Participatory Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+: Learning from Tanzania

Table 5

Percent of participants who were able to do various steps for carbon assessment.

No.	Steps for carbon assessment	Participants percent
		Mihumo	Ngongowele	Ngunja
1.0	Stratification
1.1	Identifying different vegetation type	90	75	85
1.2	Marking vegetation type/stratum boundary with GPS	40	30	35
1.3	GIS process to produce forest map and its strata.	None	None	None
2	Piloting for determining sample size
2.1	Taking basal area measurements using relascope	85	75	80
2.1	Calculating sample size from the collected data	None	None	None
3.0	Locating permanent sample plots on the map
3.1	Determining distance between transects and sample plots.	None	None	None
3.2	Locating transect line and sample plots on the map	None	None	None
4.0	Locating permanent sample plots on the ground
4.1	Navigating through transect line with GPS in the forest	45	35	40
4.2	Marking permanent sample plots on the ground using GPS	70	60	65
4.3	Establishment of permanent plot on the ground	100	100	100
5.0	Measurements taken from permanent sample plots
5.1	Measuring tree DBH using caliper	95	85	95
5.2	Measuring tree height using hypsometer	38	25	38
5.3	Tree identification in local name	100	100	100
6	Calculating carbon stock from the collected data	None	None	None