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ArticleImpact of capacity building in leveraging community skills and livelihoods: lessons learned from social forestry in Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Indonesia encounters several challenges in forest management due to the high communities’ demand for forest resources, including the need for agricultural land within state-owned forest areas. Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) is a strategy that emphasizes on the importance of community’s involvement in forest conservation. CBFM planning has an important role in the implementation of effective and sustainable forest management through a participatory approach involving all parties in Planning, Organizing, Actuating, and Controlling. This paper aims to provide information on impact of capacity building in leveraging community skill and livehood in three schemes of Social Forestry (SF) in Indonesia, namely Paru Village Forest (VF)–West Sumatra, Cempaka Forestry Partnership (FP)–Lampung, and Tuar Tana Community Forestry (CF)–East Nusa Tenggara, in collaboration between Forestry and Environment Research, Development and Innovation Agency with the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO). The research was conducted through structured interviews, FGDs and field observations by an analysis unit while the informations obtained were analyzed through descriptively qualitative and quantitative methods. The results showed that the provided assistances and capacity building in three SF schemes have increased the active participation of group members in the preparation of technical plans and implementation of economic value species planting and processing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs).Other benefits are the reduced land boundary conflicts, an increase in the frequency of routine group meetings, an increase in the number of members who are able to process NTFPs into semi-finished or finished goods. This condition shows that the provided assistance is able to increase the capacity of farmers so as to change the perceptions and attitudes of group members and encourage them to actively participate in forest management in three SF area. Keywords: Participatory planning, Capacity building, Community Forestry, Village Forest, Forestry Partnership ID: 3487019 -
ArticleIntensity and embeddedness: Two dimensions of equity approaches in multi-stakeholder forums
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Multi-stakeholder forums (MSFs) have been positioned as a transformative solution for more sustainable decision-making in forestry, land use, and climate change interventions. Yet, there is much criticism about the possibility of these forums to address the power inequalities that frame interactions between different stakeholders to forests and their resources. Based on a systematic search of cases in the scholarly literature, we present a new approach to examining how MSFs organised at the jurisdictional level to deal with unsustainable land and resource use in forests address equity issues. We engage with MSFs from two key characteristics: the degree to which an MSF includes local peoples as part of a forest-landscape solution (its intensity), and the degree to which the MSF and its outcomes are part of the societal and institutional fabric of a given area (its embeddedness). The reason for focusing on these aspects is simple yet important: we propose that an MSF’s long-term resilience and success, and potential to promote equitable change is impeded if local peoples are not regarded as key partners and change-makers (rather than ‘beneficiaries’), and if the forum and/or its outcomes are not meaningfully institutionalized. Intensity and embeddedness are useful analytical tools that go beyond typologies that identify characteristics found in successful MSFs. These tools are helpful in terms of explaining how different approaches across different contexts function as classifying MSFs as either top-down, bottom-up, or a combination of both is not particularly useful. We also provide practical lessons from cases under different combinations of intensity and embeddedness. Keywords: Partnerships, Governance, Landscape management, Research, Social protection ID: 3624079 -
DocumentAppraise and design locally appropriate bamboo agroforestry in Ngada Regency, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Bamboo has been part of the social and cultural system for people in Ngada. In such a system, bamboo was inherited from the ancestors and became a communally owned property manage by tribe groups. As a result, the utilization of bamboo is still limited to their daily-life, cultural and traditional ceremony, as well as a religious celebration. Despite those traditional ways to benefit bamboo, Ngada people have local knowledge, which allows bamboo to grow together with other plantation such as trees, shrubs, palms and understory species called mixed garden or “kebun campuran.” However, there is still no clear evidence about the level of effectiveness related to this system. This study aimed to assess existing bamboo agroforestry practices and to design locally appropriate management system. Using ethnographic study, household survey and participatory rural appraisal approaches, this study was combining qualitative and quantitative methods to target relevant research findings. The results showed that the existing paradigm among local communities shares a traditional mindset in managing and utilizing bamboo, whereas bamboo has been managed with no cultivation system and no intensive maintenance. However, the community had owned the local wisdom of customary laws to ensure the sustainability of their bamboo. The local NGO introduced the sustainable bamboo forestry (SBF) system for community. This study also assess social capital owned by community as well as the transfer of knowledge the SBF system into their bamboo agroforestry system. There are two important keys to succeed the new system such as; capacity building and in the community level and provide understanding to the community about the importance of bamboo with added value through information and market access and connecting with the off-takers or industry. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Sustainable forest management, Knowledge management, Social protection, Value chain ID: 3486850
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