Safeguards Roadmap for REDD+ Action in Viet Nam

2013 - 2013

The purpose of this assignment involved leading a team of national consultants to develop a roadmap to guide a national safeguard response process, informed by a gap analysis, and coordinated through consultation with VN FOREST and its sub-technical working group on safeguards.  The purpose of the roadmap was to endow Vietnam with a clear plan of step-wise actions of how safeguard compliance can be achieved through a single coordinated multi-stakeholder process.  

The roadmap informed REDD+ safeguard relevant national policy reform and subnational action planning, in addition to other major multilateral safeguard interventions, such as the FCPF SESA and activities under a proposed second phased of the UN-REDD country programme.