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

Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
finance component. Attach
a financial spreadsheet if
possible.
If not possible to
estimate the impact
of the carbon finance
component on FIRR,
then list, rank and qualify
the important decisionmaking
parameters for
the enterprise to develop
a carbon finance project
e.g. the carbon finance
component should cover
or partly cover the costs
of new activities or
contributes to Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR)
targets.
FIRR without carbon component:
This programme is not profit-making. Money received
by the programme is used to build capacity of the
communities to improve their livelihoods. It is for this
reason that our biggest investment is our staff who are
key in ensuring that we are able to reach out to the
farmers. An appendix shows an extract from the audited
accounts of 2006, showing the money received and how
it was used.
FIRR with carbon component:
With the carbon component, we will still be non-profit. We
will strengthen our ability to reach out to more farmers
through training. Tree establishment, which is one of our
strongest components, will be further boosted.
Decision making parameters:
- Carbon component will be integrated into our
existing structure.
- Carbon finance will support extension service
provision.
- Necessary infrastructure is already in place (staff,
offices, vehicles, motorbikes, seed store etc).
- Community will contribute labor and land. They will
implement on their own farms, as they are currently
doing in the ongoing interventions.
- We still don’t intend to be a profit-making
organization.
- The ultimate goal is to make farmers enterprise
profitable.
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