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Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
Chapter 5:
Project implementation: field work
This chapter’s objectives are to:
• Describe the practical activities that a forestry VCM project
manager must implement;
• Distinguish between the requirements of the different
standard systems;
• Provide practical guidance on stakeholder consultation,
including Free, Prior, Informed Consent; and
• Outline monitoring procedures during the project
implementation phase.
5.1 Management plan and standard operating
procedures
As highlighted in the previous chapter,
documentation is an extremely
important part of the project cycle: all
validation and verification processes
are dependent on the demonstration of
good practice in the field. The auditors
from a VVB need to be able to compare
the project’s recorded performance
with the activities implemented by the
forest managers.
All field operations
need to be described
in a management plan,
implemented accordingly,
transparently monitored
and documented to
demonstrate compliance.
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