| This thesis evaluates the viability of creating a national service corps in Indonesia, called a Forest Conservation Corps (FCC), to carry out the monitoring that will be necessary to fulfill the requirements of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), a proposed global forest carbon emissions reduction strategy. The FCC is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a national work-relief program in the United States that lasted from 1933--42. A qualitative analysis examined the activities of four REDD+ pilot initiatives: the UN-REDD Programme, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, the Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership, and the Norway-Indonesia REDD Partnership. The results of the analysis together with the evaluation of the CCC form the basis of the FCC model, which was designed to achieve two main goals: (1) build measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) capacity within Indonesia and (2) carry out MRV that complies with global carbon emissions reduction treaties. |
