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REDD+ Monitoring, and Measurement, Reporting and Verification workshop “Training the Trainers”
First Regional Workshop, South East Asia



Bangkok, Thailand

April 18 – 22, 2016

 

Background

The performance-based climate mitigation framework REDD+ encourages the reduction of emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation, and removals through enhanced forest carbon stocks and improved forest management. These activities should be measured and reported to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which requires methodologies for estimating actual emissions and removals and for establishing the reference level. UNFCCC requests countries to build robust and transparent national forest monitoring systems to facilitate the measurement and reporting of forest related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, following the guidelines and guidance from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Various training materials and tools are available that aim to support and facilitate country processes with the development of capacities for implementing a national system for monitoring forest area and area changes, the associated carbon stocks and changes; and for measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) of REDD+ activities. To make these materials more accessible for countries and REDD+ / forest monitoring professionals, four (4) regional one week workshops are planned in three different continents: one in South-East Asia (in English), one in Latin America (in Spanish) and two in Africa (in French and English). The basic concept of these workshop is to “train the trainers”. A selected group of around 35 participants from countries in each region (2-3 per country) will attend with the aim of further disseminating the gained knowledge and insights and train other relevant people who are involved in REDD+ monitoring and reporting in their country, in order to further build their capacities.
The workshops will be jointly organized in close collaboration with the different training and capacity building initiatives from World Bank FCPF, GFOI, Silvacarbon, FAO/UN-REDD, Wageningen University, GOFC-GOLD, and Boston University. Organization of the workshops will be under the coordinating leadership of Wageningen University.

Workshop objectives

This workshop from 18 to 22 April in Bangkok, Thailand, was the first of the series of four regional workshops. The aim of the workshop is to build upon existing expertise and experiences and to use available training materials and tools in a broad capacity development context to help build a countries’ capacities and to spread the use and increase the impact of available knowledge and tools.
After the successful completion of the workshop, participants should be able to become ‘multipliers’ by further disseminating the knowledge and experience gained and train other relevant people who are involved in REDD+ monitoring and reporting in their country. In the workshops, participants learn about the different training materials and tools that are available and how these different materials all fit together in the “bigger picture” of REDD+ MRV capacity building. Participants will also know how and where to make request for further appropriate training and make use of available tools for implementation. A direct interaction with leading international experts present at the workshop will be facilitated so specific issues can be discussed face to face.

Training materials presented during workshop

Workshop Report

You can access the workshop report here

Sponsors

World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (WB FCPF)
UN-REDD Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO/UN-REDD)
REDD+ partnership
Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)
Australian Government
United States SilvaCarbon Program
GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office
Wageningen University (WU)
Boston University (BU)

Organizing Committee Leaders

GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Project Office and Wageningen University
Workshop contact email - gofc-workshop.grs@wur.nl
Erika Romijn – erika.romijn@wur.nl
Niki De Sy – niki.desy@wur.nl
Martin Herold – martin.herold@wur.nl
Brice Mora – brice.mora@wur.nl

Agenda


Day 1, 18 April - Opening, Introductions and Training WB/GOFC-GOLD training materials:
Presentation of (selection and/or combination) of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion

       
08.45-09.15

Registration

  Niki De Sy & Marija Kono
09.15-09.45

Opening

 

Martin Herold

09.45-10.00 Tour de table  

Workshop participants

       

Coffee break

       
10.30-10.45

World Bank FCPF / Winrock REDD+ decision support tool

 

Alexander Lotsch

10.45-11.00

Checklist of country-specific needs in REDDcompass

 

Carly Green

11.00-12.30

Interactive discussion on country-specific issues and needs, based on the checklist of REDDcompass

 

Martin Herold
Workshop participants

       

Lunch

       
14.00-15.30

Session 1: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion
Introduction to training materials
REDD+ Background and Design

  • M1.1: Martin Herold
  • M1.2: Martin Herold
  • M1.3: Niki De Sy
 

Niki De Sy & Martin Herold

Coffee break
       

16.00-17.30

Session 2: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion

REDD+ Measuring and Monitoring

  • M2.1: Inge Jonckheere
  • M2.2: Alexander Lotsch Niki De Sy & Martin Herold
 

Niki De Sy & Martin Herold

 

 

Day 2, 19 April - Training WB/GOFC-GOLD training materials: Presentation of (selection and/or combination) of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion

       
09.00-10.30

Session 3: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion

REDD+ Measuring and Monitoring

  • M2.3: Haruni Krisnawati
  • M2.4: Arun Pratihast
  Thomas Harvey
       

Coffee break

       
11.00-12.30

Session 4: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion
REDD+ Measuring and Monitoring

  • M2.5: Gabriel Eickhoff
  • M2.6: Delon Marthinus
  • M2.7: Pontus Olofsson
  • M2.8: Hammad Gilani
  Sylvia Wilson
       

Lunch

       
14.00-15.30

Session 5: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion

REDD+ Assessment and reporting

  • M3.1: Inge Jonckheere
  • M3.2: Inge Jonckheere
  • M3.3: Carly Green
 

Pontus Olofsson

Coffee break
       

18.00

Bus charter, pick up at Hotel Lobby

 

All workshop participants

19.30-21.30 Evening social activity: boat trip in Bangkok center and dinner (dinner cruise)    
21.45 Bus charter, pick up at the pier    
 

Day 3, 20 April - Introduction of available tools, and further opportunities

       

Coffee break

       
11.00-12.30

FAO UN-REDD capacity building programme

  Inge Jonckheere
       

Lunch

       
14.00-15.30

FAO tools overview
NFMS web platform
FAO Open Foris
SEPAL

 

Inge Jonckheere

       
Coffee break
       

16.00-17.30

  • Forest definitions (Carly)
  • Reference emissions levels (Inge)
 

Carly Green
Inge Jonckheere

 

Day 4, 21 April - Developing a capacity building plan for trainers

       
09.00-09.30

Introduction to developing a capacity building plan for trainers

  Martin Herold
09.30-10.30 Silvacarbon capacity building guidance   Sylvia Wilson
       

Coffee break

       
11.00-12.00 GOFC-GOLD examples of MRV roadmaps (Guyana, Ethiopia, Liberia cases) and interactive discussion   Martin Herold
       

Lunch

       
13.30-15.30

Group work/discussions and hands on exercise on WB Decision support tool and GFOI REDD-Compass

 

Carly Green & Rajesh Koirala

       
Coffee break
       

16.00-17:30

Group work/discussions and hands on exercise on WB Decision support tool and GFOI REDD-Compass

 

Carly Green & Rajesh Koirala

 

Day 5, 22 April - Introduction of available tools, and further opportunities

       
09.00-09.30

Introduction on using different available tools

  Martin Herold
09.30-10.30 Community-based monitoring tools   Arun Pratihast
       

Coffee break

       
11.00-12.00 Remote Sensing open source tools on time series analysis   Pontus Olofsson
       

Lunch

       
13.30-15.30

Accuracy assessment procedures: Time series analysis
and statistical principles

 

Pontus Olofsson

       
Coffee break
       

16.00-17:00

Workshop closing

 

Martin Herold