Key elements of this five-year Programme Strategy include:

• Definition of six key work areas, on which an increasing majority of the UN-REDD Programme’s support will focus. The definition of these six work areas will enable the UN-REDD Programme to provide targeted support to 20-40 individual countries in one or more of the defined work areas. This will allow the UN-REDD Programme to continue to provide relevant support to countries far later within the REDD+ ‘life cycle.’


• Support to up to an additional 20 countries for initial REDD+ readiness, which will build on lessons learned from Quick Start support to the Programme's nine initial pilot countries.


• Creation of a new financial modality known as ‘Tier 2’, which will go beyond the Programme's Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) to include REDD+ activities undertaken by UN-REDD Programme agencies (FAO, UNDP and UNEP) that are clearly contributing to the overall UN-REDD Programme Strategy and which are funded through various sources.


• Scaling up coordination with strategic partners, including the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), the Forest Investment Program (FIP), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the REDD+ Partnership. For example, in the context of piloting multiple delivery partners for the FCPF Readiness Fund, the World Bank and the UN-REDD Programme agencies are developing common social and environmental principles.


• Delivery of the strategy, through UN-REDD National Programmes and the Global Programme

The Programme's overall VISION, defined in the Strategy is: Developing countries have significantly reduced their forest and land-based emissions, as a result of incentives from a performance-based REDD+ mechanism, while achieving national developmental goals in a sustainable and equitable manner.

The Programme's MISSION is: To support countries’ efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through national REDD+ strategies that transform their forest sectors so as to contribute to human well-being and meet climate change mitigation and adaptation aspirations.

The Strategy also identifies the following OBJECTIVE for the Programme in 2011-2015: To promote the elaboration and implementation of National REDD+ s trategies to achieve REDD+ readiness, including the transformation of land use and sustainable forest management and performance-based payments.

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