Taller sobre gobernanza forestal, descentralización y REDD en América Latina y el Caribe

Day 1, 31 August

Morning   Opening and background

• Opening and welcome
  The Governments of Mexico and Switzerland
• From Interlaken via Yogjakarta and Durban to Oaxaca
  The Oaxaca Workshop is the fourth country-led initiative focusing on the theme of governance and decentralisation in forestry. Summary of the outcomes and recurring issues of the previous workshops
• The Oaxaca Workshop and the 9th Session of the UNFF
  Explanation of the themes for UNFF9 and how this workshop will contribute to its objectives
• REDD+ after Copenhagen
  A summary of Copenhagen outcomes and further processes, with a conclusion of where we are and what are the most important issues for REDD+ looking ahead

Afternoon   People, forest governance, and forests in Latin America

Presentations, roundtable and cluster discussions will focus on:

• Synergies and opportunities: People, forest governance, decentralisation and REDD+
• Decentralisation: Impacts on forests and people who rely on them and implications for REDD+
• The stumbling blocks in forest governance reform
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation policies at different scales

Day 2, 1 September

Whole day   Field trips

Field trips to communities around the themes of environmental services and payment schemes, community forestry and sustainable forest management, as they relate to REDD+

Day 3, 2 September

Whole day   Sustainable forest management, development, markets and forests

• Field trip reports: What did we learn?
• Plenary presentation and discussion of overarching issues and synergies or tensions between the multiple objectives of sustainable forest management, development, markets and REDD+

The plenary will be followed by three parallel sessions. Each parallel session will include presentations, a roundtable and cluster discussions.

1. Development and REDD+
   The trade-offs between economic development, landscape change, poverty eradication and effectiveness of public policy and development aid in achieving multiple objectives
2. Trade-offs and synergies between sustainable forest management, conservation, carbon markets and REDD+
   Policies, market instruments and REDD+ for SFM and biodiversity, and on compliance and voluntary markets: what are their standards and can they work for SFM, biodiversity, carbon and the poor?
3. People, forests, finance and markets
   Forest finance and finance for forest communities: how do they work; what are the bottlenecks and how can they be reformed to operate for REDD+; further on governance, financing, inter-sectoral relations and national implementation

At the end of the day the parallel sessions will report back in plenary.

Day 4, 3 September

Morning   Rights, opportunities and forests

Plenary presentations, discussions and a roundtable will focus on:

• Rights and tenure for forests, people and carbon
• Indigenous territories: challenges and opportunities for poverty alleviation and sustainable forest management
• Community forest management and REDD+

Afternoon   Open space

Civil society organisations will organise parallel sessions around issues related to the topics of the workshop.

Workshop report and closing