The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

Purpose of monitoringThe methodology stated above proposes methods for monitoringthe following elements:1. The proposed project activity including the projectboundary, a buffer region surrounding the projectboundary to ensure against impacts of outside drainageactivities, and all activities that result in increased GHGemissions inside the project boundary.2. Actual net GHG emissions including changes in carbonstocks in above-­‐ground biomass and peat emissions.3. Leakage due to displacement of economic activitiesinitially planned inside the project area.4. A Quality Assurance/Quality Control plan, including fieldmeasurements, data collection verification, data entryand archiving, as an integral part of the monitoring plan ofthe proposed project activity, to ensure the integrity ofdata collected.Description of the monitoring planMonitoring methodology steps1. The project implementation is monitored, including theproject boundary, the area prevented from land use changeand any activities that reduce carbon stocks or result inpeat emissions in the project area over the crediting period.If the project boundary is not a functionally discretehydrological unit, a buffer zone around the projectboundary is also monitored to ensure against drainageactivities occurring outside the project boundary that couldpotentially impact peat emissions in the project area, perApplicability Condition K of this methodology.2. Stratification of the project area is monitored periodicallybecause two different strata may become similar enough interms of carbon to justify their merging. The ex-poststratification considers monitoring of the project strata toverify the applicability of the ex-ante stratification, andvariables that influence the strata. The ex post stratificationprocedures facilitate cost-effective, consistent and accuratemonitoring of carbon stock changes of the project duringthe crediting period.3. Baseline net GHG emissions are not monitored in thismethodology. The methodology prescribes validity of thebaseline identified ex ante at the start of the project activityfor the crediting period, thereby avoiding the need formonitoring of the baseline over the crediting period, andachieves savings in the costs associated with baselinemonitoring.4. The calculation of ex-post actual net GHG emissionsavoided is based on data obtained from sample plots,regional literature values and methods developed in IPCCGPG-LULUCF to estimate carbon stock changes in thecarbon pools and peat emissions.5. Leakage due to activity displacement is monitored andaccounted in order to calculate the net GHG emissionsavoided.6. The QA/QC guidelines proposed as part of the monitoringplan verify the accuracy and consistency of fieldmeasurements and ensure the integrity of data collection,management of project databases and the database archivalduring the crediting period.7. When a project is undergoing validation and verification,non-permanence risk analysis shall be conducted by boththe project developer and the verifier at the time ofverification in accordance with the VCS Tool for AFOLUNon-Permanence Risk Analysis and Buffer Determination.235