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To inform policy dialogues on addressing tropical deforestation and inclusive growth, we have developed and contributed to a number of open-source tools on land-use planning, land-use finance and transparency in commodity trade. These tools are designed to be mastered quickly, through self-learning or training by the Facility.

Tools

To inform policy dialogues on addressing tropical deforestation and inclusive growth, we have developed and contributed to a number of open-source tools on land-use planning, land-use finance and transparency in commodity trade. These tools are designed to be mastered quickly, through self-learning or training by the Facility.

Land-use Planner

The Land-use Planner

The Land-use Planner is an interactive economic tool to inform land-use planning processes. It helps stakeholders develop land-use scenarios in a simple and participatory way, compare social, economic and environmental impacts, and estimate the costs and benefits of policy decisions. It helps inform land-use decisions at jurisdictional level and can assist transitions to deforestation-free commodity production for a given territory or supply chain. The Land-use Planner has been used in Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo have started to engage with the tool.

www.landuseplanner.org

Land-use Finance Tool

The Land-use Finance Tool

The Land-use Finance Tool offers methodological guidelines to countries, jurisdictions and their partners to map public and private investments that support forest and climate objectives, and those which might be driving deforestation. Comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of land-use investments is a key step to building robust REDD+ investment frameworks. Such analysis can also help leverage additional sources of funding, and support efforts to coordinate and align spending towards climate objectives. Côte d’Ivoire, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam have used the Tool to test this approach. The Tool’s guidelines are available for download.

www.landusefinance.org

Transparency Pathway

The Transparency Pathway

The Transparency Pathway is a collaborative method to manage sustainability risks in complex global supply chains at scale. It brings together stakeholders at all points of the supply chain – including governments, companies and civil society – to lay the foundation for improving sustainability and to inform trade dialogues. It charts six pragmatic steps that are designed to make collaboration between public and private supply chain actors more impactful and inclusive, while reducing costs and gaining positive visibility in global commodity markets. Incremental information disclosure is used as a mechanism to reduce information asymmetry among actors, improve governance and support increased accountability.

www.transparencypathway.org

Trase

Transparency for Sustainable Economies (Trase)

Trase is an online platform that improves the transparency, clarity and accessibility of information on the commodity supply chains that drive tropical deforestation. It provides a comprehensive overview of the flows of a commodity from producer to consumer countries. It details information on specific actors, conditions and risks in particular supply chains. Trase is a global initiative, led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and Global Canopy, to which the EU REDD Facility is a partner. The Facility supports interested governments harness such transparency for monitoring risks and opportunities in commodity production and trade.

www.trase.earth

Forest Governance Index

EFI’s Forest Governance Index (FGI) is an assessment and monitoring tool for capturing evidence in areas of governance applicable to the production, protection and conservation of forests. By utilising this tool, stakeholders gain valuable insights into the current state of forest and land-use governance, as well as legal compliance and law enforcement within their respective countries. This comprehensive understanding also extends to the historical evolution of these matters over time. As a result, stakeholders are empowered to actively engage in an informed way in ongoing forest and land-use governance processes. The EU REDD Facility supported forest governance assessments carried out in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia and the Republic of the Congo.

https://efi.int/partnerships/FGI

About the EU REDD Facility

The EU REDD Facility supports countries in improving land-use governance as part of their efforts to slow, halt and reverse deforestation. It also supports the overall EU effort to reduce its contribution to deforestation in developing countries. The Facility focuses on countries that are engaged in REDD+, an international mechanism that incentivises developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their forest and land-use sectors. The Facility is hosted by the European Forest Institute and was established in 2010.

Disclaimer

This website has been produced with the assistance of the European Union and the Governments Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. The contents of this site are the sole responsibility of the European Forest Institute’s EU REDD Facility and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of funding organisations.