The document summarizes a presentation given by Jackson M. Kimani from the William J. Clinton Foundation about their Carbon and Poverty Reduction Program grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The grant objectives are to develop REDD+ projects emphasizing forest conservation and carbon sequestration while improving livelihoods. Key activities include establishing MRV systems and launching forestry projects in East Africa and Southeast Asia. Progress includes feasibility assessments, seedling planting, and draft project design documents in Kenya while legalizing community forest ownership in Tanzania. Challenges include scaling up projects and ensuring equitable benefit sharing.

1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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