Countries are recognizing the role of local communities in forest monitoring
Data acquired by local communities constitutes an independent data stream for national level monitoring.
CBM data is most important for small-scale forest disturbance activities (i.e., degradation) that are more complicated to observe from other data sources such as remote sensing and professional forest inventory
The linkage between local CBM and national-level efforts requires careful consideration of issues such as exchange of data, data infrastructures, standards and guidelines, capacitydevelopmentandflowofresources
