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

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Email: oflp@mail.com

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• 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