Land-use Planning and Integrated Approaches to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. UN-REDD Programme Info Brief Global

This document explains how integrated land-use planning (ILUP) can be leveraged within REDD+ to reconcile competing land uses, curb deforestation and degradation, and deliver carbon and non-carbon benefits through participatory, data-driven, multi-sector processes. It outlines success factors: inclusive stakeholder engagement, credible spatial analyses, accessible forest and land-use data, and legal, regulatory and financing frameworks tied to monitoring and enforcement. It describes UN-REDD experience since 2008, including support to 34 countries on strategies and 22 on mapping priority non-carbon benefits, and details responsibilities at national to local levels for coordination, plan adoption and safeguards such as FPIC and impact assessments. Proposed actions include coalition building, use of tools like SEPAL and Open Foris, and jurisdictional or nested approaches, with examples from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador and Indonesia. Emerging priorities link ILUP to sustainable finance and blended mechanisms to sustain long-term implementation.