Can REDD+ social safeguards reach the 'right' people? Lessons from Madagascar
There is extensive debate about the potential impact of the climate mechanism REDD+ on the welfare of forest-dwelling people
Abstract
There is extensive debate about the potential impact of the climate mechanism REDD+ on the welfare of forest-dwelling people. To provide emission reductions, REDD+ must slow the rate of deforestation and forest degradation: such a change will tend to result in local opportunity cost to farmers at the forest frontier. Social safeguard processes to mitigate negative impacts of REDD+ are being developed and can learn from existing safeguard procedures such as those implemented by the World Bank. Madagascar has a number of REDD+ pilot projects with World Bank support including the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena (CAZ). Nearly two thousand households around the corridor have been identified as ‘project affected persons’ (PAPs) and given compensation. We compare households identified as project affected persons with those not identified.
This research was supported by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme
Citation
Poudyal, M., Ramamonjisoa, B., Hockley, N., Rakotonarivo, O., Gibbons, J., Mandimbiniaina, R., Rasoamanana, A., Jones, J., Can REDD+ social safeguards reach the ‘right’ people? Lessons from Madagascar, Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, vol.37, pp.31-42, 2015
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