The Cost of Managing Forest Carbon under REDD+ Initiatives: A Case of Kolo Hills Forests in Kondoa District, Dodoma, Tanzania
Table 1
Activities and their associated cost incurred by community in managing the ARKFor pilot project.
Routine and nonroutine activities
Estimated days and costs
Frequency
Per day ($US)
Number of days per month
Number of days per year
Costs ($US)
Routine activities
Tree planting
29
3.33*
—
1
96.57
Forest patrolling
29
3.33*
15
180
17,382.60
Forest boundary making
25
3.33*
—
1
83.25
Land use planning
21
3.33*
—
5
349.65
Attending seminar
25
3.33*
—
5
416.25
Selected as a focal farmer
12
3.33*
5
60
2397.60
Making server stoves
12
3.33*
5
60
2397.60
Conducting beekeeping activities
14
3.33*
15
210
9790.20
Nonroutine activities
Attending the village meeting
31
3.33*
—
2
206.46
Forest fire protection
26
3.33*
—
15
1298.70
Demarcating forest boundary
22
3.33*
—
1
73.26
Preventing keeping and livestock in the forest
25
3.33*
—
15
1248.75
Total
35,667.63
Source: field data.
*Pay per day was equivalent to $3.3 when an exchange rate of $1 was equal to 1500Tsh that depends on the prevailing average farm labours in the study site.