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Biodiversity in Côte d’Ivoire is among the richest in Western Africa. The country’s total forest area was estimated at over seven million hectares in 2000 but has fallen sharply due to high rates of deforestation and forest degradation suffered in its recent history. Several policies have been put in place to curb this trend and restore the country’s ecological capital as it makes the transition to a more sustainable model of development. Côte d'Ivoire became a UN-REDD Programme partner country in June 2011 and has developed a REDD+ Readiness Plan following a participatory approach.

Uganda has seen a rapid decline in its forest cover. To address this, Uganda embarked on a REDD+ readiness process in 2008 with substantive financial support from Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), which was complemented by financing from the Norwegian Government, the Austrian Development Corporation (ADC) and the UN-REDD Programme. By September 2017, Uganda had completed consultations on various analytical studies that contributed towards the development of 4 elements in accordance with the Warsaw framework.

This report analyses whether increased efficiency in forestry operations and forest product processing and utilization are interesting REDD+ policies and measures for the Government of Kenya to pursue, with the potential to attract public and/or private investments to enable REDD+ implementation. In particular, the report focuses on the extent to which efficiency improvements could address supply deficiency in the forest sector, thereby reducing pressures on existing forests and related emissions.