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Green livelihood access for Central Kalimantan's inclusive environmental response to climate change - Final Joint Evaluation

eval_number:

1939

eval_title:

Green livelihood access for Central Kalimantan's inclusive environmental response to climate change - Final Joint Evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Indonesia

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1939

lessons_learned:

description:

Agroforestry plantations in peat land still lack proper guidelines (establishment, maintenance) and require continued support to communities. Experience on best practices for agroforestry plantation establishment on degraded peat land and its sustainable management needs to be build to develop standard guidelines. There is still a lack of proper documentation on appropriate use of ameliorants, planting techniques and management steps to enhance sustainability of the agroforestry plantations, which requires a continued support to and guidance of the communities. Targetted users: Direct user/beneficiaries will be the community member who work on the agroforestry areas as either beneficiary household of communal land or registered private owner. The community members will reap the direct benefits of timber, rubber and fruits, whereas at a global level there will be a positive impact through reduced carbon emissions from the peatland and enhanced carbon stock by the biomass increment. Other benefits will develop as improved biodiversity.

context:

Agroforestry is identified as one of the main strategies to enhance the carbon stock in the ex-mega rice peatland area area. Through sustainable agroforestry plantation establishment and management, communities are expected to contribute to reduced emissions from the peatlands, while at the same time creating a sustainable source of livelihood, replacing former more unsustainable practices. Land tenure security will be an important precondition to enhance sustainability of the agroforestry plantations.

success:

Challenges: Agroforestry is not completely new for the community, but it is new for them to follow an agroforestry management approach that minimizes releasing carbon to the air. Ensuring that the community is fully aware and understands these principles is a challenge. A few community members still argued that the seedlings will grow faster when the land was burned prior to the planting. The agroforestry plantations have just been established, but require a longer-term sustainable management plan, which, in consultation with the community, identifies tasks, obligations, management rules, future benefits, conflict resolution approaches etc. Privately owned land might be sold to external individuals/ corporations, such as oil palm plantations, if households are forced to cash in their present property.

challenges:

Positive/Causal Factors: The communities were able to establish their agroforestry areas in a short-time frame through physical hard work. The financial compensation through daily ages was a clear factor for the active involvement of the community group members. The additional training of the members in sustainable plantation techniques and forest fire fighting and the related supply of equipment and wells has favoured the establishment of the plantations.

administrative_issues:

N/A

comments:

There should be inclusion of the development of a (participatory) community forest management plan

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/193938

themes:

theme:

Green jobs

category:

Enterprises

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