Insider Observations: Capacity and open dialogue
Ken Andrasko (World Bank) is a true expert on REDD+ and in his current position as senior carbon finance specialist at the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), he has been involved with many counties as they start to develop their REDD+ initiatives and design readiness and implementation plans.
Ken is in as good a position as anyone to compare countries’ experiences with REDD+ readiness, and he shared a few key lessons:
1. Capacity is needed in local communities, national capitals and donor organizations to transform policies into sustainable REDD+ programs and low emissions development strategies.
2. Consultations are unquestionably a key for REDD – you have to figure out how the government has a healthy, open dialogue with stakeholders.
And he also offered a prediction, that moving forward, we are going to see REDD+ embedded in larger low carbon development strategies.