Project
Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership (JTAP)
Funder: Forests, People, Climate
Project Timeline: April 1, 2026 - December 1, 2027
Country: Mexico
Program Areas: Ecosystem Services, Environment and Climate Finance
Contact: Pedro Piffer, Associate Director, Ecosystem Services, Pedro.Piffer@Winrock.org
As described on the Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership website, JTAP is an “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.”
JTAP seeks to support the growing number of tropical forest jurisdictions in advancing jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) 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.” (JREDD+ is short for Jurisdictional Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation; the “+” refers to additional activities like forest conservation, sustainable management and improving forest health and carbon storage. JREDD+ programming involves government-led efforts to reduce deforestation and protect forests across an entire jurisdiction, such as a country or state, while unlocking climate finance tied to those results.)
Currently, JTAP is in an active phase of “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,” according to the JTAP website.
In addition to Winrock International, founding partners include the Environmental Defense Fund, Climate Law & Policy, Conservation International, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.