REDD+ Social safeguards in Indonesia: Lessons from Jambi

Key messages

• As REDD+ countries move towards results-based payments, there is a need to examine the operationalization of safeguards and their roles in the recognition and respect of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs).
• This Infobrief presents lessons from research into the perceptions of different REDD+ stakeholders regarding the implementation of safeguards under the BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes in Jambi Province, Indonesia.
• The multilateral financial organization’s involvement in REDD+ results-based agreements may provide a pathway for more rights-responsive safeguards than Indonesia’s interpretation of the Cancun safeguards for REDD+.
• The operationalization of safeguards could be improved through more inclusive implementation of activities; promoting gender justice throughout the process, including strengthening communities’ access to information; and engaging with NGOs and CSOs to facilitate relevant processes with communities.
• Project proponents should also incorporate independent monitoring of rights-related issues to ensure community access to rights and to REDD+ benefits; and strengthen grievance mechanisms, especially those that already exist at the local level.
• Fostering the establishment of a provincial government regulation on recognizing customary (adat) communities is essential for addressing tenure issues in the region, and simplifying subnational processes through which such communities are recognized as ‘legal entities’.

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