Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  352
• Project status 2022
  TBC
• Project name
  Community Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the south and east regions of Cameroon
• Secondary name
  Community PES Project in the Congo Basin
• Country
  Cameroon
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  2772
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2020
• Duration
  11
• Project description
  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 Community PES Project was piloted in two Community Forests; the Nkolenyeng Community Forest (1,042 ha) and Nomedjoh Community Forest (1,730 ha). The primary goal of the project is to maintain and enhance existing forest cover and carbon stocks in each community and using the finance generated from the sale of carbon credits to improve livelihoods in each community. Project activities undertaken in the project area include: forest protection (e.g. instituting forest patrols), sustainable forest use management, sustainable agriculture and agroforestry, and NTFP enterprises. This Community PES project is a pilot project of the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF), a joint venture of the Governments of UK and Norway, administered by the African Development Bank.
• Objective 1
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 2
  social development
• Objective 3
  climate
• Deforestation drivers
  illegal logging, industrial agriculture or cattle ranching, local livelihoods, slash and burn agriculture
• Type of forest
  humid
• Project activity
  IFM|REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  Yes
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Provinces : South and East
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Departments : Dja-et-Lobo and Haut-Nyong

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2011-2020
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  298672
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  ND
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  Plan vivo

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  not certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  http://www.planvivo.org/docs/PDD-Community-PES-public-comments.pdf
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  none
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  ND
• 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
  http://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/community-pes-%E2%80%93-community-payments-ecosystem-services-pes-congo-basin ; http://www.planvivo.org/wp-content/uploads/PDD-Community-PES-public-comments.pdf ; http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/community-payments-ecosystem-services-pes-congo-basin ;

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  Payments will be made annually, with half of community PES revenues going to community development projects and half going to members of forest managent groups | 81.5% of PES revenues go to community, and 18.5% remain with project developer and Plan Vivo |
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  agriculture | agroforestry | microenterprise
• Is there tenure clarification?
  Yes
• 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?
  ND
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes