Guide on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples

conservation and sustainableuse of forests.• At the first FIP designmeeting, several donorgovernments stressed theneed to involve indigenouspeoples, forest-dependentcommunities and civil societyin the design of the FIP(Brazil, Norway, and Japan).Governments agreed to invitea working group, comprisinginvited representativesof governments, NGOs,indigenous peoples, privatesector and UN agencies, toprepare for the second FIPdesign meeting, as a nextstep. 16• The Bank is consideringestablishment of a permanentmechanism for consultationwith indigenous and otherforest peoples. Since then, indigenous peoples representatives havetaken part in meetings and discussions on the draft design document. InSpecific Objectives of FIPMain purpose of FIP...to support developing countries’REDD-efforts, providing up-frontbridge financing for readiness reformsand public and private investmentsidentified through national REDDreadiness strategy building efforts,while taking into account opportunitiesto help them adapt to the impactsof climate change on forests and tocontribute to multiple benefits such asbiodiversity conservation, protectionof the rights of indigenous peoples andlocal communities, 17 poverty reductionand rural livelihoods enhancements.The FIP will finance efforts to addressthe underlying causes of deforestationand forest degradation and to overcomebarriers that have hindered past effortsto do so.-Para 10, FIP Draft Design Document2 July 2009a. To initiate and facilitate steps towards transformational change indeveloping countries forest related policies and practices, through:1. serving as a vehicle to finance investments and related capacitybuilding necessary for the implementation of policies and measuresthat emerge from inclusive multi-stakeholder REDD planningprocesses at the national level;2. strengthening cross-sectoral ownership to scale up implementationof REDD strategies at the national and local levels;3. addressing key direct and underlying drivers of deforestation andforest degradation;4. supporting change of a nature and scope necessary to helpsignificantly shift national forest and land use development paths;5. linking the sustainable management of forests and low carbondevelopment;(Continued next page)68 <strong>Guide</strong> on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples