This report covers the technical assessment of the voluntary submission of Madagascar on its proposed forest reference emission level (FREL), in accordance with decision 13/CP.19 and in the context of results-based payments. The FREL proposed by Madagascar covers the activity “reducing emissions from deforestation”, which is among the activities included in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 70. For its submission, Madagascar developed a national FREL. The FREL presented in the original submission, for the reference period 2005–2013, corresponded to 21,403,938 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (t CO₂ eq) per year. As a result of the facilitative process during the technical assessment, as well as an update by the Party to the methodologies and activity data used, the reference period was changed to 2006–2015, while the FREL was modified to 34,342,327 t CO₂ eq/year. The assessment team notes that the data and information used by Madagascar in constructing its FREL are complete, partially transparent and in overall accordance with the guidelines contained in the annex to decision 12/CP.17. This report contains the assessed FREL and a few areas identified by the assessment team for future technical improvement, in accordance with the provisions on the scope of the technical assessment contained in the annex to decision 13/CP.19.