| Activity Process | Job | Task | Stakeholder |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.1. Develop Comfort Level | 1.1.1. Visit running CDM Project & Learn from Experienced Stakeholders | NGO Leadership |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.1. Develop Comfort Level | 1.1.2. Explain Implications in Dealing with Commercial Moneys | FCN Convenor |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.1. Develop Comfort Level | 1.1.3. Explain Process, Cost & Timeframe to Develop a CDM Project | Tech Team |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.1. Develop Comfort Level | 1.1.4. Discuss Implementation & Monitoring Commitments in a Participatory Workshop with all NGO Staff | CDM Preparation Team |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.2. Assess Capacity | 1.2.1. Study Organisational Structure and Assess Implementation Capacity | Tech Team |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.2. Assess Capacity | 1.2.2. Assess Staying Capacity and Intimacy with Communities | Tech Team |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.2. Assess Capacity | 1.2.3. Share Findings with the NGO Leadership | FCN Convenor |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.3. Decide to Undertake CDM | 1.3.1. Pass Board Resolution to Undertake CDM Project | Project Proponent |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.3. Decide to Undertake CDM | 1.3.2. Assemble a CDM Preparation Team & Appoint Contact Person | Project Proponent |
| 1. Deciding to Undertake CDM | 1.3. Decide to Undertake CDM | 1.3.3. Sign Service Contract with the FCN Tech Team | Project Proponent |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.1. Identify Technologies | 2.1.1. Make Windscreen Survey of Project Area & Interact with Communities | Tech Team |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.1. Identify Technologies | 2.1.2. Suggest & Explain Possible Technologies | Tech Team |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.1. Identify Technologies | 2.1.3. Determine Feasibility of Technology vis-à-vis Resource Avaibility & Absorbtion Capacity | NGO Leadership |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.2. Choose Methodology | 2.2.1. Scan CDM Methodologies for Identified Technologies | Tech Team |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.2. Choose Methodology | 2.2.2. Determine the baseline scenario in the project area | Tech Team |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.2. Choose Methodology | 2.2.3. Determine if Baseline Satisfies Applicability Criteria of the Methodology | Tech Team |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.2. Choose Methodology | 2.2.4. Calculate Approximate Scale of Project Activity | Tech Team |
| 2. Selecting CDM Project | 2.3. Decide Project Boundary | 2.3.1. Decide on Geographic Boundary & Scale of Project Activity | Project Proponent |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.1. Design Questionnaire | 3.1.1. Design Preliminary Questionnaire | Tech Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.1. Design Questionnaire | 3.1.2. Translate to Local Language | CDM Preparation Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.1. Design Questionnaire | 3.1.3. Administer the Questionnaire to about 50 Households | CDM Preparation Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.1. Design Questionnaire | 3.1.4. Enter data in Microsoft Excel | CDM Preparation Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.1. Design Questionnaire | 3.1.5. Analyse the Data | Tech Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.1. Design Questionnaire | 3.1.6. Make Changes to Questionnaire if needed | Tech Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.1. Design Questionnaire | 3.1.7. Print the Survey Sheets | CDM Preparation Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.2. Obtain Monitoring Solution | 3.2.1. Negotiate with Tristle Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Project Proponent |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.2. Obtain Monitoring Solution | 3.2.2. Create Customised Monitoring Solution for Chosen Technology & Methodology | Tristle |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.3. Collect Demographic Data | 3.3.1. Collect Household Data | CDM Preparation Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.3. Collect Demographic Data | 3.3.2. Enter Data into the Module & Retain Survey Sheets till Validation | CDM Preparation Team |
| 3. Collecting Demographic Data | 3.3. Collect Demographic Data | 3.3.3. Analyse Data for PDD | CDM Preparation Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.1. Scan Literature | 4.1.1. Refer Scientific Literature, Reports, Working Papers, etc. | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.1. Scan Literature | 4.1.2. Introduce Tech Team Members to District Officiala | Project Proponent |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.1. Scan Literature | 4.1.3. Collect District Level Statistics | Project Proponent & Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.2. Design Sample Survey Format | 4.2.1. Design Test Questionnaire | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.2. Design Sample Survey Format | 4.2.2. Translate into Local Language | CDM Preparation Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.2. Design Sample Survey Format | 4.2.3. Field test in 50 households | CDM Preparation Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.2. Design Sample Survey Format | 4.2.4. Make changes in questionnaire if required | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.2. Design Sample Survey Format | 4.2.5. Enter data in Microsoft Excel sheet | CDM Preparation Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.2. Design Sample Survey Format | 4.2.6. Analyse the data | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.2. Design Sample Survey Format | 4.2.7. Re-design and Finalise Questionnaire if required | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.3. Conduct Baseline Survey(s) | 4.3.1. Prepare Sampling Plan Document with detailed Instructions | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.3. Conduct Baseline Survey(s) | 4.3.2. Determine Sample Size for Baseline Survey | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.3. Conduct Baseline Survey(s) | 4.3.3. Collect Household Data using the Finalised Format & Procedure | CDM Preparation Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.3. Conduct Baseline Survey(s) | 4.3.4. Enter data in Microsoft Excel sheet | CDM Preparation Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.4. Calculate expected CERs for the Project | 4.4.1. Analyse Baseline Data for PDD | Tech Team |
| 4. Determining Baseline (PDD) | 4.4. Calculate expected CERs for the Project | 4.4.2. Calculate the emission reduction potential for the project activity | Tech Team |
| 5. Assessing Project Financials (PDD) | 5.1. Conduct Background Research | 5.1.1. Study Requirements for the Technology | CDM Preparation Team |
| 5. Assessing Project Financials (PDD) | 5.1. Conduct Background Research | 5.1.2. Identify Sources, Suppliers & Obtain Quotations | CDM Preparation Team |
| 5. Assessing Project Financials (PDD) | 5.2. Assess the Financials of the project | 5.2.1. Assess Financial Viability of the Project | Project Proponent |
| 5. Assessing Project Financials (PDD) | 5.2. Assess the Financials of the project | 5.2.2. Determine Financing Mechanism for the CDM Project | Project Proponent |
| 5. Assessing Project Financials (PDD) | 5.2. Assess the Financials of the project | 5.2.3. Determine End User Contribution to Costing | Project Proponent |
| 5. Assessing Project Financials (PDD) | 5.2. Assess the Financials of the project | 5.2.4. Spell out the Carbon Revenue Sharing Agreement | Project Proponent |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.1. Determine Monitoring Parameters | 6.1.1. List Monitoring Parameters | Tech Team |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.1. Determine Monitoring Parameters | 6.1.2. Determine Monitoring Frequency for these Parameters | Tech Team |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.1. Determine Monitoring Parameters | 6.1.3. Determine Monitoring Duration of Project Activity | Tech Team |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.1. Determine Monitoring Parameters | 6.1.4. Determine Maintainence & Servicing Mechanism of the Technology | CDM Preparation Team |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.2. Institutional Structure for Monitoring | 6.2.1. Describe Institutional Structure of NGO | Project Proponent |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.2. Institutional Structure for Monitoring | 6.2.2. Describe Management Plan for Monitoring | Project Proponent |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.2. Institutional Structure for Monitoring | 6.2.3. Describe Roles & Responsibilities of Monitoring Team | Project Proponent |
| 6. Developing Monitoring Plan (PDD) | 6.2. Institutional Structure for Monitoring | 6.2.4. Recheck and Introduce Monitoring Parameters into the digitized Monitoring Solution after Validation | Tristle |
| 7. Determining Technology (PDD) | 7.1. Detail the Technology | 7.1.1. Describe Details of Chosen Technology | Project Proponent & Tech Team |
| 7. Determining Technology (PDD) | 7.1. Detail the Technology | 7.1.2. Provide Laboratory Tests, Efficiency Certification, etc. | Project Proponent |
| 7. Determining Technology (PDD) | 7.2. Prove Cost Efficiency of Chosen Technology | 7.2.1. Obtain Quotations from Technology Providers | Project Proponent |
| 7. Determining Technology (PDD) | 7.2. Prove Cost Efficiency of Chosen Technology | 7.2.2. Demonstrate that Costing is Realistic and Not Inflated | Project Proponent |
| 7. Determining Technology (PDD) | 7.3. Apply Baseline and Monitoring Methdology | 7.3.1. Apply Title & Reference of the Approved Methodology | Tech Team |
| 7. Determining Technology (PDD) | 7.3. Apply Baseline and Monitoring Methdology | 7.3.2. Justify Choice of the Project Category | Tech Team |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.1. Demystify Additionality | 8.1.1. Conduct Workshop to Explain Additionality to NGO Leadership & CDM Team | Tech Team |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.1. Demystify Additionality | 8.1.2. Involve Project Staff to Provide Field Information, Local Insights & Arguments to Prove Additionality | Tech Team |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.2. Address Investment Barrier | 8.2.1. Describe Scale, Extent & Field Reality Check of Government Subsidies & Incentives Available for Chosen Technology | Project Proponent |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.2. Address Investment Barrier | 8.2.2. Describe Loans & Institutional Finance Available for Project Activity | Tech Team |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.2. Address Investment Barrier | 8.2.3. Describe Financing Mechanism for the CDM Project | Project Proponent |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.3. Address Technology Barrier | 8.3.1. Make a Literature Scan | Tech Team |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.3. Address Technology Barrier | 8.3.2. Prove Technology Barrier through a Macro Survey | Tech Team |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.4. Address Barriers due to Prevailing Practices | 8.4.1. Map the Sociocultural Behavioural Patterns of Participating Families | Project Proponent |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.4. Address Barriers due to Prevailing Practices | 8.4.2. Conduct PRA Exercises to Discern Rational Choices that Participating Families would Normally Make | CDM Preparation Team |
| 8. Proving Additionality (PDD) | 8.5. Address Other Barriers | 8.5.1. Make a Literature Scan and Apply Wild Imagination | Tech Team |
| 9. Determining Project Duration (PDD) | 9.1. Address Project Duration Issues | 9.1.1. Anticipate a Realistic Start Date for the CDM Project | Project Proponent |
| 9. Determining Project Duration (PDD) | 9.1. Address Project Duration Issues | 9.1.2. Assess the Operational Lifetime of the Chosen Technology | Tech Team |
| 9. Determining Project Duration (PDD) | 9.1. Address Project Duration Issues | 9.1.3. Choose the Crediting Period for the Project Activity | Tech Team |
| 10. Evaluating Environmental Impacts (PDD) | 10.1. Conduct EIA if required | 10.1.1. Contract an External Consultant to Conduct Environmnetl Impact Assessment, if required by MoEF | Project Proponent |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.1. Familiarise CDM Team & NGO Staff on Procedure | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.2. Prepare Non-Technical Summary | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.3. Translate Non-technical summary into Local Language | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.4. Prepare Draft Invitation Letters & Emails, Write-ups, Posters, matter for Newpaper Ads, etc. | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.5. Translate Texts into Local Language | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.6. Decide on Date(s) & Venue(s) for the GS Stakeholder Meeting(s) | Project Proponent |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.7. Assist in Drawing up Invitation List | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.8. Place Newspaper Ads & Send Out Invitations with Support Documents | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.1. Conduct GS Stakeholder Meeting | 11.1.9. Conduct GS Stakeholders Meeting(s) | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.2. Prepare GS Stakeholders Meeting Report | 11.2.1. Provide Proof of Invitation | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.2. Prepare GS Stakeholders Meeting Report | 11.2.2. Provide Photos of the GS Stakeholders Meeting(s) | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.2. Prepare GS Stakeholders Meeting Report | 11.2.3. Provide Scanned Copies of Evaluations Forms, Participants List, etc. | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.2. Prepare GS Stakeholders Meeting Report | 11.2.4. Translate Sample Evaluation Forms from Local Language into English | CDM Preparation Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.2. Prepare GS Stakeholders Meeting Report | 11.2.5. Prepare Sustainable Development Matrix | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.2. Prepare GS Stakeholders Meeting Report | 11.2.6. Finalise the GS Stakeholder Meeting Report | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.3. Open Account at the GS Registry | 11.3.1. Explain Procedure to Open an Account at the GS Registry | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.3. Open Account at the GS Registry | 11.3.2. Open the Account | Project Proponent |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.3. Open Account at the GS Registry | 11.3.3. Send Signed Copies of GS Agreement to GS Registry | Project Proponent |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.3. Open Account at the GS Registry | 11.3.4. Upload GS Stakeholders Meeting Report onto the GS Registry | Project Proponent |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.4. Review of the Stakeholder Meeting Report | 11.4.1. Receive Comments & Feedbacks from the Gold Standard | Project Proponent |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.4. Review of the Stakeholder Meeting Report | 11.4.2. Address Issues Raised & Revise GS Stakeholder Meeting Report accordingly | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.4. Review of the Stakeholder Meeting Report | 11.4.3. Upload Revised GS Stakeholders Meeting Report onto the GS Registry | Project Proponent |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.5. GS Passport & Feedback | 11.5.1. Prepare GS Passport | Tech Team |
| 11. Obtaining Gold Standard Certification | 11.5. GS Passport & Feedback | 11.5.2. Webhost GS Stakeholder Meeting Report and Draft Passport Report for public comments for 60 days | Project Proponent |
| 12. Finalising PDD | 12.1. Finalise the PDD | 12.1.1. Finalise all Sections of the PDD & Submit to Project Proponent | Tech Team |
| 12. Finalising PDD | 12.1. Finalise the PDD | 12.1.2. Revise PDD based on NGO Feedback | Tech Team |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.1. Submit PIN & PDD to MoEF | 13.1.1. Prepare Project Idea Note (PIN) | Tech Team |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.1. Submit PIN & PDD to MoEF | 13.1.2. Make 20 Hard Copies and 2 CDs of PIN & PDD | CDM Preparation Team |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.1. Submit PIN & PDD to MoEF | 13.1.3. Mail Hard Copies and CDs to MoEF, New Delhi | CDM Preparation Team |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.2. Attend Personal Interview with Designated National | 13.2.1. Receive Letter from DNA for the Personal Interview | Project Proponent |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.2. Attend Personal Interview with Designated National | 13.2.2. List Documents to be Submitted to the DNA | Tech Team |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.2. Attend Personal Interview with Designated National | 13.2.3. Prepare Documents for Submission at the Personal Interview | Project Proponent |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.2. Attend Personal Interview with Designated National | 13.2.4. Attend the Personal Interview at New Delhi | Project Proponent & Tech Team |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.2. Attend Personal Interview with Designated National | 13.2.5. Prepare & Submit Additional Documents, if required | Tech Team |
| 13. Obtaining Host Country Approval | 13.2. Attend Personal Interview with Designated National | 13.2.6. Grant Host Country Approval | DNA |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.1. Appoint a DOE | 14.1.1. Advise the Project Proponent on Strengths, Capabilities, Fees, etc. of various Validators | Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.1. Appoint a DOE | 14.1.2. Appoint a DOE for the project | Project Proponent |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.1. Appoint a DOE | 14.1.3. Submit the PDD for Validation | Project Proponent |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.2. Site Visit | 14.2.1. Communicate Date & Agenda for Site Visit | DOE |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.2. Site Visit | 14.2.2. List Desk Review Documents required during Site Visit | Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.2. Site Visit | 14.2.3. Accompany the DOE on Site Visit | Project Proponent & Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.2. Site Visit | 14.2.4. Respond to DOE Queries during Desk Review & Site Visit | Project Proponent & Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.3. Draft Validation Report | 14.3.1. Receive Draft Validation Report | Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.3. Draft Validation Report | 14.3.2. Prepare Additional Documents & Provide Information to answer CLs and CARs | Project Proponent |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.3. Draft Validation Report | 14.3.3. Respond to Clarifications (CLs) and Corrective Action Requests (CARs) | Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.3. Draft Validation Report | 14.3.4. Revise PDD based on Draft Validation Report, CLs & CARs | Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.3. Draft Validation Report | 14.3.5. Technical Review of PDD | DOE |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.3. Draft Validation Report | 14.3.6. Respond to Queries & Revise PDD based on Technical Review | Tech Team |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.3. Draft Validation Report | 14.3.7. Issue Final Validation Report | DOE |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.4. Modalities of Communication (MoC) | 14.4.1. Choose Contact Person(s) for Modalities of Communication and Submit Form to DOE | Project Proponent |
| 14. Validating the PDD | 14.4. Modalities of Communication (MoC) | 14.4.2. Submit PDD, Validation Report and MoC to the E.B., UNFCCC | Project Proponent |
| 15. Registration | 15.1. Registration Fee | 15.1.1. Webhost for Paying Registration Fee & send Email | UNFCCC |
| 15. Registration | 15.1. Registration Fee | 15.1.2. Pay the CDM Registration Fee to the E.B., UNFCCC | Project Proponent |
| 15. Registration | 15.2. Completeness Check | 15.2.1. Webhost for Completeness Check | UNFCCC |
| 15. Registration | 15.2. Completeness Check | 15.2.2. Answer Queries, if any, by Revising PDD | Tech Team |
| 15. Registration | 15.3. Webhost for Registration | 15.3.1. 4 weeks Webhosting for SSC projects | UNFCCC |
| 15. Registration | 15.3. Webhost for Registration | 15.3.2. Minor Corrections & PDD Review, if any | UNFCCC |
| 15. Registration | 15.3. Webhost for Registration | 15.3.3. Revise PDD to Address Minor Corrections and/or Review Questions | Project Proponent & Tech Team |
| 15. Registration | 15.3. Webhost for Registration | 15.3.4. Resubmit Revised PDD to UNFCCC | DOE |
| 15. Registration | 15.3. Webhost for Registration | 15.3.5. PDD Registered | UNFCCC |