Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  405
• Project status 2022
  Ended
• Project name
  Sofala Community Carbon Project
• Secondary name
  N'hambita Community Carbon Project (former name)
• Country
  Mozambique
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  11744
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2018
• Duration
  15
• Project description
  The Sofala Community Carbon Project (the Project) is developing sustainable land use and rural development activities in communities around and within the buffer zones of Gorongosa and Marromeu National Parks both in central Mozambique, to improve rural livelihoods, habitat restoration, forest management and conservation of biodiversity. The project is designed to both restore land degraded through shifting cultivation and reduce pressure on remaining woodland through the planting of nitrogen fixing trees to enrich the soil. The project is also generating verified emission reductions (VERs). The project is a flag-ship Plan Vivo project and has been operating under the Plan Vivo Standard since its inception. The Project is split into two sites, the Gorongosa and Zambezi Delta project sites. Both sites include a large number of rural smallholders, and promotes the adoption of sustainable land use management. Individual smallholders can choose to adopt mitigation activities from a menu of 9 different land use systems: homestead planting, Faidherbia dispersed interplanting, Gliricidia dispersed interplanting, non-burning of agri-residues, field boundary planting, mango orchard growing, cashew orchard growing, woodlot creation and finally REDD, (seven agro-forestry, one agricultural and one forestry). For each system that a producer decides to adopt, a contract is established between him or her and the project developer which includes a carbon calculator derived from the technical specification. The project developer provides guidance on how to adopt the system and monitors implementation thereby providing a basis for carbon payments. The approach of the project is programmatic and aggregates many carbon producers activities on individually managed land under one project umbrella. REDD management areas can be either wooded community areas or woodland owned by an individual community member, they do not have to have contiguous borders. The smallest REDD area is 2ha, the largest is 5,249 ha.
• Objective 1
  development, social development
• Objective 2
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 3
  climate
• Deforestation drivers
  charcoal production, fire, industrial wood exploitation, local livelihoods, slash and burn agriculture
• Type of forest
  dry|humid
• Project activity
  ARR|REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  agroforestry
• Multiple locations?
  Yes
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Province : Sofala
• Jurisdiction level 2
  District: Gorongosa

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2002-2009
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  1111576
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  ND
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  Plan vivo

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  39083
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  http://www.planvivo.org/project-network/sofala-mozambique/
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  42248
• Carbon standard 2
  CCB
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  expired
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  40422
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  http://www.climate-standards.org/2009/10/28/sofala-community-carbon-project/
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  42248
• Carbon standard 3
  none
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  http://www.planvivo.org/projects/registeredprojects/sofala-community-carbon-mozambique/; http://www.climate-standards.org/2009/10/28/sofala-community-carbon-project/ ; http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/nhambita-community-carbon-project ; http://www.envirotrade.co.uk/html/projects.php ; http://www.envirotrade.co.uk/html/projects_gorongosa.php ; http://www.envirotrade.co.uk/html/projects_zambezi.php ; http://mer.markit.com/br-reg/public/project.jsp?project_id=100000000000169 ;

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  Funding to community-managed trust fund per hectare of land protected | Financing both up-front for activity implementation and ex-post from offsett sales | Farmers paid $4.46/tCO2e over 7 years for agroforestry (at least 1/3 of total offsett revenues) |
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  agriculture | agroforestry | microenterprise | processing and commercialization
• Is there tenure clarification?
  No
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  No
• Is there forest enhancement?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  Yes
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes