How to Use the Tool

Check List Tool to judge whether a land is eligible, additional and suitable
for A/R CDM in Ecuador
How to Use the Tool
1. If the users’ answer for each question can follow instruction of “Yes” or “No” below □ mark in “Check mark”
column, the users can mark x (check mark) in □.
2. For the eligibility part, all questions have to be marked to get eligibility for a project considered or proposed.
3. The users are not necessarily required to mark x in □ of all questions in the all parts except for eligibility part. In
addition, the users can select questions which can match to component and/or contents of a project
considered or proposed.
4. Figures shown in some questions especially of additionality part are not fixed and changeable.
No.
Question
Eligibility Part
1
Was the land forest in end of 1989?
Source for the judgment
And/or to get answers to questions
Yes ： not
eligible
No：eligible
Yes □
No □
Yes ： not
eligible
No：eligible
Map of agricultural suitability
2003 (TM Landsat 5 and 7
1:50.000 (highlands) 1: 250:000
(coastal area)) SIG - AGRO
¾
Result of a feasibility study to
be conducted by the expected
investors and/or implementers of
the proposed or considered
project: Possibility of continuation
of current land use, Possibility of
other land use except for
afforestation etc. should be
examined.
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Check
with
CORPEI
(Investment Unit), for information
on investment instruments
Yes □
No □
Yes ： no
additionality
No：there is
additionality
¾
Is the land forest at present?
¾
¾
¾
¾
¾
Additionality Part
3
Does the land likely have any alternative
scenarios other than afforestation?
¾
4
¾
In case that expected investors and/or
implementers of the proposed or
considered project do not have enough
capital for the implementation, is debt
funding
is
available
for
the
implementation?
Judgment
Yes □
No □
¾
¾
2
1990 land cover map to be
prepared by JOFCA, CORDELIM
Aerial photograph (Catalogue
1:60000 from 1942 onwards;
Spcial projects 1:30.000): IGM
Results
of
Interview
to
landowner, national or local
administrative, etc.
Land Use/Cover Map 2000
(data sources are TM landsat 5 &
7 in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001.)
SIG – AGRO
Land/Cover Map 2003 (TM
Landsat 5 & 7, 1:50.000
(highlands)
1:250.000(coast))
SIG - AGRO
Land use and land cover map
2006, 1:250000; CLIRSEN
Aerotransport
photographs
CLIRSEN
Result of Field observation
Check
mark
¾
5
In case that expected investors and/or
implementers of the proposed or
considered project do not have enough
capital for the implementation, can the
investors and/or implementers access to
international capital markets due to real
or perceived risks associated with
domestic or foreign direct in vestment in
Ecuador?
¾
CORPEI
Check
with
(Investment Unit), for information
on
investment
instruments
(includes instruments for foreign
investment)
Yes □
No □
Yes ： no
additionality
No：there is
additionality
6
Is there a risk related to changes in
government policies or laws to
implement the proposed or considered
project?
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
7
Is there lack of enforcement of forest or
land-use-related
legislation
to
implement the proposed or considered
project?
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
8
Is there lack of access to planting
materials to implement the proposed or
considered project?
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
9
In case that proposed or considered
project includes a new kind technology
in Ecuador in its project component, is
there a lack of infrastructure for
implementation of the technology?
¾ Relevant laws, rules and norms:
Forestry Law (Ley Forestal),
Environment management law
(Ley de Gestión
Ambiental),
Environmental
strategy
for
sustainable
development
(Estrategia Ambiental para el
Desarrollo
sostenible
del
Ecuador),
Strategy
for
the
sustainable forestry development
of Ecuador (Estrategia para el
Desarrollo forestal sustentable de
Ecuador).
¾ Search for other relevant laws
rules and norms (e.g. Forestry law,
norms for cultivated forests):
CIFOP
¾ List of relevant rules and laws, as
well as services of legal
advisement: ECOLEX
¾ List of relevant laws and rules
general information: DNF
¾ Check for current status with
ECOLEX, DNF, CIFOP
¾ Implementation
of
National
Reforestation Plan (Plan Nacional
de Reforestación): DNF National
Direction of Forestry (Ministry of
Environment).
¾ Technical support related to the
elaboration
of
the
National
Reforestation Plan: CIFOP
¾ Check
also
for
available
resources in the Ministry of
Environment
and
local
Governments (available resources
for implementation of reforestation
activities).
¾ Private Seed bank and nursery:
CORMADERA
¾ Private Seed Bank: PROFAFOR
¾ Check for public Seed Banks and
nurseries nearby the project area
(especially in areas with regional
reforestation plans, e.g. Loja)
¾ Check for nurseries in the nearby
the project area.
¾ Check at CIFOP for further
alternatives.
¾ Check with CORMADERA
¾ Check
with
Ministry
of
Infrastructure map: SIG - AGRO
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
10
Is the proposed or considered project
activity the “first of its kind” (“first of its
kind” means that no project activities of
this type is currently operational in
Ecuador.
In
case
of
Ecuador,
afforestation activity by using indigenous
species might have high possibility of
“first of its kind”)
¾
¾
¾
Check with the DNF
Check with CORDELIM.
However, proposed projects
are unlikely to be first of their kind
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
11
Is the proposed or considered project
site under condition of degraded soil
(e.g. water/wind erosion, salination,
etc.)?
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
12
The proposed or considered project site
was and/or will be attacked by
catastrophic
natural
and/or
human-induced events (e.g. land slides,
fire etc.)?
¾ Map of soil types 2003 (TM
Landsat 5 & 7 1:50.000
(highlands) 1:250.000 (coast))
SIG - AGRO
¾ Map of soil fertility 2007 (TM
Landsat 5 & 7 1:250.000) SIG AGRO
¾ Map of current soil degradation
2000 (TM Landsat 5 & 7
1:250.000) SIG - AGRO
¾ Set of Vulnerability and risk maps
2006 (flooding, volcanic risks,
land
slides
and
erosion)
(Composed
1:250.000)
SENPLADES
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
13
Is the proposed or considered project
site under unfavorable meteorological
conditions
(e.g.
early/late
frost,
drought)?
Anual
precipitation
sheet
INAMHI National Metereology and
Hydrology
Institute
Instituto
Nacional de Metereología e
Hidrología
Map for hydric deficits 2003
(TM Landsat 5 & 7 1:50.000
(highlands) and 1:250.000 (coast))
SIG – AGRO
Map for drough months 2003
(TM Landsat 5 & 7 1:50.000
(highlands) and 1:250.000 (coast))
SIG-AGRO
Map
for
climate
zones
(1:1´000.000
to
1:50.000)
SIG-AGRO
Map
for
mean
annual
precipitation
(1:1´000.000)
SIG-AGRO
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
¾
¾
¾
¾
¾
14
Have pervasive opportunistic species
preventing regeneration of trees (e.g.
grasses, weeds) broken out in the
proposed or considered project site?
15
Have biotic pressure in terms of grazing,
fodder collection, etc. broken out in the
proposed or considered project site.
16
Have demographic pressure on the land
(e.g. increased demand on land due to
population growth) broken out in the
proposed or considered project site?
Map of production unit per land
use category; Ongoing (Pilot
project: 8 Municipalities GPS Data
from PRAT 1:5.000) SIG – AGRO,
PRAT.
¾
Map Man – Land Ratio;
Ongoing
(Pilot
project:
8
Municipalities GPS Data from
PRAT 1:5.000) SIG – AGRO,
PRAT.
¾
Demographic map.
¾
17
18
19
Have social conflict among interest
groups broken out in the region where
the proposed or considered project
takes place?
Have widespread illegal practices (e.g.
illegal grazing, non-timber product
extraction and tree felling) been done in
the proposed or considered project site?
To implement the proposed or
considered project, are skilled and/or
properly trained labor available?
20
To implement the proposed or
considered project, is there lack of
organization of local communities?
21
Does Communal land ownership with a
hierarchy of rights for different
stakeholders limit the incentives to
undertake the proposed or considered
project?
22
Is there lack of suitable land tenure
legislation and regulation to support the
security of tenure?
23
Are there any absences of clearly
defined and regulated property rights in
relation to natural resource products and
service in the proposed or considered
project site?
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
sites
local
Yes □
No □
interview
to
of the project
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes ： No
additionality
No：there is
additionality
¾ Result of interviews with local
population.
COMAFORS,
¾ Check
with
PROFAFOR, and GTZ for
forestry projects developed with
local communities.
¾
Assessments
regarding
community
land
ownership
available at ECOLEX.
¾
Check
with
PROFAFOR,
ECOCIENCIA for experiences on
forestry projects developed with
local communities.
¾
Check the local organization
structure.
¾
Set of assessments available at
ECOLEX. Check with ECOLEX
the overall situation.
ECOCIENCIA
¾
Check
with
information related to land tenure
(tools and guidelines).
¾
Check
implementation
of
programs for regulation of land
tenure with technical staff of PRAT
(certain areas).
[Legislation on land tenure of
community land]
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Determine by visits to the
and
interviews
to
stakeholders
¾
Check with ECOLEX
ECOCIENCIA for tools
additional information
¾
Determine by visits to the
and
interviews
to
stakeholders.
¾
¾ Result
of
administrative
developer
¾
¾
¾
¾
24
Are there formal and informal tenure
systems that increase the risk of
fragmentation of land holdings in the
proposed or considered project site?
¾
sites
local
and
and
Check with ECOLEX and PRAT
for
background
information
(assessments with focus on land
tenure).
Check with ECOCIENCIA for
tools and guidelines
Check with Developers of
reforestation
activities
(e.g
PROFAFOR)
for
practical
experiences.
Check
the
community
organization, bylaws and internal
regulations.
Result of interviews to the land
owners: identify the community
organization
and
internal
regulations.
25
Are there any barriers relating to
markets, transport and storage to
implement the proposed or considered
project?
¾
¾
¾
¾
Guides and tools (software) for
assessing profitability and market
tendencies
(commercial).
CORMADERA
Assessments
and
studies
related to chain production of
forestry products, advisory task:
CIFOP
Check library of CORPEI:
Market Intelligence System (SIM)
Check with AIMA for further
information.
Revise assessment studies of
CIFOP and ECOCIENCIA
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
26
Do unregulated and informal markets for
timber,
non-timber
products
and
services prevent the transmission of
effective information to proposed or
considered project participants?
¾
27
Do remoteness of A/R activities and
undeveloped road and infrastructure
incur large transportation expenditures,
thus eroding the competitiveness and
profitability of timber and non-timber
products from the proposed or
considered A/R CDM project activity?
Topographic maps including
street
information,
catalogue
1:250.000 – 1:50.000) IGM
¾
Result of interviews to local
stakeholders.
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
28
Are there possibilities of large price risk
due to the fluctuations in the prices of
timber and non-timber products over the
project period in the absence of efficient
markets and insurance mechanisms?
Does absence of facilities to convert,
store and add value to production from
CDM activities limit the possibilities to
capture rents from the land use under
the proposed or considered A/R CDM
project activities?
¾
Check library of CORPEI:
Market Intelligence System (SIM)
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Check library of CORPEI:
Market Intelligence System (SIM)
¾
Check with AIMA for further
information.
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Result of a Feasibility Study to
be conducted by the expected
investors and /or implementers.
Yes □
No □
Yes：there is
additionality
No ： no
additionality
Anual
precipitation
sheet
INAMHI
¾
Overall set of information
sheets regarding meteorological
information INAMHI
¾
Set of maps related to hydric
deficits, drough months, climate
zones
and
mean
annual
precipitation (TM Landsat 5 & 7
1:50.000 (highlands) 1:250.000
(coastal area)) SIG – AGRO
¾
Topographic maps of the
Catalogue 1:50.000 IGM
Yes □
No □
Yes：suitable
No ： not
suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes：suitable
No ： not
suitable
29
30
Is IRR less than xx % without benefit by
CER? (Base of xx% of IRR is that the
discount rate in Ecuador is usually xx%.)
Suitability Part 1 (Natural Condition)
31
Does the land have precipitation more
than xxx mm/year? This depends very
mucho of the used species and even the
sit itself
32
Is altitude of the land less than 3500 m
for northern Ecuador (from Cuenaca
northwards) or less than 3200 m for
southern
Ecuador
(Cuenca
Southwards)?
¾
¾
¾
¾
33
Does the land have higher slope (e.g.
more than 45 degrees)?
¾
34
Is the land suitable for plantation
species to be expected?
¾
¾
¾
¾
¾
¾
35
Is the land flooded annually, in the rainy
season or in some year?
¾
Suitability Part 2 (Socio-economic condition)
36
Is the ownership of the land clarified?
¾
3.7
Are there any land conflicts?
¾
38
Is the land fragmented in very small
properties? (e.g. less than 5 ha per
owner) There is, INDA might have a
general overview of it
¾
39
Is the land
agriculture?
¾
used
for
intensive
¾
40
Is the land categorized in the protection
area stipulated by the Government?
¾
¾
Map of Slopes 2003 (TM
Landsat
5
&
7
1:50.000
(highlands; 1:250.000 coast) SIG
– AGRO
Site
selection
tool
for
Ecuadorian coast. CORMADERA
(CORMADERA has map for
seven (7) species, Swietenia
macrophylla, Cordia alliodora,
Cedrela odorata, Tabebuia rosea,
Ochroma
lagopus,
Tectona
grandis, Gmelina arborea. The
suitability is shown in the grade
from 5 to 1.)
Map
for
mean
annual
precipitation
(1:1´000.000)
SIG-AGRO,
Map of soil types 2003 (TM
Landsat 5 & 7 1:50.000
(highlands) 1:250.000 (coast))
SIG - AGRO
Map of soil fertility 2007 (TM
Landsat 5 & 7 1:250.000) SIG AGRO
Land suitability Model –
ENCOFOR: PROFAFOR
Results of interviews to current
afforestation
activity
implementers
through
some
afforestation organization.
Map of vulnerability and risks
regarding
flooding
2006
(Composed
1:250.000)
SENPLADES
Carry out interviews with land
owners and require official land
titles and inscription into the
registry of ownership
Result of interview to the
landowners and stakeholders in
the region were activities are to
be carried out.
Were land is owned by
communities internal regulations
and bylaws can lead to
fragmentation.
Carry
out
interviews with land owners and
stakeholders.
Land Use/Cover Map 2000: it is
available in SIG-AGRO.
Check ate the site, field
observations.
Map of Protected areas (TM
Landsat 5 & 7, 1:250.000) SIG –
AGRO
Request
for
intersection
certification at the DPCC of the
Ministry of Environment, or local
agencies of the Ministry.
Yes □
No □
Yes ： not
suitable
No：suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes：suitable
No ： not
suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes ： not
suitable
No：suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes：suitable
No ： not
suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes ： not
suitable
No：suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes ： not
suitable
No：suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes ： not
suitable
No：suitable
Yes □
No □
Yes ： not
suitable
No：suitable
Relevant institutions
AIMA- Asociación Ecuatoriana de Industriales de la Madera
Ecuadorian Association of the Timber Industry
Av. República y Amazonas, Edif. Las Cámaras, Piso 7, Quito
(593-2) 454-386/454-391/439 559/ 260 980/ 261 031.
http://www.aima.org.ec/
CLIRSEN - Centros de Levantamientos Integrados de Recursos Naturales por
sensores remotos
Centre of Natural Resources Monitoring by Remote Sensing
Seniergues E4 – 676, Edif. IGM, Quito
(593 – 2) 2543 193
www.clirsen.com
CIFOP - Colegio de Ingenieros Forestales de Pichincha
Association of Forestry Ingenieurs of Pichincha Province
Av. La Coruña N26 - 231, Quito
(593 - 2) 2507 310
www.cifopecuador.org
GTZ - Cooperación técnica alemana
German tecnical cooperation
Av. Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro Edif. MAG Piso 8, Quito
http://www.gtz.de/en/aktuell/629.htm
COMAFORS - Corporación de Manejo Forestal Sustentable
Association for sustainable forest management
Manuel Pumara y Joaquín Paredes 4529, Quito
(593 – 2) 2437366
(593 – 2) 3116614
www.comafors.org/comafors.htm
CORMADERA - Corporación para el Desarrollo Forestal en Ecuador
Corporation for Forest Development in Ecuador
Ignacio San María E3 – 30 y Núñez de Vela Quito,
(593 – 2) 2255 685
www.cormadera.org/index.html
CORPEI - Corporación para la Promoción de la Exportaciones e Inversión
Corporation for Export and Foreign Investment Promotion
Av. Amazonas 4430 y Villalengua,
Edificio Amazonas 100, Piso 8, Quito
(593-2) 2 460606
Cdla. Kennedy Norte,
Avda. Francisco de Orellana y Miguel H. Alcívar,
Edificio Centro Empresarial Las Cámaras,
Torre de Oficinas, 2do piso. Guayaquil
(593-4) 2 681550
http://www.corpei.org/inde.asp?LN=SP
ECOLEX - Corporación de Gestión y Derecho Ambiental
Association for Environmental management and law
Av. Gaspar de Villaroel E4-50 y Amazonas, Quito
(593 – 2)2251 446
(593 – 2) 2245 871
www.ecolex-ec.org/ecolex.htm
Ministerio del Ambiente
Ministry of Environment
Corporación de Promoción del Mecanismo de Desarrollo Limpio - CORDELIM
National CDM Promotion Office
Av. Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro Edif. MAG, Piso 11, Quito
(593 – 2) 2508 510 Ext. 106
Dirección Nacional Forestal – DNF
National Direction of Forestry
Av. Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro Edif. MAG, Piso 8, Quito
(593 – 2) 256 3423/3429/3430/3487 Ext. 21
Dirección Nacional de Prevención y Control de la Contaminación - DPCC
National Direction of Prevention and Control of Contamination
Av. Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro Edif. MAG, Piso 8, Quito
(593 – 2) 256 3423/3429/3430/3487 Ext. 21
www. ambiente.gov.ec
ECOCIENCIA
Investigation
Francisco Salazar E14-34 y Coruña
(593 – 2) 2231 624
INAMHI - Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología
National Meteorology and Hydrology Institute
Iñaquito N36-14 y Corea, Quito
(593 - 2) 3971 100
www.inamhi.gov.ec/html/inicio.htm
IGM - Instituto Geográfico Militar
Military Geographic Institute
Senierges y Gral. Paz y Miño
Sector El Dorado;
Quito, Ecuador
(593 - 2) 2522 296
www.igm.gov.ec
INDA - Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Agrario
National Institute for agricultural development
León Vivar S/N y Carrión, Quito
(593 - 2)2547 771
www.inda.gov.ec
PRAT - Programa para la regularización y administración de tierras rurales
Program for Regularization and Administration of rural land
Av. Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro Edif.. MAG Piso 10, Quito
(593 – 2) 2546 498
PROFAFOR - Programa FACE de Forestación
Face Program for forestation (Forest absorbing Carbon Dioxid Emissions)
Av. Amazonas N33 - 319 y Rumipamba, Quito
(593 - 2) 92257 016
www.profafor.com
SENPLADES - Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo
National Secretariat for Planning and Development
Juan León Mera y Amazonas Edif. CFN, Quito
(593 - 2) 2509 433; 2509 434
http://www.senplades.gov.ec/
SIG – AGRO - Sistema de Información Geográfica del Ministerio de Agricultura y
Ganadería
Centre for GIS of the Ministry of Agriculture
Av. Eloy Alfaro y Amazonas Edif. MAG Piso 5; Quito
(593 - 2) 2554 318
www.mag.gov.ec/sigagro/index.html