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BookletESOP 2: Stakeholder engagement
Framework for Environmental and Social Management guidance note
2023Also available in:
No results found.This guidance note supports the implementation of the Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) that sit at the heart of the Framework for Environmental and Social Management (FESM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). ESOP 2 sets out the principles for ensuring meaningful, effective and informed participation of all stakeholders in the formulation and implementation of FAO programmes and projects as well as the grievance, conflict-resolution and accountability mechanisms to prevent and mitigate adverse impacts. Meaningful and effective stakeholder engagement is fundamental to achieve the SDGs and adhere to the principle of ‘leaving no one behind’. It is essential for combatting inequality and ensuring equity and non-discrimination in all areas of FAO programming. Meaningful engagement with stakeholders, which includes access to timely and user-centred information and victim-centred grievance mechanisms is a key aspect of a human rights-based approach to programming. -
Book (stand-alone)Accounting for the benefits of forest resources: Concepts and experience 1997
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No results found.This report has two principal objectives. The first is to present basic concepts that should guide the development of economic accounting procedures for forest resources. The second objective is to review empirical experience with such adjustments, with the intention of assessing their feasibility. This report is structured to be useful to both specialists and nonspecialists. -
Book (stand-alone)Incorporating fuelwood production and consumption into the national accounts. A case study for Zimbabwe 1998
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No results found.Natural resource accounting methods are applied in a case study of fuelwood consumption in Zimbabwe. This study estimates values of economic depreciation of timber stocks from fuelwood consumption from 1990 to 1996. Fuelwood is an appropriate variable to study because of the country's high dependency on wood for energy, particularly in rural areas where most of the population lives. There is substantial criticism of the linkage between the environment and national accounts in most countries incl uding Zimbabwe. Traditional national income data such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) do not fully capture the total economic value of natural resource stocks such as forests. Distinct natural resource accounting methodologies for valuing fuelwood depletion are reviewed and applied to commercial/domestic consumption. The main difference in the various approaches commonly used is in the valuation of physical stocks. Most studies use average net price as a measure of economic rent while a more ref ined approach would use the marginal net price. Using average net price can increase bias in calculating net depreciation values of timber stocks. Using either method, the resulting depreciating values are then used to adjust the national accounts. This study demonstrates some of the advantages, disadvantages and practical data limitations inherent in trying to adjust national accounts for resource depletion in a developing country context. The study also demonstrates that natural resource accou nting can be used even where data constraints exist. However, to fully capture the benefits of more refined methods such as using marginal net price for resource consumption, better quality data are required.
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