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In January, the UN-REDD National Programme in Cambodia hosted a field
mission and associated meetings, bringing together a wide range of
stakeholders, to identify preliminary options on how to strengthen
consensus building mechanisms for forest disputes, based on
international best practices and observations at the two REDD+ pilot
project sites. Participants included international experts in conflict
resolution and stakeholder engagement, community forest network members,
civil society and indigenous peoples representatives, as well as
representatives from the provincial and national governments.The field mission and associated meetings have resulted in the
assessment of the types of drivers of deforestation and forest
degradation likely to lead to conflicts, identification of potential
consensus building mechanisms and ways to
strengthen them to prevent
and resolve forest sector disputes/grievances; and a preliminary
analysis of relationships among different state and non-state actors.
These results will be used as inputs in designing an effective
consensus building and conflict resolution system for REDD+ in
Cambodia.