Outreach and User Engagement and Training

CBP Review Workshop Voi Wildlife Lodge

September 13, 2012

Outreach and promotion

WebEx (remote training) for cohort groups; Log-in User Accounts

Support: Help desk (e-mail, phone); forum bulletin-board & FAQ

Follow-up 1-on-1 WebEx

User feedback

Documentation support

Field and Workshop Training

Outreach • Web-presence (http://www.carbon2markets.org/content.cfm?m=52&id=52&startRow=1&mm=0)

• Climate-L and Forest-L Listservs • Listed as a tool on the REDD-Desk website

(http://www.theredddesk.org/resources/web_content/mrv_tool_for_forest_carbon_management_and_mitigation)

Cohort training groups

• Program managers with the same agency (e.g. UNDP EBP)

• Region project personnel (e.g. WWF-Peru) • Or just by timing of people who have

expressed interest

Remote Training with Cisco WebEx

• USAID/USDA-USFS • WWF-Peru • WWF-Greater Mekong • WWF-US • + 5 other groups

Video training archive

On-line Videos & Training Documents http://mrv.carbon2markets.org/docs/mrvhelp.html http://mrv.carbon2markets.org/docs/mrvtutorials.html

Tool Technical Specifications

Field training and workshops

• Workshops that combine field measurement and how to use the on-line tool – (e.g. UNDP EBP in Malaysia, GEF Small Projects in

Brazil)

• Field measurement training

Field Measurement Training and Workshops • Training in Thailand – ALRO,

NRCT, and Mahasarakham University trainers

• Thailand Research Expo 2012 (below)

Who is using the CPB Measurements Tool

• CBP in-country host – Kenyan Forest Research Institute (KEFRI)

• GEF Stakeholders – United Nations Development Programme, Ecosystem and Biodiversity

Programme – GEF Small Projects Latin America

• Bi-lateral / Multi-lateral Programs – Forest Investment Programmme (FIP), Climate Investment Fund (CIF) – World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)

• Host government agencies – Thailand Greenhouse Gas Organization (TGO), Thailand – National Research Council of Thailand – Forest Research Center, Ethiopia – Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Nigeria

Who is using the CPB Measurements Tool … cont’d

• Development Assistance Organizations – USAID/US Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture (in developing

countries) – USAID – ForestPlus (India)

• International NGOs and Research Centers – WWF-US; WWF-Peru; WWF-Greater Mekong; WWF-Indonesia – Darwin Initiative (DFID, DEFRA) – ICRAF-Vietnam

• Others (University, local government agencies, and for-profit companies) – Vietnam Forestry University – Faculty of Forestry, National University of Laos – Mahasarakham University, Thailand – Agriculture and Land Reform Office, Thailand – Clear Sky Climate Solution

User feedback Additional system functionality … • User defined allometric equations • Project accounts with variable user access

and privileges • Crowdsource data • Upload GIS shapefile and kml/kmz file • Tool to determine number sample plots for

90% - 95% certainty (confidence interval) • Improved error analysis and reporting • Field photo archiving and geo-location