Designing a REDD+ Program that Benefits Forestry Communities in Mesoamerica Synthesis Report

This paper is an integrated synthesis of the primary results of the project ―Designing a REDD Program that Benefits Forestry Communities in Mesoamerica, implemented from October 2009 to September 2010 by Fundación PRISMA and Grupo CABAL, with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The objective of this project is to orient the actions of the Climate Works Foundation in Mesoamerica, under the concept of a Mesoamerican Program on Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation that includes the equity and social justice concerns of indigenous peoples and forestry communities.