Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)+ Community Carbon Pools Programme is a regional initiative in Southeast Asia to improve and strengthen REDD+ related forest governance,  by ensuring that the tenurial rights of indigenous and forest-dependent communities are incorporated into the decision-making process and creating Community Carbon Pools.

The programme is managed by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) working in close partnership with the NTFP-Exchange Programme and PanNature. The programme seeks to create synergies and share knowledge between the programme countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. 

Result Areas

The Programme aims to:

1. Develop national REDD+ policies that strengthen community participation and the role of  local governments in forest management.
2. Develop sub-national REDD+ procedures and regulations in four pilot sites with active civil society participation.
3. Establish Community Carbon Pools, with benefit sharing mechanisms, based on community forest tenure in four pilot sites.
4. Ensure that High Conservation Value Forests (HCVF) are protected in pilot project landscapes.