PrintThe Plan Vivo Foundation Technical Advisory Panel will be launched in April 2010, and you are invited to submit your nominations and applications to join the Panel.

The Plan Vivo Foundation is the governing body for the Plan Vivo Standard, a standard designed for ecosystem service payment projects, principally carbon based, which are targeted at improving the living standards and land management practices of the rural poor in developing countries (see www.planvivo.org for more information). The Plan Vivo Standard includes robust and practical technical requirements for quantifying and monitoring ecosystem services, underpinned by tools and guidance to facilitate effective, long-term, and scalable projects and programmes.

The Technical Advisory Panel will be composed of experts in community forest management, quantification and assessment of carbon sequestration and storage and other ecosystem services, and development of rural livelihoods. The panel will provide elements of quality control in the application of the Plan Vivo System, and contribute to the ongoing development of the Plan Vivo Standard.
Specific functions of the panel are to:

• Peer review technical documents from existing and potential Plan Vivo projects
• Provide recommendations on technical requirements in the Plan Vivo Standard and how they should be applied in practice
• Contribute to the development of tools and methodologies to support Plan Vivo projects

Members of the Technical Advisory Panel will be invited to participate in the peer review of technical project documents that correspond to their area of expertise, to attend an annual meeting where any non-urgent issues arising will be discussed, and to provide recommendations on technical issues as they arise.

The Plan Vivo Foundation is a charitable body, and aims to ensure that maximum benefits reach the communities supported by Plan Vivo projects. Our capacity to remunerate members of the Technical Advisory Panel is therefore limited, although nominal payments for reviews and reasonable expenses will be available.

If you would like to be considered for a place on the Technical Advisory Panel, or if you would like to recommend someone who you think might be suitable, please forward a full CV to nicholas.berry@ecometrica.co.uk before March 12th 2010.