Year of publication 2012

REDD+ has the potential to increase international support for the strengthening of community land and resource rights and forest stewardship activities of indigenous peoples and local communities. Yet, the REDD+ mechanism has also sparked concern about potential adverse impacts on indigenous and community rights and livelihoods, such as negative impacts on land and resource rights, increased centralization of forest management, inequitable benefit-sharing, lack of real participation and lack of free and prior informed consent (FPIC). The learning session will tackle the rationale and need of enacting social safeguards accordingly with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) along with emerging good practices regarding social safeguards' implementation.