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occur as a result of REDD, some issues were still seen as being of particular concernwhich we can see below in Table 59.Table 59: Issues associated with REDD+, Kilosa District, Tanzania, 2010DisagreeDisagreesomewhatAgreesomewhatAgreeMean%It will result in corruption 63 3 9 25 1.95Unequal distribution ofpaymentsPayments will go only to landownersThere will be less conflicts inthe village/community51 2 12 34 2.2951 4 11 33 2.2623 2 11 64 3.15It will increase privatizationof land57 5 7 31 2.13Surprisingly there were no big differences in opinion between wealth groups, wherefor instance 25% in all three groups thought there might be corruption, and whenasked whether they thought there would be unequal distribution 36% and 37% withinthe poorest and middle income group agreed, whereas 30% of the least poor answeredthe same. They however also had 20% somewhat agreeing.As previously the villagers in Nyali seemed the more skeptic, with 66% thinking theremight be unequal distribution of payments (approximately 35% in Lunenzi andMasugu) and 50% fearing there might be corruption, compared with around 20% inMasugu and Lunenzi. Whether a result of an overall more negative view on theproject as a whole, or as a result of a less good relationship between villagers and withthe village government is hard to tell. In fact, when previously assessing theserelationships Masugu for instance noted worse social relationships than in Nyali. Thelack of belief in corruption or unequal distribution in Lunenzi on the other hand canmore easily be attributed to their social cohesion both between the villagers and agood relationship with their village government.Much of the concern for mismanagement of funding and unequal distribution ofpayments was concerned with who would be the overall authority responsible for themanagement of REDD+ and for its distribution, and to some extent specifically howmuch the Village Government would be involved. Overall people felt that the morerepresentative of the people the management authority was the less chance of256