Impacts | Safeguards measures |
1. Exclusion of certain vulnerable groups such as minority ethnic groups, women, youths and persons with disabilities) from the research process and benefits | ・ Conduct screening of all the vulnerable groups within the area and include them in the appropriate monitoring processes |
2. Failure by monitoring team to provide the communities with adequate time to consult and arrive at decisions | ・ Develop a flexible work plan that allow communities internal consultations |
3. Insensitivity by monitoring team for community’s work schedule | ・ Develop participatory work schedule based on seasonal calendars and 24 hour gender activity |
4. Intrusion into culturally sensitive areas | ・ Seek community modalities of inventorying sampling site that fall within sacred site or use alternative sampling sites |
5. Exposure of communities’ culturally sensitive information to outsides through data collection, submission and transmission to the national forest information system | ・ Develop modalities for limiting the sharing of culturally sensitive information |
6. Lack or under payment of community inventory teams for monitoring services to the researcher | ・ Develop remuneration standards through negotiations and reference to similar work within the region |
7. Failure by monitoring team to provide feedback on the research findings | ・ Develop mechanisms for providing feedback on the research findings to all stakeholders in culturally acceptable way |
8. Elite and political capture of the monitoring process | ・ Develop modalities for maintaining broad community consultation and engagement throughout the monitoring process |