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Recommendation 18

18 Accepted in Part

Vel Gnanendran, Head of the Climate and Environment Directorate (CED) at the FCDO, added that...

Conclusion
Vel Gnanendran, Head of the Climate and Environment Directorate (CED) at the FCDO, added that the Department followed a “do no harm” principle and that “every business case has to have a gender equality assessment, and social development advisers are involved in some of the social implications of all programmes”.38 Nature-based Solutions (NbS)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government partially agrees, recognising the importance of indigenous and local community leadership in climate solutions and committing £45 million to the Community Resilience Partnership Program and new support for Congo Basin forest protection involving indigenous peoples.
Government Response

The government responded to this report on 14 January 2022. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗