The Alliance for Global REDD+ Capacity (AGRC) has announced an app-based version of its publication "The knowledge and skills needed to engage in REDD+: A competencies framework”, a resource which can be found on the REDD desk, a project of GCP. The app format allows for frequent updates, enabling the content to keep pace with evolving REDD+ policy and financing. It also makes navigation simple, permitting users to interact with each topic.

 

The app features a multi-language setting in English and Spanish and provides comprehensive information for designing and implementing REDD+ activities, helping users to understand key concepts, policy benchmarks, skills, tools and resources for ten specific REDD+ themes.  In addition to covering these themes, the app provides guidance on designing REDD+ capacity building programmes for a variety of stakeholders, with case studies on existing REDD+ capacity building programs and links to web-based resources.

 

The original publication was created with support from the Forest Carbon Markets and Communities (FCMC) Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The materials were developed by technical experts from Conservation International (CI), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, and reviewed by a multidisciplinary group of subject matter experts from governments, USAID, FCMC, NGOs and AGRC members.  The app was funded by Conservation

International through the support of an anonymous private donor.

 

The app is available for download at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/redd+-competencies-framework/id954575343?ls=1&mt=8.