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« À la carte » support to Suriname from REDD+ for the Guiana Shield

Part 2

Sarah Crabbe Foundation for Forest Management and Production Control (SBB)

Concept of « à la carte » support

Idea proposed during a visit of Marie Calmel in Suriname in October 2013: – All project partners have their own unique processes, priorities, level

of advancement and needs in terms of REDD+ readiness

– Easier for countries to participate effectively on the regional level if they also move forward with REDD+ preparations domestically

Opportunity made official through the 2nd Steering Committee meeting in Amapá in December 2013: – Technical expert support available from ONF International, 20 man-

days per country/state to choose « à la carte » from wish-lists

– Bilateral discussions to agree on priorities and develop ToR

– Implementation began for Suriname in early 2014

Step 1: Development of wish-list for Suriname

Mapping of projects ongoing in the country related to each regional project component:

A long wish-list was drafted for possible technical support that would accelerate advancement of the ongoing projects.

Step 2: Choice of « à la carte » support

Involving ONFI experts in responding to the following questions: Phase 1: What is the quality of existing forest cover maps for Suriname? (support accuracy assessment of maps with QA/QC protocol) - How can forest cover monitoring be done with free software and free satellite images? (training in the open source software QGIS and production of comparative table of satellite imagery)

1) Training in QGIS and remote sensing plugins for FCM (2 days)

2) Participatory development of QA/QC protocol for validation of maps (3 days)

Overview of « à la carte » support to Suriname

1st international mission in March 2014: Aimé Kemavo, ONFI

12.5 days

spent in phase 1

+ Comparative table overview of satellite imagery

Technical discussions with other ONFI experts

+ Technical discussions about international requirements for REDD+ MRV and implications for the National Plan for Forest Cover Monitoring

• This FCM Plan developed within the ACTO project with support of ONFi. • Finalized June 2014. • Detailed overview of the planned activities related to Forest Cover Monitoring

Content of the FCM plan: Introduction 1) Conceptual framework 2) Diagnosis 3) Policy measures and instruments 4) Strategic framework 5) Programs 6) Management tools Conclusion 60 pages + annexes

Guiding principle: The FCM plan must be fully synchronized with the REDD+ Readiness process in Suriname

FCM Plan as our guideline

VISION "Suriname monitors forest cover changes in the whole country in close collaboration with multiple stakeholders, using modern technologies and local community participation in a system that provides the national and international community with the most updated and reliable information about forest cover, which is used to enforce governance on deforestation, forest degradation, land tenure and land use (changes), to sustainably manage the forest resources while maintaining resilience of forest ecosystems."


Information and data sharing about forest

cover and monitoring efforts

Data generation on forest cover and

its changes

Program 2

National capacity-building on forest cover monitoring

Program 1 Program 3

Objective 1

Outputs 1.1 – 1.4 with activities

Outcome 1

Objective 2


Outcome 2

Objective 3


Outcome 3


Capacity building plan (HR)

Completed CB- activities (2012-2014): 1) Two trainings at CRA/INPE in TA 2) Two in-country hands-on training by INPE 3) General overview of RS-techniques for

FCM 4) Remote sensing principals at Adekus 5) Basic GIS-training (ArcGIS and QGIS) 6) Advanced GIS-training (QGIS and

PostGreSQL) 7) Qa/Qc-training 8) Initiation in R-software

CB for 2014-beginning 2015: 1) Use of SAR for forest monitoring 2) Writing scripts for image processing in R 3) Different Classifiers for FCM 4) Use of LCCS to establish a national

classification

CB needed in 2015: 1) Further PostGreSQL (*) 2) Classification of different non-forest and

forest land cover classes (*) 3) Monitoring forest degradation (*) 4) Early alerts (*) 5) GHG-inventory reporting (*) Could be done with CRA/INPE

Specific activities planned for 2015 in relation to REDD+ for the Guiana Shield project:


Activity Input ONFi

Development of a LULC classification system Regional LCCS-training

Development of the official national protocol for forest cover monitoring

A la carte support Jan 2015: - Training on SVM classification - Development of framework

for the protocol + earlier a la carte support (Qa/Qc protocol) Regional SAR training

Develop the methodology to develop reference Land Use Land Cover map

Future a la carte support if possible

Collection of all relevant data and maps located at different institutions

Database development?

Carry out a consultation process on the drivers of deforestation until national consensus is reached, involving IPs, Maroons and other stakeholders

Regional activity or future a la carte support

Specific activities planned for 2015 in relation to REDD+ for the Guiana Shield project:


Activity Input ONFi

Qualitative/ quantitative assessment of drivers of deforestation

Assessment of deforestation caused by gold mining study

Formulation of a project proposal for a full-scale multipurpose NFI

A la carte support ?

Publish an intermediary report on available carbon stock data

A la carte support ?

Assess available allometric equations and their suitability

Regional collaboration

Initiate the design of a holistic NFMS including the MRV

Countries exchange?

Build capacity for REL/RL Countries exchange?

Design online platform to share information with all stakeholders

Countries exchange?

Step 2: Choice of « à la carte » support

Involving ONFI experts in responding to the following questions: Phase 2: How to develop the protocol to allow consistent and reliable data on forest cover and deforestation? Study on methods and tools to historical analysis of deforestation

• Current methodology based on: free satellite images and open source software

• Methodology currently applied: based on the Brazilian methodology (ACTO-support)- providing a semi-automatic approach


1) Development of the flow chart and monitoring methodology (2,5 days)

2) Capacity building in SVM classification using QGIS and OTB (3,5 days)


2nd international mission in Jan 2015: Anne-Cecile Capelle, ONFI

6 days spent in phase 2

Concrete outcomes: - The team is familiar with the SVM

classification algorithm and can carry on testing it

- Draft protocol is being developed, with several crucial questions answered

- Basic flowchart for Forest Cover Monitoring is developed


2nd international mission in Jan 2015: Anne-Cecile Capelle, ONFI

• Suriname is developing capacity to monitor the forest cover changes - in preparation for the NFMS which will be more structurally designed when starting the implementation of the REDD+-Readiness project.

• Beside for REDD+, monitoring the forest cover is extremely important to strengthen policy (among others formulation of laws) enforcement and land use planning

• Currently the forest cover monitoring activities are mainly financed with the ACTO-project “Monitoring the forest cover of the Amazon region”

• REDD+ for the Guiana Shield- through the a la carte support could help us by building capacity and developing methodologies

Importance of “A la carte” support

Thank you

The « à la carte » support has been very useful for Suriname so far (should be continued) . We will be happy to continue sharing outputs and gained skills to others in the REDD+ for the Guiana Shield project.

Thank you from Suriname to:

DANK U WEL

MERCI

OBRIGADO

THANK YOU

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