The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

degraded portions of the Project Area. This program shouldstrengthen carbon stocks and reduce the threat ofencroachment by oil palm plantations into unauthorizedforests within the project’s vicinity.Leakage contracts. Displaced concessions. Using leakage contracts, deforestedand drained land in the southern portion of the Project Areawill be allocated to companies displaced by the project. Thismechanism should help mitigate any negative activity-­‐shiftingleakage at the local level. Active plantation. Project proponents will negotiate with theactive oil palm plantation north of the Project Area with thefollowing goals:o Build a road to delineate current plantationboundaries, function as a firebreak, and preventencroachment in the future;o Participate in design and management of drainagecanals adjacent to Project Area forestso Contract oil palm company and its employees to assistwith ecosystem restoration program on degradedProject Area lando Cooperate on the development of a fruit plantationfor supplemental feeding of rehabilitated orangutans.Monitoring and discounting. Monitoring of displaced concessionaires. The investmentsand actions of the four palm oil companies displaced by theproject will be monitored, and the destruction of nativeforests and peatlands on their part will be prevented ordiscounted from project carbon benefits. Community monitoring. As part of the proposed Rimba Rayacommunity monitoring plan, the activities of resource usersaffected by the project will be tracked and any leakageprevented or discounted from carbon benefits.Set-­‐aside. The InfiniteEARTH double offset pledgeincorporates a 50% set-­‐aside of the project’s carbon stock.This should mitigate any negative market-­‐effects leakage atthe national or regional level not accounted for by theproject’s leakage mitigation strategy.Leakage Mitigation AssessmentLeakage Mitigation through “Social Barriers”The project proponents have designed multiple compoundcommunity benefits into the project that address the underlyingsocial drivers of deforestation. The primary elements of theproject’s leakage mitigation plans from a community perspectiveare: Community Employment Capacity Building & Transference Access to Clean, Safe Drinking Water Access to Healthcare Services Early Childhood Development Access to Micro-­‐Credit Direct economic revenue share from project revenuesThese projects will be funded by the project proponents andexecuted in conjunction with exceptional NGOs with vastexperience in the areas such as:The Orangutan Foundation InternationalWorld Education InternationalHealth in Harmony232