Primary goals

• Demonstrate best-practice establishment of socioeconomic baselines and monitoring for impacts of community-based reforestation for carbon projects.

Key outcomes

1. Development of socio-economic instruments (e.g. household and key informant interviews on community capacity, fuelwood use, gender analysis) for setting baselines
2. Analysis of community cohesiveness, demographics, livelihood interests, financial, physical and social capital, reforestation experience, and threats to forests within communities across Eastern Visayas, Philippines

Progress

This project commenced in June 2022 and is set to be completed in June 2026.

Lead researchers

• Liz Ota
• Alexandra Catling
• Claudia Romero

Project partners

• Project Tarsier
• Shell

Sustainable Development Goals

This project works towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth