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Peter Minang
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4 minutes and 26 seconds
Country:
Netherlands
Language:
English
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Instructional
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CTA
Director:
Giacomo Rambaldi
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159
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giacomo on Nov 12, 2009
Peter Minang
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- My name is Peter Minang.
- I am currently a researcher at the International Institute for Geo Information Sciences ...
- ... and Earth Observation in the Netherlands, and a geographer by trade.
- You have been using PGIS practice in the context of carbon, mitigation, ...
- ... and you are also training community members in establishing ...
- ... the necessary monitoring and recording systems.
- In your view, do you think that it is something that can be replicated?
- And if so, do they require external support or can they do it independently?
- I think there are two phases to that.
- First, with regards to the work that we are doing, I would say in terms of replicating ...
- ... the methodology itself, using the equipment, recording, monitoring, measuring, ...
- ... and keeping records of the carbon.
- I think they can do it, because we are giving them an awful lot of training in that respect.
- And they are responding very positively.
- I think even the people we thought would not be able to cope very well, ...
- ... that is the people with very little education, maybe basic education, ...
- ... I think that went quite well.
- But I must also say that there is a minimum of equipment involved in that, ...
- ... because they have to use mobile GIS devices, they need GPSs, ...
- ... they need basic measuring equipment in the forest.
- I think that, for some communities, that may be possible to have, ...
- ... but for others, it may not be possible to have, ...
- ... because all the communities are not the same.
- In that respect, the communities that can afford the equipment may not need that much support, ...
- ... maybe basically looking at more hands on training.
- But for communities that do not have that equipment, ...
- ... I think they will require some support from the outside, ...
- ... in terms of providing that equipment and in terms of perhaps giving them training.
- You have clearly indicated that some of the communities can afford for themselves ...
- ... to get the equipment that they need.
- But what about the communities that will be receiving external support, ...
- ... how do you foresee them managing to continue that program, but independently?
- We thought about that, as well, so we are looking at capacity issues ...
- ... and institutional support.
- We hope that with the institutional support that we are providing as part of our training, ...
- ... they should be able to develop proposals, and to raise funds on their own, ...
- ... and to solicit support from the outside.
- So you have already had measures in place to take care of that?
- Yes, we are doing something about that, as well.
- But in the long run, it depends on how dynamic the communities are.
- But I believe this will still be part of their training, in terms of leaving and how you'll exit, ...
- ... that they can be able to be on their own?
- Yes, sure, sure.
- We are doing capacity building training as well, developing their institutions, ...
- ... looking at possibilities of raising funds for their work.
- In the long run, we hope that they will eventually get money from the Kyoto Protocol, ...
- ... the CDM [clean development mechanism] Project, and then they will be able to recycle that and reinvest that to keep going.
- Educational video produced in the framework of the project: "Support the spread of good practice ...
- ... in generating, managing, analysing and communicating spatial information"


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