Natural resources
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 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
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
case study
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
case study
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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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
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
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 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
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