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Oromia Forested Landscape Program
(OFLP)
Importance of grievance re-dress mechanisms
• Reducing risks of OFLP/REDD+ ac-
tivities to forest dependent commu-
nities and their environment
• Developing obligations, rules and
standards enabling a rights-based
approach in the implementation of
OFLP/REDD+ program
• Ensuring compliance to standards
and obligations
Procedures for grievance re-
dress mechanism
In its simplest form, a grievance mecha-
nism can be broken down into the fol-
lowing steps:
• Receive and register a complaint
• Screen and validate the complaint
. . .
Oromia forested landscape program (OFLP)
Phone: +251 913 67 68 32
Email: [email protected]
www.facebook.com/OFLPREDD
• Develop a proposed response
• Communicate proposed response to
complainant and seek agreement on
the response
• Implement the response to resolve
the grievance
• Close-out or refer the grievance.
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G rievance is an issue,
concern, problem, or
claim (perceived or actual) that an
individual, a community or any other
party that has stakes inquires to be
addressed and resolved.
Grievances are valuable sources of
information that allow decision mak-
ers to improve the functioning of a
policies or programs.
Grievance redressing mechanism is
the process for receiving and facili-
tating resolution of queries and
grievances from affected communi-
ties or stakeholders engaged in
REDD+ activities, policies or pro-
grams at community, woreda, zonal,
regional, national or international
level.
Types of grievances in OFLP/
REDD+
• Threat and destruction of natural
resources including forests, de-
struction to forest resources, loss of
land use rights or denial of access
to land use and its resources, terri-
tories and resources, expropriation,
displacement and lack of recogni-
tion of rights-holders
• Failure to respect obligations and
communities’ rights free, clear, pri-
or, and informed consent of com-
munities and stakeholders
• Lack of an adequate national legal
and institutional framework to pro-
tect rights, livelihoods, and ecosys-
tems
• Partiality and inefficiency of
implementation processes (lack
of full and effective participa-
tion in decision-making, failure
to consider and minimize ad-
verse social and environmental
impacts)
• Environmental harm such as
loss of biodiversity, encroach-
ment of natural forests and con-
version to plantations
• Failure to reduce green-house
gas emissions.
• Misappropriation or abuse of
funds
GRIEVANCE REDRESSING MECHANISM IN OFLP