Development of a National Vision and Strategy for REDD+ in Suriname
REDD+
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Suriname

The country of Suriname is a High-Forest-Low-Deforestation (HFLD) Country and with more than 90% forest cover the country with the highest percentage of forest cover in the world. As part of REDD+ readiness, the National Institute for Environment and Development in Suriname (NIMOS) contracted AAE and Tropenbos Suriname as national partner for the development of a National Vision and Strategy for REDD+.

Main Tasks
  • Identification, in a participatory manner, of a National REDD+ Vision for forest, land use and climate change and the objectives of the National REDD+ Strategy;
  • Confirmation and deepening of a previous analysis of drivers of deforestation and forest degradation;
  • Identification, analysis and prioritization of Policies and Measures (PAMs) addressing the drivers of deforestation, forest degradation and barriers to sustainable forest management, conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks;
  • Realization of a Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA) of potential risks and benefits of PAMs and development of a framework to manage these risks and maximize these benefits;
  • Assessment of gender aspects and recommendations for gender sensitive REDD+ implementation;
  • Extensive stakeholder engagement, including national level workshops and local level consultations with all ten Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ communities in the hinterland;
  • Modelling of future land use change and development scenarios; Capacity building workshop for the use of DINAMICA EGO tool for scenarios;
  • Preparation of an implementation plan for the National REDD+ Strategy.
  • Recommendations on institutional strengthening;
  • Design of a REDD+ financial strategy;
  • Development and presentation of two GCF concept notes.
Main Outputs
  • National REDD+ Vision and Strategy;
  • SESA report, including circa 400 pages of community consultation report;
  • Legal Analysis of Land Tenure situation;
  • ESMF;
  • Implementation Plan for the National Strategy;
  • GCF concept notes.

The AAE team was composed of experts on REDD+, forestry, land tenure and legal frameworks, climate finance, scenario building, gender and environmental and social safeguards. Tropenbos Suriname contributed with experts on stakeholder engagement. The entire project, consultations included, was successfully conducted in a year.