4. EDUCATION
Educating the client
Long lead time
Educating Govt departments
on carbon offsetting
Pioneering - No Govt policy
Speaking Swahili
5. DOCUMENTATION
Translation (500 pages)
Removal of key sentences from
our documentation
Procedures
Story changing
Satellite imagery
6. PARTNERS
Sourcing the right partners
FORRU, DNP
Go to ground first
bottom up approach
Corruption
Going it alone takes a lead time
of around 2-3 years
Government department acts as
Project Lead 18 months
7. SOURCING LAND
Sourcing the land
Costs – high ($20k Ha – without
land title)
Difficult locations
Accreditations Criteria
Teak plantations
Land Sizes
Ask for 500 Rai you get 500 Rai
lost in translation?
8. RECRUITMENT
Getting the team in place
Signing contract to getting project
started
Sourcing skilled forestry staff proving
difficult
Lack of forestry personnel - only 274
forestry students from Kasetsart
University
Villagers difficult to recruit in fruit
harvesting season
9. LOGISTICS
Equipment
Storage
Seedlings
10,000 a day from nursery
Villagers
Door to Door service!
Walk up the hill……..
Bathrooms
10. WEATHER …. FLOODING
Adverse climate conditions
(persistent rainfall)
Access to Areas
Flooding of roads restricted
area access (Mae Wa)
Bridge taken out (Doi Pa Ma)
15. VILLAGERS…. ISSUES &CONFLICTS
Payments
No ATM – Cash!
Working with hill tribe
groups
Lack of lead time to
conduct Participatory
Resource Assessments
(PRA)
Knife threats
Threats to take out the
bridge
Threats to burn down the
site
17. THANK YOU
ANDREW G . STEEL
Chief Executive Officer
The TREEDOM Group
andrew.steel@treedom.biz
Notes de l'éditeur
Promote Networking Event – Asia Renewable Resources Fund
2 Minute Video clip
Government bureaucracy (its not like building a hotel)
– proposal for each planting site – permission and letters to access data
Corruption (upfront 3 land rover discoveries)we achieved itin 4 months
– doesn’t necessarily mean its all useable - Land – map it yourself
450 Baht we had budget above minimum govt wage
Images – maybe elephant use elephants (NO GOOD)
Rain good for trees - show video if possible
Insert video possibly?
Generally supportive of project – Harmony affitnity to the project bridge repair
24 hour watch to prevent damage by cattle & elephants after we had planted even though had discussed with villagers prior
Cash has to be on site every day (security) – Lahu/Mon/Musa /Bridge – nature did that for them - as work finished, local people did not want to lose salaries - Drugs - Everyone carrying guns