R-PACKAGE Readiness Package R-PP Readiness Preparation Proposal
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Contact Information Juana Argeñal Sandoval Minister Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA) Iván Acosta Montalván Minister Ministry of Finance and Public Credit Paul Oquist Kelly Ministro-Secretario de la Presidencia de la República Edward Francisco Centeno Minister Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Justa del Rosario Pérez Acuña Minister Ministry of Family, Community, Cooperative and Associative Economy Vladimir Gutiérrez Director Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies Fabio Rueda Castellón Co-director National Forestry Institute José Milán Scientific Advisor INETER Ramón Canales Executive Secretary Caribbean Coast Development Secretariat Carlos Alemán Cunningham Coordinator North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Government 2 Debony McDavis President North Caribbean Coast Regional Council Judy Delcy Abraham Omier President South Caribbean Coast Regional Council Shaira Down Morgan Coordinator South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Government Ronald Wittingham President Karata Indigenous Territorial Government Santos Manzanares President Li Lamni Indigenous Territorial Government Lenny Simmons Wathson President Awaltara Indigenous Territorial Government Marjuleth Cassanova Hooker President Pearl Lagoon Indigenous Territorial Government Héctor Santiago Thomas McCrea President Rama Kriol Indigenous Territorial Government Carlos Gutiérrez Pineer President Tasbapounie Indigenous Territorial Government Ralf Mollins Stockhousen President Bluefields Communal Government Justo Felipe Ruiz García Representative, Council of Indigenous Peoples (Pacific, Central and Northern Nicaragua) 3 ENDE-REDD+ Team Javier Gutiérrez Project Coordinator MARENA Edilberto Duarte Project Planner MARENA Legal and institutional advisors América Blandón Indiana Fuentes Social, indigenous and governance issues Verónica Gutiérrez Dennis Mairena Jadder Lewis Communications and dissemination Silvia Membreño Carbon accounting Sheila Zamora Tyrone López Information technology and systems Miguel Blanco Jorge Jiménez Geographic information systems Jorge Rodríguez Jorge Cisneros Territorial technicians, RACCN Amilcar Padilla Camilo Frank López (R.I.P.) Donald Ingram Gutiérrez 4 Darwin Chavarría Warmon Territorial technicians, RACCS Rickey Monroe Forbes Yenmi Yoset Murillo Territorial technicians, Pacific, Central and Northern Nicaragua Luis Picado Hugo Centeno Trustees Liliana Campos Álvaro Pérez Oswaldo Santana Franzella Norori Lino Oporta 5 Team of Collaborators RACCN Nytzae Dixon W SERENA-GRACCN Ivan Alvarez GRACCN Ceferino Wilson SEPLAN-GRACCN Hanzel Zuniga SERENA-GRACCN Yovanelah Henriquez SICOR-GRACCN Eduardo Pérez Soto INAFOR Rosalía Gutiérrez MARENA-RACCN Lenin Green IREMADES-URACCAN German López URACCAN RACCS Álvaro Saavedra Quinto GRACCS Edmar Hodgson GRACCS Wilder Wilson GRACCS Arlis Calderon GRACCS Hebe Machado Rodríguez SERENA RACCS Dinis Morales Lazo SERENA Haniel Arce Alvarado SIMEAR SERENA Anthony Rojas SERENA Danilo Chang SEPLAN Luceta Duncan CRACCS Ramona Solano CRACCS Kirkman Joe Roe Holse CRACCS Silvia Jorge CRACCS Leonor Guadamuz CRACCS Karl Tinkam Crisantos CRACCS Luis Gaitán Hodgson CRACCS Franklin Brooks GRACCS Dumar Quiroz CRACCS Fernando Hodgson PRONICARIBE Saul Reyes Buitrago MARENA RACCS Tania Ruiz MARENA RACCS Erlinda García INAFOR Dominga López Regente Forestal Eduardo Siu Decano BICU Paul Meza Docente URACCAN 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 14 1.1 National context ................................................................................................................ 16 1.2 The role of natural and forest resources in the country’s development ......................... 17 II. The ENDE-REDD+ process in Nicaragua ........................................................................... 18 2.1 Links to national development policies and priorities ..................................................... 21 2.2 Implementation by phases of ENDE-REDD+ ..................................................................... 26 2.3 Overview of progress made on the ENDE-REDD+ readiness process ............................... 29 2.4 Executive summary of ENDE-REDD+ highlights in Nicaragua ........................................... 29 2.4.1 Contribution to the first phase of ENDE-REDD+ (readiness) ......................................... 32 2.4.2 Contribution to the second phase of ENDE-REDD+ (implementation) ......................... 33 2.4.3 Main steps forward in the ENDE REDD+ strategy .......................................................... 35 III. Regional Emissions Reduction Programme ................................................................ 38 IV. Progress made on REDD+ readiness ........................................................................... 44 Component 1: Organization and Consultations for Readiness ............................................... 45 Component 2: Programme Readiness .................................................................................... 88 Component 3. Forest emissions reference level / Forest reference level ........................... 128 Component 4. Forest monitoring system and information on safeguards .......................... 134 V. Participatory self-evaluation of the REDD+ readiness process ..................................... 154 Preparation for the participatory self-evaluation................................................................. 154 Induction to the self-evaluation process .............................................................................. 156 Systematisation of results ..................................................................................................... 156 Online self-evaluation process .............................................................................................. 158 Overall results of the national self-evaluation workshop..................................................... 158 Results dissemination plan ................................................................................................... 166 SWOT analysis results and lessons learned .......................................................................... 166 Comparison of progress indicators for the two evaluations of the country’s readiness process .................................................................................................................................. 169 VI. Progress path of the readiness process .................................................................... 172 VII. Conclusions ............................................................................................................... 177 VIII. Annexes ..................................................................................................................... 179 7 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 Road map of the REDD+ readiness process in Nicaragua ......................................... 20 Figure 2 Reforestation during 2007 - 2015 (in ha). ................................................................. 25 Figure 3 Relation between the ENDE-REDD+ strategy and other national strategies and plans ................................................................................................................................................. 26 Figure 4 Physiographic regions and regions selected to carry out the ERPD in Nicaragua. ... 28 Figure 5 ERPD projects and complementary financial sources that contribute to ENDE- REDD+ activities in Nicaragua (see w/ 200% de zoom). ......................................................... 35 Figure 6 Location of the Regional Emissions Reduction Programme for the Caribbean Coast, the BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve and the Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve (PRE-CBI)............. 39 Figure 7 ENDE-REDD+ participation platform designed during the R-PP phase. ................... 46 Figure 8 Legal and normative framework on management, implementation and control of public administration in Nicaragua ......................................................................................... 49 Figure 9 ENDE-REDD+ Programme Website and Communications Strengthening mechanism ................................................................................................................................................. 62 Figure 10 Types of events, number of participants and percentages by events carried out in the REDD+ readiness process ................................................................................................. 65 Figure 11 Number of activities by type of events and region, percentage of participants by type of event ........................................................................................................................... 67 Figure 12 Participatory CLPI events in the North and South Caribbean Autonomous Regions ................................................................................................................................................. 68 Figure 13 EESA work table in RACCS ....................................................................................... 70 Figure 14 Different events in the REDD+ readiness process .................................................. 72 Figure 15 Community meeting in the PCN region .................................................................. 73 Figure 16 ENDE-REDD programme working groups ............................................................... 75 Figure 17 Participation by different actors