Partnership aims “to scale up REDD+ actions and finance, and to that end to take immediate action, including improving the effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and coordination of REDD+ initiatives and financial instruments, to facilitate among other things knowledge transfer, capacity enhancement, mitigation actions and technology development and transfer” (REDD+ Partnership 2010). The Partnership is designed to be temporary, and will be folded into a future UNFCCC mechanism includingREDD+ once such a mechanism is established and agreed by the Parties. It now includes 75 country partners and continues to play an important role in coordinating REDD+ readiness efforts and collecting and sharing information across different initiatives (Hardcastle 2012, 39-40). In December 2012, the REDD+ Partnership, along with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) launched the Voluntary REDD+