Madre de Dios

Major actors and institutions

As the region with the highest number of REDD pilot initiatives, Madre de Dios features a complex set of REDD-relevant developments – largely dominated by NGOs and investing companies. This dynamic bottom-up process has provided a host of experiences and lessons, as well as progress on a number of issues. Following the logic of the nested approach, the accounting system of Madre de Dios is expected to serve as a blueprint for other regions (Tegel 2010).

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) 67 Table 6: Field-based actors and market intermediaries in Madre de Dios

(2011)

Abbreviation Name Range Remarks (activities, memberships, etc.) ACCA Asociación para

la Conservación asset holder; 3 REDD projects in Madre de Dios

CI–Peru Conservation International–

Peru

Transnational Project planning and implementation;

advisor; National Mesa REDD, REDD projects in San Martín and Madre de Dios

However, coordination and cooperation among these many (influential) actors and initiatives is difficult – and not very advanced. Even the creation of the regional Consorcio REDD and Mesa REDD did not resolve the coordination problems (Pedroni et al. 2010).

Table 6 provides an overview of major field-based actors, market intermediaries and institutions involved in the initial phase – until 2011 (Hajek et al. 2011). However, this is just a selection of the growing number of actors that are active at various levels. Other local stakeholders are increasingly seeking to influence REDD governance and pilot initiatives in Madre de Dios: indigenous communities and farmers and exploiters of timber or non-timber forest products, such as Brazil nuts. More and more national and international actors have also become involved in regional REDD activities. Our influence network mappings (see section 4.2) give an idea of this growing diversity and complexity.

Table 6 (cont.): Field-based actors and market intermediaries in Madre de Dios (2011)

Abbreviation Name Range Remarks (activities, memberships, etc.) SePerú Servicios

Ecosistémicos Perú

Regional Project planning, advisory work; member of National Mesa REDD and regional Mesas of Cusco and Madre de Dios; REDD project in Western Madre de Dios WWF Peru World Wide Fund

for Nature Peru

Transnational Advisor for National Mesa REDD and Madre de Dios

2. Non-profit natural resource management organizations AIDER Asociación para

National REDD projects in Madre de Dios and Ucayali

Maderacre National Owns forest concession in Madre de Dios 4. Financial boutiques

Asesorandes National Project for sustainable forest management in

Regional Federation for Native Communities of Madre de Dios

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) 69 Table 6 (cont.): Field-based actors and market intermediaries in Madre de

Dios (2011)

Abbreviation Name Range Remarks (activities, memberships, etc.) 6. Grassroot organization (local forestry interests)

ASECAM Asociación de

Regional Department of natural resources; convenes regional Mesa REDD

Market intermediaries 1. Technical consultancies

Carbon Decisions Transnational Irish carbon-consulting company that provides for forestry and natural resource management

Table 6 (cont.): Field-based actors and market intermediaries in Madre de Dios (2011)

Abbreviation Name Range Remarks (activities, memberships, etc.)

Transnational Cooperate of

international NGOs and

Transnational National Mesa REDD

4. Information providers

Forest Trends Transnational Non-profit organization that provides analyses

Transnational Supplies and trades carbon dioxide emission credits and offsets in carbon markets; member of the Katoomba Group Source: Authors (based on Hajek et al. 2011)

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) 71 Relevant policy processes

Madre de Dios greatly differs from San Martín regarding the chief REDD governance processes. Whereas the regional government actively shapes the process in San Martín – through the GRN acting as regional environmental authority and its Plan Forestal Regional – the Regional Government of Madre de Dios (Gobierno Regional de Madre de Dios, GOREMAD) played a minor role until 2011, especially regarding REDD implementation.

This is partly due to the GRN’s lack of capacities and the fluctuation of its leadership and staff, which leads to a lack of the institutional memory, technical know-how and networking skills that are necessary to guide actors with very varied capacities – from experienced and skilled investors and NGOs to poorly informed forest users.

Madre de Dios has the most REDD project initiatives in Peru; depending on the criteria for defining such projects, there are at least 12 at the time of writing. Given the regional government’s modest role, this relatively high number of initiatives creates a major challenge for coordination (Pedroni et al. 2010).

The regional REDD roundtables

This coordination gap was first addressed on 2 December 2009 when private and public actors created the regional Mesa REDD in Madre de Dios.

Like its counterparts in San Martín and at the national level, the regional Mesa seeks to provide a major platform for debating the development and implementation of REDD in Madre de Dios (ibid.).

Under GRN’s aegis, the Mesa has brought together a growing number of stakeholders: GOREMAD members and other regional officials, investors and environmental NGOs, as well as representatives of indigenous peoples and researchers from local universities. However, like the national Mesa, other representatives – non-indigenous, forest users – have stayed away (see section 4.4).

In May 2013, GOREMAD granted institutional status to the Mesa REDD+

Indígena of Madre de Dios in Regional Ordinance No. 018-2013-RMDD/CR.

Notwithstanding challenges for coordination, the REDD debate in Madre de Dios is relatively advanced in some regards because of the region’s plethora of investors, NGOs and experts. By mid-2011, the reference scenarios for

emissions from deforestation were much more elaborated than in other parts of the country, a direct result of the creation of the Consorcio REDD de Madre de Dios in August 2009. Public organizations, NGOs and private enterprises have jointly developed reference scenarios within this consortium, and working groups have analysed the history of regional deforestation. They also check the production of biomass and carbon stocks, and plan to model regional deforestation using satellite data. In addition, the consortium has provided technical advice to the Mesa REDD of Madre de Dios (ibid.).