CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND
AFRICAN AGRICULTURE GRANTEE CONVENING
24-25 February 2011
Project Name: Carbon and Poverty Reduction Program
Grantee : William J. Clinton Foundation
Presenter : Jackson M. Kimani
Time allocated – 10 minutes
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Brief Background of the Institution
The Clinton Climate Initiative
MISSION
Make a difference in the fight against climate change in practical,
measurable and significant ways.
APPROACH PHILOSOPHY
• Generate Political Will • Think Big
• Convene Stakeholders • Move Quickly
• Stimulate Markets • Use Markets
• Remove Barriers to Scale-Up • Create Partnerships
• Organize Partners • Get Results
• Mobilize Resources
• Share Best Practices
• Measure Results
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Your other projects/programs on climate change
adaptation
COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE
South East Asia
• Working in Indonesia and Cambodia where we have developed a
portfolio of REDD projects. The focus is on scaling up
REDD+/Carbon projects in collaboration with government and
other partners.
Guyana
• CCI is supporting the government to implement its national MRV
system by creating the first end-to-end framework for a
compliance-grade national MRV system. We are also supporting
a comprehensive international bidding process for implementing
partners. The framework created for the Guyanese Government
will serve as a model for the development of MRV systems in
other CCI partner countries.
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Objectives of the Rockefeller Foundation Grant
CARBON FOR POVERTY
REDUCTION
Ecosystem Services
•Carbon sequestration
•Watershed protection
•Wildlife habitat and biodiversity
Livelihoods
• Over 750 million people in
developing nations are directly
dependent upon tropical forests for
their survival
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Objectives of the Rockefeller Foundation Grant
• Develop and implement REDD+ projects emphasizing forest
conservation, reforestation, agro-forestry, selective logging; comply
with current - and anticipate future - REDD+ requirements
• Develop satellite-based measurement and monitoring, and remote-
sensing capability
• Develop awareness - climate change mitigation from forestry sector
• Assist development of infrastructure for REDD or VCS market
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Key Activities Related to the Grant
Forestry Program
• Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) framework and
systems for forest carbon stocks and emissions.
• Projects – Avoided Deforestation, Sustainable Forest Management,
and Afforestation and Reforestation projects in East Africa and
Southeast Asia that improve livelihoods in impoverished
communities.
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Highlight on the Progress to date
Kenya
• Feasibility assessment completed for a community reforestation
project in part of the Mau Forest Complex
• Community engagement activities commenced and ongoing. A
Community Forest Association (CFA) formed and registered as part
of these efforts
• Over 60 tree nurseries established and 80,000 seedlings planted by
community members
• Drafting and development of a PDD initiated in 2010
Tanzania
• Completed a decade-long process that will allow communities in a
Forest reserve in South Tanzania (Angai) legal ownership of the
forest
• Produced draft forest management plans and constitution that will
address coordination of forest management activities
• Conducted and completed a feasibility assessment for a
establishment of a REDD+ carbon project 6

Key Challenges
• Scaling up REDD projects given technical (carbon science*) and
financial (fund transfer) barriers
• Protection of communities rights (gender, land tenure and user
rights)
• Guaranteeing equitable benefit sharing
• How to simplify REDD projects
• MRV
*”If you cannot measure it you cannot market it” (concerns about lack of agreement/consensus on carbon stock
methodology & assessments)
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Lessons Learnt
• Active involvement and participation of all relevant stakeholders right
from the very beginning is critical
• Working with governments is slow and participatory planning with
communities necessarily takes longer
• Engagement with local people has facilitated project implementation
• Combining carbon project and biodiversity conservation is a good
strategy to attract financers and buyers
• Long-term secure funding is a pre-requisite to implementation of
carbon projects
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Emerging Opportunities for Collaboration
• Partnership formed or in the process of being formed:
• The District of Liwale and the Forestry and Beekeeping Division
• The Government of Finland
• The Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative
• University of Helsinki, Sokoine University and Yale University
researchers
• The Government of Kenya - Ministry of Environment and Mineral
Resources
• The Green Belt Movement
• Enoosupukia Community Forest Association
• The Government of Germany - Ministry of Environment,
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Next steps
• Complete the PDD for the Mau Forest Complex project and submit it
for validation and registration
• Complete and implement forest management plans for the Angai
Village Land Forest Reserve (AVLFR)
• Prepare cost benefit analysis to optimize the FSC and carbon mix for
the (AVLFR)
• Identify a funding source for the remainder of the project work
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