Tenure Issues in REDD+ Pilot Project Sites in Tanzania

Dokken, Therese; Caplow, Susan; Angelsen, Arild; Sunderlin, W.D.

doi:10.3390/f5020234

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“…In 1999, Tanzania's Land Act was passed to protect community land rights and acknowledge the customary tenure system in villages. However, in the draft of the Tanzania National REDD+ Strategy , village land is taken as “general land” in conflict with the customary and statutory rights as phrased in the Act (Dokken et al ), reflecting longstanding differences between forest and land authorities. The NGOs have made efforts to secure village land certificates at the national level, but the process has been challenging and more time consuming than planned (Dokken et al ).…”

Section: Citizenship In the New Global Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship

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Climate instruments such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions by Deforestation and Degradation) promise a win-win proposition as villagers in Africa are paid for their efforts to conserve forests and sequester carbon. REDD+ assembles divergent interests at different scales-from bureaucrats to individual villagers. We argue that climate assemblages are shifting the space of the political by regulating practices that previously had local and national provenance. They are producing "state-like" effects that touch deeply on citizenship. Villagers are drawn into a shifting REDD+ assemblage and subject to new identifications as entrepreneurs and responsible environmental citizens, meant to look after a new global commons. We shift the discussion to deal seriously with questions of a "global" citizenship, not in its utopian sense, but by bringing into light the dark side of global citizenship already in practice in environmental governance. Forests and peoples are in practice made global-we must conceptualize the rights of this "global" citizenship Résumé: Les dispositifs climatiques tels le REDD+ présentent une solution de «gagnant-gagnant», car les villageois africains seront payés pour leurs efforts de conservation ainsi que pour leur contribution à séquestrer le carbone. REDD promet donc de contribuer à la fois au développement local et à la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. REDD+ est rendu possible par la facon dont il promet de rassembler des intérêts divergents et multiéchelles, qui regroupent bureaucrates et villageois. Nous soutenons que les assemblages climatiques déplacent l'espace politique, en se substituant à des pratiques qui avaient auparavant une provenance locale et nationale. La réglementation de ces pratiques pour des raisons climatiques produisent un effet «Étatique» qui interviennent profondément dans l'exercise de la citoyenneté. Les villageois sont embarqués dans un assemblage REDD+ en mouvement, et soumis à des nouvelles identifications en tant qu'entrepreneurs et citoyens environnementaux responsables, chargés de s'occuper d'un nouveau bien commun mondiale. Nous proposons de traiter sérieusement la question d'une citoyenneté «mondiale», non pas dans un sens utopique, mais dans un perspectif qui puisse jeter de la lumière sur la façon dont la gouvernance environnementale imposent des nouveaux devoirs des citoyens africains. Les forêts et les peuples sont déjà dans la pratique devenues mondiale-nous proposons de conceptualiser les droits d'une nouvelle citoyenneté «mondiale».

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Section: Citizenship In the New Global Commonsmentioning

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Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship

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“…The aforementioned findings were variously supported by scholars such as Veit et al (2012), Sunderlin et al (2013), Okamoto et al (2012), Mbow et al (2010), Unruh (2008), McKenzie and Childless (2011) and Dokken et al (2014). Veit et al (2012), for example, observed a number of challenges relating to land tenure and forest governance in Tanzania.…”

Section: Land Tenure Conditions In Uvinza District During Redd+ Projectmentioning

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Efficacy of forest resources governance on REDD+ performance in Uvinza district, western Tanzania

Makunga¹,

Misana²

2017

J. Geogr. Reg. Plann.

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This paper presents findings of a study on the effectiveness of forest resource governance on the performance of the REDD+ project in the Masito-Ugalla ecosystem in Uvinza district, western Tanzania through transparency, accountability, participation and integrity. The study was conducted in Ilagala, Karago and Kirando villages with the objective of understanding the effects of forest resources governance on REDD+ project performance as well as examining the best ways of integrating forest resource governance with REDD+ projects. The methods used in the study included household interviews that used a structured questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather qualitative data from key informants. The findings revealed that despite the efforts undertaken by REDD+ initiative in Masito-Ugalla ecosystem, its performance was generally average. Such performance was due to the support rendered by JUWAMMA, the inter-village community based organization, to the REDD+ project activities in the area. Poor forest resources governance had, however, continued to hamper its performance. Minimal duration of operation of the REDD+ Project and dominance of politics in conservation matters were the major reasons for its poor performance. Embezzlement of funds by politicians and senior government officials also contributed to the bad performance of the project. Villagers were also seldom engaged in decision-making. Implementing accountability by setting standards would have improved forest resources governance in the study area. The study concludes that more transparent budgeting and public procurement is inevitable for achieving good REDD+ performance. REDD+ activities also need to be addressed openly, with legal measures being taken by responsible authorities against corruption'.

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“…Since people in our study areas attach considerable trust to customary tenure to secure their rights to forest resources, the formalization of customary tenure in the DRC using the kind of community-based models seen in Tanzania (see [73]) offers a promising opportunity for addressing REDD+ implementation tenure issues in the DRC. Similarly, the DRC's enactment of a community forestry law in August 2014 could further ground attempts to formalize customary rights to forestland [74].…”

Section: Institutional Pluralism: What Are the Implications For Redd+?mentioning

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Competing Tenures: Implications for REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Samndong

Vatn

2018

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The capacity of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) forests to sequestrate carbon has attracted interest from the international community to protect forests for carbon storage and alleviate rural poverty by establishing REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Using information gathered from interviews, focus groups, field observations, and policy document analysis, this paper demonstrates that REDD+ is not well adapted to the institutional structures of forest governance in the DRC, including both statutory and customary tenure. The lack of harmonization between these systems has created a situation of competition between state and customary authorities. This has created opportunities for powerful actors to ‘shop’ between the two systems to attempt to legitimize their expanded use and control over forest resources. As the REDD+ process evolves from the preparation to the implementation phase, competing institutional structures may negatively impact the effectiveness of REDD+, as well as the distribution of costs and benefits. While the newly enacted community forest law provides an opportunity to recognize customary rights to forestland, the lack of functional local government at the district and village levels has prompted REDD+ pilot project organizers to establish new village organizations for REDD+.

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Tenure Issues in REDD+ Pilot Project Sites in Tanzania

Cited by 44 publications

References 22 publications

Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship

Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship

Efficacy of forest resources governance on REDD+ performance in Uvinza district, western Tanzania

Competing Tenures: Implications for REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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