Partner with us

Considering a partnership?

Please see the table below regarding advise for different prospective partners. If your partnership type is not covered by the table, and you would like to get in touch, please do so by contacting the Plan Vivo Secretariat.

Partnership type desired	What to do
Registering/certifying a project with Plan Vivo	Please see information on registering a project
Purchasing Plan Vivo Certificates (PVCs) for a client or own benefit	Please see information provided on purchasing carbon credits and acquiring a Markit account. For further information, please contact the Plan Vivo Secretariat
Partnering with a specific project, whether for research, funding opportunities or purchasing of PVCs	Please contact the project coordinator directly. If the project is already registered, you can find the coordinator details on the project's page (you can consult our full list of registered projects if unsure as to its location). If the project is not yet registered but in the pipeline, you can find the coordinator information in the relevant Project Idea Note (PIN) within the Plan Vivo pipeline. If necessary, please contact the Plan Vivo Secretariat for assistance.
Research or offering technological solutions	Overarching themes that Plan Vivo encourages research within include: Supporting community-based natural resource management projects in developing and implementing participatory land-use plans and equitable benefit-sharing. Technological solutions to monitoring, climate benefit estimation and/or auditing. Securing land tenure rights for rural communities. Protecting native forest and reducing deforestation, conserving habitat for fauna and flora, strengthening the climate services and the resilience of local ecosystems. Channelling finance to vulnerable communities threatened by climate change, diversifying incomes and contributing to poverty alleviation. If interested, please contact the Plan Vivo Secretariat directly
Potential for funding opportunities with the Plan Vivo Foundation	Please contact the Plan Vivo Secretariat directly

Previous and current partnerships

Since the inception of the Plan Vivo concept in 1994, Plan Vivo has grown with the help of external partners. These partnerships have been with a variety of sector actors including, but not limited to, CGIAR, Fauna and Flora International (FFI), the Darwin Initiative, Ecometrica, the Clinton Foundation, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Leicester, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Waterloo Foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group (TLLG), Ecosystems to Support Poverty Alleviation (ESPA), the International Platform for Insetting (IPI), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), AMBIO, Taking Root, and ECOTRUST.

Some partnership projects of particular note include:

Partner	Project	Objective
The Darwin Initiative	Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration	Led by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), in consortium with Plan Vivo, Ecosia, 1T.org, Traffic, SER, and ICRAF. This project focuses on 'Developing a Global Biodiversity Standard certification for tree-planting and restoration'. Participating in this initiative will enable Plan Vivo projects to access local biodiversity and assessment expertise, eco-regionally relevant and accessible methodologies, and significantly bring down the cost of designing and monitoring positive biodiversity impact.
The Darwin Initiative	Forest restoration in Indonesia: Enhancing the benefits for biodiversity and people	Led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) together with DICE and in-country partners KKI Warsi and FFI. This initiative focuses on 'Forest restoration in Indonesia: Enhancing the benefits for biodiversity and people'. This project will co-produce and apply planning tools and a foster strategic approach to forest restoration.
Montpelier Foundation	Scaling with Care	Plan Vivo has collaborated with the Montpelier Foundation, which will support our 'Scaling with Care' approach. This partnership will support to scale-up small holder and community projects (by increasing volumes of PVCs issued) whilst strengthening our community-focused approach. The key focus of this work will be strengthening our regional presence, initially in Africa and Latin America, and the development of a project management platform to improve the efficiency of the certification process.
Trafigura Foundation	Several projects	Our partnership with the Trafigura Foundation is helping us pilot solutions to bring down the barriers limiting community participation in and remuneration through carbon finance. This includes developing standardised monitoring methodologies and tools that are appropriate, accessible, and cost-efficient for community stakeholders, as well as boosting the expertise available in the Global South to “validate and verify” carbon emission reduction projects. We are also developing up-front resources needed to help Plan Vivo establish a ‘Project Incubator Hub’ for nascent projects. Most recently, Trafigura supported the development of our comprehensive Projects Map. More information on this partnership is available here.
Clifford Chance	Legal and Advisory Services	This partnership began following our win of the inaugural Clifford Chance Sustainable Development Goal Award in 2021. Clifford Chance now provide pro-bono legal and advisory services to the Plan Vivo Foundation. They are also working closely with us to scope out Article 6 and what this means for the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). Read their collaborative report: 'Enabling the Voluntary Carbon Market in the context of the Paris Agreement' here.
Ecometrica	Forests2020	Scoping the feasibility of a transparency platform/ recognition tool for smallholder tree planting and restoration activities. See page 7 of the 2019 Stakeholder Meeting report for further information.
University of Edinburgh, TLLG (formerly BioClimate), CCAFS, ESPA and IFAD	The Small-Holder Agriculture Monitoring and Baseline Assessment (SHAMBA) tool	A project to create a system that could help quantify soil carbon benefits from smallholder crop systems (woody or non woody, perennial or annual) without the need for invasive soil measurements to be taken. For more information, please visit the SHAMBA tool website
IIED	Several projects	Plan Vivo and IIED have collaborated on several research projects including co-benefits and ‘Guidelines and lessons from smallholder and community carbon projects’.
The Waterloo Founudation	Building pro-poor, community-based forest conservation tools	Resulted in the publications of various policy briefs, institutional development and stakeholder engagement around the creation of community-based conservation tools.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation	Plan Vivo Insetting Research Project	Advance research into insetting, with an event to publicise results and findings. Plan Vivo has partnered with PurProject to further research into this subject by launching the International Platform on Insetting (IPI). For more information, please watch the insetting gathers momentum video