Plan Vivo Project Design Document (PDD) Trees for Global Benefits Submitted by Version 2.0 Expanded and Updated: October 2016 Plot 49 Nakiwogo Road Entebbe, P. O. Box 8986 Kampala, Uganda Contact Person: Pauline Nantongo, Executive Director Tel: +256-312266419 Email: [email protected] 1 Table of Contents List of Tables ....................................................................................................................................... 3 List of Figures ...................................................................................................................................... 3 List of Acronyms .................................................................................................................................. 4 Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................... 5 Part A: Aims and objectives ......................................................................................................................... 6 A1 Description of Project’s Aims and Objectives ................................................................................... 6 Part B: Site Information ................................................................................................................................ 7 B1 Project Location and Boundaries .......................................................................................................... 7 B2 Description of the Project Area .............................................................................................................. 8 B3 Description of Land Use ......................................................................................................................... 13 Part C: Community and Livelihoods Information .................................................................................. 20 C1 Participating communities/groups .................................................................................................... 20 C2 Socio-economic Context ......................................................................................................................... 21 C3 Existing Community Structures ........................................................................................................... 21 C4 Land Tenure & Ownership of Carbon Rights .................................................................................. 21 Part D: Project Interventions & Activities ................................................................................................ 23 D1 Summary of Project Interventions ..................................................................................................... 23 D2 Summary of Project Activities for Each Intervention ................................................................... 23 D3 Effects of activities on biodiversity and the environment ......................................................... 24 Part E: Community participation .............................................................................................................. 25 E1 Participatory project design .................................................................................................................. 25 E2 Community-led implementation.......................................................................................................... 25 E3 Community-level project governance ................................................................................................ 27 Part F: Ecosystem Services & Other Project Benefits .......................................................................... 28 F1 Carbon benefits ......................................................................................................................................... 28 F2 Livelihoods benefits ................................................................................................................................. 28 F3 Ecosystem & biodiversity benefits ..................................................................................................... 29 Part G: Technical Specifications ............................................................................................................... 30 Part H: Risk Management .......................................................................................................................... 31 Part I: Project Coordination & Management .......................................................................................... 36 I1 Project Organisational Structure ........................................................................................................ 36 I2 Relationships to national organisations .......................................................................................... 38 I3 Legal compliance ...................................................................................................................................... 39 I4 Project management ............................................................................................................................... 39 I5 Project Financial management ........................................................................................................... 40 I6 Business Development & Marketing ................................................................................................. 41 I7 Operational Costs ..................................................................................................................................... 41 I8 Project Expansion & Diversification .................................................................................................. 42 I9 Technical Support ..................................................................................................................................... 43 Part J: Benefit Sharing ................................................................................................................................ 43 J1 PES agreement .......................................................................................................................................... 43 J2 Payments & Benefit Sharing ................................................................................................................ 43 Part K: Monitoring ....................................................................................................................................... 45 K1 Ecosystem services benefits ................................................................................................................ 45 K2 Socio-economic impacts ........................................................................................................................ 47 K3 Environmental and biodiversity impacts ......................................................................................... 47 K4 Other monitoring ....................................................................................................................................... 48 Annexes .............................................................................................................................................. 49 2 Annex 1. List of key staff involved......................................................................................................... 49 Annex 2. Information about funding sources ..................................................................................... 50 Annex 3. Producer/group agreement template ................................................................................. 51 Annex 4. Database template .................................................................................................................. 53 Annex 5. Examples of plan vivos ........................................................................................................... 56 Annex 6. Permits and legal documentation ........................................................................................ 57 Annex 7. Community participation ....................................................................................................... 58 Annex 8. Intent To Purchase .................................................................................................................. 59 Annex 9. Socio-Economic Baseline Survey .......................................................................................... 60 List of Tables Table 1: Location and Boundaries of the Project in Northern Uganda .................................................... 11 Table 2: Changes by Vegetation Cover Classification Using 1995 as Base Year ................................... 16 Table 3: 2010 Land Use/ Land Cover Stratification for the Project Areas .............................................. 17 Table 4: Description of Project Activities ................................................................................................... 23 Table 5: Summary of Baseline and Project Carbon Uptake ..................................................................... 28 Table 6: Livelihoods Benefits ..................................................................................................................... 28 Table 7: Summary of Expected Impacts of Project Activities on Key Environmental Services .............. 29 Table 8: Factors that Put the Delivery or Maintenance of Climate Benefits at Risk ............................... 32 Table 9: Project