The Alianza México REDD works to strengthen low carbon development of the rural and forestry sectors in Mexico, promoting best practice. It facilitates capacity building, especially in rural and...
Who is involved in community-based monitoring around the world?
Who is involved in community-based monitoring of forests? Where are they working? And what are they doing?
This section gives an overview of the different actors working on community-based monitoring of forests. To make it easier to find and connect with particular actors, they are classified as:
COMMUNITY: Communities that are implementing forest monitoring initiatives
FACILITATOR: Institutions supporting communities to implement monitoring initiatives
GOVERNMENT: Governments or public agencies engaged with communities in monitoring
DONOR: Donors funding community-based forest monitoring initiatives
Global Canopy Programme - GCP
The Global Canopy Programme (GCP) is a tropical forest think tank working to demonstrate the scientific, political and business case for safeguarding forests as natural capital that underpins...
Country of Activity: UK, Guyana, Brazil
Jane Goodall Institute - JGI
The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) is a global nonprofit focused on inspiring individual action to improve the understanding, welfare and conservation of great apes. JGI use smartphones with...
Country of Activity: Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Senegal
MJUMITA - MJUMITA
MJUMITA’s mission is to provide knowledge, build capacity and link communities with local networks (CBOs) for increased participation of stakeholders in advocacy and decision-making in ownership,...
Country of Activity: Tanzania
UNAM's REDD+ research group leads on several projects relevant to community-based forest monitoring:
Country of Activity: Mexico
National Forestry Commission of Mexico - CONAFOR
CONAFOR is a government agency, with the objectives of developing, supporting and promoting the conservation and restoration of Mexico's forests, and the priductive use of forests. It develops...
Country of Activity: Mexico
SilvaCarbon is a flagship programme under the United States fast start financing for REDD+ and is a U.S. contribution to the Forest Carbon Tracking task of the intergovernmental Group on Earth...
Country of Activity: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, International
TFCG works to conserve and restore the biodiversity of globally important forests in Tanzania for the benefit of the present and future generations. Established in 1985, it is the largest...
Country of Activity: Tanzania
The Department of Technology and Sustainable Development of the University of Twente, based in the Netherlands, hosted the `...
Country of Activity: Guinea-Bissau, India, Mali, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Tanzania, Mexico
Woods Hole Research Center - WHRC
The Woods Hole Research Center assesses threats to a safe climate and works with individuals, communities, governments, and NGOs to identify and implement opportunities to stabilise the global and...
Country of Activity: Mexico, Brazil, Peru, USA