BY ROGER MUCHUBA Groupe Travail Climat REDD, DR CONGO ...

Challenges for REDD in Congo Basin Identifying the real drivers of deforestation and degradation not point communities as causes of forest deforestation How to ensure that benefit sharing is real? Sustainable Forest Management could lead to subsidies forindustrial logging through REDD Indigenous and forest peoples must benefit from REDD Legal reforms needed to recognise community-based forestry Need to ensure fair and participatory zoning plan How to apply social and environmental safeguards in relation toREDD? Focus should be on natural forest not plantation Take into consideration UNDRIP specially FPIC (free, prior,informed consent) Governance and transparency in all processes MRV (monitoring, reporting and verification) more than carbon How to build an effective and accessible complaint mechanism? Need to stop projected law censoring civil society