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9. Summary of Offset Process Costs
The Ambatovy Project BBOP programme component is part of the Project’s Biodiversity Programme (itself
part of the Environmental Programme). Specific activities are designed, budgeted and implemented. Offset
design and early implementation cost estimates are presented in Table 9.
Table 9: Summary of estimated costs
Human resources
Staff
Tasks
Costs (man
days per
annum*)
Cost for 2008,
2009 (USD)
Project focal point :
Pierre Berner (Ambatovy
Project Environmental
Director)
1 Ensure communication / meetings (international)
with BBOP committee and management of
overall Ambatovy BBOP programme.
24
Superintendent
responsible for Ankerana
site: monsieur Alphonse
(Ambatovy Project)
1 Ankerana off-site offset management.
Spearheading legal protection status programme
with governmental and local
STAKEHOLDERS
.
Supervising financial arrangements for
programme’s long term viability.
36
Superintendent
responsible for Special
Programs: Irene Daso
(Ambatovy Project)
1 Support Project focal point. Liaising with local
and international stakeholders (e.g. CI).
12
Environmental
Coordinator for Ankerana
(Sylvain Be Totozafy)
1 Ensuring local stakeholder involvement.
Supervising Ankerana zoning (core / buffer /
inhabited areas). Awareness campaigns.
132
Technical support team
Ankerana management:
Environmental Forest
Technician (to be filled)
Environmental
Community Agent (to be
filled)
Guest house manager
(to be filled)
3 Ankerana Forest and community management.
264
(currently
one staff
member)
BBOP programme
management: Steven
Dickinson (Golder
Associates)
1 Managing overall BBOP design, including
benchmark / loss / gain calculations.
36
BBOP design ecological
assessment: Aristide
Andrianarimisa (WCS)
1 Conducting benchmark / loss / gains calculations
and overall ecological assessments.
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