The project “Facilitating REDD+ benefit sharing in Peru” (2013-2016) aimed to implement early REDD+ actions enabled by appropriate, efficient and equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms that are sufficiently robust to be mainstreamed into long-term national and international REDD+ frameworks. Among the main lessons learnt of the project: The need to establish a clear model of governance between the different actors to potentiate the strengths of sustainable forest management and the need of adaptive management to adjust an initiative at national and local context of the native community are highlighted.