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Management Activity
Guidance
Poor
Very Poor
Resource:
Fruits
Parameter
Quantity of
fruits
Ranking
Very Good
Good
Poor
Very Poor
less than 12 months)
3 months or less
Never
Indicators
Time of walk needed from the village to
harvest fruits
Level
less than 30 minutes
30 – 60 minutes
1 – 2 hours
More than 2 hours or no fruits at all
2. Develop and implement
a participatory monitoring
plan including the following
steps:
a. Definition of the
parameters to be monitored
for each HCV
Other indicators can be developed by each local
community to monitor the condition of their priority
resource systems. In all cases, these indicators must be
simple enough so that they can be measured by the
community members themselves. This will enable the
people to participate in the monitoring and lead to
a better appropriation and use of the results.
For example, river depth can be measured using a simple
stick marked with divisions of height, which can be left in
a place visible by all, with measurements taken at
regular intervals, always at the same time of the day, by
one member of the community and then marked on a
board visible by all. Turbidity can be measured using a
simple stick marked with centimetre divisions, and
terminated by a small marble. The depth at which the
marble is not visible anymore is an indicator of turbidity.
This should be conducted based on the results of
consultations with local communities. Additional
consultations with community members, academics or
relevant NGOs can help the company determine
acceptable indicators.
b. Develop a participatory
monitoring program
(including indicators and
methodology)
c. With local communities,
identify a person or a small
team of community
members to be responsible
for implementing the
monitoring program.
For each indicator, there should be a simple methodology
to measure it at defined intervals and time periods
appropriate to the indicator, taken into account natural
seasonal variations. Consistency of the method is key.
The method should be simple enough and not too
demanding in terms of work to be sustained over a long
time.
Discuss the proposed methodology with community
members to validate its feasibility.
Follow-up should occur to ensure proper implementation
of the monitoring program at regular appropriate
intervals