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In the second phase, the consultative phase showed that there has been twoconsultative phases, one for the National Framework and a second, still on-going, forthe strategy. This showed a unique willingness to include stakeholders in policyformation. How all these different inputs are prioritized still, however, remains to beseen.Returning to the Resource Regime Framework Model, based on the political actors asmentioned above, their preferences, actions and interactions is then what has greatlyplayed a part in deciding on how the REDD architecture looks like, i.e. the powerstructure between national and international stakeholders in particular has decidedwhich actors preferences and wishes have been heard and taken into account, as hasthis structure played a great part in which stakeholders to be included and which toexclude. Thus the second box of Vatn´s model will now be presented, in the form ofthe institutions which govern the policy process and which ultimately will have theentail the constitutions and collective choice rules. Therefore on the basis of havingviewed governance as process, which we have done above, we follow the model´sdistinction and now look at governance as structure, which again is highly based onthis process.This will thus give us useful insight on how a REDD regime eventually will beworking after its completion in 2012.6.2 The National REDD+ architectureIn Tanzania, PFM have been found to some degree to counter deforestation and forestdegradation in unreserved forests and it has thus been included as a major element inthe National Forest Policy and the following Act of 2002 (United Republic ofTanzania 2010). Because of this, one of the conditions Tanzania imposed on REDDwhen first introduced was that all REDD related programmes and projects had toinclude some PFM segments in their implementation efforts.Today, the main FBD‟s strategies such as centralized forest management and PFM arenot fully realized partially owing to poor governance at all levels. Some of the key143