Monitoring objectives

Monitoring questions

Monitoring indicators

Monitoring methods and techniques

1. Policy

a) Forestry objectives and programmes

・ To what extent are REDD-plus actions consistent with national forest programmes?

Compliances or of lack of it

Policy context analysis

b) International policies

・ To what extent are REDD-plus actions consistent with international policies―conventions and agreements?

Compliances or of lack of it

Policy context analysis

2. Social and human rights issues

a) Governance Structures

i. Have forest governance structures been established at sub-national and national levels?

ii. Are the governance structures effective in discharging their roles and responsibilities?

・ Planning,

・ Implementation

・ Management

iii. Are transactions of the forest governance structures open for public scrutiny?

・ Decision making process

・ Financial

・ Cost and benefits sharing

Non compliance

・ Focused group discussions

・ Smartphone-aided survey

b) Social benefits

i. What are the social benefits (level of monetary and non-monetary benefits)

・ Focused group discussions

・ Smartphone-aided survey

3. Humans rights

a) Knowledge and rights

i. Does planning and management of forest included local and knowledge held by indigenous peoples and local communities?

Counts of occurrences of data, information and activities that utilises local and indigenous knowledge

・ Focused group discussions

b) Participation

i. Does the REDD+ planning and implementation process full and effectively involved relevant stakeholders

ii. Are indigenous peoples and local community involved in all the REDD+ stages

iii. Are contributions to REDD+ relevant decision making process made by IP’s and LC’s adopted in final documents and actions

・ Counts of relevant stakeholder participating in the process

・ Counts of IP’s and LC’s engaged in each stage of REDD+ action

・ Counts of contributions made by IP’s and LC’s and adopted by the government

・ Focused group discussions

・ Smartphone-aided survey

4. Biodiversity

i. Have REDD+ actions lead to protection and conservation of natural forests

ii. Have REDD+ actions lead to protection and conservation of ecosystem services

iii. Have REDD+ actions lead protection and conservation of biological diversity

・ Number of REDD+ actions prioritized for forest with high biodiversity

・ Area of natural forest conserved

・ Area of forest corridors/ connectivity established

・ Trends in species

・ Focused group discussions

・ Field inventory

・ Smartphone-aided survey

5. Environment

Benefits

i. What are the related environmental benefits derived from REDD+ actions

・ Climate change moderation

・ Water regulation

・ Food production

・ Fibre production

・ energy (fuel wood and charcoal)

・ Change is recordings of climate parameters

・ Water discharge (m3s-1)

・ Kilogrammes of food

・ Length of fibre

・ Kilogrammes of wood fuel and/or charcoal

・ Focused groups discussion

・ GPS survey

・ Smartphone-aided survey