Reading guide for MRV partners
You observe trees at the declared horizons, record care, and review what others recorded. Read these pages first.
- Monitoring and verification. A monitoring visit records one observation per tree it reaches, with condition, care, evidence and the offset from planting; a tree not reached is recorded as unobserved, never as dead (step). Record what you see even when the plan did not schedule it: an observation at a horizon the monitoring period does not reach is kept and marked unscheduled, never refused (check), and so is one of an unmonitored or delivered-only tree or outside the horizon’s window (definition). The step detail lists every question on the monitoring form.
- Reviewing. A verification reviewer meets the knowledge requirements of the applied methodology and is not the observer (check); see the review requirements on the monitoring page. A safeguard reviewer is qualified in grassland and wetland ecology and is not the assessor (check); see the review requirements on the site assessment page. Plan your team so that the people who review are not the people who observed.
- Stewardship. Care is recorded to the evidence bar of the person’s role: a fieldworker or supervisor needs an anchored, geotagged photograph, a steward or owner needs none (check). The next observation of each cared-for tree confirms the care, or the record is marked as an unverified self-report (check).
- Glossary. The terms your records and reports should use, and the ones to avoid.