Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) – Capacity Building on REDD+ forest Forest-Dependent Indigenous People in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) and South Asia Region (SAR) Project (Buli in Zhemgang, Bhutan). (January 2019 - June 2019)

Objectives / goals

  • To prepare the indigenous/local people of Buli to engage in REDD+ benefit sharing and carbon accounting programs through capacity building programs.
  • Build local knowledge-based to inform REDD+ benefit sharing and carbon accounting programs in the future.

 

Major interventions/Expected outputs

  • The local people (including men and women, local REDD+ group) in Buli are Informed and capacitated to engage in REDD+ benefit sharing program through
    trainings/awareness and the knowledge on status of non-carbon benefits in Buli.
  • The local people in Buli (including local REDD+ group) gained skills and understanding on carbon accounting.
  • Information on forest resources assessment as a basis to strengthen participatory forest monitoring by community and to inform future REDD+ action (like carbon
    accounting) available and disseminated to the local communities and stakeholders of Buli.

DONOR

WORLD BANK

TEBTEBBA FOUNDATION

FCPF

PROJECT IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS

DoFPS (WMD)

ZHEMGANG DIVISION FOREST

NANGKOR GEWOG

major achievements/outputs

  • Published Baseline Report on Non-carbon benefits of Buli in Zhemgang.
  • Published Feasibility Report on Ecotourism Opportunity as non-carbon benefit of Buli in Zhemgang.
  • Local communities of Buli sensitized on REDD+ benefit sharing mechanism.
  • Community Forest Group Members in Zhemgang sensitized on REDD+ non carbon benefits and trained on basic carbon accounting.
  • Awareness material on forest carbon accounting and benefit sharing translated in national language.
  • Trained Community Forest Group members of Buli in Zhemgang on carbon accounting.
  • Conducted carbon stock resource assessment in two community forest of Buli in Zhemgang.
  • Conducted multi stakeholder knowledge sharing workshop.

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