Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  367
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  Lower Zambezi REDD+ project
• Secondary name
• Country
  Zambia
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  40126
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2039
• Duration
  30
• Project description
  The Lower Zambezi REDD+ Project takes place on 38,781 hectares (ha) of privately-owned land in Rufunsa District, Zambia. The Project Area is known as ‘Rufunsa Conservancy’ (Conservancy), and is owned by a Zambian company named Sable Transport Limited. The Conservancy is one of the last intact areas of forest within Lusaka Province (named after the nearby capital city), and provides a 60-kilometer buffer to Lower Zambezi National Park (NP) , a strategic protected area in Zambia in a globally significant trans-frontier conservation area. Lower Zambezi NP is adjacent to Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe which is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site. The core project climate activities undertaken include forest carbon inventorying, modeling cumulative deforestation patterns, and soil carbon assessments. Core community project activities include up to eighteen different types of community-based deforestation mitigation initiatives designed to create sustainable, scalable alternatives to deforestation, and strategic, meaningful incentives that comprise part of pay for performance programs that support forest conservation. Core biodiversity project activities include forest conservation systems, biodiversity monitoring and management, and fire management.
• Objective 1
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 2
  climate
• Objective 3
  social development
• Deforestation drivers
  charcoal production, local livelihoods, slash and burn agriculture
• Type of forest
  dry
• Project activity
  REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  No
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Province : Lusaka
• Jurisdiction level 2
  District : Rufunsa

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2009-2039
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  6309472
• Leakage is expected?
  yes
• Carbon pools included
  Soil organic carbon
• Gasses included
  CO2
• Reference period start year
  2020
• Reference period end year
  2021
• Carbon standard 1
  CCB

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  44743
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=69817&IDKEY=sq934lkmsad39asjdkfj90qlkalsdkngaf98ulkandDfdvDdfhd96277643
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  VCS
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  41733
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=16454&IDKEY=s0e98hfalksuf098fnsdalfkjfoijmn4309JLKJFjlaksjfla9F22690066
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• 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
  https://vcsprojectdatabase2.apx.com/myModule/Interactive.asp?Tab=Projects&a=2&i=1202&lat=-15.4056805479607&lon=29.3855227650799&bp=1; http://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/lower-zambezi-redd-project ; http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/Lower-Zambezi-REDD-Project ; http://www.climate-standards.org/2013/03/13/lower-zambezi-redd-project/ ; http://www.climate-standards.org/2013/03/13/lower-zambezi-redd-project/

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  10% of ecotourism revenues will be awarded to community trust fund on condition of expanded wildlife populations in HCV project areas | 'Community Covenants' structure project activities to be dependant on reduced deforestation and biodiversity enhancement
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  agriculture | agroforestry | economic interest groups | ecotourism | microenterprise | tree planting
• Is there tenure clarification?
  No
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  Yes
• Is there forest enhancement?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  Yes
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes