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- Uganda Forestry Sector Review Process recommended measures to encourage
investment in forestry activities among others:-
- -Private sector involvement in tree planting
- - Favorable tax regulations for overseas developers
- -Long term land leases for tree planting on govt land
- -Permits to grow trees in forest reserves
- -Carbon Trading Financing Mechanism provided for under UNFCCC/Kyoto -
CDM
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- Land use based carbon trade contributes to
- ECOTRUST’s conservation objectives in particular the
- one that aims at promoting private land management for
- biodiversity conservation:
- Trees for timber, firewood etc.
- Soil improvement associated with
trees on farm
- Biodiversity values – increase
on-farm tree diversity.
- Nature based enterprises e.g bee
keeping
- Positive effects on microclimate
climate – climate change mitigation.
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- Overall objective was to develop
and operationalise a model for carbon trading with small scale land
owners operational in Uganda.
- Institutional and technical
capacity of participating institutions for implement carbon projects
enhanced.
- Creation of baseline data for
agroforesrty/forestry activities.
- Criteria and indicators for
forestry projects developed.
- An institutional structure for
administration of land use, land cover and forestry projects for carbon
trading established.
- Technical specifications for
different forestry systems developed and tested.
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- CARE:
- Selection of farmers
- Conducting social/economic
assessment
- Registering farmers
- Guiding Farmers to draw up
Planting plans
- Assisting in initiating seed
collecting and nursery operations.
- Note: These functions are now carried out by ECOTRUST since January 2004.
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- ICRAF / FORRI / NBS:
- Definition of the selected
forestry/agro-forestry systems
- Specification of tree management
requirements;
- Definition of baseline biomass
conditions;
- Compilation of biomass data for
specified forestry systems;
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- Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management (ECCM).
- Assist with carbon modeling and
carbon
- baseline specification.
- Train partners in carbon
accounting, establishment of database, Plan Vivo documentation and
general system support.
- Provide guidelines for project
implementation.
- Marketing of carbon,
- Provide any technical
backstopping
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- Over 100 farmers have been registered
- – about 40 have already
received first payment.
- Tree seedlings have been raised and farmers have planted – Some farmers
are running tree nurseries as
business
- Carbon buyers have been identified and have entered – additional sales
are under negotiation.
- Additional funds have been leveraged for conducting a regional baseline
– will help in expansion
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- Received funds from START to work on specs for different species and
different planting regimes – woodlots, boundary plantations, mixed
species under agroforestry -data collection is underway
- Development of database of farmers capturing household set up and linking client info to buyer is
underway
- Streamline monitoring plan and
build farmer capacity to conduct monitoring.
- Development of additional
marketing tools and
establishing links with additional carbon buyers
- Expand program portfolio beyond
tree planting to energy and waste management.
- Scaling up program beyond
Bushenyi district
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- Negotiations in carbon trade and ensuring there is a fair deal &
Power dynamics ensuring power balance
- Ensure that the farmers have control over the activity. Likewise
ECOTRUST be the driver and have support from partners
- Participation in research and global negotiations in relation to climate
change activities.
- Clarify right from the start land and tree products ownership by farmers
- Developing frame work of
agreements, which are flexible and versatile to respond to global
climate change debate.
- Capacity building among farmers and partners to respond to changes as a
result of the shift in climate change debate
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- Carbon trade transactions need
considerable investments - time & resources to accomplish.
- It is important that roles of
different players are well negotiated and documented from the start –
prefer a legal instrument (MoU?).
- It is important to develop
systems that are appropriate to the local conditions – technical
specifications and institutional framework.
- Carbon trade can bring in
resources that will help poor farmers meet their development goals.
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- Policies and procedures to
guide the private sector and NGOs in carbon transactions will ease
work.
- Continuous capacity building is
important for NGOs that intend
to get involved in carbon trade.
- Both NGOs and government should
complement one another
government activities - NGOs are
better placed to implement o
the ground.
- Carbon trading requires
long-term commitment on behalf of the NGO and should never be
implemented under a project of short duration.
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