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+.
case study
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
case study
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
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
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