REDD+ Monitoring, and Measurement,
Reporting and Verification workshop“Training the Trainers”
ReportSecond regional workshop
Lima, Peru
4-7 July 2016

REDD+ Monitoring, and Measurement,
Reporting and Verification workshop“Training the Trainers”

Report25-July-2016

2|PageContents
Contents................................................................................................................................... 3
General Workshop information ..................................................................................................... 4
List of Acronyms ........................................................................................................................ 5
1. Background ........................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 The need for REDD+ MRV training support ............................................................................ 6
1.2 The REDD+ training workshops ............................................................................................ 6
2. Workshop objectives ............................................................................................................... 7
3. Training materials that were used/presented during the workshops ............................................... 9
3. Workshop outcomes ............................................................................................................. 10
4. Workshop agenda................................................................................................................. 13
5. List of participants ................................................................................................................ 16

3|PageGeneral Workshop information
Sponsors
World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (WB FCPF)
UN-REDD Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO/UNREDD)
REDD+ partnership
Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) Office, with funding from the Australian and Norwegian
Governments
United States SilvaCarbon Program
GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Office
Wageningen University (WU)
Boston University (BU)
US Department of Interior

Organizing Committee Leaders
GOFC-GOLD y Universidad de Wageningen
Erika Romijn – erika.romijn@wur.nl
Sarah Carter – sarah.carter@wur.nl
Martin Herold – martin.herold@wur.nl
Brice Mora – brice.mora@wur.nl
United States SilvaCarbon Program
Sylvia Wilson - snwilson@usgs.gov
Liesbeth Rodríguez - liesbeth.2329@gmail.com
Chelsea Cook - cjcook@usgs.gov

Workshop contact email
gofc-workshop.grs@wur.nl

4|PageList of Acronyms
BU
FAO
GFOI
GHG
GOFC-GOLD
IPCC
MGD
MRV
NFI
NFMA
R&D
REDD+

UNFCCC
UN-REDDWB FCPFWU

Boston University
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Global Forest Observations Initiative
Greenhouse Gas(es)Global Observation for Forest Cover and Land Dynamics
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Methods and Guidance Document from GFOI
Measuring, Reporting and Verification (of forest related greenhouse gas emissions)
National Forest Inventory
National Forest Monitoring and Assessment
Research and Development
REDD+ refers to the UNFCCC decision (COP16, 2010) on: “Policy approaches andpositive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation andforest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable
management of forest and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing
countries.”
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
Wageningen University

5|Page1. Background
1.1 The need for REDD+ MRV training support
The performance-based climate mitigation framework REDD+1 encourages the reduction ofemissions related to deforestation and forest degradation, and removals through enhanced forest
carbon stocks and improved forest management. These activities should be measured and reported
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); including a process ofverification. This requires methodologies for estimating actual emissions and removals and forestablishing the reference level. UNFCCC requests countries to build robust and transparent national
forest monitoring systems to facilitate the measurement and reporting of forest related greenhousegas (GHG) emissions, following the guidelines and guidance from the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC).
Various training materials and tools have been developed to support forest monitoring and MRV for
REDD+, (see section 3.2), and will be introduced in the workshop. All of these products aim tosupport and facilitate country processes with the development of capacities for implementing anational system for monitoring forest area and area changes, the associated carbon stocks andchanges; and for MRV of REDD+ activities.
Additionally, the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) has been established as an international
partnership on forest monitoring and, measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) issues for
REDD+. GFOI brings together a community of international experts, donors and specialist
organisations and provides a forum for them to consolidate their considerable resources in to a more
holistic and specialised package of support for REDD+ countries.

1.2 The REDD+ training workshops
To make available training materials more accessible for countries and REDD+ / forest monitoring
professionals, four (4) regional one week workshops are planned in three different continents: one inSouth-East Asia (in English), one in Latin America (in Spanish) and two in Africa (in French andEnglish). The basic concept of these workshops is to “train the trainers”. A selected group of around35 participants from countries in each region (2-3 per country) will attend with the aim of further
disseminating the knowledge and insights gained to and train other relevant people who are involved
in REDD+ monitoring and reporting in their country, in order to further build their capacities.
The workshops will be jointly organized by GFOI partners who include World Bank FCPF, Silvacarbon,
FAO/UN-REDD, Wageningen University, GOFC-GOLD, and Boston University. Organization of theworkshops will be under the coordinating leadership of Wageningen University.

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REDD+ refers to the UNFCCC decision (COP16, 2010) on: “Policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to
reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation,
sustainable management of forest and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.”
6|Page2. Workshop objectives
This workshop from 4-7 July in Lima, Peru, was the second in the series of four regional workshops.
This workshop was held in Spanish. The aim of the workshop is to build upon existing expertise andexperiences and to use available training materials and tools in a broad capacity development
context to help build countries’ capacities and to spread the use and increase the impact of available
knowledge and tools.
After the successful completion of the workshop, participants should be able to become ‘multipliers’
by further disseminating the knowledge and experience gained and train other relevant people whoare involved in REDD+ monitoring and reporting in their country. In the workshops, participants learn
about the different training materials and tools that are available and how these different materials
all fit together in the “bigger picture” of REDD+ MRV capacity building. Participants will also know
how and where to make request for further appropriate training and make use of available tools for
implementation. Direct interactions with leading international experts present at the workshop will
be facilitated so specific issues can be discussed face to face.
Through these regional workshops the materials will become more accessible for a wider public.
Interactive settings, such as the workshops, allow course participants to ask specific questions and tobetter comprehend the topics and apply the knowledge to their own country context. Workshop
participants bring back the knowledge to their own country and can spread the newly acquired
knowledge and insights within their home institutions and networks.

7|PageBefore the workshop an online survey was held among participants to gauge their interests andknowledge level:
What are you most interested to get out of the workshop?

Which of these materials are you aware of / interested to learn about?

8|Page3. Training materials that were used/presented during the workshops
WB/GOFC-GOLD training materials:
The WB/GOFC-GOLD training materials consist of lecture presentations, practical examples of
implementation under different country circumstances, and exercises and tutorials. The training
materials provide a strong basis for use in comprehensive educational and pedagogical approaches,
thereby using the GOFC-GOLD Sourcebook, GFOI MGD and other guidance material as backgrounddocuments. They consist of fourteen modules under three main components: REDD+ Backgroundand Design, REDD+ Measuring and Monitoring and REDD+ Assessment and Reporting. They are freely
availableat:
http://www.gofcgold.wur.nl/redd/Training_materials.php
andhttps://www.forestcarbonpartnership.org/redd-training-material-forest-monitoring
The GFOI Methods and Guidance Document (MGD)The MGD provides step-by-step advice on how to estimate emissions and removals associated with
REDD+ activities, focusing on operational methods and freely available data. The MGD describes theuse of remotely sensed and ground-based data in combination, and is systematically linked to IPCC
guidance. This document published in English, Spanish and French are freely available at:
http://www.gfoi.org/methods-guidance

REDDcompass
The GFOI has also developed an overarching application called REDDcompass , which links available
training products in an easy to follow workflow approach, accompanying countries all the way
through the otherwise complex process of developing these systems and capacities. REDDcompass isa web-based application which enables users to progressively work through the key themes,
concepts and actions of REDD+ National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) for Measurement,
Reporting and Verification (MRV) gaining access to a suite of GFOI methods and guidance, space data
resources, training materials and tools along the way. Available at: http://www.gfoi.org/reddcompass
FAO Open Foris software tools
Open Foris is an FAO-led initiative to develop, share and support specialized software tools requiredby countries and institutions to implement multi-purpose forest inventories. It is a set of free andopen-source software tools that facilitates flexible and efficient data collection, analysis andreporting. Available at: http://www.fao.org/forestry/fma/openforis/en/
WB FCPF / Winrock REDD+ Decision Support Toolbox
The REDD+ Decision Support Toolbox by Winrock International in partnership with the World Bank
FCPF provides a methodological framework for countries to enhance their near term capacity for
producing REDD+ FRLs/FRELs. The framework outlines the decisions and steps needed to develop a
FRL/FREL, the capacity, data, and technical steps needed to carry out each component. Available at:https://redd-dst.ags.io/accounts/login/

9|PageBFAST Open-source toolbox for forest change monitoring
BFAST training materials and open-source toolkit enables countries to monitor changes in forests(e.g. deforestation and near real-time alerts) using satellite images (e.g. Landsat). Training materials
and software are available here: http://changemonitor-wur.github.io/
BEEODA/ MGD
The Boston Education in Earth Observation Data Analysis (BEEODA) is a suite of open source softwareand education materials designed to provide practitioners with the software tools necessary forsecuring activity data. The software and materials have been designed to allow practitioners to makeuse of novel and often required methods such as time series analysis, object based image analysis
and statistical inference, and have been developed to support implementation of the guidance
outlined in the MGD. The education material is centered around modules which provide detailed
instructions for completion of various image processing tasks. More information available here:
http://beeoda.org and http://github.com/beeoda.
COVE
The CEOS Visualization Environment (COVE) tool is a browser-based system that leverages GoogleEarth to display satellite sensor coverage areas and identify coincidence scene locations. The NASACEOS System Engineering Office (SEO) worked with the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites(CEOS) Working Group on Calibration and Validation to develop the COVE tool. http://www.ceoscove.org/index.php/covetool

3. Workshop outcomes
The workshop outcome for a specific country and partners is a “way forward” plan based on theknowledge and understanding of various open-source training materials and tools available andpresented during the workshop. Workshop participants will be aware of how to access and use
materials and tools and how to develop a plan for further training for their country and regional
circumstances and activities. The follow up idea of the workshop is to also build a user community ofthese materials and tools. Participants get to know the experts that are developing and making thesetools available so they can also be contacted for questions and feedback afterwards. So specificworkshop outcomes will be: The establishment of a network / community of practice for building capacities for REDD+
national forest monitoring systems and MRV in South-East Asia using the tools available The establishment of partnerships with all workshop organizations and participants.
Workshop participants will be aware of all the guidance and training materials, portals andtools that are available, and their relationships. They will make connections across thedifferent organizations and contact points for seeking further information and training.
 Workshop participants are expected to perform practical training afterward the workshop
and to deliver at least 1 module at one occasion in the next 6 months after the workshop.
 A survey will be sent around approximately 6 months after the completion of the workshop
to assess the impact and usefulness of the workshop.
 A series of Webinars are planned and will be recorded over the course of the next year after
the workshop. If workshop participants are interested, they have the opportunity tocollaborate on this and use this opportunity to continue to engage in this network while
having the experts ready to respond to their specific needs and requests.
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After the workshop, participants were asked to fill in a survey regarding the objectives, tools andquality of the workshop:

Was this workshop useful for you regarding the following aims?

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Which of the tools, if any, do you plan to use for your further work?

How do you rate (time allocated and quality):

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4. Workshop agenda
Day 1, 4 July - Opening, Introductions and Training WB/GOFC-GOLD training materials:
Presentation of (selection and/or combination) of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including
discussion
Time
Activity
Person Responsible
09:00 –
Registration and coffee
Sarah Carter & Alvaro
09:30
Lau
09:30 –
Opening:
10:00
Welcome word from organising team and sponsors: Inge Jonckheere (UNREDD)
 Zenia Salinas (World Bank FCPF)
Inge Jonckheere
 Rosa Román (Wageningen / GOFC-GOLD) Sylvia Wilson (SilvaCarbon)
General introduction to capacity building programmes andtools
10:00 –
Tour de table
Workshop participants
10:30
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 –
World Bank FCPF / Winrock REDD+ decision support tool
Zenia Salinas
11:15
11:15 –
An introduction to the REDDcompass
Jenny Hewson
11:30
11:30 –
Interactive discussion on country-specific issues and needs
Inge Jonckheere
12:00
Results from questionnaire (Rosa Roman)Workshop participants
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 –
Interactive discussion on country-specific issues and needs –Inge Jonckheere
15:00
continued
Workshop participants
15:00 –
16:00

Session 1: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials,
including discussion (various presenters)
Rosa Román- Intro(Rosa)- Module 1.1 UNFCCC context and requirements andintroduction to IPCC guidelines (Rosa Roman)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 –
Session 2: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials,
18:00
including discussion (various presenters)- Module 1.2: Framework for building national forest
Rosa Román
monitoring systems for REDD+ (Rosa Roman)- Module 1.3: Assessing and analyzing drivers ofdeforestation and forest degradation (Rosa Roman)
Day 2, 5 July - Training WB/GOFC-GOLD training materials: Presentation of (selection and/or
combination) of GOFC-GOLD training materials, including discussion
9:00 –
Session 3: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials,
10:30
including discussion (various presenters)- Module 2.2: Monitoring activity data for forests
remaining forests (incl. forest degradation) (Javier
Rosa Román
Cano Martin)- Module 2.3: Estimating emission factors for forest
cover change (deforestation and forest degradation)(Freddy Argotty)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
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11:00 –12:00

Session 4: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials,
including discussion (various presenters)- Module 2.5: Estimation of carbon emissions fromdeforestation and forest degradation (Craig Wayson)- Module 2.7: Estimation of uncertainties (Eric Bullock)Community based monitoring tools

12:00 –
12:45
12:45 –
Registering for the REDD-compass
13:00
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 –
Session 5: Presentation of GOFC-GOLD training materials,
15:00
including discussion (various presenters)- Module 3.2: Data and guidance on developing REDD+
reference levels (Zuelclady Araujo)- Module 3.3: Guidance on reporting REDD+
performance using IPCC Guidelines and Guidance(Jenny Hewson)
15:00 –
Costa Rica: baseline reference emissions levels (FREL)
15:15
15:15 –The Scolel'te Program
15:30
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00Introduction on using different available tools
16:15
16:15 –
REDD + MINAM Project: Conservation of native forests, Peru
16:45
16:45 –
Forest carbon monitoring systems
17:00
17:00 –
Discussion
17:30
Day 3, 6 July - Introduction of available tools, and further opportunities
08:00 –
Interactive session with time for different presentations
09:00- Javier Cano Martin - Methodologies for FREL
estimation in forest degradation in Chile
09:00 –FAO UN-REDD capacity building programme
10:30- General- LAC: RS- LAC: GHG & FREL
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 –GFOI platform and REDDcompass (interactive Exercises)
13:00
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 –FAO Open Foris / SEPAL / NFI/NFMA tools, etc.
15:15
Methodology for producing change maps
15:15 –
16:00

Introduction to activities in South America and CookBook
Annex (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute(FFPRI), Japan)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 –
Hands on exercise on World Bank Decision support tool
17:15
18:00
Evening social activity: Tour and dinner

Rosa Román

Alvaro Lau
Jenny Hewson

Rosa Román

Leonel Iglesias
Elsa Esquivel Bazán

Sylvia Wilson
Eduardo Rojas Baez
Edersson Cabrera
Montenegro
Sylvia Wilson
Rosa Roman / Allpresenters
Inge Jonckheere
Adolfo Kindgard
Angel Parra Aiuguiar

Adolfo Kindgard
Angel Parra Aiuguiar
Inge / Adolfo / Angel
José Mario Serafini
Gauto
Luis Alberto Vega
Isuhuaylas

Zenia Salinas
All workshop
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participants
Day 4, 7 July - Developing a capacity building plan for trainers
08:30 –
Interactive session (parallel session) with time for with
09:30
different presenters- Rodrigo Martinez Fernandez - Tool to Evaluate Costs
and Benefits of REDD +09:30 –
Interactive session: BEEODA and uncertainty exercise
11:00
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 –
Interactive session: BEEODA and uncertainty exercise
13:00
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 –
Introduction to the COVE tool
15:00
15:00 –
Interactive session (parallel session) with time for with
16:30
different presenters- Interactive session: BEEODA and uncertainty exercise(Eric Bullock)- Interactive Exercises with the Decision Support tool of
the World Bank (Zenia Salinas)- Thematic Discussions on issues related to REDD +(Rosa Roman)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17.00 –
Workshop closing and certificates
17:15

Rosa Román / Allpresenters
Eric Bullock

Eric Bullock

Paul Kessler

Rosa Román

Sylvia Wilson

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5. List of participants
Nombre/Name
María VerónicaOYARZÚN ACOSTA
Javier CANO MARTÍN
Ramon Alberto DIAZ
BEARD
Cyntia ORTIZ ROJAS
Carlos MÉNDEZFERNÁNDEZ
Agustín BÓFFANOCHEBATAROF
Álvaro VALLEJO
Guillermo SANCHEZ
Jenny HEWSON
Eric BULLOCKDavid URQUIZAInge JONCKHEERE
Elsa ESQUIVEL BAZÁN
Jorge Luis SANTOSACEITUNO
Freddy ARGOTTY
Jubenal RODRIGUEZMALDONADO
Omar ORELLANA DIAZ
Gabriela PARMUCHI
José Mario SERAFINIGAUTO
Amado AdalbertoLÓPEZ BAUTISTA
Kenset Amaury
ROSALES RIVEIRO
Adolfo KINDGARDAngel PARRA AIUGUIAR
Edersson CABRERAMONTENEGRO
José Rolando SAMUDIOSANTOS
Rovoham MONZÓN
Pavel BERMUDEZ
Victor BARRENA
ARROYO
Brian ZUTTA SALAZAR
Eddy MENDOZA

Organización/Affiliation

País/Country

Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF)

Chile

Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF)

Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
Dirección de Cambio Climático

Chile
Dominican
Republic
Dominican
Republic

Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (Fondo Forestal)

Costa Rica

Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales

Dirección General Forestal - Ministerio de Ganadería,
Agricultura y Pesca
Indipendent
SilvaCarbon
Conservation International
Boston University
Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia (UNAP)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Cooperativa AMBIO
Instituto de Conservación Forestal (ICF)
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación yEnseñanza (CATIE)Red Mexicana de Organizaciones Campesinas Forestales,
A.C. (RED MOCAF)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sustentable

UruguayUSA
Ecuador
USA
USA
Peru
Italy
MexicoHonduras
Costa Rica
MexicoHonduras
Argentina

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Paraguay

Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (CONAP)

GuatemalaMinisterio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN)

GuatemalaFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios
Ambientales (IDEAM)

Paraguay
PanamaInstituto Nacional de Bosques

GuatemalaMinisterio de Agricultura Ganadería y Alimentación(MAGA)US Peruvian Forest Sector Initiative
Facultad de Ciencias Forestales Universidad Nacional
Agraria La Molina (UNALM)
National Forest Conservation Program, Ministry of theEnvironment
Conservation International

Colombia

Guatemala
Peru
Peru
Peru
Peru
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Craig WAYSON
Liesbeth RODRÍGUEZ
Luis Alberto VEGAISUHUAYLAS
Sandra Jhowana RIOSTORRES
Diego GARCIA SORIA
María Elena ROJAS
Jazmine CASAFRANCA
Sylvia WILSON
Chelsea COOK
Sarah CARTER
Rosa Maria ROMAN
CUESTA
Alvaro LAU SARMIENTO
Rodrigo MARTINEZFERNANDEZ
Lionel IGLESIAS
Zenia Maria SALINASVALLECILLO
Gerardo SEGURA
Sasha GOTTLIEB
Yasumasa HIRATA
Raul RODRÍGUEZ
FRANCOPaul KESSLER

SilvaCarbon
SilvaCarbon

Peru
Peru

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI)Japan

Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana(IIAP)
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana(IIAP)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
SilvaCarbon
U.S. Geological Survey
Wageningen University / CIFOR

Peru
Peru
Peru
Peru
USA
USA
Netherlands

Wageningen University

Netherlands

Wageningen University / CIFORNetherlands

World BankUSAWorld BankUSAWorld BankUSAWorld Bank
US Forest Service
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI)

USA
USA
Japan

Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR)

MexicoNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)USA

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