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   Training Manual on Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in REDD+ for Indigenous Peoples

   Manuals & Guidelines

   May, 2012

   Global

   Land & Investments

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land governance

   land policies

   environment

   climate change

   natural resources management

   land rights

   local communities

   This manual aims to build the capacities of the indigenous peoples, networks and organizations to advocate and work for the effective implementation of FPIC for indigenous peoples in the activities and projects relating to REDD+. In particular, the objective of this manual is to equip indigenous peoples with the knowledge and understanding of FPIC and REDD+; and to provide a general guide to communities on the application of FPIC in REDD+ activities in upholding their rights, interests and welfare.

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   The capacity of local communities to monitor biodiversity and resources in Madagascar, Nicaragua, Philippines and Tanzania

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   June, 2014

   Madagascar, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Philippines

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   indigenous peoples' land rights

   Indigenous Peoples

   land rights

   natural resources management

   This case study focuses on the capacity of local communities to monitor biodiversity and resources in Madagascar, Nicaragua, Philippines and Tanzania. It makes a controlled comparison between local community monitoring and trained scientists’ monitoring and conclude that local and indigenous communities generate similar and equally good outputs as the trained scientists, and are much more cost efficient. The cases suggest that it is fully possible to build a cheap and effective MRV system based on community monitoring of Non-Carbon Benefits

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   Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) and Indigenous Peoples in Kenya

   Report on Expert Mission by a Member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

   Reports & Research

   January, 2012

   Kenya

   Land & Investments

   Indigenous Peoples

   farmers

   local communities

   pastoralists

   land rights

   agriculture

   land grabbing

   common property

   fisheries

   rural development

   land governance

   land conflicts

   natural resources management

   environment

   The LAPSSET Corridor project, a major infrastructure development project that will run from Kenya to South Sudan and Ethiopia, will impact, positively or negatively, on the lives of more than 100 million people in the three countries. Indigenous peoples will potentially suffer the most negative impacts as a result of their having been historically marginalized economically, socially and politically. The recent discovery of oil in Turkana will add to the suffering of the Turkana peoples.