United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

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REDD and Governance in Indonesia: feasibility studies on corruption and law enforcement

1. Project Code and Sector

2. Project Background and Justification

This project will identify possible challenges that the REDD programme may encounter in ensuring sustainable forest and law enforcement governance (FLEG). The successful implementation of REDD in Indonesia is threatened by numerous obstacles including the risks of corruption/fraud and the weak response of law enforcement agencies to the new responsibilities deriving from the REDD programme. Hence this project will assess the feasibility of REDD vis-à-vis corruption and law enforcement through two studies that will highlight the main challenges and will recommend policy and regulatory solutions to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of support through the REDD programme.

3. Overall Objective, Outcomes, Outputs and Activities

Objective:

Trafficking of illegally sourced forestry products identified and effectively acted on.

This objective will be achieved through coordinated and well calibrated interventions led by the Government of Indonesia, REDD partners, and civil society.

Outcome:

Effective forest governance policies and regulatory frameworks established and implemented This outcome remains ultimately under the responsibility of the main national authorities, to which this project attempts to provide support.

Output 1.1: Implications of REDD on Law Enforcement capacities identified and policy regulatory recommendations produced

The project will produce a report that sheds light on the direct and indirect consequences that the implementation of REDD will have on Forest Law Enforcement Governance (FLEG). It will identify the likely obstacles that forest rangers, police officers, border police, and other law enforcers may encounter in ensuring compliance with the REDD regulations at national and local level. It will then identify opportunities for policy regulatory and operational improvement, through a set of clear recommendations aimed at decision makers.

Output 1.2: Opportunities for corruption within and around REDD identified and reduced

The project will produce a report outlining a national strategy to prevent and/or mitigate the risk of corruption and fraud related to REDD financial transfers in connection with carbon trading and compensation payments. A training plan to introduce the strategy in the law enforcement machinery will be produced.