Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Tool Details

Learning Session 8: Ensuring Social Safeguards in REDD+

Year of publication 2013
Minnie Degawan, WWF Forest and Climate Initiative Adviser on Social Safeguards, discusses the importance of social safeguards in making REDD+ work and how to move from planning for safeguards to actual implementation. She also provides an overview of how to know if social safeguards are being applied effectively, and walks us through some examples of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) case studies from the field.
Type of Tool
Video or audio
Scale of Application
Forest Management Unit, National
Region
Global
Biome
All
Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted), Degraded forest
Primary Designated Function
All
Management Responsibility
All