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This guidance document has been prepared to help planners and practitioners at the sub-national level in Myanmar to follow best practices for safeguards when planning, carrying out, monitoring and reporting on REDD+ actions. Although design for REDD+ action, the guidance may also be relevant for applying safeguards to other projects and initiatives in the forest sector, such as community forestry and restoration. This guidance document focuses on requirements and best practice most relevant to Myanmar’s national safeguards approach, which was developed through a national participatory process during 2016-2020. It covers concepts and approaches that are useful for integrating safeguards into various aspects of REDD+ planning and implementation, and it has a special focus on REDD+ actions involving community forestry and mangrove conservation, restoration, and sustainable management. It provides step-by-step guidance on each stage of applying the safeguards to REDD+ actions and similar projects, setting out a safeguards approach to inform socially and environmentally sustainable planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.

This guidance document has been prepared to help planners and practitioners at the sub-national level in Myanmar to follow best practices for safeguards when planning, carrying out, monitoring and reporting on REDD+ actions. Although design for REDD+ action, the guidance may also be relevant for applying safeguards to other projects and initiatives in the forest sector, such as community forestry and restoration. This guidance document focuses on requirements and best practice most relevant to Myanmar’s national safeguards approach, which was developed through a national participatory process during 2016-2020. It covers concepts and approaches that are useful for integrating safeguards into various aspects of REDD+ planning and implementation, and it has a special focus on REDD+ actions involving community forestry and mangrove conservation, restoration, and sustainable management. It provides step-by-step guidance on each stage of applying the safeguards to REDD+ actions and similar projects, setting out a safeguards approach to inform socially and environmentally sustainable planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.

The pulp and paper, timber, and rubber companies in the Lower Mekong Region face a pervasive risk of involvement in deforestation, human rights violations, and other unsustainable practices in their operations and supply chains. To mitigate this risk, companies and the financial sector must be aware of the harm associated with financing activities that negatively impact natural capital and recognize the benefits of preventing such destruction. In August, the UN-REDD programme published a research paper mapping the main companies in these sectors, and their financiers, assessing their policies for mitigating deforestation risks, evaluating the effectiveness of the region's financial sector policy environment, and providing recommendations for collaborating with the financial sector and regulators to protect natural capital while promoting economic development.