Project Siting Structures on TerraMatch

This article explains the different project structures your TerraFund project may fall into, based on the proximity and size of your restoration areas. The sites you create on TerraMatch represent your restoration areas on the ground, you will report on progress at each site every 6 months.

Overview

Project types 

Overview

 

Project Types

Your project will fall into one of three structures, depending on the number and size of your restoration areas:

Concentrated projects have fewer, larger contiguous restoration areas where planting (or non-planting interventions) occurs in a consistent manner. Examples of concentrated restoration areas include parcels of gazetted forest designated for restoration by the government, blocks of land owned by your organization, or larger patches of community land. Your project is probably a concentrated project if you are working with fewer than about 50 restoration areas, and the average size of the plot you are restoring is larger than 3 hectares.

Distributed projects have more, smaller restoration areas. Each restoration area typically belongs to an individual landholder (smallholder farmer). An example is a project distributing seedlings to many smallholder farmers for agroforestry. Your project is probably a distributed project if you are working with more than about 50 restoration areas, and the average size of each plot you’re restoring is 3 hectares or smaller.

Hybrid projects are those with restoration areas that would fall into both the concentrated and distributed categories. (For example, a project that is mostly distributing seedlings to individual farmers in five villages but is also working with the community to restore twenty hectares of a degraded community forest.) If your project falls into this category, you must create separate sites for your concentrated and distributed restoration areas. You may create one or multiple concentrated and distributed sites, based on how many locations you’re working in.

 

To learn more about how to set up your site profiles on TerraMatch, please review this article: How to create a TerraFund project site.