The 6th Meeting of the informal working group on FLEGT & REDD linkages

Start at 9:30

1-       Welcome and introduction

2-       Update on EC/MS REDD+ programmes:

-       Updates on REDD+ from EC (Call for proposals, JRC project, GCCA, UNREDD)

-       Updates on REDD+ programmes from MS and Norway

3-       "Aid-ification" of REDD+: are discussions on REDD+ safeguards evolving in ways that risk replicating the errors of structural adjustment conditionalities?

-       FCPF discussion on the additional US$ 5 million grant for DRC at PC13

-       Discussion

4-       Interactions between FLEGT and REDD+ at country level

Case study: DRC

-   Intro by EFI: possible interactions and key policy issues

-   Example of REDD+ and FLEGT on the ground: where policy meets practice   or how can the work and coordination at project level feed into progress in key policy issues? (PROFOREST)

-   EC, MS and Norway approaches to forest-related work in DRC

-   Discussion

5-       Lunch

6-       REDD+: Strategies and approaches for working with the private sector

-       Certification schemes and links to FLEGT and REDD+ (PROFOREST)

-       Working with the private sector (agriculture commodities) to adopt less damaging forms of investment (UK)

-       Blending private and public money in working with small producers vs multi nationals and finance institutions (DE)

-       The US proposal (EC) 

-       Discussion

 7-       Programming next steps

-       State of play of the work of the EU REDD Facility and plans for 2013 (EFI)

-       Progress on the upcoming FLEGT and REDD+ Update Paper  prepared by Proforest / EFI for the FLEGT and REDD working group: outline and issues for discussion (Proforest)

Close around 16:00