A boon for capacity building on REDD+: 13 expert presentations on REDD+ have come out of the first REDD+ Academy session for the Asia-Pacific region, hosted by the Government of Indonesia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Starting with an introduction to REDD+ the presentations also cover topics such as safeguards, monitoring systems and governance (see below). The is now available online on the UN-REDD website.
According to UN-REDD, the REDD+ Academy is made up of a series of technical REDD+ courses and was developed by UN-REDD Programme experts and Yale University. It provides participants with a comprehensive and hands-on understanding of both what REDD+ is and what it means for national development.
The past session in Indonesia brought together members of the Indonesian Parliament, environmental journalists, and REDD+ future leaders and practitioners from the 16 UN-REDD partner countries across the region. The next REDD+ Academy sessions are envisaged for Nigeria and Argentina in 2015.
The training material can be downloaded as PDF file from the links below:
- Introduction to REDD+ by Tim Christophersen
- Forests, Carbon Sequestration & Climate Change by Christopher Martius
- National REDD+ Strategies and Action Plans by Thomas Enters
- Restoration Opportunity Assessment Methodology by Michael Verdone
- REDD+ Safeguards and Safeguard Information Systems by Judith Walcott
- National Forest Monitoring Systems for REDD+ Part 1 by Adam Gerrand
- National Forest Monitoring Systems for REDD+ part 2 by Ben Vickers
- Forest Reference Emission Levels for REDD+ Part 1 by Julian Fox
- Forest Reference Emission Levels for REDD+ Part 2 by Julian Fox
- The role of spatial analysis in supporting REDD+ planning by Judith Walcott
- The Economics of REDD+ by Ivo Mulder
- Introduction to Stakeholder Engagement by Timothy Boyle
- Good Governance by Timothy Boyle