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TOGO Travail - Liberté – Patrie REPUBLIC OF TOGO Travail - Liberté – Patrie READINESS PREPARATION PROPOSAL (R-PP) COUNTRY: TOGO Date of submission: July 29, 2013 (revised version November 8, 2013) Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Disclaimer: The World Bank and the UN-REDD+ Programme do not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in the Readiness Preparation Proposals (R-PPs) submitted by REDD+ Country Participants and accept no responsibility whatsoever for any consequence of their use. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in the R-PPs do not imply on the part of the World Bank any judgment on the legal status of any territory, or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST RESOURCES Rue SARAKAWA, Quartier Administratif, Tel (00228) 22 21 28 97, Email: [email protected], LOME-TOGO TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL GENERAL INFORMATION ................................................................................... 6 Executive Summary ........................................................................................ 9 COMPONENT 1: ORGANIZE AND CONSULT ........................................................... 15 1a. National Readiness Management Arrangements ....................................................................... 15 1.1.1. Various actors involved in the implementation of REDD+ in Togo .......................... 16 1.1.2. The REDD+ management bodies in Togo ........................................................ 17 1b. Information Sharing and Early Dialogue with Key Stakeholder Groups ..................................... 22 1.2.1. Methods of communication and consultation .................................................. 23 1.2.2. Information campaigns, as well as information exchange, knowledge sharing, and capacity building campaigns ............................................................................... 23 1.2.3. Roles of the different actors in the REDD+ process ........................................... 24 1c. Consultation and Participation Process ...................................................................................... 30 1.3.1. Consultation and participation of stakeholders in the implementation of the R-PP .... 30 1.3.2 Consultations and communications to be undertaken ......................................... 33 1.3.3. Strategy for the collection and circulation of information ........................................................ 33 1.3.4. Methodology for future consultations ...................................................................................... 34 1.3.5. Consensus-seeking bodies ..................................................................................................... 35 1.3.6. Measures implementing the platform for dialogue .................................................................. 36 1.3.7. Mechanism for complaints and appeals ......................................................... 36 COMPONENT 2: REDD+ STRATEGY PREPARATION .................................................. 38 2a: Assessment of land use, land use change drivers, forest law, policy and governance. ............. 38 2.1.1. Assessment of Land Use ............................................................................ 38 2.1.2. Assessment of Land Use Change Drivers ........................................................ 42 2.1.3. Assessment of laws and policies relating to forest management ........................... 46 2.1.4. Assessment of Governance ........................................................................ 46 2.1.5. Analysis of previous efforts made by the forestry sector .................................... 48 2.1.6. Lessons learned from implemented programs and projects ................................. 50 2.1.7. Contribution of forests to wealth creation and the fight against poverty ................ 52 2b. Strategic REDD+ Options ........................................................................................................... 55 2c. REDD+ Implementation Framework .......................................................................................... 64 2.3.1. Proposed institutional governance framework ............................................. 64 2.3.1. Proposal for an institutional governance framework ..................................... 66 2.3.2. Preliminary considerations for a “carbon governance framework” .................... 66 2.3.3. Description of the work plan for the studies and other activities ...................... 68 2d. Social and environmental impacts of REDD+ preparation and implementation ......................... 70 2.4.1. Togo’s legal framework for environmental assessment ...................................... 70 2.4.2. Safeguard framework ............................................................................... 71 2.4.3. Charter of responsibility in strategic, environmental and social assessment ............ 72 Component 3: Develop a National Forest Reference Emission Level and/or a Forest Reference Level .......................................................................................... 75 3.1. Activities to be carried out in developing the reference level ..................................................... 76 3.1.1. Evaluation of deforestation in Togo ............................................................. 76 3.1.2. Analysis of forest degradation: a REDD+ activity in Togo .................................... 76 3.1.3. Reforestation and trees in the landscape ....................................................... 77 3.5. National forest inventory ............................................................................................................ 80 3.6. National circumstances .............................................................................................................. 81 3.7. Definition of emissions/sequestration trajectories. ..................................................................... 82 3.8. Validation and communication of the reference level ................................................................ 82 3.9. Existing capacities and building the capacities needed. ............................................................ 83 2 COMPONENT 4: DESIGN SYSTEMS FOR NATIONAL FOREST MONITORING AND INFORMATION ON SAFEGUARDS ....................................................................... 85 4a: National forest monitoring system ............................................................................................... 86 4.1.1. System for measuring and monitoring ........................................................... 86 4.1.2. Reporting ................................................................................................................................. 89 4.1.3. Notification and Verification ...................................................................... 90 4b. Designing an Information System for Multiple Benefits, Other Impacts, .................................... 90 Governance, and Safeguards ........................................................................................................... 90 4.2.1. Potential benefits and impacts of REDD + in Togo. ........................................... 91 4.2.2. Implementation of the information and safeguards system ................................. 91 COMPONENT 5: SCHEDULE AND BUDGET ............................................................ 96 COMPONENT 6: DESIGN OF A PROGRAM MONITORING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK ... 106 3 LIST OF TABLES Table 1a: Financing of the Institutional Framework and National REDD+ Coordination ...... 21 Table 2: Role of Stakeholders in the REDD+ Process ............................................................... 24 Table 3 (1b): Summary of Activities and the Budget for Sharing Information and Early Dialogue with Key Stakeholder Groups in the Implementation of the “Readiness” Process ............................................................................................................................................................ 28 Table 4: Timetable for the Operationalization of the Institutional Framework and Consultations .................................................................................................................................... 36 Table 5 (1c): Summary of Activities and Consultation and Participation Budget .................... 36 Table 6: Size of Togo’s Protected Areas ...................................................................................... 39 Table 7: Size of Land Cover Units ................................................................................................. 40 Table 8: Change in Cultivated Land in Hectares ........................................................................ 42 Table 9 (2a): Summary of Activities and Budget for the Evaluation of Land Use, Forest Law, Policy and Governance ................................................................................................................... 54 Table 11 (2b): Summary of Activities and REDD+ Strategy Budget ........................................ 62 Table 14:(2.c): Financing of the Implementation Framework .................................................... 69 Table 15: Characteristics of Different Types of Evaluation Process ........................................ 71 Table 16: Mandate and roles of SESA Stakeholders ................................................................. 73 Table 17 (2.d): Financing Framework for Environmental
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