MONITORING AND EVALUATION

We conduct several layers of Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation (MRE) on each project that include the MRE on planted trees, community commitment and social economic. The monitoring is conducted monthly by field officers, six-monthly evaluation by senior staff and six-monthly and annual census monitoring. The monitoring census will identify the percentages of mortality and the reasons of mortality (natural and climate factors or human intervention). Based on this report, the replanting action will be conducted during the next planting season.

Monitoring plan for GHG emission reductions

The main target of MRE is to find reliably quantify carbon stocks and GHG emissions in the project scenario during the project crediting period, prior to each verification, with the following main tasks:

Monitor project carbon stock changes and GHG emissions
Estimate ex-post net carbon stock changes and GHG emissions, and GHG emission reductions

The monitoring plan will consist of an information on:

A description of each monitoring task to be undertaken, and the technical requirements
Parameters to be measured (tree growth, SOC analysis, strata, etc.)
Data to be collected and data collection techniques (census monitoring)
Frequency of monitoring (annually or every 3 years)
Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures
Data archiving procedures
Roles, responsibilities and capacity of monitoring team and management

Plot measurement

After community groups plant seedlings or propagules in a plot, the field team will check the number of seedlings planted (density) and plant tidiness (2 x 2 m or 2 x 1 m or 1 x 1 m). Planting area (ha) is polygonised using the GPS and drone mapping. Photos are taken by camera and drone where each plot has specific plot code as planting evidence. Yagasu team conducts census monitoring for every six-months. The monitoring census will identify the percentages of mortality of 10-20%, 20-40%, 40-60%, 60-80% and 80-100% and the reasons of mortality (natural or human intervention).

To monitor the tree growth, the field team uses an Android Application (Management Information System – MIS). The social data and tree data can be accessed on time and by online. All collected data will be transferred to the main server in our office.

Project Impact Assessment

Blue carbon Project

Establishing Community Patrolling Units (CPUs) in the villages to monitor and protect restored mangroves and conserving existing vegetation.
Setting-up Village Policy Initiatives on Village Spatial Plan (VSP), Mangrove Protected Area (MPA) and Village Regulation (VR) in the villages and successfully reduce the threats of illegal logging and land conversion to the level of below 5%.
Removing CO₂on mangrove restoration with average of 39.77 tCO₂-e ha^-1 yr^-1 (D₃₀ allometry) – 52.08 tCO₂-e ha^-1 yr^-1 (D₃₀²H allometry). This CO₂ calculation is designed based on minimum of 50% survival rate at year 20 plantation. The reference of SOC estimation (6.62 tCO₂-e ha^-1 yr^-1) is based on the Yagasu research publication (Suprayogi et al., 2022).
Changing attitude and increasing awareness of local community towards climate issues, coastal disaster prevention, and economic growth – natural base solutions.
Empowering women groups that lead to gender in social equality, not only in number women involved in climate action but also the spreading locations and scope of activities.
Involving youths as communication liaisons, so they become active agents of change and increase their inclusion in decision making in the village committees.
Understanding economic values of mangrove ecosystem that have direct and indirect values ranging from 648,320 to 45,922,675 USD to the villages.
Creating innovative economic activities: organic “batik” mangrove, eco-tourism, silvio-fishery, soft-crab farm, shrimp-paste production, dried/salted fish and mangrove food processing.
Leveraging additional funding supports such as village fund “dana desa” from governments, CSR fund from national companies and co-investment from private business
The stable condition of mangrove ecosystem in Aceh and North Sumatra supports the production of commercial biodiversity: 7 – 12 tons of crab, 3 – 5 tons of shrimp and 500 – 700 tons of fish per week for non-stop production through the year.
ink to blue carbon program, Yagasu has started to conduct coral reef transplantation, turtle breeding program and sea biota conservation. The carbon accumulation of seagrass meadows along the Yagasu’s mangrove project sites is also under exploration.

Agroforestry carbon project

Establishing Community Monitoring Unit (CMU) in the villages to monitor and protect restored ecosystem and conserving existing vegetation.
Preventing natural disaster (floods, land erosion and landslides) due to soil and water conservation.
Changing attitude and increasing awareness of local community towards climate issues, natural disaster prevention, and economic growth – natural base solutions.
Empowering women groups that lead to gender in social equality, not only in number women involved in climate action but also the spreading locations and scope of activities.
Involving youths as communication liaisons, so they become active agents of change and increase their inclusion in decision making in the village committees.
Our CCB study showed an increase of 14% family income after project implementation.
Setting-up Village Policy Initiatives on Village Spatial Plan (VSP), Ecosystem Protected Area (CPA) and Village Regulation (VR) in the villages and successfully reduce the threats of land conversion to the level of below 25%.
The stable condition of watershed ecosystem supports the production of 1.26 ton per ha high quality of organic coffee bean and other cash-crops.

Monitoring and Evaluation