The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) 2025 Annual Report highlights a year of strong progress in results-based climate finance and in helping countries prepare for the next phase of high-integrity carbon markets.
FCPF 2025 Annual Report
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1. Opening of Participants Committee Meeting (PC21)
- Hon. Nii Osah Mills, Minister, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Republic of Ghana
- Henry G.R. Kerali, Country Director, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Africa region, World Bank
- Samuel Afari Dartey, Chief Executive, Forestry Commission, Ghana
- Stephen Kwabena Opuni, Chief Executive, Ghana Cocoa Board
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- Yaw Kwakye, Head, Climate Change Unit, Forestry Commission, Ghana
- Simon Stumpf, Deputy Head of Division, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
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- Stephanie Tam, Facility Management Team (Presentation)
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2. Readiness Packages
- Alex Lotsch, Facility Management Team (Presentation)
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- Sindhu Prasad Dhungana, Joint Secretary and Chief, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (Presentation)
- Mohan Poudel, Under Secretary, REDD Implementation Center, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
- Simon Rietbergen, Technical Advisory Panel expert (Presentation)
- Rajesh Koirala, Facility Management Team, on behalf of Abdelaziz Lagnaoui, Task Team Leader, World Bank (Presentation)
- Readiness Package (English) , Cover Letter (English)
- TAP Assessment report (English)
- GRM Report 2016 (English)
- (Nepal draft SESA and ESMF Reports)
- (Nepal REDD+ Implementation Framework)
- (REDD Social and Env Standard)
- (REDD training manual)
- (REDD+Training-Mannual-for-Mid-Level)
- (Role of forest on climate change adaptation)
- (Demand and Supply of Wood Products)
- (Institutional and cost benefit sharing arrangement)
- (Nepal draft MRV Report)
- (Report on Forest Carbon Ownership)
- (Drivers of deforestation&Deg in high mountain)
- (A report on outreach and capacity building)
- (Economic Modeling2Forcast Future Deforestation)
- (Nepal Customary Right ReportPDF)
- (Nepal draft FGRM Report)
- (Nepal draft FRL documents)
- (Nepal draft National REDD+ Strategy)
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- Yaw Kwakye, Head, Climate Change Unit, Forestry Commission, Ghana (English)
- Peter Graham, Technical Advisory Panel expert (English)
- Asferachew Abate Abebe, Task Team Leader, World Bank (English)
- Readiness Package
- TAP Assessment (English)
- GRM 2016 (English)
- SESA report (English)
- Supporting Documents (English)
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- Georges Claver Boundzanga, National REDD+ Coordinator, Ministry of Forest Economy, Sustainable Development and the Environment (Presentation)
- Juergen Blaser, Technical Advisory Panel expert (Presentation)
- Daniela Goehler, Facility Management Team, on behalf of Julian Lee, Task Team Leader, World Bank (Presentation)
- Parfait Dihoukamba, Representative of Indigenous Peoples, RENAPAC (Presentation)
- Readiness Package (English)
- TAP Assessment (English)
- Republic of Congo R-Package Reference Documents (English)
- GRM 2016 (English)
- Methodological Note (French)
- WCS Consultation Report (English)
- Readiness Package workplan (English)
- R-package work plan (French)
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- TAP Assessment Report - Readiness Package self-assessment (English)
- Angelo Francesco Sartori Ruilova, Chilean Government Representative, CONAF (Presentation)
- Osvaldo Quintanilla, Chilean Government Representative, CONAF
- Simon Rietbergen, Technical Advisory Panel expert (Presentation)
- Leonel Iglesias, Facility Management Team, on behalf of Peter Jipp, Task Team Leader, World Bank (Presentation)
- Readiness Package (English, Spanish)
- Social and Environmental Strategy Assessment (SESA) (Spanish)
- Environmental and Social Mgmt Framework (ESMF) (Spanish)
- Safeguards Implementation Plan (Spanish)
- Emission Reductions Title Transfer and Benefit Sharing (Spanish)
- Report on Drivers of Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Spanish)
- Forest Reference Emissions Level/Forest Reference Level (Spanish)
- Climate Change National Strategy (ENCCRV) (Spanish)
- National Action Program to Combat Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (Spanish)
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- Nguyen Van Ha, Deputy Director General of the Administration of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Presentation)
- Vu Tan Phuong, Director, Training and International Cooperation Department, Vietnam Academy of Forest Sciences
- Harrison Kojwang, Technical Advisory Panel expert (Presentation)
- Alex Lotsch, Facility Management Team, on behalf of Lan Nguyen, Task Team Leader, World Bank (Presentation)
- Readiness Package (English)
- Cover Letter (English)
- TAP Assessment (English)
- GRM (English)
- Supporting documents (English)
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3. Mid-Term Progress Reports with requests for additional funding
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- GRM 2016 (English)
- Saret Khorn, Deputy Director, Department of Forest and Community Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (Presentation)
- Joel Scriven, Regional Technical Specialist, United Nations Development Programme (Presentation)
- Mid-term Progress Report and Request for Additional Funding (English)
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- Mamitiana Andriamanjato, Coordinator, REDD+ National Coordination Office (Presentation)
- Tracy Johns, on behalf of the co-Team Task Leaders Giovanni Ruta and Erik Reed, World Bank (Presentation)
- Mid-term Progress Report and Request for Additional Funding (English)
- GRM 2016 (English)
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- Aide Memoire (Spanish)
- GRM 2016 (English)
- Support letter from Northern Regional Autonomous Caribbean Coast Government RACCN (Spanish)
- Support letter from Southern Regional Autonomous Caribbean Coast Government RACCS (English)
- Nicaragua ENDE REDD+ Video (English)
- Javier Gutierrez, ENDE-REDD+ Project Coordinator, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MARENA) (Presentation)
- Augusto García, Task Team Leader, World Bank (Presentation)
- Mid-term Progress Report (English, Spanish) (Annexes) , Corrigendum (English) , Fe de Errata (English, Spanish)
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4. Report back from contact groups
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5. Facility and other issues
- FMT update (Presentation)
- Oversight Committee update (Presentation)
- Conclusions and Recommendations of the Evaluation Team (Indufor) (Presentation)
- Second Evaluation of the FCPF Report Chapter 7 (English)
- Second Evaluation of the FCPF Executive Summary Table 2 (English)
- Spanish translation of the Chapter 7 and Table 2 Ex. Summary (Spanish)
- French translation of the Chapter 7 and Table 2 Ex. Summary (French)
- Neeta Hooda, Facility Management Team
- Yaw Kwakye, Head, Climate Change Unit, Forestry Commission, Ghana
- Beth Nelson, International Climate Fund Programme Manager - Forests and Land Use at Department of Energy and Climate Change, United Kindgom
- Majella Clarke, Head of Evaluation Team, Indufor
- Marko Katila, Quality Manager of Evaluation, Indufor
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6. Closing
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- 1 Endorsement of Nepal's Readiness Package (English, Spanish, French)
- 2 Endorsement of Ghana's Readiness Package (English, Spanish, French)
- 3 Endorsement of RoC's Readiness Package (English, Spanish, French)
- 4 Endorsement of Chile's Readiness Package (English, Spanish, French)
- 5 Endorsement of Vietnam's Readiness Package (English, Spanish, French)
- 6 Cambodia Additional Funding Request (English, Spanish, French)
- 7 Madagascar Additional Funding Request (English, Spanish, French)
- 8 Nicaragua Additional Funding Request (English, Spanish, French)
- 9 Gratitude (English, Spanish, French)
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1. Opening of Participants Assembly Meeting
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- Ellysar Baroudy, Facility Management Team
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2. Reports from the FMT and PC
- Ellysar Baroudy, Facility Management Team
- FCPF Annual Report FY16 (English)
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3. Remarks by Observers and Delivery Partners
- 3b. United Nations Development Programme (Remarks)
- 3c. UN-REDD Programme (Remarks)
- 3d. Indigenous Peoples (Remarks)
- 3e. Southern civil society organization (Remarks)
- 3f. International Organizations (Remarks)
- Omar Samayoa, Climate Change Specialist, IADB
- Tim Clairs
- Tim Clairs, on behalf of Mario Boccucci
- Grace Balawag, Tebtebba
- Kanwar Iqbal, Institute of Sustainable Development
- Adriana Vidal, Forest Policy Officer, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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4. Remarks by Other REDD+ Initiatives
- 4b. BioCarbon Fund
- Ellysar Baroudy on behalf of the Forest Investment Program (Presentation)
- Ellysar Baroudy, Facility Management Team (Presentation)
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5. Legal Matters
- Simon Whitehouse, Facility Management Team
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- Caucus of REDD Country Participants
- Caucus of Donor Participants and Carbon Fund Participants
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- Moderator: Michael Bucki, European Commission
- Josefina Braña Varela, Senior Director of Forest and Climate, World Wildlife Fund (Presentation)
- Dr. Vu Tan Phuong, International Cooperation Department, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam (Presentation)
- Dr. Yitebitu Moges, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ethiopia
- Angelo Sartori, Corporación Nacional Forestal, Chile (Presentation)
- Ghislain Hippolyte Sabin Guendehou, UNFCC Technical Assessor
- Alex Lotsch, Senior Carbon Finance Specialist, World Bank
6. Knowledge Sharing
- Moderator: George Akwah, IUCN (Presentation)
- Fabiola Navarrete, National Forest Commission, Mexico
- Kenneth Peralta, Ministry of Environment, Peru
- Roselyn Adjei, Assistant Manager REDD+ Safeguard and GenderSpecialist Forestry Commission, Ghana
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- Roselyn Adjei, Assistant Manager REDD+ Safeguard and GenderSpecialist Forestry Commission, Ghana
- Rebecca Asare from Ghana
- Dr. Vu Tan Phuong, International Cooperation Department, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam
- Moderator: Beth Nelson, United Kingdom
- Angelo Sartori, Corporación Nacional Forestal, Chile
- Jorge Mario Rodriguez Zuniga, FONAFIFO, Costa Rica
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