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Acknowledgements
In January 2012, Ghana’s National REDD+ Secretariat created a technical working group (see Annex 1) to advise the
development of a REDD+ registry for the country. As part of its deliberative process, the working group delegated a
core team to draft a concept note about REDD+ registries and to make a set of recommendations for Ghana which
would serve to guide the REDD+ Secretariat and National REDD+ Working Group on the development of such a
registry. The authors are therefore most grateful to all of the members of this working group for the rich discussions,
insights, guidance, and comments that informed this document. The process of thinking about a REDD+ registry for
Ghana (and other African countries) has also benefitted extensively from the specific collaboration and insights of a
few key people, including: Daniel Benefoh Tutu of Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Jacob Olander of
EcoDecision (Ecuador), Joerg Seifert-Granzin of Mesa Consult (Bolivia), Mariano Cenamo of IDESAM (Brazil), and John
Mason of Nature Conservation Research Centre (Ghana). The authors are also grateful to Mr. Robert Bamfo, the
Head of Ghana’s Climate Change Unit and National REDD+ Secretariat, for his leadership and support in this process.
Finally, the authors acknowledge the work of Climate Focus and KFW for their working paper, “National REDD+
Registries” (O’Sullivan et al. 2011) and a presentation by John O. Niles of the Tropical Forest Group on “Nesting
REDD+ with Subnational Registries” for providing the critical foundation for this concept note.