The presentation of Charles Meshak, of Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG), to the IIED-hosted Moving ahead with Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) workshop on 9-10 April 2014. The presentation, made during the fifth session on social and environmental safeguards of REDD+, focused on experiences on incorporating safeguards at pilot project level in Tanzania. More details on TFCG: http://www.tfcg.org/. Further details of the workshop and IIED's work on REDD+ are available via http://www.iied.org/coverage-moving-ahead-redd-prospects-challenges-workshop.

1. 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.

2. Outlines
 Project Location and
Overview
 Free Prior and Informed
Consent (FPIC).
 Social Impact
Assessment (SIA)
 REDD+ Safeguard
Information System
(SIS)
 Lessons Learned

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Free, Prior and
Informed consent
 Information and
communication
 Consent and negotiation
 Time
 Rights

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. Conceptual model

10. Participatory Forest
Management: example

11. Example of a results chain for
participatory forest management
Strategies with the desired
outcomes necessary to
accomplish key REDD
objectives

12. 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, and
IF communities are equipped with effective tools for addressing expected increases in
wildlife populations, and
IF there is successful reduced dependence on forest resources, and
IF communities generate salable VERs, and
IF communities sell the VERs,
THEN communities will generate income from managing local forests sustainably.

13. REDD+ Safeguard
Information System (SIS)
 Standards development
process
 The Tanzania REDD+
Safeguard Standards
 There are 8 principles
 Legality and operationalizing
the safeguards

14. 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 Sevices
48%
Improved
agriculture
26%
Improved
houses
26%
Sustainable
forest
management
0%
Individual Priorities Percentage

15. 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.