Review of the UN-REDD joint program in Papua New Guinea

This review of the 1 October 2010 version of “UN-REDD PNG National Joint Programme” (NJP) is organized in two parts. The first assesses the NJP against criteria defined in the UN-REDD Rules of Procedure regarding: ownership, participation and consultation; efficiency and effectiveness; likelihood of successfully achieving its planned outcomes as well as consistency with UN-REDD requirements and format. The second section makes recommendations to improve the Papua New Guinea Programme. It is based on an examination of the NJP proposal and earlier drafts, UN guidelines, consultation records, meeting minutes, written comments from a number of stakeholders to the REDD+ Technical Working Group and discussions with government, NGO, corporate and academic stakeholders known to the reviewer