National REDD+ Office

National REDD+ Office

REDD+ offices are housed at REDD+ Office at DoF and REDD+ Division at DFRM with full-time staff.  These offices have several tasks; including (i) implementation of the Readiness activities funded by the FCPF Readiness Grant, (ii) coordinating and monitoring other REDD+ related activities, (iii) coordinating and organizing stakeholder consultations and implementing agreed stakeholder plans, (iv) establishing arrangements for regional and international collaboration and for negotiations (v) preparing legal framework documents to support REDD+ implementation. The government is currently considering reviewing responsibilities and changing the names of these two offices from REDD+ Office under DOF and REDD+ Division under DFRM  into REDD+ Division and National REDD+ Office, respectively. This office is active and operational as the PMT are teamed up by government staff and contractual national consultants. The recruitment of the technical consulting firms, which the procurement process will be completed at the end of February 2016, will eventually make the team becomes more strengthened and functional