Partners Contact SNV Netherlands Development Organisation Overall project management coordination and monitoring of the project as part of an expanding Vietnam and Asia regional REDD+ programme For more information please contact: Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST) All activities pertaining to REDD+ in Vietnam; the REDD+ Office will be the lead government agency facilitating implementation Steve Swan Technical Advisor Tel.: +84 3845 3791 E-mail: sswan@snvworld.org Nguyen Vinh Quang Project Leader Tel.: +84 3845 3791 E-mail: qnguyenvinh@snvworld.org and visit our website: www.snvworld.org/redd This project is part of the International Climate Intitiative The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag Delivering Multiple Benefits from REDD+ in Southeast Asia The Project REDD+ could contribute to a range of policy goals above and beyond climate change mitigation These include pro-poor rural development, better forest governance and protection of basic human rights as well as biodiversity conservation and enhanced ecosystem service provision How can these ‘multiple benefits’ be delivered, together with emissions reductions, through design and implementation of national REDD+ strategies and programmes? The VNFOREST-SNV project ‘Delivering Multiple Benefits from REDD+ in Southeast Asia’ (MBREDD) project aims to support the governments of Vietnam and Laos in implementing national REDD+ programmes that promote broader social and environmental benefits beyond REDD+’s central climate change mitigation purpose This will be achieved through identification of nationally appropriate options for responding to international safeguard commitments for REDD+, together with participatory forest monitoring, integration of multiple benefits into subnational planning, and pro-poor REDD+ benefit distribution systems Through the MB-REDD project, SNV and partners are exploring ways to maximise the multiple benefit potential of REDD+, which serves as an underlying theme cutting across priority intervention areas of the SNV REDD+ programme Results The VNFOREST-SNV project will be conducted over a six-year period between 2011 and 2016, with funding from the International Climate Initiative (ICI) of the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) Delivering REDD+ multiple benefits will require the introduction of innovative mechanisms to support sustainable livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, while delivering greenhouse gas emission reductions from forestry and other land use sectors Under this project these mechanisms will be designed and tested through demonstration, ‘proofof-concept’ pilots, from which lessons will be shared with multi-stakeholder platforms, such as national REDD+ working groups, as well as the international REDD+ community Project sites: • Vietnam (Lam Dong and Ca Mau Provinces) • Lao PDR The overall outcome of the project is that, by 2016, the technical knowledge and political capacity to deliver multiple benefits from national REDD+ programmes is established, tested and disseminated in Vietnam, and potentially replicated in Laos The expected outputs of the project include: Knowledge products on how to deliver REDD+ multiple benefits produced for international audiences; National government-led environmental and social safeguard roadmaps produced as part of national REDD+ programmes; Provincial REDD+ action plans, promoting emission reductions and multiple benefits, demonstrated at two sites in Vietnam; Participatory forest monitoring, for demonstrating multiple benefit performance, developed through government-led pilots; and Local REDD+ benefit distribution systems, which promote multiple benefits, introduced to national policy fora and subnational planning  ... with funding from the International Climate Initiative (ICI) of the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) Delivering REDD+ multiple benefits. .. project Delivering Multiple Benefits from REDD+ in Southeast Asia (MBREDD) project aims to support the governments of Vietnam and Laos in implementing national REDD+ programmes that promote... national REDD+ programmes; Provincial REDD+ action plans, promoting emission reductions and multiple benefits, demonstrated at two sites in Vietnam; Participatory forest monitoring, for demonstrating