SESSION 2 - Working Groups

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1 REDD+ FOR THE GUIANA SHIELD Technical Cooperation Project SESSION 2 - Working Groups Sérgio Milheiras & Marie Calmel, ONF International 02 June rd SC meeting - Cayenne, French Guiana

2 Capacity Building À la carte Country Level Support Technical Working Groups Evaluation and Monitoring of Forest Cover and Stocks Deforestation/degradation dynamics understanding Future deforestation and socio-economical modeling Regional Support Training and Technology Transfer

3 WG objectives Working Groups are central to the REDD+ for the Guiana Shield project. They intend to: Serve as a platform for regional technical exchanges on forest cover monitoring, carbon stocks assessment and drivers of deforestation in the Guiana Shield; Build the capacity of targeted countries through sharing of good practices and lessons learnt, as well as through the intervention of external experts; Identify needs in terms of capacity building and technology transfer, including in the perspective of developing joint efforts on REDD+ and Land-Use Planning through the creation of regional tools. Targeted audience: Project partners technical experts and managers

4 Working Groups until now Since the last SC meeting in December 2013: Terms of Reference developed and shared, based on SC members feedbacks List of priority topics shared with participants, based on SC members feedbacks Organization of 2 WG meetings A total of 3 WG meetings until now: Georgetown, 5-6 December 2013 Paramaribo, February 2014 Cayenne, April 2014 Topics discussed: WG1: REDD+ MRV implementation and drivers of deforestation WG2: Mapping for REDD+: tools and classification methods for forest cover monitoring WG3: Design of a multipurpose National Forest Inventory 3 more meetings predicted until beginning of 2015

5 Presentation of Working Group Meetings 2 & 3

6 WG2: Mapping for REDD+: tools and classification methods for forest cover monitoring The two days of work were divided in four sessions, each one developing a specific sub-topic: Use of optical imagery for MRV Use of radar imagery for MRV Defining classes of land use Dealing with shifting cultivation in forest monitoring 4 experts invited to contribute to the discussions: Anne-Cécile Capel, ONFI s Geomatic unit manager Anoumou Kemavo, ONFI s Forestry and geomatic expert Anwar Helstone, CELOS Maureen Playfair, CELOS 28 participants All presentations and WG2 report can be downloaded at

7 WG3: Design of a multipurpose National Forest Inventory The two days of work were divided in four sessions, each one developing a specific sub-topic: Introduction to National Forest Inventory (NFI) and its implementation in the Guiana Shield Designing a NFI for REDD+ purposes Use of NFI for carbon stocks assessment purposes (including discussion on the selection of allometric equations, emission factor) in the Guiana Shield Linking results from the national forest inventory with MRV reporting and GHG inventories NFI 2 experts invited to contribute to the discussions: Matieu Henry, FAO UN-REDD Etienne Mathias, CITEPA (Interprofessional Technical Centre for Studies on Air Pollution) 17 participants All presentations and the WG report can be downloaded at

8 Outputs Strengthening a network of experts in the region: A large share of the participants have attended more than one meeting A detailed report per WG describing what was discussed and the presentations from experts are publicly available at the projects website, as well as documents that participants want to share with others 3 step-by-step protocols developed as a result of WG2: Unsupervised classification with OTB in the QGIS interface Supervised classification with OTB in the QGIS interface Basic processing of PALSAR images Discussion on regional collaboration opportunities: Possible formats; who can be involved; etc Identification of capacity building needs (feeding the Training and Technology Transfer plan)

9 WG group photos

10 Budget and calendar situation Decisions to be made

11 Budget TOTAL available budget for 6 WGM Spent budget for 3 WGM Remaining budget 2.a Supporting expertise % b Logistics for WGM % % Two decisions to be done by the SC: Select the theme and date for WG4 Allocation of saved resources

12 WG4 planning two alternative topics Slash and burn agriculture and forest degradation or Drivers of deforestation Proposed date Last week of July or first week of August Wednesday and Thursday preferred due to flight schedule constrains Therefore: either 30/31 July OR 6/7 August Location Macapá, Amapá WGM 1 Georgetown WGM 2 Paramaribo WGM3 Cayenne WGM4 Macapa WGM5? WGM6? Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14 Mar-14 Apr-14 May-14 Jun-14 Jul-14 Aug-14 Sep-14 Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14

13 WG4 planning two alternative topics Slash and burn agriculture and forest degradation Assess carbon fluxes in selective cutting concessions Monitoring options for forest degradation Slash and burn agriculture (is it forest or non forest? Based on practices, what are the carbon stocks and losses, how to discriminate it through remote sensing) Ideas for invited speakers Tropical agronomist Specialist of carbon stock assessment Carbon stock enhancement

14 WG4 planning two alternative topics Drivers of deforestation Quantifying the impacts of drivers of deforestation in the Guiana Shield current situation and needs and challenges How to assess and monitor drivers of deforestation in the REDD+ context? How to anticipate drivers of deforestation/degradation evolution? How this anticipation can feed a RL/REL? Use of knowledge and understanding of drivers of deforestation to improve land-use planning Ideas for invited speakers Environmental economist and specialist of RL/REL Land-Use planning expert Example of activities to address drivers of deforestation

15 Allocation of saved resources TOTAL available budget for 6 WGM Spent budget for 3 WGM Remaining budget 2.a Supporting expertise % b Logistics for WGM % % Organization of previous WGM enabled to save money comparing to the scheduled budget (about ). How to use this remaining budget: Organize longer or other type of working group meetings (e.g. including field work NB: to be put in perspective with Training and Technology Transfer Plan)? Organize 2 additional WG meetings? Organize discussion meetings (not necessarily working group but can start discussing beyond the initial purpose of WGM)? Develop additional tools to support the technical discussions (production of studies and/or regional data)?

16 Discussion

17 MERCI / THANK YOU / DANK U / OBRIGADO sergio.milheiras@onfinternational.com Photo credit: ONF Guyane