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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This community-based monitoring initiative in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the state of Acre, Brazil, had the following objectives.
(1) Create learning...
Acre, Brazil
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Since 2011, the project has been working with sixteen Amerindian communities of the North Rupununi, Guyana. It aims to build local capacity to develop and run a community based monitoring system...
Northern Rupununi, Guyana
Monitoring Themes
Natural resources
Wellbeing & social issues
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
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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...
Guinea Bissau, India, Mali, Mexico, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Senegal and Tanzania
Monitoring Themes
Carbon biomass
Governance
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
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This initiative aims to strengthen the protection of the Kampa do Rio Amônia Indigenous Territory, home to the Apiwtxa community of Ashaninka people, in the state of Acre, Brazil.
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Kampa do Rio Amônia Indigenous Territory, Marechal Thaumaturgo Municipality, Acre State, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Natural resources
Deforestation drivers
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Indigenous people are among the largest titled landowners in Guyana. Establishing a Community-based Measurement, Reporting and Verification (CMRV) system with them is therefore a key step forward...
Kanashen Community-Owned Conservation Area, Region 9
Monitoring Themes
Natural resources
Carbon biomass
Wellbeing & social issues
Deforestation drivers
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This innovative project involves community management groups in monitoring the population dynamics of the arapaima fish and the impact of arapaima harvesting on other fish species and ecosystems....
Feijó, Acre, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Natural resources
Ecosystem services
Deforestation drivers
Wellbeing & social issues
Policies & measures
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The Community-Based Forest Monitoring Project (CFMP) was launched in 2010 and is being implemented in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), across six clans, each of which owns forest patches...
Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Monitoring Themes
Carbon biomass
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
Biodiversity
Natural resources
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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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JGI is working with around 1 800 local landowners in Western Uganda to reduce deforestation, promote sustainable livelihoods, train forest monitors, and prepare local communities to benefit from...
Budongo Forest Reserve (Masindi District), Bugoma Forest Reserve (Hoima District), Uganda
Monitoring Themes
Biodiversity
Carbon biomass
Wellbeing & social issues
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
Governance
Ecosystem services
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Community-based MRV is envisioned as an integral part of the national MRV system in Colombia. In the department of Caquetá, the region with the...
Belen de los Andaquies, Caquetá Department
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
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Project Fauna was a collaborative project between indigenous communities in the Rupununi area of Southern Guyana and researchers at Stanford University and the State University of New York-ESF....
Rupununi Region, Southern Guyana
Monitoring Themes
Biodiversity
Carbon biomass
Wellbeing & social issues
Natural resources
Governance
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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
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The Suruí Forest Carbon project aims to reduce deforestation on the Paiter Suruí people's territory in the Brazilian Amazon, Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory (TISS), by providing economic...
Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory (TISS), Rondonia and Mato Grosso States, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Biodiversity
Carbon biomass
Deforestation drivers
Natural resources
Wellbeing & social issues
Land use change
not case study
The Amarakaeri Communal Reserve was established in 2002 to protect the headwaters of the Eori/Madre de Dios and Karene/Colorado rivers, and to secure the quality of the natural environment for the...
Madre de Dios Region, Manu Province, Peru
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
not case study
Under a programme with the logging company Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB), the Mbendjele people of northern Congo use hand-held devices for resource mapping and monitoring (see...
Sangha region, Northern Congo
Monitoring Themes
Biodiversity
Natural resources
Wellbeing & social issues
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
As part of its work towards FSC certification, which it achieved in 2010, the logging company Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) supported a pioneering monitoring initiative. This involved...
Sangha Region, Republic of Congo
Monitoring Themes
Governance
Natural resources
not case study
The Bolsa Floresta Programme (BFP) is an initiative that was launched in 2007 by the State of Amazonas, Brazil, in order to implement incentive-based forest conservation : one of the first...
Amazonas State, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Policies & measures
Ecosystem services
not case study
This ForestLink initiative developed and tested methods and technologies for community based, real time forest monitoring. It was carried out in the context of the...
Cameroon
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
Natural resources
Policies & measures
Wellbeing & social issues