Transcript Stream3_session6_USFS-IP-Cameroon Presentation-CBFP

USDA FOREST SERVICE
International Programs
Cameroon National Monitoring Forest
designing process
November 2016
SilvaCarbon mandate
 The SilvaCarbon program: US technical
cooperation program to enhance the
capacity of selected tropical countries to
generate and effectively use improved
information about forest and terrestrial
carbon.
 Work in collaboration with developing
countries and other partners in the
domain of climate change
SilvaCarbon builds capacity by
providing targeted technical assistance
and identifying, testing, and
disseminating good practices and costeffective, accurate technologies for
monitoring and managing forest
SilvaCarbon Africa strategy
 Assist Congo basin countries in their
design and implementation of
sustainable forest management
approaches, including the integration
of REDD+ guidelines and programs.
 Continue to support activities endorsed
by government's as well as exploring new
opportunities linked with terrestrial
carbon management.
 Training and technical assistance to
administrations and agencies to monitor
and manage forest and terrestrial carbon
Cameroon program
 build capacity of core experts and
present options for technical
decisions, especially in establishing a
national forest Monitoring system
Observation component that
incorporates appropriate remote
sensing data analysis and MRV
 (Grant to administration employees
in the domain of Climate Change and
REDD+ at CRESA
Training of trainers through the GHG
Institute
 Involving: USGS, USGS, NASA
Cameroon REDD+ process
 Since 2005, Cameroon engage in the
REDD+ process
R-PP validated by the FCPF of the World
Bank in 2013
First draft of the strategy finalized in
2015
ER-PIN validated by the Carbon Fund of
the WB in 2015
Request from the Cameroon steering
Committee to SilvaCarbon to provide
technical assistance in designing the
National Forest Monitoring System
(NFMS) including MRV and the
implementation of the RPP.
Achievements
 Technical Working Group set-up in 2015
followed by a background information
mission by expert on remote sensing and
forest inventory data
Since 2015: several training workshops
conducted in Cameroon by USFS and
USGS in the domain of remote sensing
Key parameters discussed at the
national level (definition of the forest;
land-use classes; general approaches for
discussed through the Technical Working
Group and adopted by the Cameroon
Steering Committee
Institutional arrangement clarified
Future Evolution of the National
Reference and MRV
Phase I : ST-REDD / SDIAF
Phase II : SDIAF / UOSCF
Soutien ST-REDD
ER-PD
RL Version 0 - National
RL Version 1 - National
NR Version 2 - National
RL Version 0 ER-PD
RL/MRV
June. 2017
January 2018
2018?
The way forward
 Model assisted approach chosen by the
Technical Working Group and ST REDD+.
Starting with ER-PIN
Collaboration with UMD, Boston
University, USGS and OSFAC: production
of thematic maps 2000-2015 followed by
REDD-Compass portal and BEEODA
tools trainings
Collaboration with GHG Institute, USFS:
-training of trainers Emission factors (fied
measurements (Universities and
Lecturers);
Collaboration with WB, JICA for NFI and
MRV.
Designing of Cameroon QA/QC protocol
Thanks very much