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Safeguards in REDD+ financing schemes

29 April, 2013

Among the many aspects of REDD+[i] under close scrutiny by indigenous peoples and civil society organisations, the issue of safeguards and their implementation is the one that continues to attract the most concern. This is particularly true now in the current debate on REDD+ and its degree of implementation and operationalisation. Since 2010, when the 16th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted its decision on REDD+ and related safeguards, a continuous process of elaborations, negotiations, and adjustments has taken place at various levels. The debate on safeguards has become both an opportunity for indigenous peoples and civil society to further enhance their calls for respect of internationally recognised rights and standards, and a leverage opportunity for donors to seek compliance for the use of funds transferred to REDD+ countries. As with other REDD+-related issues the safeguard debate has developed in a very complex manner, and has bifurcated into two streams. One stream is aimed at establishing norms and tools to prevent REDD+ from doing harm to the environment and forest peoples, the other is aimed at ensuring a proper assessment of potential benefits, known in technical jargon as a “do good” approach.

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Forest Peoples Programme Comments on Suriname’s Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP), 23 February 2013

Forest Peoples Programme

28 March, 2013

Click here to read Forest Peoples Programme's comments on Suriname's Readiness Preparation Proposal, which was submitted to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) by Suriname in February 2013. 

Read the FCPF's resolution on the Suriname R-PP at their 14th Participants Committee Meeting (19-21 March 2013) here. 

application/pdf iconFPP Comments on Suriname R-PP (0.2 MB)
application/pdf iconFCPF Resolution (0.2 MB)

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Independent verification of the Guyana-Norway MoU on Low Carbon Development finds failures to meet commitments on indigenous peoples' rights and insufficient processes for consultation and FPIC

16 December, 2012

Between 1 October 2010 - 30 June 2012 the Rainforest Alliance carried out a second verification audit of progress related to indicators for the Guyana-Norway REDD+ Agreement. Their final report, which includes extracts from the Wapichan's territorial management plan on FPIC, can be viewed here. 

application/pdf iconRainforest Alliance 2nd Verification Audit - December 2012 (English) (0.7 MB)

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AIDESEP letter to FIP and FCPF highlighting their continued concerns with the National REDD strategy in Peru being financed by the World Bank

27 March, 2012

On the eve of the World Bank's Forest Investment Programme (FIP) joint mission to Peru and the meeting of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Partcipants Commitee in Asuncion (PC 11), the national Indigenous Amazonian peoples federation of Peru (AIDESEP) have sent a letter to the FIP and FCPF informing them of their serious concerns regarding the development of the FIP strategy for Peru and the broader national REDD strategy. Their concerns include the apparent lack of progress on addressing outstanding land tenure issues and regulation of pilot REDD projects. The letter also highlights procedural issues including the lack of participation of AIDESEP within the mission itself as well as the failure to circulate the Terms of Reference of the Mission four weeks beforehand as required by FIP operational guidelines. To read the letter in full (in Spanish) follow this link. 

application/pdf iconLetter - Spanish (0.4 MB)

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Forest Peoples Programme Comments and Proposals on the FCPF Draft Readiness Package Concept Note

Forest Peoples Programme

31 January, 2012

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Lessons from the field: REDD+ and the rights of indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities

25 November, 2011

In October 2011, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) conducted a survey of our local partners asking them to pinpoint key experiences and emerging lessons learned in relation to REDD+ and rights issues over the last three years. Partners who contributed include the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) and Association Okani (Cameroon), CEDEN (DRC), Foundation for the Promotion of Traditional Knowledge (Panama), Amerindian Peoples Association (Guyana), Association of Village Leaders in Suriname, Association of Saamaka Authorities (Suriname), AIDESEP (Peru), Federation for the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples (Paraguay) and Scale-up, Pusaka and FPP field staff (Indonesia). Observations and lessons are also drawn from workshops with local partners, field studies and issues stemming from indigenous peoples’ representatives in dialogues with national and international REDD+ policy-makers. Key observations and lessons are summarised below.

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New Briefing - Lessons from the field: REDD+ and the rights of indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities. November 2011

Forest Peoples Programme

23 November, 2011

Lessons from the field: REDD+ and the rights of indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities

CLICK HERE TO READ THE BRIEFING IN: ENGLISH, SPANISH AND FRENCH.

application/pdf iconBriefing - English (4.7 MB)
application/pdf iconBriefing - French (4.7 MB)
application/pdf iconBriefing - Spanish (4.5 MB)

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Letter: Carbon Fund Risks Undermining REDD Readiness

18 October, 2011

Read the Letter here

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Indigenous Peoples Action Plan regarding the Forest Carbon Partnership Fund (FCPF)

18 October, 2011

Read the Action Plan here from the Global Dialogue of Indigenous Peoples on the FCPF, Guna Yala, Panama, September 2011

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Determined lobbying by Peruvian national indigenous organisation - AIDESEP - leads to government commitment to address outstanding indigenous territorial claims

7 July, 2011

Communities that remain untitled in the region of Loreto (green dots)

On the 25th March 2011 in Dalat, Vietnam, members of the Forest Carbon Partnership Fund (FCPF) Participants Committee approved the third version of Peru’s national REDD Readiness Preparation Proposal (RPP) that the Ministry of Environment (MINAM) had been developing since 2009.

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