In May 2019, the Congolese NGO Action pour la promotion et protection des peoples et espèces menacés (APEM) wrote to the coordinator of the World Bank’s Forest Investment Programme in the Democratic Republic. The letter followed a civil society monitoring mission of three REDD projects in Mai Ndombe province that was carried out in September…
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“Concerns grow over weak safeguard implementation,” Forest Peoples Programme on REDD and safeguards
Forest Peoples Programme’s April 2013 E-Newsletter focusses on safeguards. The E-Newsletter starts by looking at why safeguards matter. Other articles explain and comment on the World Bank’s safeguards review, forest policy and oil palm policy, the failure of safeguards in the Camisea gas project in Peru and examples from the Congo Basin and Cameroon.
AIDESEP letter to Forest Investment Programme: REDD in Peru “will lead to an increase in emissions from deforestation”
AIDESEP (Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon) has written to the Forest Investment Programme in protest at the way proposals for REDD are marginalising indigenous peoples and promoting a “failed model of large concessions”, promotion of industrial plantations, and increasing “desk based or paper reforms”.
Indonesia’s Forest Investment Plan endorsed despite criticisms from civil society
In March 2012, Indonesian NGOs wrote to the Joint Forest Investment Program Team to protest at the poor consultation process and demanded that the process of preparing the Forest Investment Plan is postponed until their were met.
NGOs demand that Forest Investment Program in Indonesia is postponed until demands are met
On 8 March 2012, the World Bank announced that the Draft Indonesia Forest Investment Plan was posted on the Ministry of Forestry’s website. The 114-page document was posted in English, with a comment period of “a little over two weeks”.