PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PHILIPPINES NATIONAL REDD+ STRATEGY ON PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT

1. PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PHILIPPINES NATIONAL REDD+ STRATEGYON PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT 3rd Meeting of the REDD Development Dividend Task Force 02 – 05 April 2012, Nairobi, Kenya

2. OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION Background information about the Philippines The Philippine National REDD-Plus Strategy (PNRPS) Process Vision Components Opportunities of the Private Sector under the PNRPS Challenges ahead

3. PHILIPPINES - Basic statistics • Land area: 30 million ha • Forestland area: 15.8 million ha • Forest cover: 7.2 million ha • Population: more than 80 million

4. Extent of Natural Forest Cover Loss in the last 100 years 70 % 60 % 40 % 34 % 23.7 % 18.3 % Source: Environmental Science for Social Change, 1999

5. Forest Management • All forestlands and natural resources are owned by the government (Regalian doctrine) • Mode of access – production sharing, joint venture and co-management • Issuance of tenure instrument valid for 25 years and renewable for another 25 years

6. Management Arrangements Inside Forestlands

7. Management Arrangements Inside Forestlands

8. The Philippine National REDD+ Strategy (PNRPS) Process National & Regional Consultations April – Aug 2009 Workshop 1- Nov 2009 – principles, results,components Component workshop groups – Dec-March 2009 Workshop 2 – March 2010 Writeshop Draft written up by an integrator April 2010 National presentation – April 2010 Critique and review by experts, regional and sectoral consultations NRPS Action Planning & Budgeting August 2010

9. The PNRPS… • is a strategy that articulates the common vision and direction that the Philippines would want to pursue in relation to REDD-Plus development and implementation. • presents a broad range of strategies and corresponding activities over a 10-year time horizon (2010-2020). • defines the need to prepare forestland managers throughout the country to assume responsibility in implementing REDD-Plus programs, research, projects and activities with the support of the international, national and local agencies, NGOs and other support groups.

10. The PNRPSenvisions… • Empowered forest  managers and support groups sustainably and equitably managing forestlands and ancestral domains with enhanced carbon stock and reduced greenhouse gases emission. Within the vision framework, the impact areas include: • Reduced forest degradation and deforestation • Poverty reduction • Biodiversity Conservation • Improved governance

11. Components of the PNRPS • 4 Major Components • Enabling Policies to support and promote REDD-Plus • Forest Sector Governance • Forest Resource Use, Allocation and Management • Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV) Conditions • 3 Cross-Cutting Components • Capacity Building and Communication • Research and Development • Sustainable Financing

12. National-level MRV system • complemented by sub-national • Reference emission levels • Community-based accounting • Guidelines for non-carbon • reviews • Increase capacities for current • and future requirements of • MRV • Promote REDD+ thru IEC activities • Estabalish REDD+ Continuing Education mechanism • Establish REDD+ community of practitioners • Consult broad consultation & meaniningful engagement • Integrate REDD+ in sectoral plans • Estabalish national and sub-national REDD+ coordinating agencies Enabling Policy Governance R&D Capacity Building Resource Use , Allocation & Mgt. Measurement Reporting& Verification Sustainable Financing • Develop comprehensive R & D program on REDD+ • Analyse Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation • Identify science-based conservation intervention • Establish pilot/demo projects on REDD+ • Establish national legislation on REDD+ • Carbon Ownership, • National emission • targets • Clear legal mandates • of REDD+ institutions • Social & environmental • safeguards • Complete the delineation of permanent forest line • Improve mngt of protection & prodn forest for REDD+ • Secure Land tenure and carbon rights • Enhance C stocks thru forest restoration, rege-neration & reforestation • Proposals for voluntary funding • Explore long-term • financing schemes • Seek diverse fund mechanisms • Capitalize on existing national capacities and resources The Philippine National REDD+ Strategy Seven Major Components

13. Opportunities of the Private Sector in REDD+ under the PNRPS • Under Forest Resource Use, Allocation & Management Component • As REDD+ projects’ implementers • Under Sustainable Financing Component • As REDD+ projects’ funders (CSR) • Under Governance Component • As member of the national and subnational REDD+ coordinating agencies – National Multi-Stakeholder REDD+ Council (NRMC)

14. Proposed NMRC composition • Government: agencies involved with forest management and/or REDD+ • Non-Government: representatives from the indigenous peoples, CBFM POs, NGOs, academe/university and private sector groups involved in forest management

15. Proposed NMRC functions and responsibilities • Primarily to serve as the coordinating and governing body for the implementation of the PNRPS; • Coordinate with national agencies and local government units in the implementation of PNRPS in their respective sectors and areas; • Recommend policy and other measures to ensure the effective implementation of PNRPS; • Ensure meaningful representation and active participation of the indigenous communities, forest communities and other affected basic sectors;

16. Oversee, monitor and recommend measures to ensure the effective formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies, programs and resource allocation and management of the PNRPS; • Oversee and monitor the implementation of MRV; • Advocate for the mobilization of funds by the national and local governments to support REDD-Plus projects.

17. Opportunities of the Private Sector in REDD+ under the PNRPS • Under Forest Resource Use, Allocation & Management Component • As REDD+ projects’ developers and implementers • Under Sustainable Financing Component • As REDD+ projects’ funders (CSR) • Under Governance Component • As member of the national and subnational REDD+ coordinating agencies – National Multi-Stakeholder REDD+ Council (NRMC) • Under Policy Component – thru consultation process • Under R & D Component – thru their project area as research site

18. Challenges ahead … • For the government to issue a national policy or legislation on REDD-Plus clarifying, among others, carbon rights/ownerships or benefit sharing and private sector engagement • For the government to establish and operationalize the National Multi-stakeholder REDD-Plus Council (NRMC) • For the private sector to be more involved in forest management

19. Maraming Salamat Po!THANK YOU! For any queries, you may contact: Mayumi Quintos-Natividad Chief Forest Management Specialist Forest Management Bureau Department of Environment & Natural Resources PHILIPPINES Email: mayquin@mozcom.com

20. Enabling Policy Governance R&D Capacity Building Resource Use , Allocation & Mgt. Measurement Reporting& Verification Sustainable Financing • Complete the delineation of permanent forest line • Improve mngt of protection & prodn forest for REDD+ • Secure Land tenure and carbon rights • Enhance C stocks thru forest restoration, rege-neration & reforestation • Proposals for voluntary funding • Explore long-term • financing schemes • Seek diverse fund mechanism • Capitalize on existing national capacities and resources The Philippine National REDD+ Strategy Seven Major Components BACK