Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  345
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  Mpingo Conservation Development Initiative
• Secondary name
  _x000D_Combining REDD, PFM and FSC certification in South-Eastern Tanzania
• Country
  Tanzania, United Republic of
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2018
• Size (in hectare)
  25000
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2014
• Duration
  4
• Project description
  Integrating Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) with Participatory Forest Management (PFM) is key to ensuring benefits from REDD reach forest-adjacent communities, and that local incentives are aligned with national and global interests in conserving forests to reduce carbon emissions. The Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative (MCDI) already has extensive experience with PFM through the brand it has developed in SE Tanzania whereby communities earn revenue from selling sustainably harvested timber. MCDI holds the first Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate for community-managed natural forest in Africa. Financial flows from timber are expected to exceed those available from carbon markets over the long term, so MCDI proposes to leverage REDD as a catalyst to expand PFM+FSC over a wider area, bringing substantial benefits to poor and natural resource-dependent rural communities and conserving greatly increased areas of forest. The pricinple current threat to these forests is fire. ~80% of the landscape burns every year mostly from wild bush fires late in the dry season when fuel loads are high; this increases tree mortality and retards regeneration. To combat this MCDI is developing a programme of community fire management involving early burning in and around their conserved forests which will protect them from hotter fires later in the season. Such early burns are cooler and cause much less damaget to the forest. This is expected to lead to ~0.5tC/ha higher carbon sequestration per year which is significant across large areas. We will be developing a new VCS methodology to assess this. We are working with international partners to develop improved methods of measuring carbon stored in miombo woodlands, and from this developing efficient participatory assessment and monitoring procedures (drawing on MCDI's experience with participatory timber inventory) and protocols for monitoring and verification through remote sensing. Another major component is the development of best practice for delivering and monitoring benefits to communities.
• Objective 1
  climate
• Objective 2
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 3
  social development
• Deforestation drivers
  fire
• Type of forest
  dry
• Project activity
  REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  Yes
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Region : Lindi Region
• Jurisdiction level 2
  District : Kilwa

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  ND
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  500000
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  ND
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  CCB

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  attempted
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  FSC
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  43709
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  https://www.mpingoconservation.org/static/images/MCDI_Annual_Report_2018_19.pdf
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3
  VCS
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  intended
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  http://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/combining-reduced-emissions-deforestation-and-forest-degradation-redd ; http://theredddesk.org/sites/default/files/mcdi_pp_redd_pilot.pdf ; http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/mcdi-redd-project ; http://www.carbontanzania.com/forests/project-mcdi.htm ; http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/carbon-tanzaniampingo-conservation-development-initiative ; http://www.mpingoconservation.org/; Book "REDD+ on the ground" chapter 15.; http://theredddesk.org/sites/default/files/mcdi_pp_redd_pilot.pdf

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  Portion of revenues from offsett sales will go to communities, and a portion will be used by project developer to conduct project activities (i.e. expand PFM and FSC into additional villages) | Goal: 80% of PFM profits spent to benefit local people
• Provides employment?
  ND
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  ND
• Is there tenure clarification?
  ND
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  Yes
• Is there forest enhancement?
  ND
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  ND
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes