The Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership (JTAP) is an emerging initiative to support jurisdictions and their key partners to participate in the highest integrity voluntary carbon markets, and thus catalyze tropical forest conservation and finance at scale. To achieve this, the Partnership will provide timely technical assistance to address ongoing audit, issuance, transaction, and implementation readiness needs. The JTAP envisions supporting a significant proportion of tropical forest jurisdictions to launch jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+) programs by 2030 – an outcome with the potential to unlock billions in finance for nature, protect hundreds of millions of hectares of forest, and benefit Indigenous Peoples and local communities at an unprecedented scale.
The JTAP is in an active phase of co-creation, partnership development, fundraising and piloting. We invite those who share our vision to engage and explore how we can collaborate to build an impactful and scalable approach to delivering and sustaining the technical assistance that forest nation stakeholders are urgently requesting. Together, we can support countries to access finance for high integrity credits, and scale up tropical forest conservation.
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In our many conversations with forest governments, the need for technical assistance has been a recurring theme. The JTA Partnership can help many of these governments to overcome the significant barriers they face in developing programs to generate-high integrity forest carbon credits. As such it brings the potential to unlock billions of dollars of climate finance from the private sector, including LEAF Coalition Buyers.
Eron Bloomgarden
CEO of Emergent
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As a Country pioneering broad level sustainable action to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, through jurisdictional REDD+ that creates tangible results and payments, the value of capacity building and hand holding in our journey cannot be overemphasized.
Minister Samuel A. Jinapor
MP, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources
Ghana
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What is the JTAP?
The Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership (JTAP) is an emerging initiative to support jurisdictions and their key partners to participate in the highest integrity voluntary carbon markets, and thus catalyze tropical forest conservation and finance at scale. The initiative aims to provide vital access to timely technical assistance to address ongoing transaction, audit, implementation, and issuance readiness needs, benefitting people, nature, and the climate.
To deliver on its agenda, the JTAP will complement existing technical assistance efforts, further seeding and strengthening effective partnerships within and among jurisdictions and delivery partners. This will also enable the JTAP to help bridge gaps in available technical assistance for jurisdictions seeking to meet high-integrity jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+) standards and market requirements.
Who are the founders of JTAP?
The JTAP is a collaboration under development, with founding members that include Conservation International; Climate, Law and Policy; Environmental Defense Fund; Wildlife Conservation Society; and Winrock International’s Ecosystem Services Unit. These organizations have decades of collective expertise in supporting the design and implementation of REDD+ programs, and a history of collaborative engagement with forest jurisdictions, Indigenous People and local communities and local stakeholders to advance the implementation of high-integrity J-REDD+ programs. Members of the Forest & Climate Leaders Partnership will also engage with the JTAP through participation in its advisory committee to shape the initiative’s strategic direction, and by amplifying the learnings and results of the partnership across its member jurisdictions. From this foundation, these initial members are committed to building inclusive, networked partnerships to scale high-integrity J-REDD+ with key government focal points, with Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and with leading local NGOs.
The JTAP is in an active phase of co-creation, partnership development, fundraising and piloting. We invite those who share our vision to engage and explore how we can collaborate, to build an impactful and scalable approach to delivering and sustaining the technical assistance that forest nation stakeholders are urgently requesting.
Why is JTAP being formed?
The JTAP has been assembled in response to growing requests for support from tropical forest countries seeking to participate in an evolving voluntary carbon marketplace. JTAP partners are working to align their complementary resources, expertise, networks, and capabilities with one another, and with other key actors in this landscape, in order to deepen and focus the technical support available to tropical forest countries requesting assistance. The JTAP aims to empower forest nations to overcome technical barriers, and to share and amplify learnings and best practices across borders, in order to foster successful J-REDD+ outcomes globally. The work of the Partnership will aim to help forest countries unlock finance for successful conservation and sustainable management of forests – in turn accelerating climate action, bolstering biodiversity, and fostering equitable participation, partnership, and benefits for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
How is the Partnership complementary to existing technical assistance sources?
The JTAP’s approach seeks to complement and expand on existing technical assistance efforts by further seeding and strengthening effective partnerships within and among forest jurisdictions and delivery partners. Rather than duplicating or replacing other important support, JTAP partners work to identify and bridge gaps in available technical assistance, accelerating J-REDD+ progress by targeting the support identified as most critical by jurisdictions and local partners themselves. In line with this, the Partnership is being designed to foster deep collaboration in service of and alongside leading local civil society organizations, social organizations for Indigenous People and local communities, and forest country governments – with a focus on long-term local capacity building.
The JTAP initiative is already helping to focus and align partners’ respective J-REDD+ technical assistance (TA) efforts, fostering increasingly effective coordination amongst major delivery efforts around the globe. JTAP will continue to work to establish coordination channels and to align on priorities and activities with other key J-REDD+ TA supporters, to ensure complementarity and provide effective coverage of key TA priorities for jurisdictions. This cooperation is envisioned through coordination mechanisms at the jurisdiction level, as well as through the establishment of a global knowledge management platform – an effort to identify best practices and pitfalls; to create, curate, and amplify the impact of valuable resources and toolkits; and to facilitate and amplify cross-jurisdictional learning and exchange.
How can I learn more?
More information will be shared on this website as the initiative develops.
In the meantime, we invite you to reach out to connect with us on potential pathways to partnership and coordination. We welcome your questions, comments, and ideas; you can also sign up to receive future updates, and to be notified of targeted opportunities to engage with us as they emerge.