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.