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Comments form for UN-REDD Programme Social and Environmental Principles and Criteria, version 3 (Draft for Consultation) | Unnamed: 1 | Unnamed: 2
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Principle 1 | Apply norms of democratic governance, including those reflected in national commitments and Multilateral Agreements
Criterion 1 | Ensure the integrity and transparency of fiduciary and fund management systems
Criterion 2 | Ensure accountability and legitimacy of all bodies representing stakeholders, including through establishing responsive national feedback, complaints and grievance mechanisms, amongst others
Criterion 3 | Ensure transparency and accessibility of all information related to REDD+, including active dissemination among relevant stakeholders
Criterion 4 | Ensure the full and effective participation of relevant stakeholders, in particular, indigenous peoples and other forest dependent communities, with special attention to the most vulnerable and marginalized groups
Criterion 5 | Promote coordination, efficiency and effectiveness, including cooperation across sectors and in the enforcement of laws
Criterion 6 | Ensure the rule of law and access to justice
Principle 2 | Respect and protect stakeholder rights, including human rights, statutory and customary rights, and collective rights
Criterion 7 | Respect and promote the recognition and exercise of equitable land tenure and carbon rights by indigenous peoples and other local communities
Criterion 8 | Promote and enhance gender equality, gender equity and women’s empowerment
Criterion 9 | Seek free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples and other forest dependent communities and respect and uphold the decision taken (whether consent is given or withheld)
Criterion 10 | Ensure there is no involuntary resettlement as a result of REDD+
Criterion 11 | Respect and protect traditional knowledge and cultural heritage and practices
Principle 3 | Promote and enhance forests’ contribution to sustainable livelihoods
Criterion 12 | Ensure equitable, non-discriminatory and transparent benefit sharing and distribution among relevant stakeholders with special attention to the most vulnerable and marginalized groups
Criterion 13 | Protect and enhance, while minimizing adverse impacts on, economic, social and political well-being of relevant stakeholders with special attention to the most vulnerable and marginalized groups
Principle 4 | Contribute to low-carbon, climate-resilient sustainable development policy, consistent with national development strategies, national forest programmes and commitments under international conventions and agreements
Criterion 14 | Ensure consistency with and contribution to national climate policy objectives, including mitigation and adaptation strategies and international commitments
Criterion 15 | Address the risk of reversals of REDD+ achievements, including potential future risks to forest carbon stocks and other benefits to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of REDD+
Criterion 16 | Ensure consistency with and contribution to national poverty reduction strategies and other sustainable development goals (including those outlined under the Millennium Development Goals framework), including alignment with ministries’ and sub-national strategies and plans that may have an impact on, or be affected by the forest sector and/or land use change
Criterion 17 | Ensure consistency with and contribution to national biodiversity conservation policies, other environmental and natural resource management policy objectives, national forest programmes, and international commitments
Principle 5 | Protect natural forest from degradation and/or conversion to other land uses, including plantation forest
Criterion 18 | Ensure that REDD+ activities do not cause the conversion of natural forest to other land uses, including plantation forest, and make reducing conversion due to other causes (e.g. agriculture, timber and fuelwood extraction, infrastructure development) a REDD+ priority
Criterion 19 | Minimise degradation of natural forest by REDD+ activities and make reducing degradation due to other causes (e.g. agriculture, timber and fuelwood extraction, infrastructure development) a REDD+ priority
Criterion 20 | Minimise indirect land-use change impacts of REDD+ activities on forest carbon stocks, biodiversity and other ecosystem services (including impacts of extractive activities)
Principle 6 | Maintain and enhance multiple functions of forest to deliver benefits including biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services
Criterion 21 | Ensure that land-use planning for REDD+ explicitly takes account of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation in relation to local and other stakeholders’ values, and potential synergies and trade-offs between different benefits
Criterion 22 | Ensure that planted and natural forests are managed to maintain and enhance ecosystem services and biodiversity important in both local and national contexts
Principle 7 | Minimise adverse impacts (direct and indirect) on non-forest ecosystem services and biodiversity
Criterion 23 | Minimise adverse impacts on carbon stocks, biodiversity and other ecosystem services of non-forest ecosystems resulting directly from REDD+ activities (such as afforestation)
Criterion 24 | Minimise indirect land-use change impacts on carbon stocks, biodiversity and other ecosystem services of non-forest ecosystems (including impacts of extractive activities)
Criterion 25 | Minimise other adverse indirect impacts on biodiversity and carbon stocks of non-forest ecosystems, such as those resulting from intensification of land use