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This community-friendly animation video explains the concepts and mechanisms of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) through a story of interaction between indigenous peoples and people requesting their consent for new development.

Free, Prior and Informed Consent is a core principle of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to guide collective decision-making.

FPIC is a continual process that involves mutual respect and meaningful participation of indigenous peoples in decision-making on matters affecting them.

The video also includes a story about customary law in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Summary for Policy Makers

Information Note on UN-REDD Gender Marker rating System for the 2018-2020 Technical Assistance Programme

(circulated to all UN-REDD Programme staff on 7 July 2018)

Free, Prior and Informed Consent in REDD+: Guidebook  

Terms of Reference - SG, MG, Secretariat - cleared by UN-REDD SG in April 2017

Agroforestry can play a key role in addressing the critical situation of Ivorian forests. It would also ensure the future of cocoa farming, a key sector of the country’s economy. To that end, a national agroforestry definition including quantitative elements is needed to guide investments consistently with national policy objectives. It would also harmonise socioeconomic and environmental objectives. 

This study highlights several elements that can guide the development of this definition. The latter should consider the factors that influence cocoa yields in the arbitration between environmental and economic costs and benefits for the different actors in the cocoa value chain. 

The transition towards agroforestry can lead to a shortfall of several years. Given the plantation owners’ lack of savings, compensation mechanisms for this shortfall in the first years of transition must be formulated. The diversification of smallholder income in the medium term through the introduction of agroforestry systems represents an opportunity to improve his/her standard of living and protect against the fluctuation of cocoa prices in monoculture.

Este documento tiene por objeto orientar la participación de actores para generar un ejercicio coherente y articulado que responda a las políticas, los acuerdos y compromisos adquiridos por el Estado colombiano. Este ha permitido que, tanto en el proceso de construcción nacional de la Estrategia Nacional para la Reducción de las Emisiones generadas por la Deforestación y Degradación de los Bosques en Colombia (REDD+) como en los procesos de implementación de iniciativas piloto o tempranas a nivel regional para la REDD+1, se generen bajo un escenario transparente y eficaz con los actores que participarán y se verán beneficiados por estas acciones. Así mismo dará mayor claridad para la articulación entre los diferentes donantes y las agencias de cooperación internacional que apoyan estos procesos