From time to time, guidance is issued to supplement the CCB Program’s rules and requirements. The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance and its member organizations have developed documents that provide recommendations and examples to support the use of the CCB Standards.
Guidance
Issued: May 2014
Co-authored by Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance and the Rainforest Alliance, this Guidance for the Use of the CCB Standards provides explanations of key concepts and requirements that will be helpful for project proponents, auditors and any users of the CCB Standards Third Edition.
© Conservation International and Rainforest Alliance
Social and Biodiversity Impact Assessment Manual for REDD+ Projects
Issued: September 2011
The main objective of this manual is to help project proponents implement cost-effective social and biodiversity impact assessments to meet the CCB or other standards and, in so doing, make the projects more successful and sustainable.
© Conservation International and Forest Trends Association
Issued: September 2011
The Social Impact Assessment Toolbox introduces a range of social impact assessment (SIA) methods with the aim of helping project proponents decide which ones to use.
Issued: September 2011
The aim of this toolbox is to provide guidance for project developers on each of the biodiversity-related criteria required for certification under the CCB Standards.
© Conservation International and Forest Trends Association
Guidance About High Conservation Values
CCB projects must evaluate whether their project zone contains High Conservation Values (HCVs) and make efforts to enhance them over the project’s lifetime. Guidance below from the HCV Network enables projects to identify, manage, and monitor HCVs in their project zone. It also provides guidance to VVBs on assessing the identification, management, and monitoring of HCVs.
A good practice guide for identifying High Conservation Values (HCVs) across different ecosystems and production systems developed by the HCV Network.
Common Guidance for the Identification of HCV (opens in HCV Network website)
A good practice guide for the adaptive management of HCVs developed by the HCV Network. This document provides general guidance for the management and monitoring of HCVs. The primary audiences for this document are resource managers and HCV assessors. VVBs could also find the guidance useful.
Common Guidance for the Management and Monitoring of HCV (opens in HCV Network website)
This manual is intended for VVB to aid in the assessment of HCV identification, management, and monitoring.
HCV Assessment Manual (opens in HCV Network website)
This document describes a methodology called High Conservation Value (HCV) screening. HCV screening is a desktop exercise that uses the six HCV definitions to characterize the environmental and social aspects of a landscape or jurisdiction.
HCV Screening Guide (opens in HCV Network website)
A simple and user-friendly tool for assessing and monitoring biodiversity conditions in forests and forest remnants developed by the High Conservation Value Resource Network (HCVRN) with support from WWF.
Forest Integrity Assessment Tool (FIAT) Manual (opens in HCV Network website)