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financing carbon co-operative based on sound “state of the art” business principlesestablished and functioning within MJUMITA by the end of project” (TFCG 2010,p.7.). To gain experience with carbon crediting, experience which can be transferableto a future crediting system under REDD+ internationally, the carbon cooperative willlink to the Voluntary Carbon Market. Certification will therefore be sought under theVoluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) system.As a way of ensuring that social and biodiversity benefits are indeed created they willalso undertake a secondary benchmarking following the Climate, Community andBiodiversity Alliance (CCBA) standards (TFCG and MJUMITA 2009). Further, afinancial transfer mechanism and system that can channel REDD+ financing from thenational to the local level, compensate and create incentives for the forest managers(the VNRC members and forest guards) as well ensure that an equitable share of thefunds reach all members of the community, even the poor and marginalized ones, willbe developed. Of particularly focus here is to introduce simple but effective andtransparent mechanisms for the disbursement of REDD+ funds. As a way of testingout how to create such a system in total 18% of the projects financial disbursementswill be linked to results-based performance, 8 of which will only be disbursed afterdemonstrating direct REDD+ results (TFCG and MJUMITA 2009). According to itsmost recent project process document, dated February 2011, so far a project designdocument for the VCS is under development, based heavily on remote sensingactivities. In addition, the financial benefit sharing mechanism is being worked on,and consultations with 92 representatives of MJUMITA´s networks on the matter hadbeen carried out. There are also plans to apply for validation by the CCBA in the nearfuture (TFCG and MJUMITA 2011).TFCG is only in the beginning phase of designing these models. They will later betested out in the communities and this will give an indication of the ways in whichthey plan to disburse future REDD payments. It is not possible at this stage toevaluate its possible effectiveness, efficiency and equity. Our field interview withTFCG also didn‟t shed light on the design of such a system as everything was stillvery unclear. They were, however, hoping to start disbursing some project funds asperformance-based payments one to two years after the initial baseline measurementshad been carried out (Local resource person 2010).260