2011/10 Land Tenure and Forest Carbon Management Workshop (Madison, WI, USA)

9:00am - 9:15am

  Welcome – Lisa Naughton

9:15am - 10:10am

Group One – Forest Cover Change vs Tenure Form and Security

Facilitator – Holly Gibbs

• Alex Pfaff – Estimating avoided deforestation by protection type: Can governance plus location equal forest plus livelihoods?
• Maggie Holland – Changing forests and overlapping tenure in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Implications for the future implementation of SocioBosque

10:10am - 10:25am

Break

10:25am - 12:05pm

Group Two – Identifying Beneficiaries and Contending with Multiple Tenure Forms and Claims

Facilitator – Jennifer Alix-Garcia

• Amy Duchelle – Land tenure, carbon rights and livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon: Learning from four incipient REDD+ initiatives
• Susana Lastarria, Manolo Morales – Efforts to secure indigenous communal land rights: A vital foundation for direct incentive forest conservation programs
• Catherine Schloegel – A case study of market-based conservation tools in Ecuador

12:10 - 1 pm

Lunch

1 pm -
2:20 pm

Group Three – Strengthening Tenure and Local Institutions to Secure Local Benefits from REDD, SE Asian Experiences

Facilitator – Ian Baird

• Amanda Bradley – Does community forestry provide the ideal platform for REDD? A case study from Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia
• Tom Evans – Pilot REDD activities in Cambodia are improving access to land tenure and to forest resource use rights for local communities
• Colin Moore, Arlyne Johnson – REDD+ in Lao PDR: Also a “plus” for forest dependent communities?  A case study from the Nam Et Phou Louey National Protected Area, Lao PDR

2:20pm - 2:35pm

Break

2:35pm - 3:45pm

Group Four – Will REDD Change State-Local Relations in Forest Governance?  National Level Analyses

Facilitator – Matt Turner

• Ian Baird – Using REDD for leveraging strong long-term forest tenure: Possibilities and obstacles from Cambodia and Laos
• Bryan Bushley – Selling the carbon commons: Decentralization, commercialization, carbon trading and resource tenure in Nepal’s community forestry

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Public Lecture and Reception – Science Hall, UW-Madison

• Keynote Speaker: Arun Agrawal – Explaining multiple outcomes on forest commons: Livelihoods, carbon and biodiversity
• Panelist Response: Brian Robinson and Rebecca Hardin

Saturday, 22 October 2011

9:00am - 9:55am

Group Five – Household-level Forest Use, Tenure and Livelihoods

Facilitator – Kelly Wendland

• Anteneh Tesfaw – Forest commons, REDD+ and tenure security in Africa
• Pam Jagger – Reforming rights: Forest access, household behavior and livelihood outcomes

10:00am - 10:55am

Group Six – Institutional and Legal Challenges for Equitable REDD

Facilitator – Cathy Day

• Peter Veit – Threats to village land in Tanzania: Implications for REDD+ Benefit Sharing Arrangements
• Darryl Vhugen – Carbon rights case study – Mozambique

10:55am - 11:10am

Break

11:10am - 12:30pm

Group Seven – Risk & Opportunity to Improve tenure security via REDD

Facilitator – Lisa Naughton

• Daju Resosudarmo – Can the existing tenure system foster effective REDD+ implementation?  Reflections from five projects in Indonesia
• William Sunderlin – Is it possible to resolve tenure insecurity at REDD+ project sites?  Evidence from Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia and Vietnam

12:30pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:20pm - 2:00pm

Plenary – Brief Synthesis by Facilitators

• Lessons for REDD from Previous Efforts to Secure Tenure – John Bruce

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Break

2:45pm - 3:45pm

Breakout Groups – Led by Guest Experts
Lessons for Policy and Practice – REDD and Beyond

Reconvene and Share Lessons. Closing Comments.