This means that the technical capacities required to ensure adequate project design and implementation are higher. Though inherently a good thing, this has, however, led to an insufficient number of applications being received over the years, or these not being successfully approved in some federal states. These conditions ensure that the activities carried out under this programme are additional and would not occur otherwise. Since compensation activities under the CUSTF are not combined with other programmes, it allows evaluating the outcome of the programme independently from other restoration and reforestation programmes from CONAFOR.