This annual report presents the results of the UN-REDD Programme up to and including 2020. It builds on and continues a progressive series of technical, policy and knowledge achievements at the nexus between climate and forests since the Programme’s launch in 2008.

This info brief reviews interventions under the REDD+ framework, which can catalyse improved integrated land-use planning (ILUP) from the local to the national scale. Also, it considers the needs of and success factors for an effective ILUP.

The present brief synthesizes best practices on how to meet the safeguards information system requirements and produce summaries of information on safeguards based on a decade of collective country experience.

This info brief reviews the steps taken by the UN-REDD Programme to promote gender equality and human rights-based approaches. Further it explores the need to better integrate gender responsive activities in a more cohesive and systematic way throughout REDD+, drawing from examples from REDD+ country participants. 

The present brief examines good practices implemented or promoted over the past five years under the Programme to stimulate partner countries to transition to a green economy, in which forest protection is better reflected in economic decision-making, and technical assistance is provided to incentivize private sector actors to change their...