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Documentation

Here, you can find all the documentation associated with the Plan Vivo Standard V4.0, its governance, associated approved approaches, and guidance on applying these documents.

The Plan Vivo Standard was updated in 2022. You can view all the latest documentation associated with the Plan Vivo Standard V5.0 here.

It is useful to note that although projects can no certify under V4.0, projects are still operating under V4.0 of the Standard. 

 

Standard and governance

Type Documents
Plan Vivo Standard V4.0
  • Plan Vivo Standard 2013
  • El Estándar Plan Vivo 2013 (Español)
  • Standar Plan Vivo (Bahasa)
Governance V4.0
  • Procedures Manual
  • Manual Prosedur Plan Vivo (Bahasa)
Guidance V4.0
  • Guidance Manual
  • Manual Panduan (Bahasa)
  • Socio-economic Manual
  • Reducing Locally-Driven Deforestation Guidance
  • Climate Benefit Estimation Guidance

 

 

Approved Approaches

For information on Approved Approaches, including what they are and when they can be applied, please see the Approved Approaches page.

Type Documents
Additionality assessment
  • Plan Vivo Additionality Assessment
Assessing risk and quantifying non-permanence buffer allocation
  • Assessing Risk and Setting the Risk Buffer
Estimation of emissions and removals (baseline scenario)
  • Small-Holder Agriculture Monitoring and Baseline Assessment (SHAMBA) (for further support on SHAMBA, see the SHAMBA tool website)
Estimation of emissions and removals (baseline scenario & project intervention)
  • Estimating Reference Emission Levels
Estimation of emissions and removals (Baseline scenario, Project intervention & Leakage)
  • Estimation of Climate benefits from REDD in community-managed forests

 

 

Templates

Type Documents
V4.0 Project documentation
  • Project Idea Note (PIN) template
  • Project Design Document (PDD) template

 

Published: 23rd September, 2020

Updated: 22nd December, 2022

Author: Luke Howard

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