have been held to discuss about what to be done in responses to REDD. MOE is conducting capacity need assessment for the government staff and communities about the level of climate change awareness. The report will be drafted in next month of this year. c. What are the local signs of climate change? Irregular raining, the rise of atmosphere temperature, cool season almost vanished, more storms, lacks of water and supply (up and ground water), soil fertility eroded, flooding, new diseases occurrence, more thunders and species composition change are the local signs identified by participants.

1 Retained in this report are the discussions and questions with specific reference to the Cambodian

context. More technical and general questions and answers, including those that were part of the training curriculum as can be found in the manual developed through RECOFTC are not included.

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d. What are the expected local impacts of climate change on people, livelihood, water

supplies, agriculture, animals, vegetation, and biodiversity? More diseases, negative impact to human living standard, migration for job opportunity, clearing forests, destroy the infrastructure, risk for fishing, increase poverty incidence, low agriculture productivity, lost of land and poor soil, changing occupations of local people, insects increased, poor water quality and lack of water, changing the plants species and forest fire are the impacts of climate changed identified by the participants. e. What drives and causes deforestation and forest degradation? After giving definitions of deforestation and forest degradation participants were divided into groups to discuss and identify factors that usher to deforestation and forest degradation. Factors led to deforestation were investment (economics land concession), swindle agriculture, development (infrastructure, new village), and not yet complete forest estate boundary demarcation, while factors led to forest degradation were swindle agriculture, forest fire, illegal exploration, high demand locally and internationally for firewood and construction over the capacity of forest supply were identified and presented by participants. A question was asked whether forest degradation is a precursor of deforestation or not. The answer was that it depended on how forest was managed, i.e., our attitudes and motivations toward that degraded forest. f. REDD concepts and processes in the project context REDD concepts and processes in the project context, monitoring, reporting and verification were presented. General strategies in reducing deforestation such as forest protection, sustainable forest management and payment for environmental services (PES), carbon inventories and project design development (PDD) and verification done in Oddar Meanchey and Mondulkiri provinces were briefly highlighted. The concepts of REDD project’s risks assessment were briefly presented and discussed in the workshop. The Oddar Meanchey pilot project’s experience was taken for the exercise. Questions were mainly about the clarifications on the concepts of the lecture such as what is severity and probability? What risks are there? The replies were how severe (low and high) and how often such as loss of farmland, incidence due to increased patrolling, income loss due to restrictions on forest / NTFPs harvesting, establishing new villages, etc. were assessed. i. Local REDD experiences: REDD projects experience in Oddar Meanchey and Mondulkiri provinces were shared by PACT, CAD and WCS. Key experiences were challenges and lessons learnt presented by PACT, experiences of local community’s participation presented by CAD, forest protection activities including benefit sharing presented by WCS. Negotiation among stakeholders, inventory work (accuracy, landmine), widening community awareness, validation (expensive), Chamkar inside CF, growing military presence, migrants, too stringent monitoring requirements, lack of consistent funding for startup (keep looking for fund for the continuation of the project), too many duties of FA staff, benefit sharing mechanism (flows from central to community), inter-agency information sharing were the challenges, while GD 699, legal tenure of CF group, monk involvement, CF and inventory work were essential for the implementation of the Oddar Meanchey REDD project.

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j. Stakeholder analysis

The key concepts of stakeholder analysis was presented and then followed by group exercise. Participants were divided into groups asked to identify the stakeholders, their level of interests, their influence or power and the impacts on the project in Oddar Meanchey province. The results of each group discussion are shown in annex 4. RECOFTC presented 9 competencies, which were obtained through training need assessment conducting in training in various countries. Cost benefit analysis were not included in the 9 competencies, because the cost and benefit is beyond the scope of this workshop, but sustainable livelihoods are included in these nine competencies.

k. Capacity Building Need Assessment (CBNA): Most important (indicated by most participants):

carbon inventory including baseline and reference level, REDD concepts and guidelines, project design and documentation, MRV

Indicated by few participants as the general competency.

Concepts on biodiversity conservation, concepts on community forestry management, the understanding on roadmap development for REDD, verification and the implementation of projects (all aspects)

Reflection on the experiences from Oddar Meanchey and Mondulkiri 1. How the project is going to deal with these challenges? These challenges could be dealt, but required all collaborations such as from FA, local authorities, and other stakeholders. They are being worked out by FA. 2. Will the revenue from selling carbon offset the costs? The Cambodia REDD projects did not primarily aim at financial benefits, but also other benefits such as ecosystem services, etc. 3. What are the mechanisms for benefit sharing of the carbon revenue? The benefit sharing is stated in the proposed revenue flows of the Oddar Meanchey project. 4. How to prevent those threats created by outsiders? The local community committee will sue poachers, who are outsiders through FA. However, the project is searching good lessons to eliminate these threats created by these poachers. The FA’s strategies were to work with different levels such as national, provincial, local levels to illegal activities caused by these poachers. 5. How many people understand about REDD in Oddar Meanchey? Most people do not understand REDD concepts yet, but most committee members do. This was because the awareness raising about the project was limited. 6. Why certification includes biodiversity in Mondulkiri REDD project and is

the carbons inventory same as in Oddar Meanchey? The Seima project does not do incremental growth calculation. The project aims at reducing deforestation. WCS does know how to do carbon modeling as in Oddar Meanchey yet since the model used in Oddar Meanchey is developed by an independent partner and is confidential.

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Needed skills reported by most participants

Carbon calculating and modeling, GIS and mapping, biomass sampling techniques and measurements, selecting indicators for monitor and evaluation, reporting

Proposed by few participants for the next training workshops:

facilitation skills, communication skills, computer skills, leakage and permanence analysis and management, REDD site selecting techniques, project risk assessment, project planning, stakeholder analysis, carbon marketing, patrolling and reporting techniques

PACT: CBN identified at national level:

Project design, carbon modeling, carbon market, validation and ERPA

PACT: CBN identified at community level:

climate change concept, REDD concept, enforcement, tree planting, ANR, negotiation skills

l. Key action points come out of the workshop:

1. Several actions coming out of the workshop were proposed:

2. validation of REDD project in Oddar Meanchey in 2011,

3. extending REDD project to Kompong Thom province and to other locations such mountainous areas, the degraded Protected Areas of Cambodia and community fisheries,

4. developing REDD project Roadmap and MRV,

5. capacity building for FA staff, NGOs staff, local authorities and local communities for the implementations of REDD projects,

6. carbon credit calculation,

7. REDD project networking (Cambodia and other countries),

8. awareness raising about REDD project for CF members,

9. boundary demarcation in CFs,

10. securing funding to prepare and set up REDD project in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary.

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The expansion of REDD project to other locations such as CFs in Kompong Thom province, the degraded areas in the Protected Areas of Cambodia and in community fisheries are perhaps the critical reflections on REDD+ since they would generate additionality.

Synthesis of feedback from the resource persons. (See Annex 9.6)

Were the expectations of the participants met? (See Annex 9.7)

7. Conclusions and recommendations

The concepts of REDD were very brief and the guidelines of REDD, MRV, steps in project design, planning and documenting were not presented. Based on each day evaluation and comments made, most participants reported that technical background in carbon inventory was insufficient. Few NGOs attended the workshop as one of the objectives of the workshop was to strengthen the existing and foster new, partnerships between Government and Civil Society. Updated information on national and international development of REDD, local signs and impact of climate change, key REDD concepts, adaptation and mitigation, REDD concepts and process in the project context, sharing of the Cambodia’s REDD project experiences and stakeholder analysis were covered well. CBNA was assessed and key actions came out of the workshop were also indicated by participants. Most participants expressed that their expectations were met, they were satisfied and the workshop was relevant to their job/responsibilities. The expansion of REDD project to other locations such as CFs in Kompong Thom province, degraded areas of the Cambodia’s Protected Areas and community fisheries are perhaps the critical reflections on REDD+. General competencies such as carbon inventory including baseline and reference level, REDD concepts and guidelines, MRV and project design and documentation were indicated by most participants, while biomass sampling techniques, measurements, carbon calculating and modeling, GIS and mapping, selecting indicators for monitor and evaluation and reporting were reported by most participants as skills needed for the next training workshop. However, it is recommended that the next training workshop as the results came out of this workshop should be designed separately for three levels, namely the management, technical and community levels. This would allow avoiding the imbalance of the participants’ backgrounds level on the subjects. To assess the level of the participants’ understanding about subjects, assessments should be carried out.

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8. Annexes

8.1. Workshop agenda on REDD-plus Partnerships for Government and Civil Society

24-26 February 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Day/Time Session Resource

Person/Facilitator/RapporteurFeb 24 (Wed) 08.00-08.30 Registration 08.30.09.00 Opening Ceremony - IGES

- RECOFTC 09.00-09.15 Coffee Break 09.15-09.30 Setting the Workshop Context

- Workshop Objectives Ms. Kalyan Hou

Rapporteur- /Mr. Kamnap Phan/ Net Neath09.30-10.45 Introduction to REDD and

REDD-iness International and National

Responses to Climate Change – the Role of REDD

Mr. Ben Vicker Dr. Keo Omaliss

10.45-12.00 Local Signs and Impact of Climate Change

Ms. Hou Kalyan

12.00-13.30 Lunch Break 13.30-14.45 Forests and Carbon –

Mitigation and Adaptation Mr. Long Ratanakoma

14.45-15.00 Coffee break 15.00- 16.15 What is driving deforestation

and degradation? Dr. Keo Omaliss/Mr. Long Ratana koma

16.15-16.30 Summary of the day’s sessions Facilitator/Rapporteur Feb 25 (Thu)

Rapporteur-/Mr. Kamnap Phan/ Net Neath 08.30- 09.15 Key REDD concepts

Definitions: Additionality, Leakage, and Permanence

Dr. Keo Omaliss

09.15-09.30 Coffee Break 09.30-11:00 REDD Concepts and process

in the Project Context Mr. Long Ratanakoma

11.00-12.00 Baselines and Reference Levels

Dr. Keo Omaliss

12.00-13.30 Lunch Break 13.30-14.30 Monitoring, reporting, and

verification Mr.Ben Vicker/Mr. Long Ratanakoma

14.30-14.45 Coffee Break 14.45-16.15 Risk of REDD to people and

forests Benefits Sharing and

Distribution

Dr. Keo Omaliss

16.15-16.30 Summary of day’s sessions Facilitator/Rapporteur Feb 26 (Fri)

Rapporteur- /Mr. Kamnap Phan/ Net Neath 08.30-09.15 REDD+ development:

Sharing Project Experiences Cambodia REDD Projects Oddar Meanchey CF REDD Experiences of local

communities participation in REDD

PACT CAD

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09.15-09.30 Coffee Break 09.30-10.30 REDD Project in Seima

Protection Forest WCS

10.30-12.00 Stakeholder Analysis Ms. Hou Kalyan 12.00-13.30 Lunch break 13.30-15.00 Roadmap: Capacity Building

Needs Assessment Ms. Hou Kalyan

15.00-15.30 Action plan in relation to REDD readiness road map

Ms. Hou Kalyan/Dr. Keo Omaliss

15.30-15.45 Coffee Break 15.45 -16.15 Summary of workshop sessions Rapporteur – Mr. Kamnap

Phan/Mr. Net Neath 16.15-16.45 Closing Ceremony

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8.2. List and profile of the participants

Date 24-26 Febuary-2010

No. Name Organization Position Phone Email

1 Noun Hak

CF Network in Kampong Thom Committee 076 574 460

2 Chhorn Chhouen

CF Network in Kampong Thom Committee 092 233 792

3 Long Ratanakomar FA

4 Pak Chealy FA Deputy DFC 012 885 547 [email protected]

5 Chee Boreth CDA E-D 017 223 050 [email protected]

6 Din Heng CDA CF network 097 982 4577

7 Hort Ainunn DFI /FA Staff of DFI /FA 012 214 822 [email protected]

8 Enrique Ibarra IGES Researcher [email protected]

9 Cham Sophal/Sok Kunthy IFL / Rupp Interpreter

012 882 383; 012 602 940

[email protected]; [email protected]

10 Francis Perez Oxfam (Great Britain) CD [email protected]

11 Phan kamnap FA CFO in charge 012 846994 [email protected]

12 Ney Chanthy MOE

Department of Wildlife Sanctuary(MOE) [email protected]

13 Net Channa Pact

CF Technical Supporter Program Assistant

14 Uy Kamal MOE Head of Office 012 283 956 [email protected]

15 Matthew van Rjn GERES Forestry Unit managers 017 852 368

16 Mean Sam Aun MOE 012 877 667

17 Sok Mary 092 234 897

18 Seang Sothea SCW Program Officer 012 360 107

19 Srey Socheat CBNRMLI Training Assistant 012 556 686 socheatccbaimli.org

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20 Matthew Maltby FFI TA 092 663 823 [email protected]

21 Tol Sochea CBNRMLI Project manager 012 322 496 [email protected]

22 Omaliss Keo FA DD deputy W.B 012 755 558 [email protected]

23 Hong Kim hean FA Deputy DFC 011 945 267 [email protected]

24 Pech Bunna FIA

Deputy Director Department of DCFD 012 888 015 [email protected]

25 Lao Sethaphal FA

Deputy Director of Department of DLE 077 827 063 [email protected]

26 Kong Kim Sreng IUCN Senior Program officer 012 888 847

27 Sagijana EOJ Secretary 016 835 408

28 Ben Vickers RECOFTC

29 So Vanna Geography Deputy MLMUPC Director 012 623 826 so [email protected]

30 Bun Chantrea Oxfam, GB Forestry Lead 012 888 709 [email protected]

31 Edwin Puyan RECOFTC CTA(CBSFLMP) [email protected]

32 Heng Da RECOFTC CFPC 012 659 425 [email protected]

33 Hou Kalyan RECOFTC TC [email protected]

34 Andreas Deltorp RECOFTC Student Intern 089 936 850

35 Toon De Bruyn RECOFTC Senior Program officer [email protected]

36 Chea Channakry Embassy of Japan Adviser 016 878 180

37 Pak Chealy FA 012 885 547

38 Hanuni Higashiyaw Embassy of Japan

39 Tom Evens WCS

40 Hyakumara, Kimihiko IGES Sub manager 017 416 015

41 Net Neath MOE 012-304-478 [email protected]

42 Enrique Ibarra IGES

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8.3. List of resource persons, facilitators and Organizers

Forestry Administration

Dr. Keo Omaliss, Deputy Chief of Wildlife Department and REDD member in FA,

Mr. Long Ratanakoma, DFCF/FA and member of REDD in FA

IGES

Dr. Hyakumura Kimihiko

Dr. Enrique Ibarra

RECOFTC

Mr. Toon De Bruyn

Ms. Hou Kalyan

Mr. Edwin Puyan

Mr. Ben Vickers

8.4. Presentations and Hand Outs

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International Responses to Climate Change – the Role of REDD

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National Responses to Climate Change – the Role of REDD—Cambodia road map

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Forests and Carbon – Mitigation and Adaptation

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REDD+ development: Sharing Project Experiences-- Cambodia REDD Projects Oddar Meanchey CF REDD

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Experiences of local communities participation in REDD

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REDD Project in Seima Protection Forest

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8.5. Synthesis of feedback from the resource persons.

The impressions obtained from the resource persons were that there were good discussion among participants and good REDD project presentations; particularly Mr. Hanuni Higashiyaw, the representative of IGES noted that the REDD project in Odd Meanchey project was very interesting and that IGES would continue looking for funding to support the project. Ben Vicker evaluated that although this three day workshop could not answer every question, the program and exercises were very useful exercise and it seemed that everyone understood and learned a lot through which they asked the right questions and the level they are now. In addition, good atmosphere was generated among the participants and speakers. This workshop really meets the expectations and potentially builds collaborations among participants. Edwin Payun observed that the majority of the participants remained in the

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workshop through three days although as expected to be drastically dropped in the days 2 and 3. This may suggest that the workshop is interesting to the most participants and relevant to their job and responsibilities.

8.6 Synthesis Evaluation

Although participants were not asked to describe their expectations at the beginning of the training, through the every day’s knowledge earning experience and post training feedback from the participants, most participants expressed that their expectations were met. Nine of 15 participants (66 percent) who participated in each day evaluation reported that they learned a lot about REDD and climate change. They indicated that they were able to differentiate the difference between REDD and REDD+, were able to perceive how climate change can affect people, livelihoods and the environment, and were able to identify the local signs and the ways to mitigate and adapt to the climate change as these they have never learnt before attending the workshop. Moreover, as indicated in the Participation Feedback Form, 62 percent of them agreed that the example, discussions, activities in the training were relevant to their job and experience. Another 62 percent of them indicated that the course materials were sufficient, clear, and relevant to their job, while other 68 percent of them expressed that the course materials would be useful back on their job. Eighty six percent of them described that the workshop program would have an impact on their current work and job responsibilities. Seventy nine percent of them reported that the current working environment is favorable for applying learned knowledge and skills learned from the workshop.

8.7 Abbreviations Used

ANR Assisted Natural Regeneration AGRA Agrarian Reform Movement AMAN The Muslim Action Network APRIL Asia Pacific Resources International Limited ASFN Asian Social Forestry Network CAD Children Action for Development CB Capacity Building CBNA Capacity Building Needs Assessment

CBNRM LI Community Based Natural Resource Management Learning Institute

CC Climate Change CCWG Climate Change Working Group CDD Community Driven Development CF Community Forestry CFM Community Forestry Management CFUG Community Forestry User Groups CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research COP Conference of Parties CSF Civil Society Forum DNPI National Board on Climat Change - Indonesia ERPA Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement FAO Food and Agricultural Organization FKKM Communication Forum on Community Forestry

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FPIC Free, Prior and Informed Consent GD Geovernment Decision GERES Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités GHG Greenhouse Gas GTZ German Technical Cooperation HUMA Association for Community and Ecology-Based Legal Reform ICEL Indonesian Center for Environmental Law ICRAF World Agroferestry Center IGES Institute for Global Environmental Sciences IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature LATIN Lembaga Alam Tropika Indonesia M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MAFF/FA Forestry Administration MOE Ministry of Environment MRV Monitoring, Reporting and Verification NGO Non Governmental Organization NTFP Non-Timber Forestry Products PDD Project Design and Development PEACE PT. Pelangi Energi Abadi Citra Enviro PES Payment for Environmental Services PILI Green Network - Pusat Informasi Lingkungan Indonesia PUSDIKLAT Center for Forestry Education and Training RECOFTC The Center for People and Forests REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation RMI Organization of Women Foresters R-PIN Readiness Plan Idea Note RPP Readiness Preparation Proposal SAWIT WATCH Indonesian network against oil palm plantations SFM Sustainable Forestry Management TNC The Nature Conservancy UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change WALHI Indonesian Forum for the Environment WARSI Indonesian Conservation Community WCS World Conservation Society WRI World Resources Institution