Breakout group 1
Improving MRV practices – enhancing the role of
communities and improving multi-level collaboration
Facilitated by Manuel Boissière, Eyob Tenkir
TransMoni project activities and outcomes in Ethiopia
July 2021

Overview of proposed activities in Ethiopia
1. Improve community
participation in MRV
2. Improve multilevel
MRV collaboration
O2. Improved national data on
forest/land use change in light
of the ETF (WUR + REDD Sec)
O1. Improved a/reforestation
MRV practices (CIFOR + REDD
Sec)
3. Improve information on
drivers of forest change by
using national and global
open-source datasets and
methods

Objective of the discussion
• To identify existing situation concerning:
o Role of local communities in MRV
o Carbon and non-carbon data flow
o Between multiple levels
• Inside and outside REDD+ Program (Oromia
and a/reforestation in BGRS)
• Logistic:
 1,5 hours session
 One reporter and one note taker to be chosen

Questions: What, Who, Gaps?
REDD+ ACTIVITIES
1. What ongoing/planned activities are relevant for REDD+?
2. Who are the major stakeholders of these interventions? What are their roles?
3. What are the gaps?
DATA FLOW FOR MRV
1. What data needs to be collected and reported?
2. Who are involved in this data flow? What are their roles?
3. What are the gaps?
ROLE OF COMMUNITIES IN MRV
1. What is the role of communities in REDD+ MRV?
2. Who are involved? What are their roles
3. What are the gaps?

Matrix for the discussion
Context
(What, who, gaps) Non-Carbon outcomes Carbon outcomes
REDD+ activities xxx xxx
Data flow for MRV xxx xxx
Role of communities in
MRV
xxx xxx
Examples of
non-carbon
benefits
Environmental
• biodiversity
•Protection of ES
Governance
• secure land tenure
•transparency and
local participation s
Social
•Income
•food security
•Preservation of local
livelihoods

cifor.org
blog.cifor.org
ForestsTreesAgroforestry.org
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