Carbon biomass
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+.
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Community involvement and participatory monitoring have been advocated as important sources of information for REDD+....
Indonesia, Laos, Viet Nam and China
Monitoring Themes
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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...
Maï Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
Governance
Wellbeing & social issues
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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...
Maï-Ndombe province
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RuaiSMS is a non-profit citizen journalist news service. It uses mobile phone text messaging (SMS) as a way for indigenous and rural communities in remote areas of Borneo to disseminate...
West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
Governance
Policies & measures
Wellbeing & social issues
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The Community Carbon Accounting (CCA) Action Research Project in Indonesia is based on the premise that activities to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhance forest...
Semoyo Village (Gunung Kidul District), Terong Village (Bantul District), Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia
Monitoring Themes
Carbon biomass
Ecosystem services
Natural resources
not case study
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...
Maï-Ndombe province
Monitoring Themes
Land use change
Natural resources
Governance
Carbon biomass
not case study
Through its ongoing programme of support and technical cooperation in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has conducted a range of...
Quang Binh Province, Vietnam
Monitoring Themes
Biodiversity
Carbon biomass