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NATIONAL REDD+ SECRETARIAT

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST. Tigray REDD+ Coordination Unit. NATIONAL REDD+ SECRETARIAT. REDD+ Awareness Creation Workshop. Tigray Regional State, Mekele. September 3/2015. Contact us @ reddplusethiopia@gmail.com. Social & Environmental Consideration of REDD+. Introduction.

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NATIONAL REDD+ SECRETARIAT

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  1. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST Tigray REDD+ Coordination Unit NATIONAL REDD+ SECRETARIAT REDD+ Awareness Creation Workshop Tigray Regional State, Mekele September 3/2015 Contact us @ reddplusethiopia@gmail.com

  2. Social & Environmental Consideration of REDD+

  3. Introduction What does safeguard mean? • technical measures to prevent problems (protecting your computer from viruses) • precautionary stipulations or devices (e.g., laws protecting the rights of citizens, environmental and social impact assessments)

  4. Cancun, Mexico At COP 16th in December 2010, Parties to the UNFCCC adopted the decisions to include a list of safeguards for REDD+

  5. Cont.. Safeguards for REDD+ have been included in the Cancun Agreement to ensure that REDD+ actions do not cause negative social or environmental impacts.

  6. Cont.. • Objective of Social and Environmental safeguards • Mitigate negative impacts • Eg. Resettlement, Lack of access, • Enhance Positive impacts • Eg. Enhancing biodiversity, improving forest governance and empowering relevant stakeholders

  7. Cont.. • How do we achieve these Objectives • Through developing and following procedures and approaches of safeguard instruments

  8. Cont.. Addressing and respecting the safeguards is a prerequisite for receiving performance based payments

  9. Where does Safeguards fall in a REDD+ readiness framework? MRV ( RL & REL) REDD+ strategy Study on D & D Legal Institutional study Strategic options SESA/ESMF study Grievance, Benefits sharing, Institutional set up, Carbon ownership, Policy, proclamation, laws, directives (Forest, env”t )

  10. Potential Environment & Social benefits & risks Potential Environmental benefits of REDD+

  11. Cont..

  12. Potential Environmental Risks of REDD+

  13. Cont..

  14. Potential Social benefits of REDD+ Improve Rights & Access • Improve rights & access to forest • Increase supply of, access to, value of forest products • Improve benefit sharing Improve livelihood & Poverty reduction • Investment in alternative livelihood • Increase employment • Improve food security Social inclusion & gender empowerment • Increase voice for women • Reduce social gap

  15. Potential Social risks of REDD+ Social Exclusion • Exclusion of landless • Exclusion of cultural/ spiritual values & traditional practices Leading to inequality • Inequality in benefit sharing • Elite capture( of resources, benefits, access) • Loss of access to the forest resources Loss of livelihood

  16. Major Aims and Principles of Safeguards • “DO NO HARM”: safeguards are expected at minimum to avoid, eliminate or minimize the negative social and environmental impacts of REDD+. • “DO GOOD” safeguards are envisaged to provide co‐benefits:

  17. Cont.. • improve forest governance, • Secure and clarification of customary tenure rights for local forest dependent peoples, • Creation of new job opportunities and, • Improve ecosystem services and biodiversity.

  18. Ethiopia’s REDD+ safeguard • FCPF participant countries including Ethiopia are required to prepare the following safeguard instruments in a manner consistent with country's environmental laws, policy and regulations and the World Bank’s environmental and social safeguard policies : • SESA • ESMF • RPF • PF • C & P

  19. Cont.. SESA: is a tool that seeks to integrate social & environmental considerations into REDD+ policy-making processes, leading to more sustainable REDD+ strategies. It supports the design of National REDD+ Strategy. ESMF: establishes the principles, guidelines, and procedures for reducing, mitigating, and/or offsetting potential adverse environmental and social impacts, enhancing positive impacts and opportunities

  20. Cont.. RPF: address any potential land acquisition and/or physical relocation, as required by the WB Involuntary Resettlement policy (OP 4.12); PF: for situations of restriction of access to natural resources within legally designated parks and protected areas, as required by the WB Involuntary Resettlement policy (OP 4.12) C & P : engage all stakeholders in REDD+ process

  21. Ethe study instruments will compose: • A review of the stakeholder analysis • Initial description of the social and environmental situation of the forest sector in Ethiopia (the baseline) • Outline of the legislative, regulatory and policy regime • Outline of REDD+ strategy options • Analysis of the possible impacts of different REDD+ strategy options. • Developing legal, institutional and financial frameworks for Mitigation Measures

  22. “DO GOOD” to the Social and Natural Environment

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