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Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program for Co-Managed Protected Areas, Malawi
SUMMARY
Project Location:
Hectares:
Target Standards:
Project Type:
Northern and Central Malawi
217,000
VCS, CCB
REDD
PROJECT PARTNERS
Seller and Project • Department of National
Proponent:
Parks and Wildlife, Malawi
• Community Associations
Carbon Developer/ • Terra Global Capital
Marketing Agent
Implementing • Total LandCare, Malawi
Organization(s):
Project Design: • Total LandCare, Malawi
Legal Advisor: • Dentons (International)
Local Legal Council: • Sacranie , Gow & Company
(SGOW)
Funders: • US Agency for International
Development
Gross Project Life VCUs:
Crediting Period:
Project Start Date:
1st Verification:
7.2 million
30 Years
October 2009
July 2014
PROJECT SUMMARY
The Kulera Landscape REDD+ program was developed within the
framework of the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) funded Kulera Biodiversity Project (KBP).
The REDD+ project areas are located in a five kilometer zone
inside the boundaries of three key protected areas in central and
northern Malawi: Nyika National Park, Vwaza Wildlife Reserve,
and Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve.
These parks are under increasing pressure of encroachment from
local populations, which has exacerbated deforestation and
forest degradation rates along the margins of the core protected
zones. The overall goals of the Kulera REDD project are to reduce
deforestation and degradation in these select protected areas,
and to improve livelihoods by managing natural resources as an
asset base so as to capture their long-term economic benefits.
The project proponents, the Department of National Parks and
Wildlife, the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve Association (NAWIRA),
and Terra Global Capital have partnered with a Malawi-based
NGO, Total LandCare, to prepare this REDD project and generate
Verified Emission Reductions. One of the principal objectives of
the project is to improve understanding of co-management
agreements for protected areas and build the capacity of
community associations to carry out park management and
enforcement activities.
In addition, within the five kilometer buffer zone surrounding
each protected area, the project has introduced a number of
interventions designed to provide alternatives income sources,
improve food security, and reduce pressures on natural
resources. These programs include agricultural intensification and
crop diversification, installing woodlots on community-owned
degraded lands as a means of reducing pressure on existing forest
lands, and improving management of existing woodlands .
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Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program for Co-Managed Protected Areas, Malawi
TENURE AND CARBON RIGHTS
COMMUNITY BENEFITS
The project reinforces land tenure by enhancing the
capacity of community-based organizations to participate
directly in natural resource management. This is in line
with Malawi’s decentralization policy that provides for comanagement of Malawi’s national parks and wildlife
reserves. The project has received high-level endorsement
from the Republic of Malawi’s Department of National
Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) under the Ministry of Tourism,
Wildlife and Culture, which currently has a comanagement agreement covering the Nyika National Park
and the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve with the NyikaVwaza Association (NVA) of local communities.
The Kulera Biodiversity Project targets 45,000 households
(225,000 people) living in rural communities in the border
zone of the project protected areas. Most households are
characterized by dire poverty, undertaking practices that
are destructive to the resources upon which their
livelihoods depend. In addition, many communities have
limited access to support services because they reside in
remote areas with poor roads and infrastructure.
One of the primary aims of the project is to build the
capacity of the NVA to co-manage the Nyika-Vwaza
complex and build on this successful model by creating a
similar community association in Nkhotakota. A carbon
development agreement for the project will ensure that
carbon revenues are used to strengthen co-management
of protected areas and improve rural livelihood and
natural resource management practices. A benefit
management entity is being established to act on behalf
of the government and the communities to sell carbon
credits under an ERPA and aggregate on behalf of the
government and the Associations.
Communities are selected through a consultative
participatory process based on defined criteria, which
include assessments of resources, capabilities and
interest, as well as the type and level of support needed.
The entry point to identify beneficiaries begins with the
leadership structure of communities and villages and
established
Community-Based
Natural
Resource
Management (CBNRM) associations falling within the
management zones of each protected area. In all cases,
gender factors are taken into account to ensure
participation and support of women, as well as youth.
Given that many households are directly or indirectly
affected by HIV/AIDs, the project ensures that
interventions encompass opportunities to target these
households. Special efforts are being made to target
households engaged in illegal exploitation of reserve
resources with the aim to understand and address this
behavior by providing alternative options.
BIODIVERSITY
Malawi’s protected areas are a primary concern of the Government. Between 1972 and 2005, Malawi’s forest cover was
cut in half from increasing demands for farmland and wood. Until recently, most of this occurred on customary land;
however, encroachment into protected areas with exploitation of natural resources is now common because of weak
Government policy enforcement.
The project focuses on improved governance of three key protected areas uniquely important for biodiversity: Nyika
National Park, Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, and Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve. Nyika National Park is located in the
northern region of Malawi, covers 3,200 km2 of montane grassland, miombo woodland and evergreen forest and is home
to more than 95 mammals, 430 species of birds, 47 species of reptiles, and 34 species of amphibians. Vwaza Marsh Wildlife
Reserve lies on the watershed between Lake Malawi and the Luangwa Valley on the Central African Plateau and supports a
diverse vertebrate fauna that includes 326 species of birds, 10 species of fish and 50 mammal species, including rare and
endangered species such as the African elephant and the African wild dog. Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve supports a number
of large mammals including the rare and endangered elephant, waterbuck, blue monkey, and 280 bird and 24 fish species.
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liability whatsoever for the contents or the interpretation of the information provided herein. This document is being presented for
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Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program for Co-Managed Protected Areas, Malawi
KEY PROJECT MILESTONES
Sept
Tri-party agreement btw Terra,
DNPW and community
Associations establishing carbon
rights signed
PRAs and second round of
biomass field data collection
complete
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Nov
ESTIMATED GROSS VCUs BY VINTAGE
VCU
VCU
YEAR
YEAR
[t CO2e]
[t CO2e]
June
July
First Issuance (VCS + CCB triple
Gold)
Sept
2014
Project validation and verification
complete
May
2013
Submission of VCS and CCB
combined PDs for validation and
monitoring reports for 1st
verification
June
Workplan and 30-year project
budget completed. Terra, DNPW
and NVA agree on terms of carbon
rights
Nov
2012
Second validation of methodology
complete
2011
TLC completes field sampling on
first round of biomass plots and
social assessments
Jul
Terra completes four feasibility
studies for AFOLU projects in
Malawi (REDD, ARR, ALM, IFM)
USAID provides funding to Total
LandCare to implement the Kulera
Biodiversity Project
Oct
2010
Terra submits new methodology
“Carbon Accounting for Grouped
Mosaic and Landscape-scale REDD
Projects” to the VCS
2009
YEAR
VCU
[t CO2e]
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
235,942
277,937
310,529
319,207
139,207
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
199,999
205,761
214,922
224,601
225,624
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
262,669
269,129
274,842
273,714
281,200
2014
2015
2016
152,958
161,252
164,012
2024
2025
2026
233,144
244,520
246,376
2034
2035
2036
283,250
289,054
287,187
2017
2018
180,340
183,132
2027
2028
252,165
256,418
2037
2038
290,266
294,325
Total 7,233,682
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS AND AGREEMENTS
VCS Project Document and 1st Monitoring Report – FINAL
CCB Project Document 1st Project Implementation Report - FINAL
Financial projections – Initial 30-year financial projections for the project which
include all project-related costs and ex-ante carbon estimates
Agreements between implementing and technical partners and communities –
All agreements between project proponents and implementing partners
governing implementation of project activities under development
Government approvals – Co-management agreement between DNPW and other
relevant government agencies pertaining to the Kulera Biodiversity Project under
development
Standard Operating Procedure for field sampling – Standardized
SOP for collection of biomass field data by field teams
Social appraisal reports – Reports compiled using the data gathered
from the household surveys and PRAs
Electronic shape files of project areas, leakage areas, reference
regions – GIS boundary shape files used to delineate the project
areas, leakage areas and reference regions
Classified Landsat images – Used to determine land-use classes and
forest strata within the project area and reference region
Original data from biomass inventories and social assessments –
Hard copies and electronic copies of data sheets used to record field
data for biomass inventories and social assessments
Disclaimer: Although Terra Global has prepared this document with due care based on available information, it does not accept any
liability whatsoever for the contents or the interpretation of the information provided herein. This document is being presented for
information purposes only.
The leader in land-use carbon analytics, finance and advisory
Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program for Co-Managed Protected Areas, Malawi
TERRA GLOBAL COMPANY OVERVIEW
Terra Global Capital, LLC was founded in 2006 to facilitate market and results-based payment approaches for forest and
land-use emission reductions that provide community benefits. Terra is now the leader in forest and land-use analytics
and finance, providing technical expertise and investment capital to their global client base in a collaborative and
innovative manner. As a group, Terra has more global experience in the land-use sector than any other entity and is
committed to working with its local partners to build capacity and support local communities and governments to
sustainably manage their land. Terra has extensive developing country experience and is the leading developer of
protocols and aggregation services for GHG emissions reductions from a full range of agricultural activities in the United
States.
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liability whatsoever for the contents or the interpretation of the information provided herein. This document is being presented for
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