Social Safeguards: An introduction to Grievance Mechanisms

Welcome to Social Safeguards: An introduction to Grievance Mechanisms. In this course, we’ll introduce Grievance Mechanisms as a tool to help us implement Social Safeguards in our conservation work. If you’re new to Social Safeguards, we recommend that you complete the Introduction to Social Safeguards course first, before starting this one.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain what a Grievance Mechanism is
• Describe how such a mechanism can help us ensure conservation activities are fair and effective
• Recognise what constitutes a conservation-related grievance
• Identify examples of good practice in Grievance Mechanism design and implementation by applying five key principles