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The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations Joint collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. The Programme was launched in 2008 and builds on the convening role and technical expertise of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), referred to as the participating UN organizations. The UN-REDD Programme supports nationally-led REDD+ processes and promotes the informed and meaningful involvement of all stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities, in national and international REDD+ implementation.
The UN-REDD Programme supports national REDD+ readiness efforts in two ways: (i) direct support to the design and implementation of UN-REDD National Programmes; and (ii) complementary support to national REDD+ action through common approaches, analyses, methodologies, tools, data and best practices developed through the UN-REDD Global Programme.
Having signed the UNFCCC on 11 June 1992 and ratified the convention on 25 November 1994 and the Kyoto Protocol in 2003 as a non-Annex 1 party, Myanmar is fully aware of the causes and potential impacts of climate change. Hence, whilst undertaking political reform and aiming at rapid economic development, Myanmar is striving to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The government of Myanmar has recognized the potential of REDD+ initiative to contribute to green development by protecting global environmental resources such as forest carbon stocks, biodiversity, while helping to reverse land degradation, improving the livelihoods of the rural poor and aiding adaptation to climate change.
Myanmar became a partner country of the UN-REDD Programme in December 2011 and has taken steps to start implementing REDD+ readiness activities. A REDD+ Readiness Roadmap was finalized in 2013. Since 2015 the Roadmap is under implementation through the so-called Targeted Support which has migrated to a full National Programme for UN-REDD in October 2016.
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