Strengthening Indigenous Peoples'

Adaptation and Mitigation

Strategies & Food Security through
Direct Access to the GCF
Paris, 1 December 2015

Presentation on
Pilot model of Community-based
ownership of REDD+ Initiative
in Vietnam, as Climate Adaptation
and Mitigation Intervention
Presented by Vu Thi Hien
Centre of Research & Development in Upland
Area (CERDA), Vietnam

About the project ?

Project Pilot model of capacity building for
ethnic minority communitys readiness to
REDD+ in Thai Nguyen province, North of
Vietnam
Being a part of the global project,
Funded by Norad, Coordinated by Tebtebba Foundation;

In partnership with Indigenous People Organization in 10

countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Long-term objective of the project ?

Ethnic minorities and local communities
access to forest tenure, are able to handle
their own initiatives on REDD+,
biodiversity conservation, livelihood
sustainability as independent stakeholders
with legal status through co-operatives
for poverty reduction and long-term
sustainable development

About the pilot area ?

Area: Binh Long commune,

Target groups: Ethnic minorities and local communities
Beneficiaries in Binh Long, 1.434 households, 20 villages
Main problems before project
55% of households do not have the forest land/forest
Poverty rate: 50%;
Local people face with the poverty and degradation of
natural resources (water, forest, soil ), illegal timber
logging, and negative climate change impact.

Lao Cai

Bac Kan

UN-REDD

ICRAF
UN-REDD

Dien Bien
JICA

Thai Nguyen
CERDA

The FSSP Annual

Meeting organized by
VNForest and , Jan 21,
2014
Presentation by a
voluntary group of
REDD+ development
partners (CERDA, ICRAF,

Nghe An

Thanh Hoa

VFD

VFD

Ha Tinh

Quang Binh

Quang Tri

GIZ
FCPF

JICA, FCPF, GIZ, LEAF,

RECOFTC, UN-REDD, VFD)

UN-REDD
FCPF

Dak Nong
FCPF

FSSP: Forest Sector Support

Partnership

Lam Dong
UN-REDD
LEAF
MB-REDD

Ca Mau
UN-REDD
MB-REDD

Provinces (13) with

provincial REDD+ projects

Binh Thuan
UN-REDD

Project approaches

Strengthening rights
Forest tenure to communities
Collective action
Legal community institutional development
Implementation of state law and involvement of local
government authorities and agencies
Traditional knowledge and customary governance
Community-based monitoring and information system
(CBMIS) promotion
Landscape approach covering forests and agricultural land
Integrating economic, social, and environmental aspects
into a holistic intervention.
Evidence-based policy advocacy

Kinds of Interventions
At ground level:
Communities access to 50 year forest use rights
Establishing legal community organization and institution:
Co-operative and Alliance of Co-operative
Capacity building to communities though Co-op and Alliance
ensuring they are capable to own their initiatives:
1)Forest: Pilot Community based ownership of REDD+
initiative and Traditional conservation initiative on forest
biodiversity, operating Community-based monitoring
information system (CBMIS);
2)Improving income: Agriculture commercial products ; Sellsupply of agriculture input; Soil quality improvement ;

Results ?

Results ?
1. Community institution development
60 self-governing groups (SGGs) , Legal 2 cooperatives,
1,342 member;
2. Forest allocation to SGGs and community forest
protection: 60 self-governing groups (1,342 households)
received 1,116 ha of natural forest with 50 year use rights
1,116 ha of natural forest is well protected, illegal logging
stopped by communities who are in the post of forest owner
3. Indigenous knowledge recognized for application:
Village convention on forest protection with full customary
law approved by District authority and applied in reality;

Results ?
Results
4. Pilot Community based ownership of REDD+
initiative facilitated by CERDA with capacity building and
trainings through co-op network;
CBMIS operated by community cooperatives which conduct
demarcation, mapping of lands and forests, carbon measuring ,
biodiversity resource inventory which decided, planned and
implemented and recorded by the local ethnic minorities thought
their legal co-ops;
FPIC team of co-ops are able to consult with villagers on
REDD+ related issues;
Benefit sharing system developed and piloted through carbon
advanced payment piloting in 480 ha of natural forest;

Results ?
5. Income improvement
New technical job created from REDD+ pilot model ;
Local people get new income when receiving forest
Soil quality becomes more fertile by using compost and
agriculture products is more competitive, more profit;
New commercial product with new market (set up the link
with companies)
Self-provision of agriculture input at lower price and
guaranteed quality (set up the link with companies)
Co-op runs the revolving fund and self-provision of
agriculture input from carbon advance payment to reduce
financial burden for household level caused by high interest
loan in free market

Policy impact

CBMIS is appreciated by local authorities and agencies

(Forest area measuring, forest timber inventory ... )
District government officially accepted the data on forest
area and timber volume collected by local experts for forest
allocation which is reduced significantly the cost (Now the
approach has been scaling up in other 4 communes under
the EU-REDD Facility and EFI funded project and in other
commune project in the other province )
Intervention and approaches of pilot of Community Based
Ownership of REDD has been used as a demonstration to
develop the Provincial REDD+ policies in Thai Nguyen
province

Messages
The project has shown that indigenous and local
communities living in or around the forest are crucial
stakeholders in national REDD Plus;
Traditional knowledge and customary law are crucial
factors for maintaining forest sustainably
The indigenous and local communities are able to prevent
illegal logging with cost effectiveness, contribute to success
of REDD+ if they are provided opportunities to forest
tenure, appropriate capacity building, financial sources for
their own REDD+ initiatives and other income generating
initiatives through their legal institutions;

Pictures on project
activities

Local technical team of co-operative who are farmers to

do mapping of lands and forests by GPS, carbon

Demarcation map for

forest allocation. All
data collected in the
field by the technical
team of the co-op and
the data is
recognized officially
by district authority
Green area is under
the REDD+ pilot (480
ha)

Random
points to
measure
Carbon
of the
pilot
REDD+
forest

Local authority issues the Forest Certificate and

Forest Protection Convention with full of customary
laws to 60 SGGs/communities

Vice chair of District People Committee hands over the demarcation

map to two directors of two co-operatives all data to make the map
collected by the local technical villagers

Carbon measuring in field done by technical villager group

Consultation with Self-governing groups members on

benefit sharing done by the consutation team (FPIC)

Training on development of the methodology: creating the

route in the map by the local trained forest experts for
Forest Species Diversity inventory.
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Locating the tree in forest by GPS during

inventory of forest species

Identifying the species of timber tree and

recording data and pictures

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Making compost at home

Villgers produce commercial potatoes (without tilling) sold to

company through sales contract at their cooperative

Self provision of fertiliser through co-ops at

lower price and guaranteed quality

Delegates from Ministry of Agriculture and Rural

Development and Vietnam UN-REDD Program visits the
REDD+ pilot project in Binh Long communes.

Increase the green tea quality by organic fertiliser

and compost, more competitive and profit

Please, see the video about the model of

Community based ownership of REDD
Plus Initiative through the below link
https://youtu.be/GhsTad-UNfY

Thank you very much for your attention

Email: tranvuhientk@gmail.com