1. The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST)
Part 1: TIST Project Background
Training Seminar for Projects
July, 2005

2. The International Small Group & Tree Planting Program
25,000 smallholder farmers
Empowered Small Groups
Reforestation,
Conservation Farming,
Health Education (HIV/AIDS)
Tanzania (2000), India (2002), Uganda (2003), Kenya (2004)

3. Living In Desolation

4. TIST Participants: Choosing Change

5. Transforming landscape to forest

6. Small Groups Prepare Nurseries

7. Trees line paths, shade houses, …

8. ... & allow grass to grow.

9. TIST Roles: The Small Group
Registration
Training
Decision Making
Nurseries
Tree Planting
Reporting
Best Practices
Bank Account

10. The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST)
Part 2: TIST Monitoring Systems & CDM Methodologies
Training Seminar for Projects
July, 2005

11. TIST Monitoring Systems Uses latest technology, methods to best meet needs

12. Keys to TIST Monitoring Systems
Years of hardware, software & methods development
Palm computers, GPS, synchronizations, website development, technologies to minimize training & ramp-up time
Thousands of site visits to groves = years of hard work
Transparency, Accuracy, Business Integrity
Transparency: simultaneous & public access to data from site visits
Accuracy: data tracked vs. data “reported” for various purposes…
Examples of items that change over time:
All groups vs. just active Small Groups
All groves vs. just CDM-only groves
All trees vs. just trees>1.73m
Integrity: hold some tons in reserve/won’t sell even up to the “accurate” # of tons…
Relevant to more than just CDM buyers: host country, development agencies, public, non-CDM buyers, etc.

13. Results at

14. Project Scenario: Location of Groves

15. Project Scenario: Trees by Age & Species Cohort
Additional Info:
Tree Height
> 1.37m?
Diameter
allometric
Spacing/GPS
Grove size

16. CDM Project Boundary: Groves
Groves, once established by SGs, define TIST project boundary
SGs report that they established a grove
TIST quantifiers visit grove, note tree counts by age & species cohort, GPS coords
Trees existing prior to start are excluded
TZ 2000
IN 2002
UG 2003
KE 2004

17. Baseline Methodology for Groves
Project boundary (groves) evolve over time
Multiple parts to TIST baseline study:
Area deforestation analysis (one-time)
From dialogue during initial participant training
Backed up by research from authoritative sources
Grove-specific site visits (initial + over time)
Visits within first 12 months to define boundary & note age & species by cohort
Repeat site visits: grove may fail to meet CDM or may expand with additional plantings each year

18. Baseline Scenario Conservatively estimated as 0
No SG formation, no training (on tree-planting, CF, HIV/AIDS, SG BPs), no tree payment incentives, no SG bank accounts…
No tree nurseries, no holes dug in preparation, no tree transplanting from nurseries to holes
Continued deforestation

19. Leakage Conservatively estimated at 0: Travel emissions
Between groves by quantifiers & project managers
Between US & host countries by project managers by US-based personnel
C sequestration outside groves
Fuelwood obtained from TIST plantings
More C sequestered outside TIST

20. The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST)
Part 3: CDM A/R Working Group Issues Raised
Training Seminar for Projects
July, 2005

21. Project Boundary A/R WG Issues
Groves, once established by SGs, define TIST project boundary
A/R WG: orchards near towns
arguably could be part of baseline scenario per A/R WG (suggest extra additionality screen)
A/R WG: add land eligibility screen
how to ensure no trees after 1989?

22. Baseline Scenario for Groves
Conservative TIST Baseline: 0 carbon
no SG formation, no training (on tree-planting, CF, HIV/AIDS, SG BPs), no tree payment incentives, no bank accounts,
no tree nurseries, no tree planting, continued deforestation
A/R WG: ignored natural regeneration
Not explicitly addressed
Far outweighed by continued deforestation for fuelwood
A/R WG: include gross carbon sequestration in baseline
Cannot include carbon from gross tree plantings in project scenario.
Must account for fuelwood demand & mortality in project scenario to produce net C.

23. Leakage Leakage conservatively estimated at 0 A/R WG:
Delete benefit of fuelwood from within groves
Add impact of displaced agricultural activities

24. Other A/R WG Recommendations
Stratify groves into climo-edaphic zones
Count only trees > 1.37m
Re-measure diameters of same trees each visit
Specify tree sampling across grove breadth
Apply allometric equations to each tree; then sum
Calculate 95% confidence intervals for C

25. TIST Methodology Outcomes
Recommendations on changes to TIST methodologies
A/R WG, WB, CAAC, Others
TIST system modifications implemented across four countries (to address A/R WG recommendations)
Resubmission of improved/modified CDM methodologies for approval