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+.
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...
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...
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....
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...