FORECA - Madagascar (Committing forests as carbon reservoir Pilot Project Madagascar)

Key message: Emission reduction through avoided deforestation in the context of the UNFCCC

Description

The pilot project in Madagascar will contribute to the development and implementation of an effective international payment scheme through the UNFCCC that helps to reduce GHG emissions from deforestation in non-Annex 1 countries and boosts local sustainable development through effective land-use mechanisms .

At the level of the development objectives, the project will encourage the Government of Madagascar (as a non-annex 1 country), local communities, international development agencies and the UNFCCC parties to combine efforts:

- to significantly reduce GHG emissions from tropical deforestation through the creation of committed forests; and

- to substantially contribute to the establishment and maintenance of effective land-use mechanisms in areas adjacent to committed forests and to the sustainable management of committed forests.

The project will be jointly implemented by Intercooperation (Forest Environnement Team and DIC Madagascar) and the Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany.

Fact sheet

Type: Long-term mandate
Start: 2006 End: 2009 Status: Current

Region: Southern and Eastern Africa

Country: Madagascar

Working domain: Natural Resource Management

Key topic: Sustainable forest management and agroforestry | Climate change mitigation and carbon trading

Funding source: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, Germany

Staff

Responsible at Head Office: Carmenza Robledo

Associated staff: | Claudia Greco | Nicole Clot | Nicole Stejskal

Contact

Address:
Intercooperation
P.O. Box 6724
CH - 3001 Bern/Switzerland

Phone: +41 31 385 10 10

E-Mail: foren@intercooperation.ch

Website: www.intercooperation.ch