The World Bank is exploring carbon market instruments under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The Livestock and Dairy Development Project in Bangladesh was selected as one of its pilot projects. This USD $500 Mio. loan project improve the agricultural productivity, and market access of 2 Mio. smallholder household farmers and small and medium-scale agro-entrepreneurs. It will also address some upcoming issues faced by the livestock sector such as food safety, environmental pollution, climate change, and animal welfare. UNIQUE was contracted to develop the monitoring, reporting and verification protocol for the project to meet the requirements under the Article 6 of the Paris Agreement related to mitigation outcomes, as well as the recently adopted modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework for action and support.

• Establish the credibility and robustness of data for the quantification of mitigation outcomes.
• Determination of mitigation outcomes, while maintaining environmental integrity.
• Design of the monitoring, reporting and verification protocol.