Written question asked by Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour) on Friday, 28 February 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 5 March 2025 (named day). It was answered by Mary Creagh (Labour) on Tuesday, 11 March 2025 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Africa and Asia: Conservation
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the conservation projects it funds in (a) Africa and (b) Asia do not lead to (i) forced evictions and (ii) violent abuses of Indigenous peoples.
- Answer
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Defra aims to take a do no harm approach to aid programming. Official development assistance (ODA) projects are required to undertake risk management and due diligence assessments in order to understand and mitigate programmatic risks, including understanding IPLC programming risks.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 34652
- Session
- 2024-26
- Transferred
- Yes
- Subjects
- Conservation Africa Finance Evictions Asia Violence Indigenous peoples
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- 2025-09-05 17:48:28 +0100
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