Six Monthly Technical Progress Report July 2011December ... - WWF

Challenges
and
solutions
Budgetary
gaps
–
no
budget
allocated
for
a
capacity
building
needs
assessment;
no
specific
budget
allocations
for
capacity
building
for
PDD
development
or
compensation
and
benefit
mechanisms
as
agreed
with
KfW
under
intermediate
result
5.2.
Solutions:
Use
of
inception
workshops
to
conduct
informal
capacity
building
needs
assessments
with
government
counterparts;
collaboration
with
organizations
like
RECOFTC
and
the
ADB
in
Vietnam
who
are
also
working
in
the
area
of
REDD+
capacity
building;
exploring
opportunities
for
combining
capacity
building
activities
with
other
CarBi
project
activities;
focusing
on
capacity
building
through
working
closely
with
counterparts/on‐the‐job
training
as
well
as
formal
capacity
building
workshops/training.
Intermediate
result
5.3
By
11
months
after
project
start:
Carbon
baseline
for
the
project
area
is
established.
See
5.1
above
Revision
of
the
initial
estimation
(developed
during
the
project
planning
stage)
of
forest
carbon
emissions
preserved
over
the
project
lifetime
is
a
key
part
of
the
upcoming
feasibility
study
(see
below
for
more
details
of
feasibility
study).
This
revision
will
include
estimation
of
the
carbon
baseline
for
the
project
area
based
on
analysis
of
remote
sensing
data.
As
part
of
the
full
PDD
development
process,

this
estimation
will
be
further
refined
based
on
site‐specific
biomass
and
carbon
stock
information
from
the
field
plots.
Intermediate
result
5.4
By
12
months
after
project
start:
The
framework
and
scope
for
a
possible
cross­border
REDD
project
has
been
appraised
with
a
feasibility
study.
A
solid
draft
of
the
TORs
for
the
feasibility
study
has
been
prepared
and
has
recently
been
improved
through
technical
input
from
WWF
Austria
and
Germany.
The
next
version
of
the
draft
will
be
shared
with
Laos
and
Vietnamese
government
counterparts
for
their
approval,
with
a
view
to
having
a
final
version
to
send
to
KfW
for
approval
in
February.
As
the
value
of
the
feasibility
study
is
estimated
at
10,000
Euro,
an
international
procurement
process
is
not
required.
However,
as
the
consultant
who
conducts
the
feasibility
study
may
be
selected
to
complete
the
PDD
(valued
at
over
200,000
Euro),
the
TORs
will
be
sent
to
several
local
and
international
consulting
firms
for
proposals
to
ensure
the
best
option
is
selected.
Intermediate
result
5.5
By
18
months
after
project
start:
The
framework
and
the
terms
of
references
for
the
development
of
the
PDD
have
been
developed.
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