The Adivasi tribes living in the Araku Valley are considered among the most disadvantaged in the country. These marginalized communities live in a region characterized by low women’s literacy rates, high infant and maternal mortality and low agricultural productivity. The Livelihoods Carbon Fund (LCF) supports the Naandi Foundation to develop a community based agroforestry project reaching 100,000 people in 300 villages. Within this project, the communities themselves have planted fruit trees and coffee plants on 6,000 hectares to restore their degraded forests and as a future income source. LCF provides upfront financing for project development and maintenance and receives carbon credits registered under Verified Carbon Standard. The project is verified every 3-4 years. UNIQUE provided continuous carbon project verification support.

• Review and update project area databases including project boundary verification.
• Review sampling design of the forest inventory.
• Update standard operating procedures and monitoring plan.
• Organize inventory training for new monitoring and evaluation staff.
• Remote support during roll-out of forest inventory and updating project carbon accounting databases.
• Update Verified Carbon Standard monitoring report and non-permanence risk report.
• Support field audit of the Verifying Body.