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
The ‘Kyoto: Think Global, Act Local’ (K:TGAL) project trialled community-based forest monitoring in 30 sites in 7 countries between 2003 and 2009. It developed and tested a methodology and survey...
Guinea Bissau, India, Mali, Mexico, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Senegal and Tanzania
Monitoring Themes
Governance
Deforestation drivers
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
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