WithOneSeed Community Forest Programme, Timor-Leste

Audit Analysis

This is a removal project with some positive integrity signals, including VVB-confirmed additionality, a 20% buffer pool, and documented safeguards such as FPIC and a grievance mechanism. However, reversal risk is explicitly noted, leakage treatment is not addressed, and the record contains a material crediting-period contradiction that weakens confidence in the documentation and claim safety.

Project Description

The WithOneSeed Programme in Baguia, Timor-Leste Simplicity WithOneSeed brings together nearly 1,000 smallholder subsistence farmers to grow a mosaic of community forests across deforested and degraded landscapes. On their own, smallholder farmers cannot access global carbon markets. The WithOneSeed model changes this by democratising participation. We support farmers to plant and care for trees on their own land, while combining these individual efforts into a single, community-based forest network. Each farmer owns the trees they plant and receives an annual incentive payment for every tree that survives. Collectively, these trees form new forests that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, creating verified carbon credits that return both economic and environmental benefits to local communities. WithOneSeed is built on one simple idea: when communities grow trees together, they grow opportunity.   Transparency/Integrity Working with communities requires deep trust and high transparency, both of which are essential for building strong, inclusive local economies. The WithOneSeed model is not just about planting trees; it’s about nurturing a sustainable ecosystem that benefits the environment and communities. A cornerstone of this model's success is the TreeO2 d-MRV platform, an innovative digital system developed by xpand Foundation and the Baguia community to enhance transparency and accountability in community forestry. TreeO2 combines a smartphone app, web-based platform, and RFID tagging system to create a seamless digital chain of evidence. Each tree planted is tagged with a unique RFID chip, and each farmer is issued a TreeO2 membership card linking their personal ID to every tree they care for. This integrated system enables the secure collection and storage of data such as: GPS coordinates Tree growth and circumference measurements Carbon storage calculations Farmer incent

Red Flags

• ⚠ Reversal risk is explicitly described in the verification report, and the project is not reversal-free.
• ⚠ Leakage is not addressed, with no quantified deduction or clear justification in the extracted record.
• ⚠ The crediting period differs between the monitoring report and the PDD, indicating a documentation inconsistency.
• ⚠ Leakage not addressed in project documentation

Credit Vintages

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• Publish a clear leakage assessment with either a quantified deduction or a documented justification for why leakage is negligible.
• Resolve the crediting-period discrepancy and provide a complete, readable monitoring package with verified and claimed ER totals.

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