Case Studies
These case studies share key insights, methodologies and indicators, challenges and successes from community based forest monitoring initiatives around the world.
Searchable by ‘monitoring theme’ and ‘international agenda’, these case studies aim to help policy-makers and practitioners understand how community based monitoring can inform national and international forest agendas such as the CBD, FLEGT and REDD+.
The ‘Kyoto: Think Global, Act Local’ (K:TGAL) project trialled community-based forest monitoring in 30 sites in 7 countries between 2003 and 2009. It developed and tested a methodology and survey...
This initiative piloted a community-based REDD+ safeguard monitoring system in an area within Maï Ndombe Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the company...
From 2009 onwards, WWF-DRC has worked in Maï-Ndombe province to develop, test and most recently implement actions for REDD+ (to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, with...
A CMRV initiative is currently underway in the Mpelu and Kemvuma villages in the Bolobo Territory in the east of Maï-Ndombe Province. This monitoring system is part of a payment for environmental...