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 |
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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 |
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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 |