Rights and Resources Initiative

• Securing forest tenure

• For – justice, social-economic development, conservation, climate change, etc.

• Strategic analysis, investments, networks

• Catalyzing solutions

THE TENURE FACILITYScaling-up Investments to Secure

Community Land and Forest Rights

London 10 June 2015

Alain FrechetteDirector, The Tenure

Facility

WHY A NEW INSTRUMENT?

Contested, insecure land rights are pervasive

• Source of conflicts, violence, risks – to all

• Undermines cultures, Peoples, livelihoods, investments

• Facilitates deforestation, constrains restoration

Some investment, many gaps

• Financing, thematic, geographic gaps (Indufor 2014)

• Inadequate investment in IPs & local community projects

• Lack of strategic, responsive, source of funds

• Need for an independent, third party

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4ADDRESSING THE GAPS

International Land and Forest Tenure Facility

• Strong global demand for solutions– from communities, private

• Many opportunities for impact – short-term

• Demand for a dedicated instrument – focused on collective land

• A low cost opportunity to secure forests, carbon, ecosystem services, natural infrastructure

5PURPOSE & OBJECTIVES

Advance land / forest tenure security, and the rights & livelihoods of IPs and local

communities

Provide funding and technical support for strategic tenure reform projects.

Create a convening space to coordinate commitments and develop shared strategies on tenure reform (public, community, private).

HOW IS IT DIFFERENT?

1. Focused on securing collective rights to land and forests

2. Strategic, responsive, nimble: ($ 0.2 – 2 M)

3. Direct funding to Indigenous Peoples and local CSOs

4. Independent – and complementary to existing initiatives

5. Multi-stakeholder governance: IPs, communities, international institutions, companies, and investors (public and private)

6. Intentionally engaged with companies, investors

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7DEVELOPMENT PROCESS:

AN OVERVIEW

Design & appraisal (2012 -2013)

Consultation/info sharing (2014)

Institutional set-up (2015)

Pilot projects (2015 – 2016)

Independence/operations (2016)

8PILOT PROJECTS

Approved Pilots (≤ $750 K) Concepts Under Consideration Indonesia (AMAN)

Panama (COONAPIP)

Mali

Cameroon

Liberia

Colombia

Philippines

Peru

• Pilot projects established to draw lessons and inform the future

• Demand studies / proposal development with Indufor support

• First pilots – securing community land rights, conflict resolution with companies, developing protocols with governments

INSTITUTIONAL SET-UP 9

1. Advisory Group• Overall guidance, linkages, oversight• Leaders from community, Indigenous, NGOs,

company, investor, international organizations

2. Institutional design, location

3. Fundraising • Design and appraisal supported by grants

from BMZ, Ford Foundation & SIDA

• Implementation supported by SIDA and the (private) Acacia Foundation

Strong demand for investment in collective rights

• Flexible / responsive modalities

• Generating excitement

Strong appreciation for complementarities

• Institutions / mechanisms (e.g., FIP, DGM, ILC, Farm & Forest Facility, …)

• Initiatives (e.g., REDD+, FLEGT-VPA)

Generating interest across sectors / agendas

• Including human rights, economic development, agriculture, forest conservation, climate change.

High demand for engagement by operational staff

• Critical to advance own projects which often require more laborious processes and government approval.

EMERGING LESSONS ON NICHE

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NEXT STEPS

1. Implement approved pilot projects

2. Appraise proposed pipeline of projects

3. Complete institutional set-up / identify host location

4. Accelerate learning on project preparation / implementation

5. Firm-up linkages with other initiatives

6. Raise additional support and funding

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THANK YOU!Alain Frechette

afrechette@rightsandresources.orgwww.TheTenureFacility.org

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