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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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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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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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
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
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
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