Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  140
• Project status 2022
  Ended
• Project name
  Reforestation project in Ecuador- Face the Future
• Secondary name
  ECUADOR SIERRA
• Country
  Ecuador
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  16500
• Start year
  1994
• End year
  2093
• Duration
  99
• Project description
  The project activity prevented the land from further degradation and to enable forests to capture more, better-quality water. The project has obtained an FSC group certificate for sustainable forest management. The current status of the program is that all planting activities are finalised and that the forests are currently being managed by the communities and land-owners. First rounds of pruning and thinning are taking place. Face the Future provides support to existing projects with beneficiaries in the Sierra. This focuses on the improvement of management procedures and the management of a large number of projects. As it is a participatory program, the land­owners and Indian communities do most of the field work themselves while Face the Future provides the planting material and technical assistance. Face the Future and PROFAFOR also contribute with all the certification costs, they give training to land owners on the management of the plantations, it has setup a monitoring scheme to determine the performance of the plantations, and organize every six months meetings with all the landowners to provide them with technical, political and commercial information.
• Objective 1
  climate
• Objective 2
  social development
• Objective 3
  biodiversity conservation
• Deforestation drivers
  energy wood, industrial agriculture or cattle ranching, local livelihoods
• Type of forest
  humid
• Project activity
  ARR
• Project Type
  ARR
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  plantation
• Multiple locations?
  No
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Provinces : Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Canar, Azuay, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas and Loja
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Multiple jurisdictions

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  ND
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  740000
• 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
  ND
• 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
  not certified
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
• 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://www.forest-trends.org/project-list/; http://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/face-future-reforestation-project-ecuador (authorization is needed as of September 2020); http://www.face-thefuture.com/en/projects/ecuadorsierra (not accessible as of September 2020); http://reforestation.elti.org/resource/96/;

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  ND
• Monetary benefit type
  ND
• Monetary benefit detail
  ND
• Provides employment?
  ND
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  processing and commercialization
• Is there tenure clarification?
  ND
• Is there environmental education?
  ND
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  ND
• Is there forest enhancement?
  ND
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  ND
• Is there other community benefits?
  ND