ABSTRACT
This chapter describes SESA to efforts to avoid the fate of many other forest policies that have lacked the involvement of forest-dependent communities, failed to address key drivers of deforestation and provided either insufficient or predominantly top-down enforcement. Reducing forest loss has ancillary benefits, and various groups increasingly emphasize (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) REDD+'s potential to channel funds toward biodiversity conservation, forest-dependent countries and impoverished forest-dependent communities. Given the goal of providing funds to poor communities, many prospective REDD+ projects and policies look similar to other initiatives to protect forest resources, including Payment for Environmental Services (PES); integrated conservation-development projects (ICDPs); social forestry projects; joint forest management (JFM); community-based forest management (CBFM); and ecotourism. REDD+ is one of a number of initiatives to use forest policy to reduce carbon emissions. The chapter provides specific details of how SESA can be applied in Kenya's forest tenure reform processes, highlighting key institutional issues for future REDD+ implementation.
