STRENGTHENING NATIONAL FEEDBACK AND GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISM FOR UGANDA’S REDD+ PROGRAMME (Contract No. MWE/SRVCS/14-15/00018) DRAFT REPORT TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE MINISTRY OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENT CONSULTANT: ADVOCATES COALITION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT (ACODE) PLOT 96, KANJOKYA STREET, KAMWOKYA. P. O. BOX 29836, KAMPALA - UGANDA. TEL: +256312812150, http://www.acode-u.org/ Email:
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[email protected] Submission Date: 27 September 2016 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Uganda’s REDD+ study for the development of the National Feedback and Grievance Redress Mechanism (FGRM) was undertaken by the Advocates’ Coalition for Development and the Environment (ACODE) on the behalf of the Ministry of Water and Environment (MoW&E). The study process was funded by the World Bank. The study was commissioned and overseen by the REDD+ Secretariat under the Forest Sector Support Department (FSSD) on behalf of the Ministry. The MW&E is grateful to all the efforts of all these key partners in the entire process. During the preparation of the proposed FGRM, MW&E immensely benefited from the invaluable contribution of the Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA) Taskforce convened by the FSSD and the REDD+ Secretariat, among other ongoing REDD+ assessments. In addition, MW&E benefited from the input of ACODE’s FGRM taskforce comprising an array of experts drawn from areas relevant to the study scope. The Taskforce not only made a significant contribution to the development of the draft inception report but also reviewed and made invaluable comments to the draft report. MW&E would like to thank the team of researchers who mobilised the communities and fully participated in the data collection processes.