Deforestation drivers
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+.
case study
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
Governance
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
The indigenous Penan of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, were one of the last nomadic groups of South-East Asia. Under pressure from successive governments, many groups began to settle in the early to...
Sarawak, Malaysia