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