The project is to establish and maintain a sustainably managed mangrove ecosystem for carbon sequestration, natural disaster risk reduction, poverty reduction with sustainable livelihoods in the coastal communities. A vital component of the project is the conservation of bio-diversity and establishment of the first mangrove gene bank in Myanmar.
The project will restore approximately 2146.48 ha of degraded lands by planting 9,116,390 new mangrove plants, whose reforestation and restoration is undertaken by WIF incorporation with several organizations. University of Pathein has been given the lands in Magyi village tract for the reforestation and restoration. Thaegone Village Tract Mangrove Conservation Committee and Thabawkan Village Tract Mangrove Conservation Committee have been given the lands for the project in Thaegone and Thabawkan areas respectively.
Restoration of mangroves forest on deforested and degraded lands will sequestrate significant amount of GHGs compared to baseline. Further, the project will also improve the soil conditions; nutrition is retained on the land and thereby increase in water quality. In addition, the soil organic contents and mineral contents will be improved due to proper land management. Mangrove restoration will further result to increase fish resources.
The proposed project will create direct employment: in fact, it will not only involve men but also women, who were trained on making efficient cook stoves, dying the clothes with natural colours, etc. The increased salary will not only improve the livelihood but also eliminate poverty. The project will further bring in transfer of know-how by hiring and training local employees.
Our team audited the adherence of the monitoring plan with the requirements of the CDM methodology and concluded that the plan sufficiently covers the details about monitoring parameters, schedules and processes. The plan also includes the processes and the system employed for obtaining, recording, compiling and analyzing GHG data and information, project boundary monitoring, as well as descriptions of the roles and responsibilities of the monitoring personnel involved.
In addition, the team also confirmed that the non-permanence assessment has been carried out adequately by applying the conservative assumptions. Thus, the total buffer credits foreseen in the proposed project activity are 368,012 tCO2e for the whole duration of the crediting period i.e from 15th June 2015 to 14th June 2035.
More details of the project are available here.
