Capacity building of Colombian communities for Payment for Environmental Services, climate change and REDD+

January 1, 2011

Knowledge Management Platform

Public policies for forests are framed by the Forest Policy (Ministry of Environment and National Planning Department, 1996), approved through document CONPES 2834 of 1996. Its purpose is to achieve sustainable forest use, enable their conservation, consolidate the forest sector’s integration into the national economy, and enhance the people’s quality of life. The RPP that is currently being prepared proposes a national REDD+ strategy, institutional arrangements, and other policy elements.

The departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, and Vaupés have the largest natural forest area in the country, with a total of 35,184,675 hectares. The yearly average deforestation reaches a little more than 336,000 hectares/year.

The project seeks to design and implement a capacity-building program for local community organizations on the thematic areas of environmental services, climate change and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus (REDD+). The purpose for this program was to facilitate skill and competency building among these stakeholders, persons and institutions, in order to evaluate initiatives in these areas and successfully establish future local experiences.

Category: #Case Studies #Deforestation #Forests #Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) #REDD+

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Capacity building of Colombian communities for Payment for Environmental Services, climate change and REDD+

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Management platformof knowledge

Capacity building of Colombian communities for Payment for Environmental Services, climate change and REDD+

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Por año

Management platform
of knowledge