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Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
7.2 Appropriate materials
The first priority for information is to have simple materials in a form that
the target audience (in this case, smallholders and local communities),
or their representatives, can understand. These guidelines are just the
start.
Reliable translations are essential. It is very hard for those who must
interpret a document written in a foreign language, for the benefit of
someone else, to avoid adding their own views or impressions, however
hard they try not to. How, therefore, can project developers separate
translation from interpretation?
In order to make independent judgments on forest carbon information,
it is necessary to obtain professional, specialist translations of the most
relevant documents. To begin with, it is best to focus on documents
that provide news, opinion and the basic background on forest carbon
science and policy (see the table below for some good sources). Project
developers and their supporters should find out if these are available
in their own language. If not, it is necessary to use local community
groups or civil society representative to make a request for translations,
preferably to the organizations responsible for the publications, and
prioritize funding if necessary. See table 9 for a list of organizations based
in the region, which are key sources of English-language publications on
forest carbon, and their availability in regional languages.
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