Plan Vivo Project Idea note (PIN)

Community PES
Community Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the Congo Basin

08 July 2010

Table of contents
1 Project objectives, intervention, activities ............................................................................................................ 2 1.1 Objectives ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 Intervention ................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 1.3 1.4 2 2.1 2.2 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 4 5 Scale ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Activities ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Time-line .......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Nkolenyeng ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Nomedjoh ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Nkolenyeng physical environment ............................................................................................................... 5 Nkolenyeng socioeconomic environment ................................................................................................... 7 Nomedjoh physical environment .................................................................................................................. 7 Nomedjoh socio-economic environment ..................................................................................................... 9 Relevant national governance structures in Cameroon ............................................................................ 9

Target groups/communities ................................................................................................................................... 5

Description of project area ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Ownership of carbon rights and land tenure ....................................................................................................... 9 Description of applicant organisation(s) and proposed governance structure ............................................. 10 5.1 5.2 5.3 Communities ................................................................................................................................................. 10 Project coordinator ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Project development support ...................................................................................................................... 13

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Community-led design plan ................................................................................................................................. 13 Additionality analysis ............................................................................................................................................ 13 Compliance with regulations and notification of relevant bodies ................................................................... 16 Sources of start-up funding .................................................................................................................................. 16

Appendix A: Notification of relevant bodies National Seminar............................................................................. 17 Appendix B: Notification of relevant bodies follow-up letters ............................................................................... 20

1 Project objectives, intervention, activities

1.1 Objectives
The overarching goal of the Community PES Project is to positively assist communities of Cameroon, and potentially the broader Congo Basin region, to protect forest resources by finding ways to integrate payments for ecosystem services (PES) and community forest management. The specific objectives are to: Maintain forest cover, and thereby maintain carbon stocks, biodiversity and the capacity of forests to provide products, protect watersheds, and prevent soil erosion Improve and strengthen community forest management by equipping communities with the knowledge and capacity to manage and protect their environmental assets Provide alternative income generating activities that help alleviate poverty and improve livelihoods and the ability of communities to cope with institutional, economic and natural resource changes Help develop technical capacity at all levels and support the reform or formulation of appropriate national community forestry legislation and institutions across the region Derive practical lessons for future community-based REDD initiatives and feed these into relevant regional and international REDD policy processes

Intervention
The land-use intervention that will generate Plan Vivo Certificates is avoided deforestation. To reduce the threat of deforestation and forest degradation it is necessary to strengthen the capacity of communities to manage their forests effectively over the longer-term. This requires a significant emphasis on complementary income generating activities and practices that do not threaten forest cover, such as improvements in agroforestry and more sustainable agriculture, and enhanced production, extraction and marketing of non timber forest products (NTFPs). As a result of the project intervention, the structure and composition of native forest ecosystems will be maintained and potentially improved, and indigenous tree and plant species will be conserved.

1.2 Scale
This Community PES project is a pilot project of the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF). It will result in a full pilot PES project at the Nkolenyeng Community Forest (the primary project site) and the partial establishment of a secondary project at the Nomedjoh Community Forest (the secondary project site). The Nkolenyeng Community Forest is approximately 1,042 hectares. Its core population is about 555 inhabitants and rises to as many as 700 people during the cocoa season. As of February 2010, 117 volunteers have been identified and involved in project activities. The Nomedjoh Community Forest is approximately 1,942 hectares. A recent census estimates the population of Nomedjoh to be 896 inhabitants, including those in forest camps in the surrounding forest. As of February 2010, over 100 volunteers have been identified for project activities. The process for recruiting volunteers is ongoing. Our expectation is that with the funding available, it will be possible to run PES-funded project activities at Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh for a 5 year period. If further money were secured for PES, the project could be scaled up by either extending the time-frame of the project or extending the project concept to additional

community forests.

1.3 Activities
The project intervention comprises four categories of project activity: 1. Forest protection and regeneration (activity stream to directly protect forest) Forest reserve zoning and boundary marking Community awareness raising and training about the forest reserve zone Patrolling and monitoring Increasing tree cover, enrichment planting. Tree planting in old fallows, new fallows, cocoa farms, and fields Reduced tree felling. Reopening abandoned fallows and avoiding new clearance, lengthening fallows, retention of forest cover when opening new fields, reduced fallow clearance and burning training, controls on logging, approval process for agricultural expansion, monitoring and mapping of agricultural expansion Improved agriculture. Crop mixtures, multi-level cropping, new crops, green manure, improved tillage and plantain propagation, agricultural intensification / permaculture training Improved cocoa production. Pruning of dead/diseased branches, burying of diseased cocoa pods, planting new rootstock, grafting new higher yielding/more disease resistant varieties, more efficient/effective crop spraying, improved drying and storing techniques. Improved agroforestry. Fruit trees, shade trees, nitrogen fixers, community nurseries for citrus and forest trees Beekeeping training, hive construction, training in the marketing of honey Improved collection and marketing of moabi, wild mango, mbalaka Fish farming Mushroom growing

2. Sustainable forest use and management (activity stream to directly protect forest)

3. Sustainable agriculture (activity stream to support forest protection)

4. NTFP income activities (activity stream to support forest protection)

1.4 Time-line
A number of milestones will be achieved before validation. The table below shows these milestones.
Table 1: Project development milestones

Milestone

Status (as of July 2010)

Date to reach milestone

Research and design Project coordination structures and roles established and processes implemented Planning, preparation and project design for two pilot sites Capacity strengthening and awareness raising in communities PIN written Activities designed by communities (facilitated by project coordinator) Volunteers identified and involved in activities (Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh) Technical specification written (Nkolenyeng) Management plan, project design document, written (Nkolenyeng) Community governance structure in place (Nkolenyeng) Site-specific financial and administrative systems and processes established (Nkolenyeng) First PES service agreement signed with community (Nkolenyeng) First PES negotiated and delivered to community (Nkolenyeng) Increase number of community members involved in the project (Nkolenyeng) Project development partner (BioClimate) role limited to being available for advice when required Project coordinator (CED) operating autonomously Project validated under Plan Vivo after one annual cycle of activity

Achieved Achieved Achieved Ongoing Achieved Achieved Achieved Progressing Progressing Progressing Progressing Progressing Progressing Progressing Progressing Progressing Progressing August 2010 August 2010 September 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 November 2010 December 2010 December 2010 December 2010 September 2010

2 Target groups/communities
Target groups involved in this project are the community members of the villages of Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh, both of which have community forests.

2.1 Nkolenyeng
Nkolenyeng is a well established, predominantly agricultural community. Its core population is about 555 inhabitants and rises to as many as 700 people during the cocoa season, particularly the harvesting and sales period towards the end of the calendar year. The community consists mainly of Bantu people belonging to the Fang ethnic group, and also has a small community of Baka people. Seasonal itinerant workers also work in the cocoa plantations and live in the village. The Nkolenyeng community possesses stable leadership and organisational capacity at various levels. It has demonstrated an ability to act co-operatively. Common initiative groups (GICs) are important community structures. In these groups, labour is pooled, and harvested products are sold in quantity to take advantage of the benefits of larger-scale selling. The primary objective of these groups is to improve production and sales of agricultural products and NTFPs.

2.2 Nomedjoh
Nomedjoh is predominantly a Baka1 community, with a strong tradition of hunter-gathering combined with a growing emphasis on agriculture. Its population is about 896 inhabitants. The community is in state of transition from a nomadic, forest-dwelling lifestyle to a settled one in which community members remain in the village throughout most of the year. Organisational capacity of the Nomedjoh community in a formal sense is not strong, and experience in dealing with finance and enterprise is limited. The culture is dualistic, with traditional cultural values and practices coexisting sometimes uneasily with new and emergent lifestyle aspects, attitudes and views. A dichotomy in attitudes between young and old places strains on social cohesion.

3 Description of project area

3.1 Nkolenyeng physical environment
Project location The Nkolenyeng Community Forest is part of the Djoum Sub-Division of Dja and Lobo in the Southern Region of Cameroon. The area of the Nkolenyeng Community forest is approximately 1,042 hectares.
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The term Pygmies is often used to denote people belonging to the Baka and related ethnic groups. It is sometimes considered to be a pejorative term, but it is also often the term Baka people apply to themselves.

Figure 1: Location of Nkolenyeng Community Forest

Physical description of the land, land use and land cover types The general forest type is mixed evergreen and deciduous humid forest. Some areas of forest are permanently flooded, while others are well drained. Forest cover is mostly dense, except in areas where there have been clearances for fields and where village tracks are located. Land use and land cover types The Nkolenyeng Community Forest has been stratified as follows: Futf relatively undisturbed forest Mff Afane degraded forest which has been logged for commercial purposes Ekotok regenerating forest with fallows and crop areas Zam permanently flooded forest Banana plantations and newly opened cocoa fields fields planted with bananas and areas that have been recently cleared and inter-planted with cocoa trees Agricultural fields areas currently under cultivation with food crops Cocoa plantations Established cocoa plantations under the cover of large trees

Forest degradation processes, trends & main drivers The principal driver of deforestation and forest degradation is clearance of land to establish mixed agricultural fields for subsistence and commercial use. The establishment of new (variously shaded) cocoa fields as well as banana fields for subsistence and commercial purposes are activities that result in thinning or more substantive removal of forest cover.

3.2 Nkolenyeng socioeconomic environment

Description of cultural and socioeconomic context A recent census estimates the population of Nkolenyeng to be 555 inhabitants, 56% of whom are women. Young people under the age of 20 make up 60% of the population. There are two distinct ethnic groups present in the community: the Fang (92% of the population) and the Baka (8% of the population). Seasonal workers come to the village to work on cocoa fields, mainly between the months of March to December. The village of Nkolenyeng has a government primary school but the school enrolment rate for children aged 5 15 years is low (23%). The village also has a recently constructed but very basic health centre, a borehole for the supply of safe drinking water, three Christian churches for worship and five small shops that sell some basic commodities. Main sources of income Cocoa is the most important source of income for the Fang community members of Nkolenyeng. Other income generating activities include the sale of bushmeat, livestock (pigs and sheep) raffia wine, plantain, peanuts, manioc, maize and macabo. The Baka in Nkolenyeng sell little or no agricultural field produce. The fields they have access to barely permit them to produce sufficient food for subsistence. They often work for the Fang in exchange for clothes, food or money, and through the sale of NTFPs, in the following order of importance: bushmeat, raffia wine, rattan (basket production), honey and raffia tree grubs. Relevant local governance structures The Nkolenyeng Community Forest is managed by the AFHAN Development Association (Association de Femmes et Hommes ami(es) de Nkolenyeng), in accordance with the Community Forest Management Plan. Common initiative groups (GICs) improve production and sales of agricultural products and NTFPs. There are a number of other active community structures, including the Comit de developpement (community development group).

3.3 Nomedjoh physical environment

Project location The Nomedjoh Community Forest is part of the Lomi Sub-Division of Upper Nyong Division in the East Region of Cameroon. The total area of the forest is about 1,942 hectares.

Figure 2: Location of Nomedjoh Community Forest

Physical description of the land, land use and land cover types The general forest type is mixed evergreen and deciduous humid forest. Within the Nomedjoh community forest, the banks of streams are fairly steep and there are no large areas of marshy flooded forest. Current main categories of land use and land cover The Nomedjoh Community Forest has been stratified as follows: Mandja relatively undisturbed forest area Wondouo regenerating forest where fallows are located Mbondjo deforested, where agricultural fields are located

Forest degradation processes, trends & main drivers The principal driver of deforestation and forest degradation is clearances of land by strangers to establish mixed agricultural fields. Clearances are also made by community members to establish mixed agricultural fields mainly for subsistence.

3.4 Nomedjoh socio-economic environment

Description of cultural and socioeconomic context Nomedjoh is a predominantly Baka community they have settled along the main road over a distance of about 800m. As is the case elsewhere, the Baka communities in the area have been forced into an increasingly sedentarised lifestyle but without sufficient access or rights to land. A recent census estimates the population of Nomedjoh to be 896 inhabitants, including those in forest camps in the surrounding forest. Women make up 51% of the inhabitants, and young people under the age of 25 make up 59% of the population. The social structure is based on strong clans composed of large families, usually headed by the eldest person in the family. Traditionally the community has placed more emphasis on age than formal designations of authority as the basis of respect. The village of Nomedjoh has a primary school and a dormitory which houses about 20 girls. The programme supporting the girls staying at the dormitory is called Foyer des jeune filles Baka (dormitory for Baka girls). The community also has a borehole, and a community hall is under construction. There is no health centre in Nomedjoh residents of Nomedjoh visit the health centre in Lomi. Main sources of income The Baka community at Nomedjoh depend heavily on Bantu communities for income opportunities, mostly from agricultural labour. Other sources of income are from hunting, making and selling baskets from rattan, selling NTFPs Ndoo - also called bush mango, amvout, mbalaka, raffia wine, wild honey, and raffia tree grubs). Relevant local governance structures The Nomedjoh Community Forest is managed by the Bouma Bo Kpode, a legal entity that effectively serves as the forest management committee in accordance with the Community Forest Management Plan. Other important community structures include the Comit de developpement (village development committee), Comit de Gestion RFA (forest royalties management committee), the parents and teachers association, and common initiative groups (GICs) for NTFPs (bush mango and moabi).

3.5 Relevant national governance structures in Cameroon

The three main governance structures of relevance to the Community PES project are: 1. Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) - the primary authority for decision-making and coordination of sub-regional actions and initiatives relating to the conservation and sustainable management of the Congo Basin forests. 2. Cameroon Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) - evaluates and implements government policy for national forests and wildlife. It is responsible for the management and protection of national forests. 3. Cameroon Ministry of Environment and Protection of Nature (MINEP) - elaborates, implements and evaluates national environmental policies.

4 Ownership of carbon rights and land tenure

Community Forests are part of the Cameroonian national non-permanent forest estate. By legal agreement between the State of Cameroon (represented by the Senior Divisional officer) and the village communities, Community Forests are managed by the communities with technical assistance from the Forestry Administration. The community management agreement is renewable after an initial 25 year period, and is accompanied by a Simple Management Plan. The Simple Management Plan is revised every five years, and sets out the activities to be undertaken (MINFOF, 1998).

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Communities in Cameroon hold exclusive rights to the products of community forests - wood, non-wood, wildlife, fishery resources and special products. Carbon is not explicitly mentioned in the legislation on community forests, but the fact that carbon is simply a function of biomass is a sufficient basis for attributing carbon associated with project activities to communities responsible for carrying out project activities. Awareness and recognition of the Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh Community Forests by the public and statutory bodies is strong and undisputed. There are no disputes over the lands concerned and no contestation of the rights of the communities to manage these lands. The area of the Nkolenyeng Community Forest is 1,042 ha. It is a fully recognised Community Forest with all of the associated legal rights. The area of the Nomedjoh Community Forest is 1,942 ha. The Nomedjoh community holds customary rights over the Nomedjoh forest to grow perennial and subsistence crops and to carry out livelihood activities including hunting, gathering, fishing and small scale artisan logging of timber for their local use. The process of registering the Nomedjoh Community Forest has reached an advanced stage. The Simple Management Plan is awaiting final validation by the Forestry Administration. An application has been entered, changes have been suggested based on the first submission, and updates are being made to the application before resubmission.

5 Description of applicant organisation(s) and proposed governance structure

The Community PES Project will involve the communities of Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh, and is the result of a partnership between Centre pour L Environnement et le Dveloppement (CED), BioClimate Research & Development (BioClimate), and Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK). CED is the project implementation partner and will serve as the project coordinator. BioClimate has been integrally involved in project development and has managed the DFID grant that has made the development of the project possible. BioClimates role will taper off as the development process draws to a close. Between July 2010 and December 2010, BioClimates role will change from providing focused project development support during regular visits to Cameroon to on-call, remote project development guidance. By December 2010, CED will be running the project without support from BioClimate, as indicated by the milestones in table 1. RFUKs direct involvement in management and implementation aspects of the project ended following the initial phase of project development.

5.1 Communities
The communities involved in the Community PES project are the communities of Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh. Community fieldworkers have been chosen for both communities and will assist with the implementation and monitoring of project activities. In Nkolenyeng there are three community field workers - one Bantu man and woman, one Baka man from the neighbouring Baka village. They are, respectively, Jean-Francois Oyono, Florence Oyeandang, Jean-Paul Ondoua. In Nomedjoh there are four community field workers - three men and one woman. They are respectively Ndjema Bazor, Pascal Nkelo, Clarisse Angoussa and Assia Jeanne.

5.2 Project coordinator

CED is an environmental and development NGO. It was founded in 1994 and has established itself as a leading advocate of community forests in Cameroon and the broader region. It has extensive practical

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experience in the legal and technical groundwork and social mobilisation needed to secure community land tenure and government approval for community forests. It is currently working on the reform of community forest management in Cameroon and ways in which payments for ecosystem services can help shore up community forests and livelihoods and underpin the role of communities in REDD policy frameworks. CED is also spearheading the NGO contribution to the FLEGT process. CED has received multiple international accolades, including a Goldman Environmental Prize in 1999 for its founder and Executive Director, Samuel Nguiffo. A dedicated Community PES project team has been established within CED in order to coordinate the project. Team members, roles and expertise are summarised in Table 2.
Table 2: CED Community PES Project coordination team

Role Project management support and guidance Regional coordinator Administrative coordinator Administrative support Mapping specialist Field work technician Technical advisor, Agroforestry specialist (University of Dschang - sub-contractor) Site coordinator for Nomedjoh (ASTRADHE) Site coordinator for Nkolenyeng Supporting site coordinator for Nkolenyeng Beekeeping specialist Technical facilitator (PERAD) NTFP specialist Additional support

Name Samuel Nguiffo Samuel Nnah Flobert Deffo Kamto Anne-Marie Assembe Fredy Mbianda Mustapha Njayou Felix Meutchieye Brigitte Anziom Loc Biango Nyama Christian Ze Dieudonn Betayene Rodrigue Ntiba Anne-Marie Assembe Nico Kamte

Expertise Management and institutional support building Project coordination and community development Administration and financial management Administration support GIS mapping Agroforestry Agroforestry and agriculture Community development and coordination Community development and coordination Forest management and community development Beekeeping Forest managment Non-timber forest product processing and marketing Driver

Social functions CED has worked with the communities of Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh for the past decade. It holds community workshops to develop a shared understanding of the project, facilitate the identification of development priorities, provide extension services and training, lead the implementation of project activities, and guide the management of ecosystem service payments and monies by communities. CED is also facilitating the set-up of bank accounts and providing guidance and training to communities about book

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keeping and record keeping. Since the onset of the project development and establishment process, the site coordinators have met with the communities or specific community members and groups four times each week on average. Community meetings, group discussions and workshops are ongoing. A socioeconomic (livelihoods) study has been carried out with the communities of Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh. The studies have provided a deeper understanding of community activities and calendars, forest and non-forest sources of income and livelihoods, community decision making mechanisms and organisational structures, and the communities capacity to comprehend, plan and manage PES related actions. CEDs work with the communities in helping create, amend and gain approval of the Simple Management Plans is described in section 4. Technical functions CED will coordinate all technical activities in the project. CED has facilitated the training of community field workers and members in a variety of technical aspects, including mapping, biomass inventories, methods for monitoring changes to forest cover, participatory threat assessment and mapping, and the identification and implementation of agricultural and agroforestry activities. CED will continue to provide technical support and training to community members so that the activities needed to protect forests are well formulated and implemented. CED is developing a technical specification for the avoided deforestation project intervention for the Community Forests of Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh with assistance from BioClimate. Community field workers will be involved in community activities and monitoring activities. Administrative functions CED will carry out the administrative functions required to operate the project. Flobert Deffo Kamto, administrative coordinator, may manage the process for making payments to communities. He will register and record Plan Vivo ecosystem service agreements with producers, and he will also register and record receipt of funds from any source for Plan Vivo activities. Project data will be managed according to a data management protocol. Reporting to the Plan Vivo Foundation will be carried out by the administrative coordinator. PES will be conditional upon the successful generation of ecosystem services. Where monitoring thresholds are met, PES will be disbursed as agreed in the ecosystem service contracts between the project coordinator and community members. Oversight and monitoring of the Plan Vivo project intervention will be coordinated by the regional coordinator. For the holding and disbursement of PES, the following approach is being considered: Money for PES may be lodged in a dedicated bank account or appropriate fund structure, and the funds may be disbursed by CED staff. The disbursement process for this account would require the signatures of at least two of the following: Secretary General of CED, administrative coordinator, regional coordinator, or administrative assistant CED. It is envisaged that bank accounts will be opened for each project activity group in the communities. Two recognised signatories would be required for each account, and the withdrawal of funds would be supervised by a CED staff member. PES disbursements will be tracked and recorded in a database. The regional coordinator will arrange for project validation and verification to take place.

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5.3 Project development support

BioClimate has assisted the project coordinator throughout all stages of project development, including the assessment and scoping of opportunities, preparation and planning, government engagement and support building, community engagement and capacity strengthening, technical development, the definition and implementation of project activities, and the establishment of mechanism for making payments to communities for ecosystem services. The roles of BioClimate staff in the development of the Community PES Project are summarised in Table 3. BioClimate will recede as CED assumes full responsibility for all coordination aspects of the project.
Table 3: BioClimate project developer team

Role Project manager Project development manager Technical development manager Technical development advisor Technical development advisor (Ecometrica)

Name Rob Harley Willie McGhee Wendelin Aubrey Ezra Neale Nicholas Berry

6 Community-led design plan

Community participation is a pervasive and prominent aspect of the Community PES project. There has been a strong emphasis on a community-led approach in all aspects of the project development and establishment process. Community members have been integrally involved in decision making about land use and livelihood activities. Participatory methods have been used to elicit knowledge about land cover and land use and threats to forest cover and biodiversity. Community members have undertaken mapping and biomass inventories. These processes have motivated communities and encouraged a sense of ownership of the project and responsibility for its success. As a result, community members have essentially led the process of developing near-term and longer-term ideas and plans for forest protection, livelihood activities and technical aspects. Community meetings and workshops have: allowed the identification of community development priorities, led to decisions on the distribution of PES and enabled technical aspects of forest protection to be discussed.. CED and the project partners have played a support and guidance role in these processes, and have avoided directing decisions and planning towards predetermined goals. As mentioned in section 5, the project site coordinators facilitate community involvement and have been holding an average of four meetings with communities or community representatives each week. Between October 2009 and March 2010, CED coordinated a total of approximately 37 field visits to Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh.

7 Additionality analysis
Implementation barriers The communities of Nkolenyeng and Nomedjoh require financial, technical, and institutional support to manage their Community Forests sustainably. Sustainable management of the forests is expected to bring about greater social and ecological resilience as well as a reduction in poverty through the generation of and payment for - ecosystem services. By contrast, a continuation of current practices would lead to further

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forest degradation and deforestation. Table 4 below summarises the additionalilty tests of regulatory surplus, common practice, and barriers to implementation.
Table 4: Additionality analysis

Additionality test Regulatory surplus

Initial scenario No legal requirement to protect forest cover. Although there are some official limitations on the logging of certain species, in practice these are neither restrictive enough to prevent fairly significant removal of forest cover nor to restrict agricultural expansion. Non-sustainable timber harvesting in community forests Non-sustainable agricultural expansion in community forests

Action Forest protection project intervention and incentives through PES

Common practice

Implementation barriers Financial No money to develop project No system of community payments for ecosystem services. Technical Project coordinator without staffing complement and skills needed to implement and manage project Communities without awareness and skills to initiate project development processes and activities Funding secured to develop initial project, ongoing project management and transaction costs, and payments for ecosystem services. Recruitment of staff and skill strengthening for the project coordinator Training undertaken with the project coordinator staff, site coordinators and community field workers include mapping; biomass inventories; participatory threat assessment and derivation of baselines; carbon quantification Project coordinator staff capacity also built through administrative, financial and data management skills transfer Development and implementation of project activities and associated extension services (forest protection and regeneration, sustainable forest management, sustainable agriculture, NTFP activities)

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Institutional

Organisational, cultural, social barriers

Facilitation and training to guide organise and strengthen existing community groups and structures to run project activities. Awareness to alter practices to alleviate some of the pressure from agricultural expansion on the forests

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8 Compliance with regulations and notification of relevant bodies

The community PES project will comply with all relevant national and international regulations. A National Seminar was held in Yaound on 24 June, 2009 to generate interest and build an understanding of the project concept, aims, development process, and challenges faced by community forests. Seminar participants included representatives of ministries, forest communities, multilateral organisations, international and local NGOs and, researchers and academics, and the media. Please see Appendix A for the list of attendees to the national seminar. At the seminar, the statutory bodies whose support for the project is most critical, namely the Ministry of Wildlife and Forestry (MINFOF) and the Ministry of the Environment (MINEP), were encouraged to engage with the project and benefit from learning opportunities it can provide. Delegates from MINFOF have shown a particularly keen level of genuine interest and support for the project. Please see appendix B for the follow-up letters to MINFOF and MINEP.

9 Sources of start-up funding

The Community PES project is one of a handful of fast-track projects selected by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to receive start-up funding ahead of the launch of the Congo Basin Forest Fund by the Governments of the United Kingdom and Norway. The start-up funding from DFID has covered all project development and staff costs, including the costs of developing technical methodologies and Plan Vivo qualification documents. A portion of the DFID funding is reserved for initial community PES. This PES finance will be distributed to communities in accordance with results of monitoring against targets and thresholds specified in technical methodologies. CED, the project coordinator, will be actively seeking additional sources of funding for the project to extend the period over which PES can be disbursed for project activities.

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Appendix A: Notification of relevant bodies National Seminar

National seminar Organisations from which delegates attended Number of participants 13 Ministry of Forest and Wildlife Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection Ministry of Lands and State Properties Ministry of Finances Ministry of Public Administration Local MINFOF Staff 2 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 6 COMIFAC WORLD BANK AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK UNDP FAO 3 - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 6 DFID CIDA (Canada) EU French Cooperation GTZ USAID 4 - INTERNATIONAL NGOs AND PROJECTS 6 WWF IUCN CIFOR SNV FGP ICRAF 5 - NATIONAL NGOs 6 - JOURNALISTS 7 COMMUNITIES 1 - MINISTRIES 4 2 1 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 4 4

TOTAL OF PARTICIPANTS

49

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National seminar List of participants Name Willie McGHEE BATUO Moses CHIMEWAH Naomi Role Director BIOCLIMATE Engineer Telecoms Sustainable Development Trainer GLOBETOURNet.SA CED MINFOF (DD Haut Nyong) Sociologue Environnementaliste FODER-Mbalmayo DCP MINFOF DCP MINFOF DCP MINFOF CIFOR/CIRAD Doctorant en Botanique et Ecologie (Universit de Yaound I) Professeur FS/UYI najzon@yahoo.fr Rodine14@yahoo.fr Abinajean07@yahoo.fr Jean.lemotio@yahoo.fr Marvellous_marcel@yahoo.com lescuyer@cirad.fr kengneoc@yahoo.fr 96 13 54 22 79 15 55 45 Email Willie.mcghee@brdt.org batuofamily@yahoo.fr nadelayo@yahoo.com Telephone 00441316723782 77 67 31 38 77 73 53 76

TAGNE TIAM Guy Alain Joseph MAKONDO TSOMBENG SONA Olivier NTSAMA ATANGANA Jacqueline TCHIOFO L. Rodine ABINA NTI Emmanuel J.C LEMOTIO Jean OJONG Marcel AYUK LESCUYER Guillaume KENGNE Olivier Clovis

Guyt421@yahoo.fr j.makondo@yahoo.fr

77 82 56 52 77 17 57 79 75 99 99 65 BP 1891 Yaound 77 69 84 06 75 85 04 12

AMOUGOU AKOA

Aakoa08@ymail.com

BP 812 Yaound 99 95 33 66

NDJATSANA Michel

Consultant climat COMIFAC Responsable volet gestion des ressources naturelles AAFEBEN SAILD/DA-REC/ DDFOF/NS Gestionnaire COVIMOF ONG FRANCE

Ndjatsana2005@yahoo.fr

B.P 20818 75 22 06 26

ASSO Sylvie

Aafebengong@yahoo.fr

B.P 158 yokadoma

Marie Pauline VOUFO NANKIA T.J-M AMOUGOU A. Etienne FEUMI Milne

Pauline.voufo@saild.org nankiahilarion@yahoo.fr 75 37 35 58 75 25 00 36 75 32 10 20

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Name RIBOUEM MOUNGAM Jol TCHANA NDO LEME Jean Jacques MINSOUMA BODO Anicet BIFANE ELLE Emmanuel NKOUANDOU ISIAKA NDONGO Simon TOMBOMBO Dieudonn ALEKA Raymond NDJETOH Pierre GEMMA MAY MFOM ENGO Edouard

Role Fonctionnaire APTD prvention des laux Plateforme DJOUM Dlgu Rgional du Centre MINFOF Chef de village NKOLENYENG CRRUS/DF/MINFOF Chef de Village Prsident Fort Communautaire de NOMEDJOH Chef de Village PAYO PCA PERAD DFID CADER/Directeur

Email

Telephone 75 03 69 66

aptdcameroun@yahoo.fr

77 61 16 95 94 78 28 24

Minsouma_anicet@yahoo.fr

77 74 15 75 96 32 35 03

nkouandouisiaka@yahoo.fr 77 27 01 72

pndjetoh@yahoo.frou pierrendjetoh@perad.org g-may@dfid.gov.uk Cader_akom2@yahoo.fr

99 84 83 36

B.P. 43 AKOM II 96 99 48 01

Durrel HALLESON

CED

hndurrel@yahoo.com

96 78 87 65 22 22 38 57

AZANTSA Symphorien

CED

azantsabs@cedcameroun.org berreck2002@yahoo.fr

99 34 74 79 22 22 38 57 22 22 38 57 22 22 38 57 22 22 38 57

DEFFO KAMTO Flobert Samuel NNAH NDOBE Samuel NGUIFFO

DAF/ CED CED CED/ Secrtaire Gnral

dfobert@yahoo.fr samnnah@yahoo.com snguiffo@cedcameroun.org snguiffo@yahoo.fr

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Appendix B: Notification of relevant bodies follow-up letters

National seminar Follow-up letters to MINFOF and MINEP Following the National Seminar, letters were sent to MINFOF and MINEP. MINFOF was thanked for their attendance at the National Seminar and their support, and MINEP was thanked for their continuing interest in the Community PES project.

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