Governance system for management of transfer of information to public websites developed.1. Data obtained by the community monitors is available to the local community and, as agreed, to the Government of Guyana, donors and those investing in the Iwokrama’s ecosystem services on a Google Earth platform.

Community forest monitors are actively engaged in regular, reliable (audited) monitoring activities. A community-‐based monitoring protocol is developed, that builds on and complements existing monitoring, through a process of broad consultation with stakeholders in local communities and government. To provide a Community-‐MRV model that can be replicated in other parts of Guyana and countries of the Guiana Shield and Amazonia. To create a methodology that can, over the long-‐term, monitor the impacts of REDD+ on the forest and forest-‐dependent communities.

To link community-‐based monitoring of forest carbon and co-‐benefits (biodiversity, water and wellbeing) to the national Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system. To build on existing initiatives (that are developing tools and methodologies to help communities manage their forest resources and ecosystem services and be better able to understand and adapt to climate change) by training communities in the use of GPS handheld data recorders and Information Technology tools for recording and sharing information on the internet. donors) the value of their forests’ ecosystem services and their role as forest stewards. To work with communities in Iwokrama Forest and the North Rupununi region, Guyana, to develop an internet-‐based tool (Google Earth) to demonstrate to external actors (e.g. Project purpose and goal: (Including main indicators for goal attainment) Overall goal: To empower forest-‐dependent communities in Guyana to benefit from future REDD+ payments through community-‐based forest measuring, reporting and verification (Community -‐ MRV) of biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing.

Project title: Community empowerment for Forest Measuring, Reporting and Verification 4. Legal status: NGO (NGO, foundation, institute etc.) 3. Name of applicant: Lead Applicant: Global Canopy Programme Consortium: UNDP Guiana Shield Initiative Project Fauna-‐National Science Foundation, USA Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development (IIC) SarVision Helveta 2. Application Climate and Forest Initiative 2010 – civil society support Please note that the application should be no longer than 20 pages, shall be written in English and submitted online and by post by December 1, 2009.

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