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

Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
Preparation cost
e.g. baseline survey,
development and
documentation costs of
carbon finance component
3) M&E system is operational and baseline, progressive
and control baseline surveys are conducted annually.
It is basically in this system that the carbon monitoring
will be integrated.
The extension areas have household lists where the
land use changes will be recorded and the increment
of number of trees on the farmer’s land. This system
will provide very accurate and reliable data.
4) Financially, each project is audited annually by KPMG.
Project participants,
institutional structures and
partnerships
List project participants,
describe existing or
envisaged institutional
structures and partnerships
to develop, implement and
monitor carbon finance
project component.
Indicate sustainable
financing mechanisms in
place to cover respective
organizational costs.
5) Occasional external evaluations by Sida and others.
Project participants:
Funders:
- The Foundation Vi Planterar träd (“We plant trees”)
- Sida
- BioCarbon Fund & Community Development Carbon
Fund
- Lake Victoria Basin Commission
Implementers:
- SCC-Vi Agroforestry Programme
- Local Government
- Farmer groups and organizations
Monitoring/Research/Technical support:
- ICRAF
- KEFRI (Kenya Forest Research Institute)
Carbon revenue distribution and incentive systems
Carbon revenue
distribution
Explain what you intend
to do with the carbon
revenues and in particular
how small-scale farmers
will benefit from the
carbon revenues
- From the carbon revenue we will provide extension
services.
- Small-scale farmers will be exposed to technologies
that will help them get more out of their farms.
- Within the programme we have a component of
farmer enterprise development. This looks into issues
regarding marketing and resource mobilization. This
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