This publication examines how Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) programmes can create meaningful opportunities for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) while minimizing risks to their rights, territories, and livelihoods. As JREDD+ gains prominence as a mechanism for scaling climate action and aligning subnational initiatives with national emission reduction goals, its implementation increasingly depends on the effective participation of local stakeholders. However, many of the concepts underpinning climate mitigation initiatives, including carbon cycles, carbon markets, emissions reductions, and REDD+, remain highly technical and difficult for communities to fully understand.
Tag: capacity development
Strengthening dialogue on climate mitigation: Creative methods for engaging Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) in REDD+ [Toolbox]
This publication examines how Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) programmes can create meaningful opportunities for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) while minimizing risks to their rights, territories, and livelihoods. As JREDD+ gains prominence as a mechanism for scaling climate action and aligning subnational initiatives with national emission reduction goals, its implementation increasingly depends on the effective participation of local stakeholders. However, many of the concepts underpinning climate mitigation initiatives, including carbon cycles, carbon markets, emissions reductions, and REDD+, remain highly technical and difficult for communities to fully understand.
Territory, climate and social justice: Strengthening the capacities of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Pará through participatory methodologies
Key messages
- The effective participation of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) in climate governance and in REDD+ projects and jurisdictional (JREDD+) initiatives depends on them having prior access to clear, accessible and contextualized information. Learning processes influence not only who participates but also how they participate and under what conditions, making the production, translation and dissemination of knowledge central elements of climate justice.
- Participatory methodologies – like practical experiments, theatre, artistic activities and public consultation simulations – are effective tools for transforming complex issues related to climate change and carbon markets into meaningful learning processes.
- Through well-designed participatory learning methods, IP&LCs not only understand climate change and mitigation mechanisms like REDD+ and JREDD+, they can also more effectively engage in critically analysing potential benefits, risks and implications for their livelihoods and territories.
- Training community facilitators to replicate these methods strengthens local organizations and creates the conditions for community leaders to expand capacity- building and knowledge-sharing processes.
- More than simply conveying information, learning through participatory methods reinforces the value of local knowledge, community organization, collective action and the self-determination of IP&LCs in the face of decisions that affect their territories, contributing to more inclusive and just climate governance.
Strengthening the role of local people in REDD+ in a post-FCPF world: The story of Indonesia and East Kalimantan
Key messages
- The level of knowledge on climate change and carbon trade is highly uneven with greater understanding among provincial government officials directly involved in the FCPF program and lowest among village community members who face the highest risk.
- The East Kalimantan JREDD+ was the first of its kind in Indonesia, but complicated procedures and additional conditions imposed during implementation, coupled with demands from the private sector for a share in the carbon trade, are driving a turn to nested projects.
- JREDD+ that focuses on nesting through accounting loses the purported advantages of jurisdictional approaches and puts substantial project risk back on communities.
Strengthening dialogue on climate mitigation: Creative methods for engaging Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) in REDD+ [Toolbox]
This publication examines how Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) programmes can create meaningful opportunities for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) while minimizing risks to their rights, territories, and livelihoods. As JREDD+ gains prominence as a mechanism for scaling climate action and aligning subnational initiatives with national emission reduction goals, its implementation increasingly depends on the effective participation of local stakeholders. However, many of the concepts underpinning climate mitigation initiatives, including carbon cycles, carbon markets, emissions reductions, and REDD+, remain highly technical and difficult for communities to fully understand.
Evidence of Capacity and Organisational Change in Community Forest Associations in Taita Taveta and Makueni Counties
This study assesses the capacity and organizational changes resulting from community engagement activities under a forest and landscape restoration project. It focuses on the impact of training and participatory processes involving Community Forest Associations (CFAs) and related stakeholders. Interventions included gender and social inclusion training, policy engagement, technical agroforestry and restoration training, institutional strengthening of CFAs, and digital tools such as the Regreening App. Using a recall-based Likert scale approach, the study compares conditions before and after engagement to identify shifts in knowledge, practices, and organizational effectiveness. Results highlight improvements in community capacity, participation, and institutional performance, contributing to enhanced implementation of nature-based solutions and sustainable landscape restoration.
Improved Policy Engagement and Community Participation in Forest Landscape Restoration in Taita Taveta and Makueni Counties
This study examines changes in stakeholder engagement and facilitation dynamics in forest and landscape restoration initiatives under a nature-based solutions project. It focuses on interactions between policy-level actors (government and institutions) and community-level actors, including Community Forest Associations (CFAs). Activities included participatory development of Forest and Landscape Restoration Plans (FOLAREPs), forest policy reviews, capacity building, and digital tools such as the Regreening App. Using a recall-based Likert scale approach, the study assesses shifts in engagement before and after interventions. Findings indicate improved multi-level collaboration, stronger stakeholder linkages, and progress toward more inclusive policy-making processes, enhancing the effectiveness of restoration efforts.
Developing and sharing capacities for agricultural research and innovation systems: A science review of theoretical concepts, methods, tools and standards
This study is a scoping literature review aimed at identifying current concepts, methods, tools and standards used or relevant for learning and capacity development in agricultural research and innovation systems. It provides an overview of the state of science, practices and remaining gaps in approaches to learning and capacity development at the individual, organizational and systems levels. It is intended to inform CGIAR’s future capacity sharing work by learning from the theories and empirical evidence presented in the scientific literature, and from approaches and activities conducted by other entities that CGIAR could adapt. This study reviews the dominant theoretical frameworks and practical concepts, methods, tools and standards for capacity development at individual, organizational and systems levels, and discusses how they could be applied to CGIAR’s capacity sharing work in the context of agricultural research, training and innovation systems.