81306982-Consultancy to track monitoring & evaluation and safeguards activities and operate and maintain the web-database

The BMZ-financed project "Climate Protection through Avoided Deforestation" (CliPAD) was launched in 2009 to support the Lao Government in its readiness for the REDD+ process at national and sub-national levels. In 2019, CliPAD Phase IV received its first out of two co-financing contributions of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The aim of "Scaling up the implementation of the Lao PDR Emission Reductions Programme (Project 2)" is the implementation of the Lao PDR Emission Reductions Program through improved governance, sustainable management of forests, landscapes and agricultural resources. Working together, authorities at national and sub-national levels as well as non-state actors will improve conditions for sustainable forest management and specifically for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). The project is expected to mitigate 11.7 million t CO2eq from May 2020 until March 2027 and will benefit 273,700 direct and 723,382 indirect beneficiaries in six provinces of northern Laos: Houaphan, Luang Prabang, Sayaboury, Bokeo, Luang Namtha and Oudomxay. The mitigation of emissions enables Laos to get access to REDD+ results-based payments. The project focuses on the following areas: 1) Strengthening the enabling environment for REDD+ through three principal means: enhancing the availability of financing for a transformation in the way Lao PDR manages its forest landscapes, revising and strengthening the legal and regulatory framework for forestry, and improving the enforcement of the new regulatory framework. 2) Supporting deforestation-free agriculture and agroforestry by enhancing productivity, increasing farmers" integration into agricultural value chains, and improving access to finance and private sector participation in economic activities that reduce pressure on forests. Here, the activities of the agriculture component are implemented through Promotion of Sustainable Agricultural Practices. 3) Supporting the implementation of sustainable forest landscape management and forest landscape restoration on over 1.5 million hectares of degraded forest lands. As part of the forestry component, the project introduces participatory planning for land and forest use and establishes a system to measure and monitor progress. Financial sustainability of the project is realized through substantial additional funding from BMZ and GCF, as well as the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund with the World Bank and other co-financing from supporting institutions. The Project is executed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and runs from 30.03.2023 to 29.03.2027.