Distributing the benefits from REDD+ - the case of Viet Nam

This case study examines Viet Nam's efforts to develop a benefit distribution system for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme, leveraging the country's history of decentralised forest management and international capacity building.

• Viet Nam is utilizing its existing history of benefit distribution for decentralised forest management and international capacity building to create a system compliant with the UNFCCC's REDD+ programme.
• The development of the benefit distribution system involves addressing sensitive human and indigenous rights issues, partly through free, prior informed consent, although challenges regarding forest tenure, land, and carbon persist.
• Lessons from Viet Nam's planning process include the importance of being open to governance issues, learning from existing systems, ensuring flexible and transparent funding, using pilot programmes for local adaptation, improving free, prior and informed consent, and safeguarding community benefits.
• Broader implications for other countries include the necessity for communities to have clear legal status and rights to participate in carbon markets and REDD+ contracts, the requirement for decentralised institutional structures, the separation of REDD+ funds from general government revenues, and the utility of linking payments to performance via formulas assessing carbon stock and progress toward objectives.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (2012). Distributing the benefits from REDD+ - the case of Viet Nam. https://cdkn.org/resource/inside-story-distributing-the-benefits-from-redd-the-case-of-viet-nam

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Distributing the benefits from REDD+ - the case of Viet Nam. 2012. https://cdkn.org/resource/inside-story-distributing-the-benefits-from-redd-the-case-of-viet-nam.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetwork2012distributing, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Distributing the benefits from REDD+ - the case of Viet Nam}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2012}, month = jun, url = {https://cdkn.org/resource/inside-story-distributing-the-benefits-from-redd-the-case-of-viet-nam}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }