Assessing forest changes is the baseline requirement for successful forest management. Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) are three essential components for achieving such assessments. Community participation in resource monitoring and management is increasingly seen as a scientifically efficient, cost-effective, and equitable way to employ such practices, particularly in the context of REDD+. We developed a multidisciplinary approach to study the feasibility of Participatory MRV (PMRV) across three sites along a forest degradation gradient in Indonesia. We looked at both the local and national level needs of MRV. Our approach combines: (1) social research focusing on the enabling conditions for local participation in MRV; (2) governance analyses of existing MRV systems in forestry and health; and (3) remote sensing work comparing overlaps and gaps between satellite imagery and local assessments of forest changes. We considered in our approach the possible multiple benefits of PMRV (carbon mitigation, biodiversity conservation, livelihood security). Our study helped to identify the multiple stakeholders (communities, NGOs and governments) and what the levels of governance should be to make PMRV design and implementation feasible and sustainable.
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- Climate Change
- Climate change mitigation and REDD+
- Accelerating rates of deforestation and forest degradation
- Learning from REDD+ - An Enhanced Global Comparative Analysis
- Developing Systems for Reducing Emissions from Land Use
- Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) support to the Government of Indonesia
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Department of the Environment and Energy - Australia
Source
Forests 5(8): 1855-1878
Publication year
2014
ISSN
1999-4907
Authors
Boissiere, M.; Beaudoin, G.; Hofstee, C.; Rafanoharana, S.
Geographic
Indonesia
Topic
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Geographic
Indonesia
Project Leader
Christopher Martius
Bonn Hub Leader and Managing Director of CIFOR Germany