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ArticleA participatory action research approach to community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration in Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Over the past several decades, vegetation fires have become regular events in Southeast Asia, Central Africa and Latin America. Indonesia’s vegetation and peat fires in 2015 and 2019 emitted significant greenhouse gas emissions and caused transboundary haze across Southeast Asian countries. Governments, NGOs and international donors have been campaigning for ‘zero and controlled burning’, however, the use of fire across the landscape still occurs. Using fire significantly reduces the cost and time of land preparation, yet it poses important negative environmental and climate externalities. A main challenge, therefore, is to introduce fire-free alternatives for land preparation. While corporations are well-equipped with knowledge and technology, communities require specialized support in learning, and provided with access to resources and technologies to implement alternatives for land preparation without burning. This paper explains the gradual change in behavior of selected communities in land preparation and farming practice on peatlands in Sumatra. We used participatory action research (PAR) approaches to transform behavior of the participating communities. PAR is a trans-disciplinary approach, where various scientific disciplines are combined with local knowledge and experience. With the community as co-researchers, the PAR steps of reflection-planning-action-monitoring were completed from 2018-2020. Communities identified, formulated, tested, and implemented peat-adapted business models in several locations (action arenas). Results show some degree of success in changing behaviour of the communities towards eco-friendly business and land management. We describe how upscaling and out-scaling of the methods and outcomes were conducted through communications and engagement with stakeholders at different levels, ranging from district, province, national and international. Keywords: Climate change, Human health and well-being, Adaptive and integrated management, Economic Development, Landscape management ID: 3486775 -
ArticleKey lessons from a community-based forest and rangeland management initiative in Afghanistan
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.It is increasingly recognized that the management of forest and rangeland resources through the involvement of resource users is a sound strategy for the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of those resources in mountainous communities in Afghanistan. Community-based management of natural resources, especially forest and rangeland, is a priority of the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA). Accordingly, the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), with donor support, has initiated community-based natural resource management practices throughout the country. This paper highlights the key lessons learnt from successfully implementing community-based forest and rangeland management interventions under a project implemented by the FAO in two provinces (Nangarhar and Parwan), with the support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It also draws some lessons from a similar project currently ongoing in five provinces (Badghis, Bamiyan, Gazani, Kunar and Paktiya) with close collaboration of different government agencies. The paper builds on the information gathered from focus group discussions, field observations and historical records. The results indicate that more efforts are needed to make the communities and the government recognize the full potential of and emphasize community-based natural resource management through capacity building, provision of financial support, and clarification of user rights and ownership status. The results also revealed that capacity of government agencies, especially the office bearers, had to be strengthened in order to put the relevant policies and procedures issued by the GoIRA into practice more effectively and efficiently. The most important entry-point initiatives and interventions that showed progress in achieving sustainable natural resource management include: (i) providing alternative energy sources for reducing pressure on forest andrangeland in remote areas for wood fuel; and (ii) promote improved management of natural resources through awareness raising, capacity building, and introduction of new technologies. Keywords: Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), community, community-based association. ID: 3486395 -
ArticleCommunity-based investment to address deforestation and forest degradation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.West Kalimantan is the province with high forest cover but contributing high emission from high deforestation and forest degradation. FIP-1 project targets in reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Achievement on reducing emission will contribute the Indonesia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The project has two themes, forest management intervention and community investment to increase their income. A log-frame and theory of change is applied to measure the impacts. Baseline data was setup through data collection and analysis. Stakeholder analysis was carried out to design institution arrangement and capacity building program. Economic benefit was measured at local community. Rate of deforestation and degradation was measured using a GIS tool. During the period of 2018-2020, total project investment is US $6.5 million. FIP-1 project has invested a total amount of USD 4.1 million for the livelihood improvement program, and USD 2.4 million for the sustainable forest management. Total emission reduction during the period of 2018-2020 is 1.02 TCO2-e. FMU (Forest Management Unit) is the important party in this achievement and community involvement is a key success in this investment. Community income has increased by 50% in June 2021 (compare to the baseline in 2016). A total 63% investment has been allocated for livelihood improvement program, while 36% of the investment was allocated for forest management intervention. From this investment, a total of 1.02 TCO2e of emission has been reduced. An effective REDD+ program will require involvement from FMU and community as active players. Keywords: Forest Investment Program, West Kalimantan, climate change, forestry ID: 3488259
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