What can be claimed, by stratum and horizon
A cell lists the indicators claimable for trees in that stratum at that observation horizon. Output indicators carry no horizon. A number in a cell refers to the rule under the table that it follows.
Which strata an indicator appears under follows the stratum axis of the indicator’s data structure: the strata that axis allows, or every stratum where it names none.
Claims not broken down by stratum
These indicators have no stratum axis in their data structure, so the table does not place them in a row.
- Attendees at environmental education sessions (count)
- Canopy cover change at site (square metres), from T4 two to three years
- Ecological appropriateness rate (percent)
- Households sharing or selling fruit (count), from T3 one year
- Households that received trees (count)
- Households with a living tree (count), from T2 early establishment
- Knowledge score change per education session (difference of means)
- Planting rate (percent)
- Plantings withheld on ecological grounds (count)
- Record-completeness rate of planting records (percent)
- Shade area of living trees (square metres), from T4 two to three years
- Sites assessed with a suitability determination (count)
- Stewards practising a taught skill (percent)
- Trees bearing fruit in the recent season (count), from T3 one year
- Trees delivered and acknowledged (count)
- Trees lost in delivery (count)
Rules from the project design shapes
- An outcome-level or impact-level indicator may be targeted only when a monitored stratum, planted with monitoring or delivered with monitoring, that the indicator’s data structure admits has an indicative count above zero: a delivery-only project cannot design for survival or its consequences, nor a planting-only one for the uptake of handed-over trees (ADR-0003, ADR-0012, ADR-0031).
- An indicator with an earliest horizon may be targeted only if the monitoring plan reaches that horizon, or a later one, for some stratum: a design cannot promise establishment, shade or carbon inside a period that never gets there (ADR-0012).
- No horizon is planned for the delivered-only stratum: a delivered-only tree supports output claims only (ADR-0003, ADR-0012).
Strata
- Planted with monitoring: Planted by the implementing partner with monitoring visits planned at declared horizons. With delivered with monitoring, one of the two strata that support outcome and impact claims.
- Delivered with monitoring: Handed over in a consignment at a site the office designated delivered with monitoring, typically a household stand visited within days of handover, and monitored at the horizons the plan reaches. Supports outcome and impact claims as planted with monitoring does; its anchor is the handover date, never a reported planting date, and its frame the trees the recipient acknowledged (ADR-0031).
- Delivered only: Handed over in a consignment and not planted by the implementing partner, with no monitoring planned. Supports output claims only.
- Planted without monitoring: Planted by the implementing partner with no monitoring visits planned. Supports output claims; later horizons are unobserved.
Horizons
- T0 baseline: Before or at the anchor event: the site or tree as found before planting.
- T0+ post-handover check: A planting check 1 to 14 days after the anchor, for a handed-over tree the handover date: whether the handed-over tree has been planted, and where; not a survival horizon (ADR-0031).
- T1 four weeks: The end of the first four weeks after planting, 21 to 28 days. An observation inside the first three weeks is unscheduled (ADR-0020).
- T2 early establishment: About three months after planting. A common contract horizon for early establishment.
- T3 one year: About one year after planting; the horizon at which establishment is judged.
- T4 two to three years: Two to three years after planting; canopy and shade become measurable.
- T5 five years and beyond: Five years or more after planting; no upper bound.