Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  371
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  TIST Program in Kenya, VCS 009
• Secondary name
  TIST Program in Kenya CCB-004; The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program, Kenya
• Country
  Kenya
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  14264
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2033
• Duration
  30
• Project description
  The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST) is a combined reforestation and sustainable development project in Kenya carried out by subsistence farmers. The farmers plant trees on their land and retain ownership of the trees and their products. They receive training from TIST and a share of the carbon revenues from CAAC. TIST empowers Small Groups of 6-to-12 subsistence farmers in India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to combat the devastating effects of deforestation, poverty and drought. Combining sustainable development with carbon sequestration, TIST already supports the reforestation and biodiversity efforts of over 64,000 subsistence farmers. Carbon credit sales generate participant income and provide project funding to address agricultural, HIV/AIDS, nutritional and fuel challenges. As TIST expands to more groups and more areas, it ensures more trees, more biodiversity, more climate change benefit and more income for more people.
• Objective 1
  development, social development
• Objective 2
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 3
  climate
• Deforestation drivers
  industrial agriculture or cattle ranching, local livelihoods, ND
• Type of forest
  dry|humid
• Project activity
  ARR
• Project Type
  ARR
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  agroforestry, plantation
• Multiple locations?
  No
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Provinces : Rift Valley, Central, and Eastern
• Jurisdiction level 2
  District : Laikipia, Nyeri, Meru and Kirinyaga

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2004-2033
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  2644904
• Leakage is expected?
  no
• Carbon pools included
  Above ground biomass | Below ground biomass | Peat | other
• Gasses included
  CO2
• Reference period start year
  1990
• Reference period end year
  2000
• Carbon standard 1
  CCB

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  Certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  44281
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=51688&IDKEY=ulksjoiuwqowrnoiuomnckjashoufifmln902309ksdflku098d71277752
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  VCS
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  41339
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=9460&IDKEY=Dq934lkmsad39asjdkfj90qlkalsdkngaf98ulkandDfdvDdfh313045340
• 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=1&t=1 ; http://www.climate-standards.org/category/projects/africa/ ; http://www.vcsprojectdatabase.org/#/project_details/996

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Unclear
• Monetary benefit detail
  Direct cash: Improved incomes at the household level, through cash remuneration, to groups and individual households, based on the number of trees in farms Employment: There are currently six staff employees and over 50 contract Quantifiers.
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  agriculture | agroforestry | fuel efficient stoves
• Is there tenure clarification?
  No
• Is there environmental education?
  No
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  No
• Is there forest enhancement?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  No
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes