Ensuring transparent and participatory forestry reform (FCRC-2005 and FRMC-2006)

• Began on cleaned slate – no old concessions and new forestry reform law (NFRL 2006)
• Progressive NFRL provisions on stakeholders (communities and CSOs) participation and monitoring
• Specific provisions for stakeholders participation in developing new legal frameworks
• Completion of CRL and regulations (2009 and 2011)
• REDD+ processes not fully participatory compared to VPA, although there were efforts to involve CSOs
• FPIC principles left to interpretation by concessionaires
• TFA2020 could be a useful vehicle but definition of deforestation problematic