Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

Social Protection and Forestry

This module is intended for governments, development organizations and civil society working and advocating for expanding social protection systems for all, including forest-dependent people (FDP) and forest-dependent communities (FDC). This module provides basic and in-depth information on the rationale and approaches for extending social protection systems to forest-dependent people and forest-dependent communities to achieve social (e.g. access to health care), economic (e.g. better income security) and environmental objectives (e.g. sustainable management of forests).

A mapping of social protection needs and opportunities for forest-dependent communities in Uganda
11 July 2023
This study provides a rationale for building linkages between social protection and sustainable forestry in developing countries through: the development of a conceptual framework for understanding the two-way relationship between social protection instruments and forestry policies; a review of evidence of the role of forestry policies in reducing vulnerabilities and...
Links between social protection and forestry policies: lessons from China
11 July 2023
This paper, developed in collaboration with Professor Chen Xie of National Forestry Economics Research and Development Centre of China, is based on a literature review in China. The review focuses on the main forestry policies, social protection policies, and their linkages, and an analysis of monitoring results from China’s major...
The impact of the shea nut industry on women’s empowerment in Burkina Faso. A multi-dimensional study focusing on the Central, Central-West and Hauts-Bassins regions
11 July 2023
This publication, developed in collaboration with Bright Futures, is based on a case study carried out in Burkina Faso on the socio-economic benefits derived from shea nuts and their impact on forest-dependent people’s resilience, with a special focus on women’s empowerment. Based on a survey of 183 women and 6...
Social protection for forest-dependent communities: building on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic for more resilient forest livelihoods
11 July 2023
Webinar FDC are likely to be the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those in the informal sector. Measures undertaken by governments to control the spread (e.g. movement restrictions, school closures, lockdowns) will have severe consequences on economic activity in most sectors, markets and communities. Although most households will face...
Building herders’ resilience to shocks through social insurance scheme
11 July 2023
Social insurance schemes assist Mongolian herders in times of distress. UN’s joint programme on extending social protection to herders sees that enrolling herders in the social insurance scheme is a way to prevent herders from further vulnerabilities to poverty and climate-related shocks. Therefore, the programme sees the importance of informing...
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