Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon ... - FAO

ANNEX I
poverty alleviation, foreign
exchange savings)?
Indicate number of
communities and people
that will benefit from the
project.
Any other indirect socioeconomic
impacts
e.g. training/education
benefits due to introduction
of new technologies and
products, replication of
approaches in the country
or the region
- Increased access to tree products
- More forage for livestock and bees.
- Self-employment opportunities though farmer
enterprise development.
Direct effects attributable to the project
- Job creation. The whole programme currently employs
over 750 staff of which Kitale and Kisumu projects
employs 215.
- Poverty alleviation through capacity building on
agricultural production, marketing, village savings and
loans, soil and water conservation, tree establishment
etc.
- Foreign exchange earnings to host countries.
Number of people to benefit: approx. 100,000 people in
approx. 20,000 households in 8 sub-locations in western
Kenya.
- Strengthened staff capacity building.
- Strengthened capacity building of the community/
farmers
- AF promotion through radio programmes even
outside the area of intervention/operation.
- Farmer exchange visits leads to copying of
interventions being promoted by the programme.
- Enhanced social capital through co-operative
outreach.
- Small groups grow into bigger organizations, e.g.
CBOs.
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