Tanzania experience on incorporating safeguards at pilot project level
Transcript of Tanzania experience on incorporating safeguards at pilot project level
Tanzania experience on incorporating safeguards at pilot project level
Presented by: Charles Meshack (TFCG)
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
April 9-10th, 2014
Moving ahead with REDD+: Prospects and Challenges.
Outlines Project Location and
Overview
Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
REDD+ Safeguard Information System (SIS)
Lessons Learned
Project Overview and Location 5 year project. Started
September 2009.
28 communities: 18 communities in a montane site and 10 in a coastal forest site
Total forest area: 174,026 ha
Located in 2 Biodiversity Hotspots
Project Purpose and strategy Purpose: To demonstrate at local, national and international levels, a
pro-poor approach to reducing deforestation and forest degradation by generating equitable financial incentives for communities that are sustainably managing or conserving Tanzanian forests at the community level
Strategy: Reducing deforestation on village land through interventions such as participatory forest management, village land use planning and improved agriculture with a view to generating REDD finance for communities.
Free, Prior and Informed consent Information and
communication
Consent and negotiation
Time
Rights
3-Step SIA Approach
Step 1: Participatory SIA at community level combined with vision-based planning.
Step 2: Landscape level social impact assessment and validation of results from Step 1.
Step 3: Communication of results to communities.
Step 1: Participatory SIA at community level
SIA Stage 1: Description of original conditions and past trends.
SIA Stage 2: Development of the social reference scenario for 5, 10 and 30 years into the future
SIA stage 3: Develop theories of change combined with vision based planning including identification of supporting and opposing factors.
Step 2: Landscape level social impact assessment
SIA Stage 1 and 2: Verified and validated information generated from villages and added input from non-community stakeholders;
SIA Stage 3: elaboration of conceptual model and theories of change based on the proposed interventions including REDD finance.
SIA Stage 4: Identification of negative social impacts and cost effective mitigation measures
Conceptual model
Participatory Forest Management: example
Example of a results chain for participatory forest management
Strategies with the desired outcomes necessary to accomplish key REDD objectives
Example of a theory of change for participatory forest management
IF the LUP strategy is implemented, and IF awareness raising is conducted in communities on the effects of unsustainable use of forests resources, and IF District provides experts at village level in forest management, and IF communities receive training on how to manage forests sustainably, and IF communities develop a Forest Management Plan that promotes sustainability, and IF communities develop bylaws that support the Plan, and IF forest rangers are supported with the right equipment to conduct patrols, and IF experts assist communities to develop tree plantations, andIF communities are equipped with effective tools for addressing expected increases in wildlife populations, andIF there is successful reduced dependence on forest resources, andIF communities generate salable VERs, andIF communities sell the VERs,THEN communities will generate income from managing local forests sustainably.
REDD+ Safeguard Information System (SIS)
Standards development process
The Tanzania REDD+ Safeguard Standards
There are 8 principles
Legality and operationalizingthe safeguards
Challenges
• Raised expectations
• Differentiating between REDD+ readiness and REDD+
• Integrating REDD
• Biases in the social reference scenario
• Complexity
• Cost
• Gender balance
• Indicator identification and development of monitoring methods
Social Sevices48%
Improved agriculture
26%
Improved houses
26%
Sustainable forest
management0%
Individual Priorities Percentage
Lessons learned• With careful facilitation Stages 1 – 4 of the SIA process
can be implemented in a participatory way using the methods described.
• In the context of REDD, linking the vision based planning with SIA worked well.
• Social reference scenario needs multiple information sources to avoid bias.
• Careful training and sharing of lessons learned is needed in order to integrate the methods with other aspects of REDD readiness.