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‘Mapping for Rights’
A new tool for assessing community
tenure, livelihoods and forest
dependence, and resolving forest-use
conflicts
Simon Counsell Rainforest Foundation UK
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The Rainforest Foundation UK
Community-based real-time forest monitoring:
a new development
June 2015
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Size of customary lands for communities in western Bandundu and & southwest Equateur provinces, DRC (sample
size = 241)
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Challenges for online platforms:
Greater online access to often highly sensitive and contested community mapping data poses certain risks, such as from other competing users of or claims on the forest. Further challenges relate to: • The quality and maintenance of online data (How, by
whom and when was the data generated? • Who provided consent for it to be uploaded? • Who gets to see what? etc.).