Sustainable forestry Hub Cambodia

[IMPACT]

The proposed intervention of the Cardano Community Hub initiative is expected to impact on the social and environmental conditions of the people of Cambodia, in the short and long run.

This may be effective, as it comes as novelty in project initiative and contributes to the number of proposals and projects emanating from East Asia under project catalyst.

The intended audience for project “Community Hub - Sustainable forestry in Cambodia” is majorly the government that gives approval for land operations. Other stakeholders in the project are established and are expected to make gains from the Floresta Tree Note (FTN), which provide profitable functional solutions in the following: financial, social, environmental, and CO2 offset.

The functional solutions by implication allows stakeholders to achieve profitability by doing good.

In coordination with https://gerolamo.org/ and https://cardanocommunityhubs.com/ we will strive to introduce benefits of a Cardano Community Hub into the forest Ecosystem of this project.

Create a Cardano Community Hub within the local communities to support the larger project.

Leading by example in the Asia regions we will encourage the growth in the number of Cardano Community Hubs.

The challenge before Cardano Community Hub in Cambodia should continue as part of global remedy issues inherent in unsustainable practices.

Therefore, functional areas of solutions as encapsulated in financial, environmental, social and CO2 offset, is further broken down into forecast of initial investment per project leg, which consist of the following: equipment 49%, infrastructure 8%, planting 25%, vehicles 5%, land preparation 12%, and manpower 1%.

The impacts of the subsets above will help in enhancing the position of stakeholders in Cambodia in terms of improving their engagement and living standards.

Some of the key performance indicators to be expected here will include: increased demand for Teak wood resulting in financial sustainability, CO2 emission mitigation, increase in profitability and financial stability, and the restoration of the natural ecosystem (an expected outcome of COP26.

Addressing specific KPIs with regard to focused initiative in Cambodia, the following may be considered vital: increasing participation of Asian residents in Cardano Community and catalyst teams, increasing the number of stake pool and stake pool operators East Asia, and capturing feedbacks on the success or challenges of deploying Cardano solutions across East Asia. 

Expected challenges in view of the project may include but not exhaustive due to possible dynamics in most developing countries: possible attacks from unfavorable legislations from government, driving adoption and awareness of Cardano by local community, creating customized ideas and projects for Cambodia, that is different from others, how to achieve connections and collaborations between the Cardano block-chain in the next six month.

In order to defray risks mentioned above, the catalyst team should be able to show through the Floresta Tree Note (NFTs), the capacity mitigate risks that may arise.

[FEASIBILITY]

This project is ideal to seed the growth of Cardano Community Hubs in Asia, specifically:

1. The number of proposals originating from East Asian participants in Project Catalyst
2. The quantity and quality of funded proposals originating from East Asian teams.
3. The observed impact of funded projects (meeting their KPIs).
4. Did we increase the participation of the Cardano community and Catalyst teams with East Asian residents?
5. Was there an increase in Daily/Monthly Active Wallets (DAW/MAW) as a proxy measure of momentum and engagement
6. Did we increase the number of Stake Pools and Stake Pool Operators based in East Asia?
7. We will also be asking some specific questions about the quality of the proposals:
8. Is there good feedback on funded project progress, failure or success, that help us understand the nuances of deploying Cardano solutions across East Asia?
9. What is the novelty and appropriateness of solutions?
10. Are we on track to improve the lives of people using Cardano in East Asia?

You can follow the following link to see a breakdown of the requested budget:

https://gerolamo.org/our-projects/fund-8-proposals-and-data

Moran Hadad - President & Founder

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moran-hadad/

Vladimir Seguin - Monaco Director

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimirseguin/

Guy Yogev - Field Operations Director

Annie-Gouba-Guibal - Executive Director

Professor Oded Shoseyov - Lead Scientific Advisor

Rhadames Killy - Lead Legal Advisor

Christian Balende - Strategic Advisor

Uria Casuto - On-Site Agronomist

Yotam Gross - Field Manager Cambodia

To see more information: http://florestaproject.com/team

[AUDITABILITY]

A broad spectrum of people across Asia and connected to Asia, coming together and forming teams to grow the Cardano ecosystem.

The number of Cardano Community Hubs financed by viable and profitable projects and business activities.

The overarching aim of the Cardano Community Hub innovation around the world would be see the achievement of a sustainable practice of CO2 mitigation and reforestation coupled with sustainable logging.

Success for Community Hub - Sustainable forestry in Cambodia will be seen in the financial innovation of Floresta Tree Note “Making money for doing good”.

This is a continuation of our funded F7: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs Cardano Worldwide Community Hubs: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/383417 although it is not dependent on it.

The objective is to attract and onboard people to create Cardano Community Hubs in Asia.

For updates and additional information: https://gerolamo.org/our-projects/fund-8-proposals-and-data

SDG Rating

1 No Poverty

6 Clean Water & Sanitation

8 Decent work and economic growth

15 Life on Land

17 Partnership for Goals