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USAID LESTARI FIRST ANNUAL WORK PLAN October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Tetra Tech ARD. This publication was prepared for review by the United States Agency for International Development under Contract # AID-497-TO-15-00005. The period of this contract is from July 2015 to July 2020. Implemented by: Tetra Tech P.O. Box 1397 Burlington, VT 05402 Tetra Tech Contacts: Reed Merrill, Chief of Party [email protected] Matthew Edwardsen, Project Manager [email protected] Cover Photograph: Clockwise from left: organic farming in Central Kalimantan, Papuan women collecting sago from sago palm, Katingan-Kahayan landscape, rubber farmer drying rubber in Kalimantan, Papuan men navigating ironwood log raft. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | ii USAID LESTARI FIRST ANNUAL WORK PLAN SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 DISCLAIMER This document is made possible by the support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of Tetra Tech ARD and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Page |3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLES AND FIGURES ...................................................................................................... 6 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................. 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................... 9 RINGKASAN EKSEKUTIF ................................................................................................. 14 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 20 Context .................................................................................................................................................20 Geographic Focus ...............................................................................................................................22 Key Results ..........................................................................................................................................24 LESTARI Team ....................................................................................................................................26 Staff ...................................................................................................................................................26 Implementation Partners ...................................................................................................................27 LESTARI’S STRATEGY ..................................................................................................... 29 Landsape Approach ............................................................................................................................29 Adaptive Management ......................................................................................................................31 Common Concern Entry Point ..........................................................................................................31 Clarification of Roles and Responsibilities ........................................................................................31 Multiple Scales and Multi-stakeholders .............................................................................................32 Multiple Functionality and Resilience ................................................................................................32 Theory of Change ................................................................................................................................33 Tools for LESTARI ..............................................................................................................................35 IFACS Foundational Tools ................................................................................................................35 New Tools .........................................................................................................................................37 LESTARI TECHNICAL THEMES ....................................................................................... 42 Technical Theme 1: Forest & Land Use Governance & Advocacy ................................................42 Introduction........................................................................................................................................42 LESTARI 1 - Awareness and Advocacy ...........................................................................................43 LESTARI 2 - Operationalize Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs) ...............................................................................................................46 LESTARI 3 - Environmental Governance .........................................................................................49 Technical Theme 2: Conservation Co-Management .......................................................................54 Introduction........................................................................................................................................54 LESTARI 4 - Co-Management ..........................................................................................................54 LESTARI 5 - Protected Area Management .......................................................................................58 Technical Theme 3: Private Sector Engagement .............................................................................61 Introduction........................................................................................................................................61 LESTARI 6 - Green Enterprises ........................................................................................................61 LESTARI 7 - Private Sector Best Management Practices (BMPs) ...................................................66 LESTARI 8 – PES and REDD+ Innovative Finance .........................................................................70 Project Coordination, Managment, and Communications ..............................................................73 Coordination and Management .........................................................................................................73 AMEP Integration ..............................................................................................................................74 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Page |4 Gender integration ..............................................................................................................................75 Grants Fund .........................................................................................................................................76 Goals for Year 1 Request for Applications ........................................................................................77 EMMP Integration ................................................................................................................................78 LESTARI INITIATIVES ....................................................................................................... 79 National Initiatives ..............................................................................................................................79 Landscape Initiatives ..........................................................................................................................83 Introduction........................................................................................................................................83 Leuser Landscape .............................................................................................................................83 Katingan-Kahayan Landscape ..........................................................................................................92 Lorentz Lowlands Landscape .........................................................................................................100 Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape ...................................................................................................107 Sarmi Landscape ............................................................................................................................112 Cyclops Landscape .........................................................................................................................116 APPENDICES................................................................................................................... 120 Appendix 1: Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan (EMMP) .........................................121 Appendix 2: Performance Indicators ..............................................................................................130 Appendix 3: Results Framework .....................................................................................................136 Appendix 4: Map of Technical Components and Tasks to Strategic Approaches.....................137 Appendix 5: Spatial Planning and SEA Document Status in LESTARI Landscapes .................141 Appendix 6: Staffing Plan .................................................................................................................146 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Page |5 TABLES AND FIGURES Table 1 LESTARI Implementation Partners......................................................................... 10 Table 2 LESTARI Landscapes ............................................................................................ 23 Table 3 Key LESTARI targets at the landscape level .......................................................... 26 Table 4 LESTARI Implementation Partners......................................................................... 27 Table 5 LESTARI fire management approach ..................................................................... 38 Table 6 METT ..................................................................................................................... 39 Table 7 LESTARI Strategic Approach 1 .............................................................................. 44 Table 8 LESTARI Strategic Approach 2 .............................................................................. 47 Table 9 LESTARI Strategic Approach 3 .............................................................................. 51 Table 10 LESTARI Strategic Approach 4 ............................................................................ 56 Table 11 LESTARI Strategic Approach 5 ............................................................................ 59 Table 12 LESTARI Strategic Approach 6 ............................................................................ 63 Table 13 LESTARI Strategic Approach 7 ............................................................................ 67 Table 14 LESTARI Strategic Approach 8 ............................................................................ 71 Table 15 LESTARI Offices .................................................................................................. 73 Table 16 LESTARI National Initiatives ................................................................................ 80 Figure 1 LESTARI Landscapes Map ................................................................................... 13 Figure 2 Ecosystem services from forests ........................................................................... 20 Figure 3 Illustrative diagram of synergy between LESTARI and GOI emissions reductions targets ................................................................................................................................. 25 Figure 4 Elements of a Landscape approach ...................................................................... 30 Figure 5 Value and Operational Landscapes definition ....................................................... 33 Figure 6 LESTARI diagrammatic results framework ............................................................ 34 Figure 7 LESTARI technical themes ................................................................................... 42 Figure 8 LESTARI 1 Theory of Change ............................................................................... 45 Figure 9 LESTARI 2 Theory of Change ............................................................................... 48 Figure 10 Strategy for land use monitoring.......................................................................... 50 Figure 11 LESTARI 3 Theory of Change ............................................................................. 53 Figure 12 Generalized implementation framework for co-management ............................... 55 Figure 13 LESTARI 4 Theory of Change ............................................................................. 57 Figure 14 Generalized approach for LESTARI protected area management ....................... 58 Figure 15 LESTARI 5 Theory of Change ............................................................................. 60 Figure 16 Green enterprise development process............................................................... 62 Figure 17 LESTARI 6 Theory of Change ............................................................................. 65 Figure 18 LESTARI 7 Theory of Change ............................................................................. 69 Figure 19 LESTARI 8 Theory of Change ............................................................................. 72 Figure 20 LESTARI Leuser Operational Landscape ............................................................ 91 Figure 21 Katingan-Kahayan Operational Landscape ......................................................... 95 Figure 22 Lorentz Lowlands Operational Landscape ........................................................ 106 Figure 23 Mappi-Bouven Digoel Operational Landscape .................................................. 111 Figure 24 Sarmi Operational Landscape ........................................................................... 115 Figure 25 Cyclops Operational Landscape........................................................................ 119 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Page |6 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ADB AMCHAM ASEAN BCC BKSDA BMP C4J CBO CBS CCA/KKM CCLA CDM CLA CMMP COP CSO DAK DAU DCOP DSC EGAT ESP EU FIP FMU FREDDI FSC GESP GFW GHG GOI HCS HCV ICCTF ICT IDIQ IFACS IPCC ISCC ISPO KADIN KfW LCP LEDS LOP LTTA Asian Development Bank American Chamber of Commerce Association of Southeast Asian Nations Behavior Change Communication Nature Conservation Agency Best Management Practice Changes for Justice Community Based Organization Constituency Building Strategy Community Conservation Agreements / Kesepakatan Konservasi Masyarakat Community Conservation and Livelihood Agreement Clean Development Mechanism Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Conservation Management and Monitoring Plan Chief of Party Civil Society Organization Special Budget Allocation Fund Regular Budget Allocation Fund Deputy Chief of Party Destination Stewardship Council Environmental Governance Assessment Tool Environmental Services Program European Union Forest Investment Program Forest Management Unit (or KPH) Indonesia’s Fund for REDD+ Forest Service Council Green Enterprise Sustainability Program Global Forest Watch Greenhouse Gas Government of Indonesia High Carbon Stock High Conservation Value Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund Information and Communication Technologies Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contracting mechanism Indonesia Forestry and Climate Support Project Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil Foundation Indonesian Chamber of Commerce German Development Bank Landscape Conservation Plan Low Emission Development Strategy Life of Project Long-Term Technical Assistance USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Page |7 LULUCF M&E METT MIS MOU MRV MSF MSU MTD NGO NP NRM NRMP NTFP PA PCN PDD PES PHKA PMP PPP RDMA REDD+ REL REPLACE RFTOP RKT RPJM RSPO SDI SEA SMART SP SRAP STI STTA TBI TFA TFCA TOMS UKCCU UNPAR USAID USDA USDOI USFS USG WCS WDC WWF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Monitoring and Evaluation Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool Management Information System Memorandum of Understanding Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification Multi-Stakeholder Forum Michigan State University Monthly Thematic Discussion Nongovernmental Organization National Park Natural Resource Management Natural Resource Management Program Non-Timber Forest Product Protected Area Project Concept Note Project Design Document Payment for Environmental Services Directorate General of Forest and Nature Performance Management Plan Public-Private Partnership Regional Development Mission for Asia Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, including conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks Reference Emission Level Restoring the Environment through Prosperity, Livelihoods and Conserving Ecosystems Request for Task Order Proposal Provincial Development Plan District Development Plan Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Spatial Data Infrastructure Strategic Environmental Assessment Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool Spatial Planners REDD+ Agency’s Strategic Action Plan for REDD+ Sustainable Travel International Short-Term Technical Assistance The Borneo Initiative Tropical Forest Alliance Tropical Forest Conservation Act Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer UK Climate Change Unit University of Palangkaraya United States Agency for International Development United States Department of Agriculture United States Department of the Interior United States Forest Service United States Government Wildlife Conservation Society Washington, DC World Wildlife Fund USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Page |8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Context Indonesia’s forests are of significant value to Indonesians and the global community. Ranked the third largest expanse of tropical forest in the world, these areas are treasured for the wide ranging social, environmental, and economic benefits provided by their goods and services. From sequestering carbon and combating climate change to providing freshwater for local communities, these forests represent a precious and vital resource. Important terrestrial ecosystems include mangroves, lowland forests, peat/swamp forests, and montane forests. Indonesia’s 17,493 tropical islands also contain some of the highest levels of biological diversity across the globe. This includes key, globally valued species such as the orangutan, tiger, rhino, elephants, and birds of paradise. At least 30 million people depend directly on Indonesia’s forests for their livelihoods. Unfortunately, these forests continue to be under serious threat, with Indonesia’s deforestation rates ranking the highest in the world. Deforestation is especially critical in carbon rich peat and swamp forests of Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua. A history of weak governance combined with opportunistic private sector actors has created unsustainable economics based on natural resource exploitation. Civil society, particularly forest-dependent communities, are increasingly advocating for more responsible land and forest governance. The private sector is also demonstrating substantial leadership toward reducing large-scale deforestation. LESTARI targets a 41% GHG emissions reduction in its landscapes by 2020. This is in alignment with GOI ‘s climate change commitments to reduce GHG emissions, by 26% unilaterally or 41% with bilateral or multilateral support, by the year 2020. Indonesia is also a Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity and as such, has made commitments to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets by 2020. Indonesia has set specific targets for protection of key endangered species such as tigers, rhinos, and orangutan. This clear alignment in goals and interests is expected to give LESTARI strong buy-in and support from all stakeholders and contribute to the project’s successes in protecting Indonesia’s forests and biodiversity resources. LESTARI Background USAID LESTARI supports the Government of Indonesia (GOI) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and conserve biodiversity in carbon rich and biologically significant forest and mangrove ecosystems. Built on the strong foundation of USAID’s IFACS project, LESTARI applies a landscape approach to reduce GHG emissions, integrating forest and peatland conservation with low emissions development (LEDS) on other, already degraded land. This is achieved through improved land use governance, enhanced protected areas management and protection of key species, sustainable private sector and industry practices, and expanded constituencies for conservation among various stakeholders. LESTARI is implemented under the leadership of Tetra Tech and a consortium of partners including WWF-Indonesia, Winrock International, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Blue Forests, Yayasan Sahabat Cipta, PT Hydro South Pole Carbon, Sustainable Travel International (STI), Michigan State University, and the FIELD Foundation. LESTARI runs from August 2015 through July 2020. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Page |9 Table 1 LESTARI Implementation Partners Partner Role Tetra Tech Overall technical and administrative project management Lead donor and government coordination, communication and local capacity development activities. Monitoring, evaluation & learning Winrock International Michigan State University Establish university linkages and build capacity of key provincial universities to play more practical, applied role in support of local government in reduced GHG emissions & expansion of LEDS Sustainable Travel International Identify and lead development of community-based tourism activities, mentor local organizations related to ecotourism, and create PPPs with international businesses WWF-Indonesia Manage Lorentz Lowlands, Mappi-Bouven Digoel, Sarmi and Cyclops landscape activities Improve management of Lorenz and Sebangau NPs, including comanagement of surrounding areas Wildlife Conservation Society Improve management of Leuser and Singkil CAs Provide leadership on anti-poaching and wildlife enforcement Leverage financial resources to improve CA management FIELD Lead village constituency and advocacy activities Develop Lestari Boot Camp training Provide field staff to Aceh Tenggara, Aceh Selatan, and Central Kalimantan landscapes Sahabat Cipta (Swiss ContactIndonesia) Foster livelihood expansion and co-management in the Aceh landscapes Develop PPPs to foster value chain consolidation in cocoa, nutmeg, and NTFPs PT Hydro Indonesia (South Pole Carbon Asset Management, Ltd) Provide national climate finance experts Lead support to provincial and district governments in REDD+-related activities Blue Forests Expand mangrove management activities from Mimika to Asmat Develop REDD+ or PES package for mangrove conservation Leverage financial resources to improve CA management Provide Private Sector Engagement Coordinator and Component 3 Lead Develop provincial and district sustainability tools Implement Sustainability Reporting Toolkit for private sector companies Develop baseline and REL Geographic Focus LESTARI activities are targeted in six strategic landscapes on three of Indonesia’s largest islands, where primary forest cover remains most intact and carbon stocks are greatest. In northern Sumatra, the Leuser Landscape comprises significant portions of Aceh Selatan, Gayo Lues, Aceh Tenggara, and Aceh Barat Daya districts, and includes the Aceh portion of Leuser National Park and Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. In Central Kalimantan, LESTARI works in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape, comprising Pulang Pisau, Katingan, and Gunung Mas districts; Palangkaraya municipality; and Sebangau and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Parks. LESTARI also works in four landscapes in Papua. Sarmi and Cyclops Landscapes are located along the northern coast and comprise Sarmi district as well as Jayapura district and municipality. The Lorentz Lowlands Landscape, comprising Mimika and Asmat districts plus a large portion of Lorentz National Park, and the Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape are located along Papua’s southern coast. LESTARI is managed from its headquarters in Jakarta, with offices in each landscape as well as the provincial capitals of Aceh, Central Kalimantan, and Papua. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 10 Key Results The two primary, overarching key results involve GHG emissions reductions and improved conservation area management. They are supported by activities to improve forest management and land use governance. This year, key targets that LESTARI will achieve are: 1. Train at least 2,000 people in improved natural resource management and conservation; 2. Assist to incorporate SEA-LEDS plans into the spatial plans for at least three districts 3. Develop at least 2 model best management practices or co-management practices that are applicable across all levels of Indonesian governance; 4. Operationalize at least 2 multi-stakeholder forums in its landscapes; 5. Introduce at least three policies into the public sphere for comment; 6. Improve private sector best practices in at least two companies; 7. Demonstrably improve biodiversity conservation as measured by reduced poaching and capacity of protect area managers; 8. Leverage at least 2 million USD for conservation from innovative finance and/or REDD+ Over five years, LESTARI’s targets are: 1. At least 41% of total CO2-equivalent emissions reduced from land use, land use change and deforestation averaged across all landscapes within the project scope; 2. At least 8.42 Million hectares of primary or secondary forest, including orangutan habitat, under improved management; 3. Management of at least six conservation areas improved, resulting in the conservation of valuable orangutan and other key species habitat, and the reduction in poaching of threatened and endemic species; 4. At least ten public-private partnerships (PPPs) promoting low-emissions conservation oriented development established; 5. Funding leveraged from public and private sources, representing co-investment in project outcomes; 6. Increased commitment of key private sector, government, and community stakeholders regarding the positive benefits of conservation and sustainable use of forests and the species they encompass; 7. Policies, laws, regulations, and procedures in support of low emission development and forest conservation and management increased, promulgated, and enforced at all levels; and 8. Models for successful integration of district, provincial, and national low emissions development and forest conservation strategies developed and shared at all levels of government and with other key stakeholders Summary of Year 1 Strategy LESTARI means ‘Everlasting’ in Bahasa Indonesia. This year, the core of LESTARI’s strategy is to lay a foundation for that everlasting impact by operationalizing its tools and approaches in landscape initiatives, ensuring national level policy and budget support, and developing a single stakeholder vision for the project. That vision should bridge needs and goals from the landscape and district levels up to the provincial and national levels. Based on the experience of IFACS, the tools and approaches that the project employs will lead to success if stakeholders understand and agree with the project’s ends and means. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 11 Communicating internally to partners and externally to stakeholders will thus be crucial. The core staff will be mindful to align incentives with and anticipate both opportunities and obstacles from stakeholders. This will be done by partners as well, and will be an important motivator for grants. Description of Major Expected Outcomes for this Year LESTARI’s first year work plan aims to build a solid foundation of partnerships, networks, landscape-level field activities and national-level policy support that will enable the project to meet and sustain its ambitious goals. Bridging from the recently completed IFACS project, LESTARI will operationalize important IFACS tools and approaches while also introducing new initiatives including a comprehensive landscapes approach and an entire technical theme dedicated to conservation area management. Keys to all LESTARI activities this year and going forward are building and maintaining strong GOI relationships at all levels – national, district, and national – aligning LESTARI activities and results to GOI development plans and strategic plans so that LESTARI is wholly owned and valued by our GOI partners. Description of this Document The purpose of the annual work plan is for USAID and LESTARI to clearly program its activities for the upcoming year and monitor their implementation. The timing, sequencing, and resource allocation for activities will be regularly monitored through the LESTARI Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, and updated as needed through the quarterly reports to USAID. This work plan was developed by the LESTARI Team and partners through a series of meetings and workshops. Initial island-based (Aceh, Kalimantan, and Papua) meetings with staff and subcontractors were held in Jakarta in late August. This was followed by a series of LESTARI partner consultation meetings held in early September in Aceh and Medan; Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan; Jayapura, Papua; and in Jakarta. A two-day national LESTARI workshop meeting was held in Jakarta on September 17-18; and a small technical team finalized the work plan on September 25. LESTARI intends to conduct a broad partners consultation of the work plan in Jakarta and the landscapes in October-November, once it has been approved by USAID. This document is organized by strategic approach, technical themes, and landscape work plans for LESTARI. The strategic approach explains the strategies and tools the project applies to its activities. The technical approach details the approach to achieve the contract’s required outputs, organized by the technical themes. Finally, the landscape work plans detail the interventions, responsibilities, and sequencing in the project landscapes themselves. The document’s appendices include information on the Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan, Performance Indicators, Results Framework, and the project staffing information, which may be useful for management. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 12 Figure 1 LESTARI Landscapes Map USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 13 RINGKASAN EKSEKUTIF Konteks Hutan Indonesia sangat berharga bagi Indonesia dan masyarakat dunia. Indonesia yang memiliki peringkat hutan tropis terbesar ketiga di dunia, maka wilayah hutan tropis ini menjadi kekayaan dunia karena manfaat sosial, lingkungan, ekonomi dari produk dan jasa yang dihasilkan dari hutan. Mulai dari penyimpanan karbon hingga mengatasai perubahan iklim hingga menyediakan air bersih bagi masyarakat setempat merupakan sumber daya yang sangat berharga dan penting. Ekosistem lahan yang penting mencakup hutan bakau, hutan dataran rendah, lahan gambut/hutan rawa, dan hutan pengunungan. Kepulauan Indonesia yang berjumlah 17.493 kepulauan tropis juga memiliki keanekaragaman hayati yang tertinggi di dunia. Keragaman hayati ini mencakup spesies satwa penting dan spesies satwa yang berharga bagi dunia seperti orangutan, harimau, badak, gajah, dan burung cendrawasih. Setidak-tidaknya terdapat 30 juta orang yang secara langsung tergantung pada hutan Indonesia untuk mata pencahariannya. Sayangnya, hutan-hutan ini terus menerus terancam kerusakan yang serius akibat laju kerusakan hutan yang termasuk tertinggi di dunia. Deforestasi terutama sangat penting di hutan yang kaya carbon dan hutan rawa di Sumatra, Kalimantan, dan Papua. Akibat kebijakan pemerintah yang lemah ditambah dengan para pelaku bisnis swasta yang memanfaatkan kesempatan (opportunistic) telah mengakibatkan terciptanya ekonomi yang tidak berkelanjutan yang didasarkan pada eksploitasi sumber daya alam. Masyarakat sipil, terutama komunitas yang bergantung penghidupannya pada hutan, semakin meningkatkan kegiatan advokasi agar para pemangku kepentingan lebih bertanggung jawab dalam tata kelola lahan dan hutan. Sektor swasta juga terlihat menjadi pelopor penting dalam menurunkan laju kerusakan hutan secara besar-besaran. Proyek LESTARI menargetkan penurunan 41% emisi GHG pada semua lanskap dalam proyeknya hingga tahun 2020. Rencana ini sejalan dengan komitment pemerintah RI dalam menghadapi perubahan iklim dengan menurunkan emisi GHG hingga 26% secara unilateral atau 41% secara bilateral atau multilateral hingga tahun 2020. Indonesia juga merupakan salah satu Pihak dalam Konvensi Keragaman Hayati dan oleh karena itu, Indonesia telah berkomitmen untuk mencapai Target Keragaman Hayati Aichi pada tahun 2020. Indonesia telah menetapkan target spesifik untuk melindungi satwa yang terancam punah seperti harimau, badak, dan orangutan. Dengan keselarasan tujuan dan kesamaan kepentingan, maka proyek LESTARI memiliki posisi yang kuat dan didukung oleh semua pemangku kepentingan serta memberi kontribusi pada keberhasilan proyek dalam melindungi hutan Indonesia dan sumber daya alamnya. Latar Belakang LESTARI Proyek USAID LESTARI adalah proyek yang mendukung Pemerintah Indonesia (RI) dalam upaya menurunkan emisi gas rumah kaca (GHG) dan melestarikan keanekaragaman hayati yang kaya karbon dan melestarikan ekosistem hutan dan hutan bakau yang bermakna secara biologis. Dibangun di atas fondasi proyek USAID IFACS proyek sebelumnya yang sudah kuat, proyek LESTARI menerapkan pendekatan lanskap untuk menurunkan emisi GHG, mengintegrasikan konservasi hutan dan lahan gambut dengan pembangunan emisi rendah (LEDS) pada lahan lain yang sudah mengalami kerusakan. Upaya ini bisa dicapai melalui perbaikan tata kelola pemanfaatan lahan, perbaikan pengelolaan hutan lindung dan perlindungan spesies hewan utama, praktik sektor swasta dan industri yang berkelanjutan, dan perluasan dukungan bagi kegiatan konservasi di antara berbagai pemangku kepentingan. LESTARI dilaksanakan dipimpin oleh Tetra Tech dan suatu konsorsium kerjasama kemitraan WWF-Indonesia, Winrock International, Wildlife Conservation Society USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 14 (WCS), Blue Forests, Yayasan Sahabat Cipta, PT Hydro South Pole Carbon, Sustainable Travel International (STI), Michigan State University, dan FIELD Foundation. LESTARI bekerja dari Agustus 2015 hingga Juli 2020. Tabel 1 Mitra Pelaksana LESTARI Mitra Peran Tetra Tech Manajemen teknis dan administrasi proyek Melakukan koordinasi antara donor dan pemerintah, melakukan kegiatan komunikasi dan pengembangan kapasitas di daerah. Monitoring, evaluasi & pembelajaran Winrock International Menyediakan Koordinator Sektor Swasta dan Pimpinan Komponen 3 Mengembangkan/menyusun perangkat untuk menentukan keberlajutan di tingkat provinsi dan kabupaten Melaksanakan perangkat pelaporan keberlanjutan untuk perusahaan swasta Menyusun data dasar dan REL Michigan State University Membangun hubungan dengan universitas dan mengembangkan kapasitas universitas di tingkat provinsi agar mereka dapat berperan secara lebih praktis dan dapat menerapkan peran mereka sebagai pendukung pemerintah daerah dalam menurunkan emisi GHG & memperluas LEDS Sustainable Travel International Melakukan identifikasi dan menggerakkan pengembangan kegiatan pariwisata berbasis masyarakat, membina organisasi local terkait ekowisata dan menciptakan kemitraan pemerintah-swasta dengan bisnis internasional WWF-Indonesia Mengelola kegiatan di lanskap Dataran Rendah Lorentz, Mappi-Bouven Digoel, Sarmi dan Cyclops Memperbaiki manajemen Taman Nasional Lorenz dan Sebangau, termasuk pengelolaan bersama wilayah sekitarnya Wildlife Conservation Society Memperbaiki manajemen Wilayah Konservasi Leuser dan Singkil Memimpin dalam gerakan anti-perburuan liar dan perlindungan satwa hutan Menggalang sumber dana untuk memperbaiki manajemen wilayah konservasi FIELD Memimpin para penduduk desa dalam melakukan kegiatan pembinaan Mengembangkan Pelatihan Lestari Boot Camp Menyediakan/mengirim staff lapangan ke lanskap Aceh Tenggara, Aceh Selatan, dan Kalimantan Tengah Sahabat Cipta (Swiss ContactIndonesia) Mengembangkan mata pencaharian di lanskap Aceh dan melakukan pengelolaan secara bersama Mengembangkan kemitraan Swasta-Pemerintah (PPP) agar meningkatkan nilai mata rantai produksi kakao, pala, dan NTFPs PT Hydro Indonesia (South Pole Carbon Asset Management, Ltd) Menyediakan tenaga ahli keuangan iklim dari Indonesia Menjadi pelopor dalam mendukung pemerintah provinsi dan kabupaten dalam kegiatan terkait REDD+ Lead Blue Forests Memperluas kegiatan manajemen hutan bakau dari Mimika hingga ke Asmat Menyusun paket REDD+ atau PES untuk konservasi bakau Menggalang sumber keuangan untu memperbaiki pengelolaan konservasi alam Fokus Geografis Kegiatan LESTARI dilaksanakan di enam lanskap strategis di tiga pulau terbesar Indonesia, yang memiliki sebagian tutupan hutan primer yang masih utuh dan memiliki simpanan karbon terbesar. Di Sumatra bagian utara, Lanskap Leuser mencakup Kabupaten Aceh Selatan, Gayo Lues, Aceh Tenggara dan Aceh Barat Daya, termasuk Taman Nasional Leuser dan Suaka Margasatwa Rawa Singkil. Di Kalimantan Tengah, LESTARI bekerja di USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 15 Lanskap Katingan-Kahayan, yang mencakup Kabupaten Pulang Pisau, Katingan dan Gunung Mas, Kotamadya Palangkaraya, dan Taman Nasional Sebangau dan Taman Nasional Bukit Baka Bukit Raya. LESTARI juga bekerja di empat lanskap di Papua. Lanskap Sarmi dan Cyclops terletak sepanjang pesisir utara. Lanskap Lorentz Lowlands, mencakup Kabupaten Mimika dan Asmat ditambah sebagian dari Taman Nasional Lorentz, dan Lanskap Mappi-Bouven Digoel yang terletak di pesisir selatan Papua. LESTARI memiliki kantor pusat di Jakarta, dengan kantor cabang di setiap lansekap dan di ibukota provinsi Aceh, Kalimantan Tengah dan Papua. Hasil Utama Terdapat dua hasil utama yang terkait penurunan emisi GHG dan memperbaiki pengelolaan wilayah konservasi. Hasil yang diperoleh ini didukung oleh kegiatan yang ditujukan untuk meningkatkan pengelolaan hutan dan tata kelola pemanfaatan lahan. Tahun ini, target utama yang ingin dicapai LESTARI adalah: 1. Melatih paling sedikit 2.000 orang untuk meningkatkan pengelolaan dan konservasi sumber daya; 2. Membantu agar dokumen rencana KLHS-LEDS dimasukkan dalam rencana tata ruang paling sedikit pada tiga kabupaten 3. Mengembangkan paling sedikit model untuk praktik manajemen terbaik atau praktik pengelolaan bersama yang dapat diterapkan lintas jenjang di kalangan pemerintah; 4. Melaksanakan paling sedikit 2 kali pertemuan forum berbagai pemangku kepentingan di lanskap; 5. Memperkenalkan paling sedikit tiga kebijakan kepada masyarakat untuk mendapat tanggapan masyarakat; 6. Memperbaiki praktik terbaik di sector swasta paling sedikit pada dua perusahaan; 7. Secara nyata memperbaiki konservasi keanekaragaman hayati dengan menilai penurunan perburuan satwa liar dan peningkatan kemampuan manajer wilayah konservasi; 8. Menggalang dana paling sedikit 2 juta USD untuk konservasi dari inovasi keuangan dan REDD+ Setelah lima tahun, target LESTARI adalah: 1. Paling sedikit terjadi penurunan total emisi CO2 ekuivalen sebesar rata-rata 41 % yang diakibatkan oleh kegiatan pemanfaatan lahan, perubahan pemanfaatan lahan dan deforestasi di seluruh wilayah lanskap proyek; 2. Setidak-tidaknya terdapat 8,42 juta hektar hutan primer atau sekunder, termasuk habitat orangutan, dikelola lebih baik; 3. Perbaikan manajemen paling tidak, di enam wilayah konservasi, yang menghasilkan penyelamatan dan pelestarian orangutan yang berharga dan habitat spesies, dan mengurangi perburuan hewan spesies endemik; 4. Paling tidak terdapat sepuluh kemitraan antara swasta-pemerintah (PPP) yang mendorong pembangunan yang berorientasi pada konservasi beremisi rendah; 5. Penggalangan dana dari sumber pemerintah dan swasta, mencerminkan investasi bersama dalam menentukan keberhasilan proyek; 6. Meningkatnya komitmen dari para pemangku kepentingan dari sektor swasta, pemerintah dan masyarakat untuk konservasi yang hasilkan manfaat positif dan pemanfaatan hutan yang berkelanjutan berikut spesies yang hidup di hutan; USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 16 7. Terdapat kebijakan, undang-undang, peraturan, dan prosedur -yang mendukung pembangunan emisi rendah dan mendukung perbaikan konservasi dan pengelolaan hutan- disahkan dan dijalan kandi semua jenjang; dan 8. Terdapat model untuk integrasi pembangunan di tingkat kabupaten, provinsi dan di tingkat nasional dan menyusun strategi konservasi yang dibagi pada semua jenjang tingkat pemerintah dan pemangku kepentingan kunci lainnya. Rangkuman Strategi Tahun 1 LESTARI berarti “langgeng” dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Tahun ini, inti strategi LESTARI adalah untuk meletakkan fondasi dasar yang akan berdampak panjang terus menerus dengan menggunakan perangkat dan pendekatan dalam kegiatan di lanskap, dengan memastikan adanya dukungan kebijakan pemerintah dan pendanaan dari pemerintah pusat serta menyatukan satu visi dari semua pemangku kepentingan proyek. Visi ini harus bisa menjembatani kebutuhan dan sasaran dari pemerintah di tingkat lanskap dan kabupaten hingga pemerintah provinsi dan pusat. Berdasarkan pengalaman dari proyek IFACS, perangkat dan pendekatan yang digunakan proyek akan berhasil jika para pemangku kepentingan memahami dan menyetujui tujuan dan sasaran proyek. Komunikasi secara internal dengan para mitra kerja dan secara eksternal kepada para pemangku kepentingan merupakan hal penting. Staff inti akan berusaha menyelaraskan insentif dan mengantisipasi peluang dan hambatan para pemangku kepentingan. Hal ini juga akan dilakukan dengan para mitra, dan akan menjadi motivator penting dalam mengelola hibah. Deskripsi Hasil Utama yang diharapkan untuk tahun ini Rencana kerja LESTARI tahun pertama ditujukan untuk membangun fondasi yang kokoh untuk memperkuat kemitraan, jejaring, kegiatan lanskap di tingkat lapangan dan mendapat dukungan kebijakan di tingkat nasional yang akan memungkinkan proyek mencapai sasaran dan mempertahankannya. Berfungsi sebagai “jembatan” dari proyek IFACS, maka proyek LESTARI akan menggunakan perangkat dan pendekatan penting IFACS sambil memperkenalkan program baru termasuk memperkenalkan pendekatan lanskap yang komprehensif dan tema tehnis keseluruhan yang didedikasikan untuk pengelolaan wilayah konservasi. Kunci utama dari semua kegiatan LESTARI pada tahun ini dan selanjutnya membangun dan membina hubungan baik dengan pihak pemerintah di seluruh jenjang – nasional, kabupaten, dan nasional – adalah menyelaraskan kegiatan LESTARI dan menghasilkan rencana pembangunan dan rencana strategis pemerintah Indonesia sehingga LESTARI sepenuhnya dimiliki dan dihargai oleh mitra pemerintah RI. Deskripsi Dokumen Tujuan dari rencana kerja tahunan adalah agar USAID dan LESTARI dapat secara jelas menyusun progam kegiatan untuk tahun berikutnya dan memonitor implementasi. Pengaturan waktu, urutan, dan alokasi sumber daya untuk kegiatan akan secara rutin dimonitor melalui Rencana Monitoring dan Evaluasi LESTARI, dan dimutakhirkan bila perlu melalui laporan triwulanan kepada USAID. Rencana kerja ini disusun oleh Tim LESTARI dibantu para mitra melalui beberapa kali pertemuan dan lokakarya. Pertemuan yang berbasis kepulauan (Aceh, Kalimantan, dan Papua) dengan para staff dan sub-kontraktor juga diadakan di Jakarta pada akhir Agustus. Hal ini diikuti dengan serangkaian pertemuan konsultasi dengan para mitra LESTARI yang diadakan pada September di Aceh dan Medan; Palangkaraya, Kalimantan Tengah; Jayapura, Papua; dan di Jakarta. Pertemuan lokakarya LESTARI selama dua hari diadkan di Jakarta pada September 17-18; dan tim teknis kecil berhasil menyelesaikan rencana kerja pada September 25. LESTARI berkeinginan mengadakan konsultasi antar para mitra kerja USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 17 secara luas untuk membahas rencana kerja di Jakarta dan lanskap pada bulan OktoberNovember, apabila telah disetujui oleh USAID. Dokumen ini disusun berdasarkan pendekatan strategis, tema teknis, dan rencana kerja lanskap untuk LESTARI. Dokumen pendekatan strategis menjelaskan strategi dan perangkat yang digunakan oleh proyek dalam kegiatan proyek. Pendekatan teknis menjelaskan tema teknis. Pada akhirnya, rencana kerja lanskap menjelaskan kegiatan intervensi, tanggung jawab, dan urutan kegiatan dalam proyek sendiri. Lampiran dokumen mencakup informasi dari PMP dan informasi perekrutan staff proyek, yang dapat digunakan oleh manajemen proyek. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 18 Figure 1 LESTARI Landscapes Map USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 19 INTRODUCTION USAID LESTARI supports the Government of Indonesia to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and conserve biodiversity in carbon rich and biologically significant forest and mangrove ecosystems. Built on the strong foundation of USAID’s IFACS project, LESTARI applies a landscape approach to reduce GHG emissions, integrating forest and peatland conservation with low emissions development (LEDS) on other, already degraded land. This is achieved through improved land use governance, enhanced protected areas management and protection of key species, sustainable private sector and industry practices, and expanded constituencies for conservation among various stakeholders. LESTARI is implemented under the leadership of Tetra Tech and a consortium of partners including WWF-Indonesia, Winrock International, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Blue Forests, Yayasan Sahabat Cipta, PT Hydro South Pole Carbon, Sustainable Travel International (STI), Michigan State University, and the FIELD Foundation. LESTARI runs from August 2015 through July 2020. This introductory section to the LESTARI First Annual Work Plan establishes a backdrop for LESTARI’s approach in executing its goals in synergy with GOI policies. The section begins with a brief background overview of the value, threats, and trends in Indonesia’s forest resources. Next, the geographic focus of the six LESTARI landscapes is highlighted. The section then discusses the eight key results of LESTARI, including how such results are designed to align with GOI’s policies and climate change commitments. The introductory section concludes with a rundown of the LESTARI team, including the specific role of each of the 10 LESTARI partner organizations. CONTEXT Indonesia’s forests are of significant value to Indonesians and the global community. Ranked the third largest expanse of tropical forest in the world, these areas are treasured for the wide ranging social, environmental, and economic benefits provided by their goods and services. From sequestering carbon and combating climate change to providing freshwater for local communities, these forests represent a precious and vital resource. Important terrestrial ecosystems include mangroves, lowland forests, peat/swamp forests, and montane forests. Indonesia’s 17,493 tropical islands also contain some of the highest levels of biological diversity across the globe. This includes key, globally valued species such as the orangutan, tiger, rhino, elephants, and birds of paradise. Ecosystem Services Provisioning Regulating Supporting Cultural Food Freshwater Fuelwood Watershe d Protection Climate Regulation Soil Formation Nutrient Cycling Tourism and Recreation Education Figure 2 Ecosystem services from forests USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 20 At least 30 million people depend directly on Indonesia’s forests for their livelihoods. Unfortunately, these forests continue to be under serious threat, with Indonesia’s deforestation rates ranking the highest in the world. Deforestation is especially critical in carbon rich peat and swamp forests of Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua. A history of weak governance combined with opportunistic private sector actors has created unsustainable economics based on natural resource exploitation. Land clearing for oil palm plantations is one of the key drivers of deforestation. Palm oil is also an important element of Indonesia’s national development strategy, as it is the world’s largest producer and exporter of crude palm oil. Oil palm plantation area has doubled in Indonesia in the past decade, and pressures for expansion continue as GOI has instituted targets for doubling CPO production to 40 million tons by 2020. Other commodity-driven pressures on land include unsustainable industrial scale logging and conversion for pulp, rubber, and coffee/cacao plantations. An inequitable system of land use decision-making is threatening forests, as smallholders that cannot compete for access with large private sector actors are forced to encroach onto forested areas. Finally forest fires, especially those on carbon rich peat lands, are a major source of Indonesia’s GHG emissions and a threat to the health and well-being of forests. Fires also hold direct, negative consequences for the respiratory health of local and regional communities. Fires on peat lands are particularly difficult to both detect and extinguish. The situation is made worse by human activities such as the draining of peat forests for land use, which result in peat decomposition and CO2 release, as well as increased vulnerability to fire. This underscores the need for an integrated fire management program. Enabling conditions for a shift to more equitable and sustainable forest and land use management are emerging after years of contradictory talk about forest clearing moratoriums while oil palm and industrial forest plantations rapidly expanded. The Jokowi administration is taking clear, firm, and ambitious steps to improve forest and land use governance in a sustainable and equitable manner. Three new ministries have been formed to elevate and reinforce the goals of better governance of natural resources and the rural poor who depend upon them most for livelihoods: Environment and Forestry; Agrarian and Spatial Planning; and Villages, Development of Backward Regions, and Transmigration. The new president also confirmed his administration’s commitment to the REDD+ Agency. The private sector is also demonstrating substantial leadership toward reducing large-scale deforestation. The US Ambassador recently facilitated the Palm Oil Pledge, signed by CEOs of Asian Agri, Cargill, Golden Agri Recourses, Wilmar, and Indonesian Chamber of Commerce (KADIN). Reaching all the way to their third-party suppliers, the pledge aims to make palm oil supply chains more sustainable. Further, Sinar Mas’ Asia Pulp & Paper has committed to halt deforestation in their concessions and to conserve 1,000,000 hectares of High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) landscapes in and around their operations across Sumatra and Kalimantan; it has undergone an independent audit of these areas by Rainforest Alliance. Increasingly, companies are demonstrating that good business integrates sustainable landscape and conservation management into their operations. Civil society, particularly forest-dependent communities, are increasingly advocating for more responsible land and forest governance. This is demonstrated in Central Kalimantan, where communities have become disenchanted with the empty promises of economic benefits from oil palm expansion while suffering from the omnipresent haze of land clearing and peatland fires. Forest-dependent communities across Indonesia are initiating actions to counter this situation—mapping customary (adat) forests, integrating these maps into the OneMap initiative, and negotiating boundaries with concession holders and spatial planners. USAID LESTARI aims to catalyze such positive change, and is strategically designed to do so. LESTARI targets a 41% GHG emissions reduction in its landscapes by 2020. This is in USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 21 alignment with GOI ‘s climate change commitments to reduce GHG emissions, by 26% unilaterally or 41% with bilateral or multilateral support, by the year 2020. Indonesia is also a Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity and as such, has made commitments to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets by 2020. Indonesia has set specific targets for protection of key endangered species such as tigers, rhinos, and orangutan. This clear alignment in goals and interests is expected to give LESTARI strong buy-in and support from all stakeholders and contribute to the project’s successes in protecting Indonesia’s forests and biodiversity resources. GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS Through IFACS, Tetra Tech developed strong working relationships, networks, and tools that are deeply valued by local government officials and other partners. Through a refined geographic focus for LESTARI, Tetra Tech’s team will build on the momentum of this progress to strengthen confidence and capacity to ensure long-standing, sustainable results in GHG emissions reduction and biodiversity conservation and also expand into a new Papua landscape to capitalize on unique opportunities to rationalize land use and potentially conserve significant areas of HCV and HCS forest and land. LESTARI activities are targeted in six strategic landscapes on three of Indonesia’s largest islands, where primary forest cover remains most intact and carbon stocks are greatest. In northern Sumatra, the Leuser Landscape comprises significant portions of Aceh Selatan, Gayo Lues, Aceh Tenggara, and Aceh Barat Daya districts, and includes the Aceh portion of Leuser National Park and Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. In Central Kalimantan, LESTARI works in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape, comprising Pulang Pisau, Katingan, and Gunung Mas districts; Palangkaraya municipality; and Sebangau and Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Parks. LESTARI also works in four landscapes in Papua. Sarmi and Cyclops Landscapes are located along the northern coast and comprise Sarmi district as well as Jayapura district and municipality. The Lorentz Lowlands Landscape, comprising Mimika and Asmat districts plus a large portion of Lorentz National Park, and the Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape are located along Papua’s southern coast. LESTARI is managed from its headquarters in Jakarta, with offices in each landscape as well as the provincial capitals of Aceh, Central Kalimantan, and Papua. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 22 Table 2 LESTARI Landscapes ACEH Landscape Focal Districts / Conservation Areas Landscape Area (ha) Aceh Tenggara Aceh Selatan Aceh Barat Daya Leuser Landscape 1,593,657 Gayo Lues Leuser National Park Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary CENTRAL KALIMANTAN Landscape Focal Districts / Conservation Areas Landscape Area (ha) Katingan District Pulang Pisau District Gunung Mas District Katingan-Kahayan Landscape 4,517,549 Palangkaraya Municipality Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park Sebangau National Park PAPUA Landscape Focal Districts / Conservation Areas Landscape Area (ha) Mimika District Lorentz Lowlands Landscape Asmat District 4,795,848 Lorentz National Park Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape Mappi District 3,303,933 Bouven Digoel District Sarmi District Sarmi Landscape Mamberamo-Foja Wildlife Reserve 1,017,078 Jayapura District Cyclops Landscape 46,683 Cyclops Nature Reserve USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 23 KEY RESULTS The 8 key results of LESTARI over the life of the project are: 1. At least 41% of total CO2-equivalent emissions reduced from land use, land use change and deforestation averaged across all landscapes within the project scope; 2. At least 8.42 Million hectares of primary or secondary forest, including orangutan habitat, under improved management; 3. Management of at least six conservation areas improved, resulting in the conservation of valuable orangutan and other key species habitat, and the reduction in poaching of threatened and endemic species; 4. At least ten public-private partnerships (PPPs) promoting low-emissions conservation oriented development established; 5. Funding leveraged from public and private sources, representing co-investment in project outcomes; 6. Increased commitment of key private sector, government, and community stakeholders regarding the positive benefits of conservation and sustainable use of forests and the species they encompass; 7. Policies, laws, regulations, and procedures in support of low emission development and forest conservation and management increased, promulgated, and enforced at all levels; and 8. Models for successful integration of district, provincial, and national low emissions development and forest conservation strategies developed and shared at all levels of government and with other key stakeholders The two primary, overarching key results involve GHG emissions reductions and improved conservation area management. They are supported by activities to improve forest management (key results 3-5) and land use governance (key results 6-8). The LESTARI Results Framework is included in the Theory of Change and Performance Indicators section in the Appendix. This year, LESTARI will: 1. Train at least 2,000 people in improved natural resource management and conservation; 2. Assist to incorporate SEA-LEDS plans into the spatial plans for at least three districts 3. Develop at least 2 model best management practices or co-management practices that are applicable across all levels of Indonesian governance; 4. Operationalize at least 2 multi-stakeholder forums in its landscapes; 5. Introduce at least three policies into the public sphere for comment; 6. Improve private sector best practices in at least two companies; 7. Demonstrably improve biodiversity conservation as measured by reduced poaching and capacity of protect area managers; 8. Leverage at least 2 million USD for conservation from innovative finance and/or REDD+ USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 24 Figure 3 Illustrative diagram of synergy between LESTARI and GOI emissions reductions targets The GHG emission reductions that must be reported up from the focal districts to the province and national levels will be measured across all sectors and land types by local governments. The 3 main strategies for the government to achieve its emissions reduction targets by 2020 in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Sector (AFOLU) are through: 1. Sustainable peatland management 2. Reduction of deforestation and land degradation levels 3. Carbon sequestration development LESTARI shares the same goals as GOI. The governance and advocacy building technical theme of LESTARI may not directly impact land use or management, but will promote the three main strategies above. These strategies deliver assistance in the wider operational landscape (including the value landscape) where GHG emission reductions as a whole are to be measured, contributing to the 26% GHG emission reduction commitment. Reducing emissions by 26% below the baseline is an enormous task. The sustainable landscape vision developed through Multi-stakeholder Forums and other local partners will be key in encouraging the government to achieve this commitment within LESTARI operational landscapes. Grants and subcontracts working on community livelihoods that indirectly impact reduced emissions will also be measured within this commitment bracket. Areas that are directly impacted by the project by improving the capacity and management of stakeholders charged with land management will be monitored for reduction in GHG emissions that contribute to the 41% commitment bracket. This will predominantly be where themes 2 and 3 of LESTARI interface with National Park authorities, BKSDA, local communities and the private sector through direct technical assistance and project implementation, or through grants and subcontracts. As land managers are only indicative at present (i.e. national park authorities and certain private sector entities), reduced emissions through LESTARI direct interventions with these actors will be measured as and when USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 25 partnerships are developed and thus attributed to the project. A breakdown of emissions reductions and areas under improved management by LESTARI landscape is detailed in the table below. Table 3 Key LESTARI targets at the landscape level Key LESTARI Landscape Outcomes LESTARI Landscape Areas Under Improved Management (ha) Reduced Emissions (Mio t.CO2-eq) Leuser Landscape 1,257,650 7,980,758 Katingan – Kahayan Landscape 2,938,786 55,644,567 Lorentz Lowlands Landscape 4,533,299 16,716,299 Mappi – Bouven Digoel Landscape 2,240,882 13,847,379 Sarmi Landscape 986,328 1,368,478 Cyclops Landscape 36,056 111,367 TOTAL 11,993,001 95,668,848 LESTARI TEAM Staff The success of LESTARI requires mobilization of diverse government, private sector, and civil society partners to understand and commit to a sustainable development vision that balances LEDS and biodiversity conservation to reduce GHG emissions at the landscape level. LESTARI staff have technical capacity in climate change and conservation, trusted and established relationships and networks with stakeholders at all levels, and leadership to inspire staff and partners to achieve results. All but three long-term staff are Indonesian professionals, and our entire team has strong technical and management expertise in Indonesia. Regional coordinators (Aceh and Papua Provincial Coordinators, and Central Kalimantan Landscape Coordinator) are from their respective landscapes, bringing established relationships and networks with local language capacity and cultural sensitivities. All key staff and the senior management team have worked together successfully on previous projects—many on IFACS and on previous USAID programs. The three long-term expatriates—COP Reed Merrill, DCOP Nev Kemp, and Forest Governance Advisor Chris Bennett—demonstrate their fluency in Bahasa, cultural sensitivity, established networks, and professional capacity through previous achievements in climate change and conservation in LESTARI’s Aceh, Kalimantan, and Papua landscapes and at the national level. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 26 Implementation Partners Table 4 LESTARI Implementation Partners Partner Role Overall technical and administrative project management Lead donor and government coordination, communication and local capacity development activities. Monitoring, evaluation & learning Description Vermont-based consulting firm for 35+ years, Tetra Tech is a highly experienced USAID partner in the forest sector, currently taking a leading role on implementing the Agency’s efforts to support REDD+ strategies globally Winrock International Provide Private Sector Engagement Coordinator and Component 3 Lead Develop provincial and district sustainability tools Implement Sustainability Reporting Toolkit for private sector companies Develop baseline and REL Leading international NGO in NRM, carbon measurement, and MRV; implementer of the Indonesia CIRCLE project working on oil palm sustainability and best management practices Michigan State University Establish university linkages and build capacity of key provincial universities to play more practical, applied role in support of local government in reduced GHG emissions & expansion of LEDS US academic institution, REPLACE partner, with strong ties to Indonesian academic institutions; hosts leading center on global climate change with in-depth experience in carbon MRV worldwide Identify and lead development of community-based tourism activities, mentor local organizations related to ecotourism, and create PPPs with international businesses An NGO and REPLACE partner with extensive experience in Indonesia that helps communities and businesses develop tools and relationships to make tourism more beneficial for everyone; experience working on Indonesia tourism policies and PPPs National NGO with over 400 staff and strong presence in Papua, with a budget of $1.1M in Papua alone; facilitated creation and supports Sebangau NP and peatland restoration; IFACS subcontractor in Asmat Tetra Tech Sustainable Travel International WWF-Indonesia Manage Mimika, Asmat and Sarmi landscapes and Cyclops Mountain Nature Reserve activities Improve management of Lorentz and Sebangau NPs, including comanagement of surrounding areas Leverage financial resources to improve PA management Wildlife Conservation Society Improve management of Leuser and Singkil PAs Provide leadership on anti-poaching and wildlife enforcement Leverage financial resources to improve PA management International NGO renowned for its science and technology related to wildlife conservation, protected area management, and controlling illegal wildlife trade; actively engaged in Leuser NP and work on wildlife trafficking in Indonesia FIELD Lead village constituency and advocacy activities Develop Lestari Boot Camp training Provide field staff to Aceh Tenggara, Aceh Selatan, and Central Kalimantan landscapes Strong national NGO renowned for its work with farmer field schools, participative community organization, and livelihood; IFACS subcontractor working on CCLAs in over 400 villages Sahabat Cipta (Swiss ContactIndonesia) Foster livelihood expansion and comanagement in the Aceh landscapes Develop PPPs to foster value chain consolidation in cocoa, nutmeg, and NTFPs National NGO with strong experience in Aceh and cocoa value chains; growing experience in climate change adaptation; IFACS subcontractor on livelihoods in Aceh PT Hydro Indonesia (South Pole Carbon Asset Management, Ltd) Provide national climate finance experts Lead support to provincial and district governments in REDD+-related activities Provide national level policy support National consulting firm working on CDM and REDD+ projects, advisors to Ministry of Forestry and REDD+ Agency, and IFACS subcontractor working on concept notes for REDD+ Blue Forests Expand mangrove management activities from Mimika to Asmat Develop REDD+ or PES package for mangrove conservation National NGO with strong expertise in mangrove co-management and conservation. IFACS subcontractor working in Mimika on Mangrove Action Plans. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 27 Partner Role Leverage financial resources to improve PA management Description Tetra Tech has cultivated strong partnerships with the GOI at all levels, as well as with other stakeholders in the LESTARI landscapes and at the provincial and national levels. These are based on trust and respect that have taken many years to develop. They are now paying off under IFACS and are vital to the successful implementation of LESTARI. We will build on these partnerships to increase impact on LESTARI by involving our partners from the onset in the Landscape Baseline Analysis Plan and our initial work planning. LESTARI will work through the MSFs and government working groups and engage CBOs that represent constituents that may not be adequately represented in the MSF. It will deepen relationships at the provincial and national levels by co-locating the Kalimantan Landscape Coordinator, Aceh Provincial Coordinator, and Papua Provincial Governance Specialist in provincial government offices. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 28 LESTARI’S STRATEGY This chapter introduces LESTARI’s overall strategy for achieving its emissions reduction and biodiversity conservation objectives. It begins with a discussion of the Landscape Approach, which is LESTARI’s overarching approach to engaging stakeholders and fostering a shared vision for sustainable land use. Next, the chapter explains the various successful tools that were developed under IFACS and will be operationalized under LESTARI. This demonstrates the strong bridge between the previous and current project, as well as LESTARI’s commitment to producing lasting and sustainable impact. Lastly, the chapter discusses the various new tools chosen and adapted for LESTARI in order to address the unique and pressing challenges to emissions reduction and biodiversity conservation facing its landscapes. LANDSAPE APPROACH LESTARI applies a landscape approach – a land use management framework that seeks to integrate policies and actions across sectors in order to harmonize development and conservation objectives. In other words, the landscape approach is integrated, aiming to ensure that all the uses of land and all the users of that land are being addressed. Based on the lessons learned from USAID IFACS, LESTARI develops a clearer and more effective landscape approach. IFACS was working in regions (termed IFACS landscapes) and had activities that attempted to aggregate results into landscape-scale actions on climate change. GHG emission reductions were measured in carbon benefits applied to the specific areas where activities were implemented. Although this approach was effective, it was difficult to impact the landscape as a whole. Where initiatives did take a large geographic scale (a proxy of the geographic ‘landscape’), such as the SEA-LEDS, these were confined to a specific jurisdiction and not necessary effective in impacting a contiguous landscape where social, biological, and physical factors interact. LESTARI is tasked with reducing GHG emissions by 41% within the landscapes. This will contribute to the GOI GHG emissions reduction commitment of 26% unilaterally and 41% with international assistance by 2020 (plus aiming for 7% growth). In order to achieve these ambitious targets (that cover the entire landscape for the 26% contribution of GHG emissions reduction, as well as sites within these landscapes where additional GHG emissions reduction up to 41 % should be achieved), the project must use landscape approach principles. Elements of a landscape approach needed for success have been synthesized by Sayer et al1. As they put it, landscape approaches seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture, mining, and other productive land uses compete with environmental and biodiversity goals. They have summarized landscape approaches based on published literature, and a consensus-building process to define good practices validated through surveys with practitioners. The authors found that the landscape approach has been refined in response to increasing societal concerns about environment and development tradeoffs. They provide 10 principles to support implementation of a landscape approach as currently 1 Jeffrey Sayer, Terry Sunderland, Jaboury Ghazoul, Jean-Laurent Pfund, Douglas Sheil Erik Meijaard, Michelle Venter, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono, Michael Day, Claude Garcia, Cora van Oosten, and Louise E. Buck. 2013. Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses. Available at www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1210595110 PNAS USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 29 interpreted by practitioners. Although the principles do not provide a panacea, they can provide a starting point for an improved landscape approach to challenges such as those faced by the LESTARI project. Elements of a landscape approach needed for success include: 1. Adaptive Management / Continual Learning 2. Common Concern Entry Point 3. Multiple Scales 4. Multi-Functionality 5. Multi-Stakeholder 6. Negotiated and Transparent Change Logic 7. Clarification of Rights and Responsibilities 8. Participatory and User-friendly Monitoring 9. Resilience 10. Strengthened Stakeholder Capacity Figure 4 Elements of a Landscape approach Below are some of the essential landscape approach elements contextualized for LESTARI. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 30 Adaptive Management Landscape processes are dynamic, and changes in landscapes must inform management. The landscape is often exposed to shocks and unintended impacts that expose previously unknown or ignored interactions. These are learning opportunities and serve as the basis for revised landscape strategies. Learning from multiple sources and revision of strategies requires continual adjustment that leads to Adaptive Management Framework adaptive management. A principle aspect of governance, collaborative management in national parks, and building constituencies will benefit from the application of adaptive management. Tools developed under USAID IFACS such as KLHS, and Collaborative Management Frameworks for Mangroves and National Parks all apply these principles. LESTARI’s management structure is based on an adaptive management framework, with the goal of learning from the activity’s successes and failures over the activity lifetime. LESTARI will use quantitative and qualitative analysis of success at a timescale of sufficient temporal resolution to build on successes and make corrections when investments are unproductive. While the contract requires that LESTARI achieve the required results for all objectives at a minimum, there is significant flexibility to design and implement activities that address the required scope of work. Common Concern Entry Point Solutions to landscape scale problems need to be based on shared objectives and values. However, stakeholders always have different values, beliefs, and objectives; so, aligning these from the start is unlikely. Therefore, LESTARI identifies ‘entry points’ that bring landscape stakeholders together and upon which short-term progress can be built. IFACS tried to build common entry points for the landscapes – low emission development visions – with the MSF charters. These need to be revisited and consolidated to define how multiple stakeholders can work together to achieve a landscape approach to conservation and development. The mangroves along the southern coast of Papua, in the Lorentz Lowlands Landscape, is one example of a common entry point that stakeholders have identified as a priority. The issue of fire and its management is another example of a common entry point for multiple stakeholders in the Katingan – Kahayan Landscape. Clarification of Roles and Responsibilities Rules on natural resource access and land use have a large impact on the social and conservation outcomes in the landscape in Indonesia. These need to be clear and understood to be the basis for good landscape management. This is often not the case in landscapes; for example, unfamiliarity with boundaries of conservation areas and ignorance of the land use zonation under the spatial plan are common. An important aspect of the landscape approach will involve the communication of these plans and the regulations associated with them. However, this also needs to be coupled with a fair and accessible process for managing conflict where it arises. Very often, spatial plans in Indonesia do not take into account the traditional land use and rights to resources held by local communities. A balancing mechanism through tools such as the Community Conservation Agreement and USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 31 participatory mapping is important to resolve conflicts and strengthen spatial plans that are supported by multiple stakeholders in the landscape. Multiple Scales and Multi-stakeholders Outcomes in the landscape are shaped by many processes operating at various scales. An awareness of these higher- and lower-level processes can improve local interventions and inform higher-level policy and governance that affects the landscape. Failure to engage the many different actors in decision-making processes will lead to suboptimal, and sometimes unethical outcomes. All stakeholders should be recognized, even though the pursuit of negotiated solutions may involve only a subset of these stakeholders. District awareness of local interventions through MSF / cross-sectoral working groups has shown promise in changing policy. The impact of large-scale developments or higher level policies on the local landscape is where provincial governance and communication efforts have an important part to play in LESTARI. Multiple Functionality and Resilience Landscapes have multiple uses, each of which is valued in different ways by different stakeholders. Tradeoffs among differing land uses need to be first recognized and quantified before they can be reconciled. Resilience is an important underlying factor for sustainable landscapes. Resilience can be expressed in terms of ecological, social, and economic stability to external pressures, such as those caused by climate change. The SEA-LEDS developed under IFACS attempted to reconcile different land uses and proposed scenarios that were more acceptable to multiple stakeholders, reduced GHG emissions and promoted low emission development. LESTARI is synchronized with GOI’s emissions targets and also seeks to promote economic, ecological, and social resilience as a climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy. The delineation of landscapes is a critical process that affects where and how LESTARI activities will be implemented on the ground, and where the impact of these activities is measured. LESTARI proposes the application of the term “value landscapes” and “operational landscapes”. • • 2 Value Landscapes (VL) lie within operational landscapes and are defined as the areas where the impacts of LESTARI activities—to reduce deforestation and degradation—are measured. The VL is defined and delineated by the current2 extent of primary and secondary forest and all peatlands. Operational Landscapes (OL) are defined as where landscape level LESTARIsupported actions will take place. The OL is also used to define the historical landbased Reference Emission Level (see below) where deforestation and degradation have been experienced during the base years used. The latest available ‘current’ base year used to map the extent of primary and secondary forest and peatlands in the LESTARI landscape was 2013. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 32 Figure 5 Value and Operational Landscapes definition THEORY OF CHANGE LESTARI is implementing and integrating the framework required by all USAID projects with a biodiversity objective, termed USAID’s “Biodiversity Code”. All project activities that are designed to improve biodiversity are designed with a systematic enumeration of the threats and drivers of biodiversity loss, and a corresponding “Theory of Change” that articulates how interventions are expected to address threats to biodiversity, drivers of biodiversity loss, and lead to positive biodiversity outcomes. The LESTARI monitoring and evaluation framework is built using indicators to monitor the postulated outcomes, and will allow the project to adjust its theory and interventions if outcomes are not as expected. The results framework for the project is shown in the Theory of Change and Performance Indicators section at the rear of this document, and the full results chains for each Strategic Approach in the Technical Themes chapter. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 33 Figure 6 LESTARI diagrammatic results framework USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 34 TOOLS FOR LESTARI LESTARI will build on and operationalize many of the foundational tools developed under IFACS. These include: the Multi-stakeholder Forum (MSF), Strategic Environmental Assessment and Low Emissions Development Strategies (SEA – LEDS), Landscape Conservation Plan (LCP), Conservation Management and Monitoring Plan (CMMP), and Community Conservation and Livelihoods Agreement (CCLA). LESTARI will also implement various new and innovative tools in its landscapes, including: Integrated Fire Management, Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool, Sustainability Investment Screening Tool, and Theory of Change. Together, these tools provide a broad range of options that cut across all three technical themes and allow the LESTARI team to implement strategies and achieve results in a targeted manner. IFACS Foundational Tools Multi-stakeholder Forums A key successful and lasting initiative developed under IFACS, MSFs give a voice to all vested parties in the land use decision-making process. MSF members come from local government agencies, NGOs, cultural or religious organizations, private sector entities, universities, media, and local communities. All MSF members are committed to promoting a more inclusive and transparent governing process that conserves forest and biodiversity resources and improves overall welfare. MSFs focus on including underrepresented social groups, such as women and minority groups, so that they can advocate for and assert their rights. They are a key mechanism for strengthening citizen-based mechanisms for public input on land use. A strong and inclusive MSF, in conjunction with LCPs and SEA-LEDS, will allow for greater engagement with district governments on creating spatial plans and medium term development plans that incorporate equitable and sustainable land use. In building from IFACS, LESTARI will continue to implement MSFs in each of its focal districts as a cornerstone to improving constituencies for conservation. Currently, IFACS’ MSFs in Aceh Selatan, Gayo Lues, Pulang Pisau, Mimika, and Sarmi have received recognition via Bupati decree (SK), while MSFs in Aceh Tenggara and Asmat are still awaiting approval. All IFACS’ MSFs in Aceh, Central Kalimantan, and Papua have been trained in and are capable of producing LCPs. The overall vision for MSFs under LESTARI is to foster a dynamic and open platform for local stakeholders to be heard and be accountable for the commitments they make. To encourage stakeholder expression of concerns and expectations, MSFs will be places for reasoned public discourse (sensu Amarya Sen, The Idea of Justice) where different, even usually-opposing stakeholders find a conducive setting to talk through problems that too often are polarizing. While we recognize that MSFs are not decision-making bodies, we will institutionalize their roles through regularized work plans and annual meetings. This will increase their political and government recognition, pressuring policymakers to acknowledge the MSFs role to enhance transparent and accountable environmental governance. In bridging the MSFs impact up from the district level to provincial level, LESTARI will implement a phased approach. Even as decision-making shifts formally to the provinces, the “voices” of the districts must not be silenced. The provinces must depend upon districts’ input or be accused of making uninformed decisions that impact district communities. Therefore, there will be the need for MSFs at the provincial level where district representatives are heard following a similar approach to those at the district level. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 35 Strategic Environmental Assessment and Low Emissions Development Strategies (SEA – LEDS) SEAs are a key part of the spatial planning process and required by Law No. 32 / 2009 on Environmental Protection and Management. Written by a team within the district government, they assess how government policies, plans, and programs are likely to be affected by climate change, poverty, social cohesion, ecosystems, and biodiversity. A comprehensive and accurate SEA is crucial to developing a spatial plan that incorporates LEDS. Hence IFACS provided the necessary technical support for district governments to complete high-quality SEAs. Landscape Conservation Plan (LCP) In conjunction, LCPs were developed under IFACS as a tool to give local communities quality information about the conservation value of their land and ensure that government plans consider local conservation needs. The LCP highlights areas of HCV, identifies threats to these areas (i.e., deforestation for agriculture, wildfires), and suggests interventions to mitigate these threats. IFACS supported the development of quality LCPs and SEA-LEDS to guide district spatial planning that encompasses a vision for integrated land use, sustainable and equitable LEDS, and conservation of critical environmental services. Although IFACS’ work in supporting LCPs and SEA-LEDS was a critical first step in building capacity and awareness for conservation and LEDS, much more technical support is required. None of the SEA-LEDS supported by IFACS have been incorporated into district spatial plans and on-the-ground results are negligible due to long periods required for approval across the various levels of government. Hence LESTARI will operationalize both LCPs and SEA-LEDS through the following: Work through local government and the MSF to integrate district-level spatial planning work with the provincial level Expand impact at district and landscape levels by integrating spatial planning into RPJMs’ planning and budgeting as well as licensing Influence policy at the national level Leverage budget support through facilitating dialog between focal district/landscape and provincial to national-level government agencies so that their recommendations are officially incorporated into district and provincial spatial plans Conservation Management and Monitoring Plan (CMMP) CMMPs established under IFACS provide a framework for private sector entities to develop and implement their corporate responsibilities in land use and conservation. IFACS supported CMMP development by partnering with companies to identify areas of HCV and HCS within their concessions and subsequently developing strategies to manage threats to these areas/assets. LESTARI will build upon this work by engaging with the private sector to operationalize CMMPs. This will involve supporting the implementation of best management practices and acquisition of third party sustainability certification such as FSC and RSPO. LESTARI will also support companies in developing public-private-partnerships for green enterprises. This will target both new ventures into eco-friendly businesses, and support existing business such as palm oil or fiber firms adapting emission-reducing technologies. Community Conservation and Livelihoods Agreement (CCLA) CCLAs developed under IFACS are contracts under which the community agrees to undertake activities aimed at rehabilitating and conserving their natural resources in exchange for training or support for sustainable livelihood development. The CCLA also establishes a community-based monitoring system to make sure that all community USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 36 members comply with the agreed rules. IFACS successfully established 181 CCLAs in target villages. These agreements, now referred to as Community Conservation Agreements / Kesepakatan Konservasi Masyarakat (CCAs/KKMs) will be expanded under LESTARI through the following: Expand CCAs/KKMs to cover 400 villages Through the Grants Fund, identify and then set aside critical areas that contribute to sustainable livelihoods development for women and men alike Train representatives from villages with CCAs/KKMs, including women and indigenous groups, on their rights related to land use with a focus on the new policy developments New Tools LESTARI applies a range of new and innovative tools to accomplish its key results of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving biodiversity in its target landscapes. These tools cut across all technical themes and help the LESTARI team to improve protected area management, engage with the private sector, incentivize ecosystem preservation among stakeholders, and build capacity among constituencies for sustainable land use decision-making. Integrated Fire Management for Kalimantan Approximately 80% of Indonesia’s GHG emissions is from land based activities, and of those land based activities 80% is from fires. It is estimated that from those fires, 95% of the smoke haze is from peatlands, which are especially prevalent in Central Kalimantan Province. Using this analysis as a backdrop, it is clear that considerable effort into peatland fire prevention will return significant benefits toward GHG emissions targets, as well as reduce human health impacts, reduce economic losses, and mitigate further environmental degradation. Indonesia is recognized as hosting two wet and dry seasons across the each year, commonly referred to as the southern monsoon and the northern monsoon (referring to the rainfall directional patterns). The intervening dry period is when land use change activities are at their peak, and the use of fire is often used as part of that process. When considering fire management activities across a year, the use of a seasonal calendar to guide the timing and duration for activities can be of benefit to schedule work and specific activities to fit within the seasonal patterns. Integrated Fire Management (IFM) is being introduced to LESTARI as a core set of fire management activities, elaborated within a robust and recognized model of management. IFM is a holistic approach to fire management where multiple agencies, private, and community teams can join together during fire prevention and suppression efforts to support each other. Integrated Fire Management recognizes that fire cannot be managed by one single agency or landholder. It is a shared responsibility across all land managers in the public and private sector, both small holder and large land holders. Community Based Fire Management (CBFiM) is an offshoot of Community Based Natural Resource management (CBNRM). Aimed at working with people and communities, it highlights the need to properly engage with communities who are both igniting fires (for livelihood sustainability) and being impacted by fires. It is appreciated that 100% of fires in Indonesia are human caused, so a people engagement process is an essential part of the planning and implementation process within an IFM plan. LESTARI integrates both of these established frameworks for addressing fire-related challenges in its Central Kalimantan landscapes. IFM is the overall guiding framework used USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 37 to characterize circumstances and formulate strategies, within which CBFiM is used to capture insights from community stakeholder groups. In addition to preventing and suppressing fire, this tool will also incorporate peatland restoration, which is especially critical in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape. Hence restoration activities will go beyond fire prevention to include silviculture, replanting, and rewetting. Table 5 LESTARI fire management approach Fire Management Approach for LESTARI USAID LESTARI will utilize the guiding frameworks of Integrated Fire Management (IFM) and Community Based Fire Management (CBFiM) concurrently. The IFM framework will characterize and capture the landscape scale fire circumstance, planning and activities. The scale of an IFM plan and set of activities will be approximately a sub-district scale. The CBFiM framework will characterize and capture community level insight, information and decisions relating to fire management in their sphere of influence. The scale of a CBFiM component input could be a single village or cluster of villages together, dependent upon consistency or disparity of information and perspectives between villages. Integrated Fire Management Event Analysis Fire Cause and Fire Behavior assessment. Describe the fire type and characteristics, ignition source, fire behavior, recurrence and history. Impact Analysis Analyze Fire Impact on human and other values impacted by fire, including; livelihood sustainability, social, cultural, economic, ecological, and environmental impact Context Analysis Analyze the current and planned land use pattern in order to predict changing events and impacts Community Based Fire Management Scene Setting Introductory meetings with Local Government, stakeholders and community participants Fire and livelihood Assessment Discussion of Fire and Livelihood Assets and the response of residents and government to fire, and discussion on Impact of Fire on Capital Assets and Livelihoods (Calendar related to fire, historical context of fire, fire and capital assets) Village Mapping Map development, transects and validation of maps Vulnerability and Resilience Analysis including assets and livelihoods IFM Strategies and Actions Prevention Preparedness Response and Recovery Approvals and Budget Resourcing Seek Government endorsement for the plan and suitable budget and resources to implement Community Actions Local fire management actions, nesting these within the local Government IFM plan, for joint initiative and support Socializing the Plan Field day and field exercises to build engagement and ownership USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 38 Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) The Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) was developed by the World Wildlife Foundation and The World Bank to track and monitor the effectiveness of protected area management. It provides a rapid and replicable assessment designed to reveal trends, standardize assessment and reporting, and aid in adaptive management. METT’s straightforward questions allow park management authorities to complete the assessment without requiring outside research. It consists of two primary sections – datasheets and an assessment form. The datasheets contain contextual information such as size and location, local designation, and budget, as well as a ranking of threats. The assessment form consists of a 30-question scorecard that quantifies performance based on a 4-point scale (0-3). Each question also requires an explanation for qualitative judgments, such as detailing the level of staff knowledge or results from external studies. A sample section of the assessment form is depicted below: Table 6 METT Issue Criteria 1. Legal status Does the protected area have legal status (or in the case of private reserves is covered by a covenant or similar)? Context Score: Tick only one box per question The protected area is not gazetted/covenanted 0 There is agreement that the protected area should be gazetted/covenanted but the process has not yet begun 1 The protected area is in the process of being gazetted/covenanted but the process is still incomplete (includes sites designated under international conventions, such as Ramsar, or local/traditional law such as community conserved areas, which do not yet have national legal status or covenant) 2 The protected area has been formally gazetted/covenanted 3 Comment/ Explanation Next steps Overall METT encompasses 6 key elements (context, planning, inputs, process, outputs, and outcomes) crucial to effective protected area management. METT allows park managers to identify needs, constraints, and priority actions to improve protected area management. This is illustrated in the following diagram. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 39 CONTEXT Values and threats PLANNING Vision of where we want to be INPUTS Allocation of resources PROCESS Management actions OUTPUTS Products and services OUCOMES Impacts achieved METT is one of the key strategic tools utilized in implementing LESTARI’s technical theme 2: conservation co-management. In addition to its thoroughness and user-friendly design, METT was selected because it allows the LESTARI team to monitor a portfolio of sites with a single, cost-effective tool. Specifically, LESTARI will work with the Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHKA) to further refine METT and apply it to each Conservation Area. The LESTARI team will also hold training and capacity-building events for PA managers, patrol managers, and other staff on monitoring, co-management, ecotourism, wildlife trafficking and poaching, gender issues, and others as appropriate and informed by the METT for each PA. Further details on how and where METT will be implemented can be found in the Landscape Work Plans. Sustainability Investment Screening Tool Companies that are engaged in unsustainable business practices, especially in resourceintensive sectors such as palm oil, are left exposed to greater regulatory, reputational, and operational risks. Hence there is a growing appetite among the private sector for integrating best management practices for sustainability, such as measuring and reporting emissions, setting quantifiable targets to reduce impacts, and adopting third party certification schemes. At the same time the national government in Indonesia is setting conservation and sustainability targets for industries. Initial guidance on how to account for these conservation and sustainability targets, and acquire licensing and permitting are emerging, but practical systems for implementation are yet to be tested at the provincial and district level. To promote private sector engagement and pilot provincial and district level accounting of emissions and conservation targets, Winrock will develop a Sustainability Reporting Tool (private sector focused) and an Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Tool (public sector focused). These toolkits build off Winrock’s Sustainability Investment Screening Tool that was developed under the CIRCLE Project and screens oil palm mills against sustainability criteria. The new toolkits will work across all major private land use sectors (oil palm, forestry, mining, agroforestry, and agriculture), and will provide a spatially explicit GIS platform that will enable monitoring and planning at the district and provincial level. The goal for private sector Sustainability Reporting Tool is to enable different sectors to follow simple and consistent methods, have access to appropriate data, all facilitated by a set of user-friendly tools that will allow licensing and permitting for conservation and sustainability targets in Indonesia and for third-party standards (e.g. FSC, RSPO). The goal for the public Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Tool is to work closely with district and provincial governments, asses their existing systems for land use management, work to integrate conservation and sustainability involving licensing and USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 40 permitting into these existing systems, and to develop a GIS platform that presents existing data in a format that enables better land use planning and monitoring tool. LESTARI will operationalize these tools in its engagement with district governments and the private sector to identify and promote best management practices. The toolkit will enhance licensing and permitting processes by assessing the viability and sustainability of proposed land use investments. It will enable transparency, consistency, and meet national, international, and third party sustainability standards. It will ultimately support decisionmakers to transparently determine if licenses should be given for proposed investments. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 41 LESTARI TECHNICAL THEMES LESTARI is implemented through three integrated, synergistic technical themes, each with core strategic approaches used to operationalize it (see Appendix for LESTARI Results Framework). These themes integrate the contract’s technical components, with the contract’s intermediate results included within the appropriate theme for each (see Appendix 4: Map of Technical Components and Tasks to Strategic Approaches). Strategic approaches in turn integrate the foundational and new tools and are used as appropriate in project landscapes. 1 Forest land use governance and advocacy Lestari Technical Themes 3 Private sector engagement 2 Conservation CoManagemetn Figure 7 LESTARI technical themes TECHNICAL THEME 1: FOREST & LAND USE GOVERNANCE & ADVOCACY Introduction Technical Theme 1 focuses on supporting effective forest and land use governance practices while building strong constituencies that can advocate for their communities’ rights and interests. We will implement a range of strategic approaches to support this theme and foster a shared vision for sustainable land use. This will include increasing media, government, and local level awareness; operationalizing LCPs and SEAs; and enhancing environmental governance practices at the district level. Our theory of change for this technical theme is that through strengthened governance and advocacy (including inclusive and transparent planning, budgeting and increased funding, natural resource licensing, and USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 42 monitoring and enforcement), biodiversity will be conserved and emissions ultimately reduced in LESTARI landscapes. LESTARI 1 - Awareness and Advocacy Leaders and public alike are becoming more attuned to their natural resource management (NRM) problems given decades of rampant deforestation, the choking haze of land and peat fires across Sumatra and Kalimantan, and unmet promises of improved rural livelihoods. Advocacy is essential to the success of the overall project. It builds on awareness developed through IFACS and integrates activities to ensure all local stakeholders, especially underrepresented and marginalized groups, are equipped to contribute to sustainable land use decisions and policy through informed action. Stakeholders will be engaged through MSF communication and outreach campaigns, which will give them a voice about the efficacy of past tools (such as CCLA, CMMPs and BMPs) and other initiatives that should be implemented in support of conservation and reducing deforestation. Our theory of change is that better-informed constituencies for conservation3 will both reduce the level of deforestation and lobby for policy that supports forest conservation (see Figure 8 LESTARI 1 Theory of Change). The awareness and advocacy strategic approach includes the following (contractual) tasks: C1.1 Increase Government Level Awareness, Appreciation, and Advocacy; C4.1 Improve Local Level Awareness, Appreciation, and Advocacy; and C4.2 Empower Media Coverage of Environmental Issues Increasing stakeholder’s awareness and appreciation of LEDS and biodiversity conservation has been a major part of IFACS. LESTARI will deepen and expand previous MSF communication initiatives in focal districts, and integrate this into results-driven dialogue between communities, district decision-makers, and regional and national levels. Different than a communications strategy, the awareness and advocacy strategic approach includes a wide set of activities to build broad-based awareness, appreciation, and advocacy on LEDS and biodiversity conservation, and generate the demand for increased and diversified participation in land use decision making and benefit sharing that leads to government decision-makers embracing a conservation and sustainable vision for land use. Because every district is unique, LESTARI will develop awareness and advocacy strategies with the MSF in each district although the general aims will be the same—the formation of strong sustainability visions based on broad-based constituencies. The strategic approach will identify target audiences, messages, and desired behavior changes, both in community level constituents and decision-makers. In particular, the strategy will identify potential local resources and organizations capable of playing a role in constituency building, particularly those underrepresented in the MSFs, where support through grants, subcontracts, or PPPs can be provided. As such, implementation of the awareness and advocacy strategies can be an ideal entry point for the revitalization of the MSF, and the revision of their core objectives that can be facilitated over the course of LESTARI, including the advocacy for government to adopt sustainable development visions that impact land use and reduce deforestation and degradation. The strategy will be augmented through the effective use of the media through frequent engagement with media representatives, training, and provision of accurate, evidence-based, and engaging stories, both successes and problematic cases such as NRM 3 Including men, women, youth, and indigenous groups in targeted landscapes, and including groups with secured rights, benefits and responsibilities through NRM co-management, and derive co-benefits from conservation and sustainable use of forest resources. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 43 conflicts between communities and third parties, to develop constituencies for sustainable development. LESTARI will launch a green governance award campaign this year, bringing positive recognition and modest monetary rewards for good practice among the government, NGOs, and private sector. Table 7 LESTARI Strategic Approach 1 LESTARI 1 - AWARENESS AND ADVOCACY Activities 1.1. Awareness and advocacy strategy analysis Inputs LESTARI staff Milestones Target audience, message, desired behavior, and appropriate media identified Potential local resources and organizations capable of playing a role in constituency building identified 1.2 Formation of community-civil society champions LESTARI staff Civil society champions trained and advocated for strong sustainability vision 1.3 Awareness and advocacy strategy implementation LESTARI staff Advocacy campaigns conducted starting in 1st year in each landscape; leading to target audiences receiving message, retaining knowledge, changing attitudes, values, and behaviors – constituencies for conservation developed 1.4 Empowerment of media coverage LESTARI staff Formation of Aceh, Papua and Central Kalimantan journalist networks, Q4 At least 2 journalist field visits to encourage reporting on LESTARI landscape, LEDS, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation issues in 1st year 1.5 Advocacy and lobbying LESTARI staff Sustainable development vision developed by government advocacy campaigns conducted in 1st year in each landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 44 Figure 8 LESTARI 1 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 45 LESTARI 2 - Operationalize Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs) The strategic approach to operationalize Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs) builds from the tools developed under IFACS. IFACS facilitated preparation of SEA-LEDS with government agencies and LCPs with MSFs in 11 focal districts. SEAs-LEDS assess the environmental impact of policies, plans, and programs, providing alternative development options and impact mitigations to ensure sustainable development. Crucially, they require public consultation to enable transparency and improved governance. LCPs augment SEAs-LEDS by including priority HCV and HCS forest areas in the landscape in a plan for conserving these areas. Together they set the framework for improved forest management. Major planning instruments (RPJM/P, RTRW, annual APBD, etc.) are supposed to take into account the findings of SEAs that are the responsibility of a government agency, usually BAPPEDA. SEAs are assessment tools, not plans and therefore not legalized which would unnecessarily restrict ongoing and iterative revsions when new data and results of partial assessments become available. That being said, LESTARI will rigorously promote their use and verify that the formal planning instruments take the SEA-LEDS recommendations for conservation into account. Of particular concern is the recommendations for changes in the spatial plan that the SEA-LEDS have highlighted in the optimum scenario, and areas of HCV and HCS forest throughout the landscape that are at threat and located in areas designated for development. Our theory of change is that the incorporation of SEA-LEDS and LCPs recommendations into government planning documents will lead to more sustainable land use policy, which contributes to conserving biodiversity and reducing emissions (see Figure 9 LESTARI 2 Theory of Change). C1.2 Operationalize Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs) LESTARI will assist local governments to produce publically available information on the status and availability of all strategic assessments and plans (SEA and RENSTRA) as well as development plans (RPJM, RTRW, RAD, etc.). Once the RPJMD has been completed, it is not changed for that period. A later SEA, however, can be used as a reference for the RPJMD to be evaluated and a future RPJMD (next cabinet) changed accordingly. Please refer to the Appendix for the table on Spatial Planning and SEA document status in LESTARI Landscapes. While the most effective regulations that impact HCV and high carbon stock forest are the spatial plan and mid-term development plan, other regulations may prove effective as LESTARI unfolds in the landscape. The flow of activities in table 8 includes the development of regulations that incorporate recommendations from the SEA-LEDS, LCP and position papers produced under IFACS. We have widened the scope of regulations that may be developed or updated with these recommendations. In the first year, LESTARI will conduct assessments to evaluate the status of the SEAs and LCPs and the incorporation of their recommendations into policies, plans, and programs affecting the environment; and the appropriate form of working group needed to update SEAs and LCPs. Every effort will be made to ensure that responsible local agencies have a resilient sense of ownership in LESTARI through aligning LESTARI and their goals. A work plan for the thorough integration of SEA and LCP will be developed by the end of the year. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 46 Table 8 LESTARI Strategic Approach 2 LESTARI 2 - OPERATIONALIZE SEAs AND LCPs Activities Inputs Milestones 2.1 SEA-LEDS and LCP recommendation analysis LESTARI staff 2.2 Formation and facilitation of appropriate level SEA-LEDS working groups LESTARI staff Appropriate level SEA-LEDS working groups formed (involving elements of MSF) to drive forward operationalization activities 2.3 LCP revision and LCP-SEALEDS integration plan (updated position paper produced under IFACS) LESTARI staff Updated LCP and operationalization work plan for incorporation of LCP and SEALEDS recommendations into provincial and district spatial plans and mediumterm development plans and budgets identified 2.4 Regulation development that incorporates SEA and LCP recommendations LESTARI staff District and Provincial spatial plans and medium-term development plans and budgets that incorporate SEA and LCP recommendations 2.5 Capacity building for district government for planning and management in accordance with SEA and LCP recommendations LESTARI staff RENSTRA (annual strategic plans) that incorporate activities in line with SEA and LCP recommendations STTA Status analysis of SEA-LEDS and LCP recommendations and their incorporation into provincial and district spatial plans and medium-term development plans and budgets identified USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 47 Figure 9 LESTARI 2 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 48 LESTARI 3 - Environmental Governance Land use planning and licensing of natural resource use is the single largest contributor to GHG emissions in the LESTARI landscapes. Environmental governance is a principle strategic approach that contributes to improved planning, permitting, and enforcement of natural resource use within landscapes. It is an interlinked approach that combines introducing citizen-based mechanisms for input on land use, as well as increasing the districts’ willingness to adopt such input, with improved mechanisms for licensing, monitoring, and enforcing the use of natural resources. The strategic approach also links to operationalizing SEA and LCP recommendations and awareness and advocacy strategic approaches. Our theory of change is that strengthening community participation while improving licensing, monitoring, and enforcement processes will lead to more effective land use and forest governance, which will conserve biodiversity and reduce emissions (see Figure 11 LESTARI 3 Theory of Change). The environmental governance strategic approach includes the following (contractual) tasks: C1.3 Improve Licensing and Permitting Processes LESTARI will drive license and permitting reform at the district and provincial level that ensures more equitable and sustainable economic development while achieving emissions reduction and conservation targets in each landscape. The mechanisms for input on land use is interlinked with this task and coordination between the district and province is essential, as much of the permitting authority previously mandated to the district level has been recentralized to the province (in accordance with Law 23 of 2014). Many authorities across Indonesia have established “one-stop shops” and similar licensing transparency initiatives that will provide benchmarks and models for similar initiatives that affect the LESTARI landscapes. LESTARI will identify the formal process of shared permitting responsibilities between provinces and districts, distinguishing between procedural approval of a stage in permitting and who actually signs off, as well as how this is working and undoubtedly varying across regions. While provinces will now sign most permits, district approval will be sought because districts will be expected to oversee results and be responsible for results. During the first year, LESTARI will work with district governments to review and align licenses and permits (legally approved and in process) impacting forest and land use with their spatial plan. This work will include identifying communities, HCV, and HCS forest areas (already identified during IFACS) that lie within the concessions and other potential conflicts between high value forests and the spatial plan, and make these data and analyses available to the public at the village, district, and provincial levels. LESTARI will then work with district governments to establish protocols and procedures for ensuring informed public participation in reviewing applications for licenses and permits. A transparent, publicly accessible investment screening tool – Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Tool – will be developed by Winrock. It will assess the viability and sustainability of proposed land use projects to determine if licenses should be given for proposed investments. A dispute resolution protocol to address conflicts between proposed and actual licenses and stakeholders will be developed. This will build upon any dispute resolution mechanisms that currently exist as well as the judicial system for cases where illegal activities are found. Concurrently, we will advocate and support for the regular and transparent use of the existing regulatory processes such as environmental impact analysis (AMDAL) and environmental monitoring and management plans (UKL-UPL) Improving the licensing and permitting process is advanced in Papua — a priority given the high level of interest in conversion of this “last frontier” of HCV forest for plantations and USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 49 other extractive interests. LESTARI will build on the standard operating procedures (SOPs) developed by the UKCCU Protarih project and ensure their operationalization. This process will be quickly expanded to Central Kalimantan and Aceh to manage licensing and permitting and reduce the incidence of fires on peatlands. C1.4 Monitor and Enforce Land Use Indonesia’s recent history of forest loss and its undesirable position as a global leader in GHG emissions and air pollution from the land use sector is largely attributable to ineffective and inequitable monitoring and enforcement of the spatial plan as well as a general undervaluation of forestry resources. LESTARI will tap into the enthusiasm to support an informed and transparent overhaul of monitoring and enforcement of the spatial plan while encouraging value-added development. This includes building capacity for more scientific and participatory monitoring at the landscape level, and linking this to provincial and national targets. Indentify parties for collaberation with SDI Build monitoring capacity of SDI Facilitate land use monitoring Figure 10 Strategy for land use monitoring As monitoring and enforcement of land use under Technical Theme 1 is that related to administrative and governance aspects of land use planning LESTARI will continue to build upon IFACS progress on developing SDI units, linked to OneMap, to improve the accuracy, consistency, and availability of land use information. We will define needs for each district to carry out semi-annual monitoring of land use change to assure it is legal and consistent with the current spatial spatial plan and inline with the recommendations from the SEA-LEDS if the current spatial plan has not been revised or ratified. Meanwhile, the GIS-based tool, developed as part of the investment screening tool, will support an informed, consistent, and transparent monitoring of emissions reduction and conservation targets. C4.3 Strengthen Citizen-based Mechanisms for Public Input on Land Use LESTARI will work with district and provincial governments to create space and opportunities for citizens to engage on land use issues, especially licensing and permits and monitoring of enforcement efforts. Activities aimed at strengthening spatial data use and dissemination will involve community stakeholders and enable and inform public discourse. This task links with awareness and advocacy to build stronger constituencies for LEDS where citizens are better informed and appreciative of their natural resources and the environment. To further strengthen citizens’ ability to interact with government officials and provide public input on land use issues, LESTARI will identify groups of leaders in communities and train them in relevant policy developments in Indonesia regarding community rights and responsibilities of natural resource utilization, as well as in facilitation and public speaking to increase their effectiveness as spokespersons to advocate for these rights and responsibilities. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 50 C1.6 Increasing District Governments’ Willingness to Adopt Input from Citizen-based Mechanisms The willingness to adopt input from citizen-based mechanisms is based on trust between government and civil society. Under LESTARI, we propose to continue to use and further strengthen (and revitalize where needed) the MSFs to serve as a bridge between citizens and local government and foster trust-based relationships built upon mutual respect. LESTARI will develop and implement a program of training activities for district government officials and other MSF members on topics such as participatory development, conflict resolution, and civil society engagement, to equip the MSF with the capacity to act as a citizen-based input mechanism that reports to the government on land-use issues. This mechanism will be promoted to communities through public outreach campaigns, regular public audiences, and other appropriate channels to allow citizens to provide input on land use and report illegal activities. Concurrently, LESTARI will strengthen constituencies through awareness and advocacy strategies so that they are better prepared to provide valuable input to the district government and offer informed engagement in conservation and LEDS activities. Table 9 LESTARI Strategic Approach 3 LESTARI 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Activities 3.1 Analysis of licensing and permitting processes directly related to land use Inputs Milestones STTA Licensing and permitting assessment report clarifying BAU issues, roles and responsibilities, procedures and requirements under an improved licensing and permitting process LESTARI staff STTA Spatial plan analysis report detailing status of spatial plan, Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning, spatial plan monitoring systems, and permitting and licensing issues that will lead to environmental degradation and increased GHG emissions from HCV and HCS forest areas and potential conflicts with communities MSF MSF/working group recommendations for more transparent and environmentallyfriendly procedures 3.2 Development of licensing transparency protocols (Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Tool) and procedures at the provincial level LESTARI staff Gather all relevant data, develop methods, work with public and private partners, create a Toolkit that will enable transparency, consistency, and meet national, international, and third-party sustainability standards 3.3 Dispute resolution mechanism development LESTARI staff Mechanism developed and implemented to resolve land-based disputes 3.4 Development of publicly accessible database registry for spatial planning, permitting, and licensing linked to OneMap, LESTARI staff Database with accurate, consistent, and publically available information on land use launched USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 51 LESTARI 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Activities Inputs Milestones 3.5 Capacity building for more scientific and participatory monitoring at the landscape level STTA Monitoring implemented and data linked to provincial and national levels 3.6 Identification and training of leaders in each landscape from CBOs (women, youth, and indigenous populations) on land use issues, rights and responsibilities LESTARI staff Cadres of community leaders capture, understand, and articulate land use issues and can communicate these effectively to advocate for their rights and responsibilities 3.7 Revitalizization or formation of MSFs to serve as a bridge between citizens and local government LESTARI staff MSF as a mechanism for citizen based input recognized by district leaders 3.8 Development and implementation of training activities for district government officials and other MSF members (e.g. participatory development, conflict resolution, and civil society engagement) FIELD MSF with the capacity to act as a citizenbased input mechanism that reports to the government on land-use issues USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 52 Figure 11 LESTARI 3 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 53 TECHNICAL THEME 2: CONSERVATION COMANAGEMENT Introduction LESTARI’s success at the landscape level is dependent on effective management of PAs and other critical areas. LESTARI defines the term critical area as an area identified for conservation because of its high conservation value or high carbon value. Both PA and critical area co-management will target the preservation of high-carbon forests as well as habitat for key species such as the orangutan. Our theory of change for this technical theme is that through improved governance, protection and management, innovative finance, expanded and empowered constituencies for conservation, and co-management of adjacent and critical areas, PA management will be improved, emissions reduced, and biodiversity conserved (see Figure 13 LESTARI 4 Theory of Change and Figure 15 LESTARI 5 Theory of Change). We will work to support and improve conservation co-management by working at three levels: increasing capacity of the NP staff responsible for their conservation area management with partners WWF and WCS, piloting innovative financing for PAs, and improving co-management adjacent to the PA and in critical areas4. As with all of the Technical Themes, this is an integrated approach, particularly to Green Enterprise development and the connection between livelihoods and successful comanagement (see p.61). LESTARI 4 - Co-Management LESTARI uses an IUCN definition of the term co-management which includes “a situation in which two or more social actors (parties) negotiate, define and guarantee amongst themselves a fair sharing of the management functions, entitlements, and responsibilities for a given territory, area, or set of natural resources” – in this case for conservation and sustainable NRM utilization. The co-management strategic approach includes the following (contractual) tasks: C2.3 Improve Co-management Adjacent to Conservation Areas and C4.4 Improve Co-management Adjacent to Critical Areas Key to project success is building capacity and commitment for co-management among relevant actors in areas adjacent to PAs and critical areas. This is essential for pressure reduction on the PA through more transparent, negotiated roles and responsibilities. Relevant actors will include Ministry of Environment and Forestry Park Staff, provincial and district governments, relevant CSOs, and villages living adjacent to and dependent on PA and critical areas resources and services. Many critical forest areas within LESTARI landscapes are poorly managed and experience a high rate of deforestation and degradation as a result. With the absence of effective management, a high level of local social capital, including cohesive communities, is essential for conservation of these important resources. LESTARI proposes to develop the capacity of priority villages to be able to negotiate with District, Provincial and National governments, comply with, and benefit from co-management agreements to protect their local natural resources. 4 In Papua, where communities live within the Lorentz National Park co-management will be a strategy for the improved management of the park core area. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 54 LESTARI will work with leaders that represent both men and women and other disadvantaged groups to ensure differing gender considerations and viewpoints are addressed through co-management. Where relevant, the co-management approach will build on CCAs to forge agreements between communities and government (or the private sector) through a participative approach, identifying the issues, agreeing on a common vision and corresponding theory of change for the area to be managed, defining roles and responsibilities of each, and ensuring equitable realization of benefits. LESTARI will promote co-management at the level that allows for the most direct participation of involved communities. Stakeholder analysis Identify areas and types of comanagement for promotion Facilitate dialogues Develop comanagement (partnership) agreements Support an implementation and monitoring agreement Support policy coordination between government in provincial and national level Figure 12 Generalized implementation framework for co-management GOI has shown promising support for co-management through its commitment to allocate 12.7 million hectares of forest areas (2015-2019) for social forestry initiatives through different schemes such as Hutan Kemasyarakatan (HKm), Hutan Desa, Hutan Adat, and Hutan Tanaman Rakyat. This commitment will enable the engagement of adat and local communities as well as village governments in forest management. LESTARI will closely align conservation co-management initiatives with the government’s commitment for social forestry initiatives as described above. In addition, other types of co-management initiatives, such as developing partnership agreements with Protected Areas, will also be identified. In the first year, an assessment will be carried out to identify existing types of co-management agreements, or those to be potentially promoted, in each selected site. LESTARI will carry out institutional and capacity building activities by engaging communities to develop forest management plans to be integrated and agreed upon in the co-management agreements. Finally, LESTARI will also identify new areas and communities that are appropriate for and amenable to co-management, and will initiate the development of new co-management agreements in selected pilot areas. C3.2 Pilot Innovative Financing for Critical Areas Our approach to innovative financing for critical areas mirrors our approach to investment packages and will bundle investment opportunities to attract major financial support from multiple sources. However, financing critical areas outside of a PA has important differences—primarily the presence of private sector companies and the area’s population that are directly involved both in the management—and destruction—of natural resources. Nevertheless, many private sector entities, especially multinational companies, are increasingly prioritizing an improvement in their social and environmental sustainability performance. LESTARI will leverage this trend and engage with the private sector to increase funding for co-management. This year, an assessment will be carried out to identify potential private sector entities to be engaged with for this activity and collaboration will be initiated with them. Concurrently, we will support the financing for sustainable community USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 55 livelihoods through Green Enterprise Development. These activities are closely linked to Technical Theme 3. As this work is predicated securing co-management agreements, this year’s work will be largely exploratory. Winrock will lead this process, with PT Hydro assisting with REDD+ and other conservation finance opportunities. STI will begin phase I of its work to explore opportunities for ecotourism. Table 10 LESTARI Strategic Approach 4 LESTARI 4 - CO-MANAGEMENT Activities 4.1 Stakeholder mapping, area analysis, and need assessments for co-management model (adjacent to conservation areas and critical HCV forests) Inputs STTA and LESTARI team Milestones Landscape stakeholders for potential comanagement identified Villages and co-management initiatives defined in consultation with relevant stakeholders (based on feasibility study and needs assessment) Need assessments of selected areas 4.2 Dialogue between stakeholders LESTARI team Letters of Intent signed between comanagers 4.3 Facilitation of process to resolve conflicts and build capacity of stakeholders for comanagement LESTARI team Mechanisms for conflict resolution identified 4.4 The development of partnership agreements and stakeholder (such as community) management plans LESTARI team and grantees Dialogues held between stakeholder and PA management to initiate comanagement agreements Stakeholder management plans established 4.5 Implementation of management plans LESTARI team and grantees Communities have capacity to sustainably manage natural resources and get value from the forest (income, livelihoods, security, etc) 4.6 Support policy coordination between government in provincial and national level LESTARI team Assessment of national level and provincial level policies and programs that encourage or support improved comanagement Follow up plan 4.7 Identification of innovative financing opportunities for conservation areas LESTARI team Targetting feasible opportunities primarily private sector funds including CSR as well as targeting government funds that reduce pressure on CAs 4.8 Innovative financing plan development LESTARI team Site-specific investment packages developed USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 56 Figure 13 LESTARI 4 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 57 LESTARI 5 - Protected Area Management Indonesian PAs typically receive funding (about $1-2 million/year) from government and have hundreds of staff. Despite this, deforestation and poaching rates are high, and PA management capacity and implementation is poor. Indonesia’s iconic wildlife—tigers, rhinos, orangutans in particular—are now restricted to small areas harboring tens to hundreds of individuals, and are highly threatened by local extinction. A significant increase in PA capacity and on-the-ground action is necessary to prevent this scenario. The Protected area management strategic approach includes the following (contractual) tasks: C2.1 Improve Conservation Area Management Capacity Key to success in improving conservation areas management capacity is building political leadership; implementing improved management approaches including protection of core areas to combat poaching and deforestation; and adopting M&E systems to assess the effectiveness of management interventions and adapt approaches as needed. This year, LESTARI will focus on the socialization and application of the METT5 tool to assess management effectiveness in protected areas embedded in its landscapes, and to begin a program of training—with a focus on technical skills and modern tools that managers and PA staff require for effective day-to-day duties—to build capacity based on the outcome of the METT assessments. METT socialization Training Communication and adovacacy to influence policy Advocacy for adoption METT Application Managment Monitoring Innovative finance Facilitated dialogues Capacity Building Scale models Figure 14 Generalized approach for LESTARI protected area management C2.2 Pilot Innovative Financing for Conservation Areas There are no silver bullets to long-term financing of PAs across the LESTARI landscapes. Each CA provides unique opportunities and challenges for leveraging conservation finance, while requiring different levels of funding to mitigate threats. LESTARI is well positioned to identify and develop effective innovative financing plans for CAs through partners WWF, WCS, and Blue Forests having experience and contacts for a range of financing options. Ecotourism development will be led by partners STI. In the first year LESTARI will implement innovative financing assessments for each PA and develop site-specific “investment packages” targeting identified feasible opportunities. Current potential conservation finance includes access to donor and private sector funds (Corporate Social Responsibility funds) and focusing government budgets to reduce pressures on PA and relieve direct PA management budgets. 5 METT is the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool developed by WWF and the World Bank and used by the Indonesian Parks Service to measure improved capacity within their protected areas. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 58 C1.7 Enhance National-level Policy Coordination The success of LESTARI in implementing a landscape approach requires effective policy engagement at multiple levels across multiple stakeholders. This is especially true for improving Protected Areas Management. LESTARI will coordinate with the national level government (primarily with BAPPENAS and MOEF) and provincial level to ensure local impact sustainability, particularly since Law 23 of 2014 recentralizes a significant amount of natural resource decision-making to the province. LESTARI will supplement successful IFACS interventions with vertical linkages to the national level and inform policy issues based on our field activities and models, and involve relevant line ministries work in roundtable discussions, policy feasibility and impact analyses, and facilitating advocacy based upon compelling findings from the LESTARI landscapes. Table 11 LESTARI Strategic Approach 5 Activities LESTARI 5 - PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT Inputs Milestones 5.1 METT dissemination and socialization LESTARI team, MOEF (Puslitbang) Application of METT socialized with multiple actors for the evaluation of protected areas management effectiveness. 5.2 Advocacy for adoption of participatory METT in the national level LESTARI team Acceptance by MoEF for a participatory approach to METT 5.3 Participatory METT assessment LESTARI team Participatory METT assessment conducted in each PA involving all levels of PA staff (including resort staff members) 5.4 Capacity building to improve conservation areas management LESTARI team Targeted training, and delivery of technical skills and modern tools to build capacity for PA managers implemented6 5.5 National and Provincial coordination LESTARI team Assessment of national level and provincial level policies and programs that encourage or support improved PA management Follow up plan 5.6 Identification of innovative financing opportunities for conservation areas LESTARI team Targetting feasible opportunities such as access to donor and private sector funds including CSR as well as targeting government funds that reduce pressure on Cas 5.7 Innovative financing plan development LESTARI team Site-specific investment packages developed 6 Activities will be based on METT assessment and other considerations, which include initiatives to support PA managers to adopt collaborative approaches. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 59 Figure 15 LESTARI 5 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 60 TECHNICAL THEME 3: PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT Introduction As with all other Technical Themes, Private Sector Engagement takes an integrated approach to the development of livelihoods, responsibilities of environmental governance, and shared roles in co-management of natural resources. This theme will be executed by supporting green enterprise development BMP adoption, and innovative financing. Through establishing public-private partnerships for green enterprises, LESTARI will support alternative livelihoods while reducing pressure on forest resources. LESTARI will also engage with timber concessions, palm oil plantations, and other private sector actors operating in its landscapes to apply BMPs focused on improving efficiency and acquiring sustainability certification. This work will also focus on operationalizing CMMPs developed under IFACS. Thirdly, our work innovative financing approach will entail finding new financing schemes and sources. Our theory of change for Technical Theme 3 is that if private sector entities develop PPPs for green enterprises, adopt best management practices for sustainability, and create additional sustainable financing access, then emissions will be reduced and biodiversity conserved. LESTARI 6 - Green Enterprises Increasingly, smallholders are expanding their influence and impact on forest resources in Indonesia. 40% of the current planted oil palm is smallholder owned and operated and planted often in areas not designated for conversion. Other commodities in the LESTARI landscape, such as cacao also assert pressure on conservation areas. However, pressure for land can be reduced through improving community livelihoods, developing Green Enterprises through public-private partnerships (PPPs), and coupled with commitments to safeguards for forest resources (such as through co-management) and improved environmental governance. Green Enterprises can be developed by the private sector alone, or between the private sector and the public (community). In cases where the private sector and community join together, it falls under PPP for Green Enterprise and will operate in the CA or buffer zone around the conservation area as a means to support alternative livelihoods. LESTARI will develop Green Enterprises through a parallel approach in LESTARI landscapes—Green enterprises that promote BMPs or certification and provide an incentive for conservation through the establishment of PPPs (either with public sector investment, recognition programs with GOI involvement, or improved market access); and the support for community-scale businesses critical to local livelihoods by providing linkages to finance or technology to realize economic benefits. This will target both new and existing businesses. Our theory of change for Green Enterprises is that if companies and smallholders enter into PPPs for green enterprises or improving sustainable / alternative livelihoods, the improved economic benefit and value of managed resources will reduce pressure on forests (see Figure 17 LESTARI 6 Theory of Change). The Green Enterprises Strategic Approach consists of the following contractual tasks: C3.1 Develop Public Private Partnerships for Green Enterprises LESTARI will work directly with businesses and business associations from the onset in the creation of the PPPs to foster their support and to broaden impact to increase economic USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 61 benefits while reducing GHG emissions and deforestation. The location of the green enterprise will be identified after a thorough screening process of all potential partners from the operational and value landscapes. Small businesses that currently feed into the supply chains of oil palm and natural resource industries that have made zero deforestation pledges (and others that are considering such moves) will be identified. Other enterprises that have not yet benefited from formalized arrangements with companies seeking conservationbanded commodities will also be sought. LESTARI will promote PPPs for green enterprises to support community-scale businesses critical to local livelihoods, including those of both men and women, by providing linkages to finance, in part through grants to local producer associations, markets, and technologies through corporate partners. Technical assistance will be provided for investment outreach and marketing, and PPPs formalized where opportunities exist. Cocoa Oil Palm Implemention & Monitoring Partners identification rubber rattan Market assessment analysis business agreement Figure 16 Green enterprise development process C4.5 Improved Sustainable Livelihoods and Alternative Livelihoods for Communities Adjacent to Critical Areas To thwart small-scale encroachment and forest degradation, LESTARI will work with communities to improve and sustain their livelihoods in a manner consistent with LEDS. IFACS initiated this process by supporting communities to improve their livelihoods (often through partner CSOs and grants) while committing to conserve their forests and biodiversity through establishing 233 CCLAs in target villages. LESTARI will improve local livelihoods through community facilitators (partners FIELD, Yayasan Sahabat Cipta, and WWF) and the use of Grants to deliver targeted technical assistance for improved and alternative livelihoods. This will likely include improved cultivation, better market access, and introduction to certification or standards of potential local commodities such as cocoa, rubber, rattan, horticultural crops, oil palm, nutmeg and other NTFPs as well as ecotourism. Improved sustainable livelihoods or alternative livelihoods for communities adjacent to critical areas will be tied to conservation commitments and environmental safeguard development to reduce deforestation and degradation and biodiversity conservation. Capacity building and technical assistance will be provided for these activities especially related to improved cultivation, certification, and accessing new (more lucrative) markets. Moreover, it is important to note that site selection for livelihoods assistance will integrate biodiversity threats assessments and prioritize site selection accordingly. This will lead to sites in key buffer zone areas around PAs as well as sites in sensitive areas impacting other USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 62 CAs. Further, our project management approach strives to foster a LESTARI team rather than a group of subcontractors working independently. This is exemplified by LESTARI’s site selection process that incorporates biodiversity threats, community selection, and commodity assessments into a single study. Table 12 LESTARI Strategic Approach 6 LESTARI 6 - GREEN ENTERPRISES Activities Inputs Milestones PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS 6.1 Market Assessment/Value Chain analysis for potential commodities and community needs assessment STTA LESTARI team Identification of potential private sectors partners for green enterprises (especially within or close to critical area) Comprehensive map of potential local commodities for each landscape (especially for critical area), identified market access with the potential barriers and need assessment results List of potential partners for green enterprises for each landscape from timber companies, oil palm companies and mining companies with related information which includes latest status, certification, size of area, policy, etc. Development of criteria for selection 6.2 Technical assistance and investment outreach, and marketing for potential green enterprise PPPs LESTARI team Enabling conditions in place and private sector demand for investment opportunities increased 6.3 PPP development (including multi-stakeholder coordination) LESTARI team Green enterprise PPP schemes formed through multi stakeholder dialogue at local level 6.4 Technical evaluation and additional support where appropriate LESTARI team PPPs operational with technical support delivered and economic benefits realized SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS 6.6 Smallholder commodity, market and environmental threat analysis LESTARI team, STTA Critical areas, appropriate sustainable economic (LEDS) practices, and environmental safeguards identified 6.7 Supply chain model development LESTARI team, Grants Private sector demand for commodities identified (link to 6.2) and screening criteria for potential grant schemes defined 6.8 Community outreach program LESTARI team, Grants Community members engaged in program through media outreach USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 63 6.9 Village development plan and environmental safeguards LESTARI team Commuities engaged and low carbon emssion development pathways plans developed 6.10 Targeted technical assistance LESTARI team Successful sustainable and or alternative livelihood techniques adpoted 6.11 Technical evaluation and additional support where appropriate LESTARI team Economic benefit realized by communities that comply with environmental safeguards USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 64 Figure 17 LESTARI 6 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 65 LESTARI 7 - Private Sector Best Management Practices (BMPs) There are numerous private sector companies in LESTARI landscapes, ranging from large, multi-national, publicly traded Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA) members to smaller Indonesian privately held firms. Firms include forestry concessions, oil palm and fiber plantations, mining and agroforestry/ commodity producers, and their buyers. They drive local economies but also, to large extent, deforestation and emissions. LESTARI must harness their resources and influence, gaining their commitment to LEDS and biodiversity conservation, to meet project objectives. Companies, especially those involved in international trade, are under growing pressure to establish and meet sustainability and reduced emissions standards. Most companies lack the tools to assess potential GHG impacts, costs, and efficacy of these emerging goals, nor do they necessarily incorporate best management practices (BMPs) to meet these goals. We will work to establish green enterprises through PPPs, create innovative financing for critical areas through investment packages, and promote and support private companies to adopt BMPs and become certified. As part of this strategic approach, LESTARI will develop the Sustainability Reporting Toolkit that will expand the applicability of the existing Agricultural Sustainability Screening Protocol and Sustainability Roadmap developed under the USAID CIRCLE project. This will allow the private sector to identify key steps to increase its sustainability performance and transparently monitor and demonstrate the impact of its commodity production on emissions. This will be integrated with the Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Tool in an attempt to make a system that is consistent with equitable and publically-informed licensing and permitting. Subsequently, LESTARI will expand on its work under IFACS to promote BMPs and certification (FSC, RSPO, ISPO, Gold Standard, etc.) for natural forest concessions and fiber and oil palm plantations leading to HCV forest set-asides, as well as for value chains critical to improved livelihoods such as rubber, cocoa, nutmeg and NTFPs. Our Theory of Change is that if companies apply BMPs, then emissions will be reduced and biodiversity conserved (see Figure 18 LESTARI 7 Theory of Change). C3.3 Private Sector Best Management Practices The private sector provides significant opportunities for conservation of biodiversity and reduction of deforestation and degradation within LESTARI landscapes. LESTARI will build on its relationship with natural forest timber concessions engaged through IFACS (Alas Kasuma Group, Dwima, and Kayu Mas concessions) in the Katingan-Kahayan landscape, recognizing them as champions and partners (although notably not as recipients of assistance under LESTARI). This engagement will seek to improve management of HCV forests within their concessions, and establish LEDS-based community partnerships (comanagement agreements) with villages adjacent to their concessions (see Technical Theme 2 – Co-management). In particular, Alas Kasuma Group will be a key partner in BBBR National Park co-management as well as HPH (forest concession license) policy engagement. Further, APHI (the Indonesian Association of Forest Concessionaires) and their company members in LESTARI landscapes will be key in defining integrated conservation and sustainable business management models. A gap analysis to determine additional concessions that should be engaged within the LESTARI landscape to support LEDS and sustainable landscape development visions developed through the MSFs. We will also engage local government to support sustainable business models for forest management units (FMU or KPH) within the LESTARI landscapes. Currently there are no active FMUs within the landscapes but it can be expected that some will emerge within the USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 66 life of LESTARI. We will support FMUs as they emerge to develop forest management and land use plans, and policies to maintain HCVs and HCS. In terms of oil palm plantations, LESTARI will identify opportunities to set aside HCV forest and conservation corridors, and verify and report on these results in support of the Indonesia Palm Oil Pledge. We will work with other oil palm companies in these and other landscapes as described above and attempt to move them toward signing onto the Palm Oil Pledge. To the extent that RSPO or ISPO certification provides market access benefits to oil palm producers, we will work with them to move toward certification. Further, we will work with producers to adapt BMPs under a no-regrets scenario based on the increased efficiencies and profits BMPs provide. Mining companies are also part of the significant private partners for the BMPs implementation. LESTARI will identify the list of potential mining owners and develop specific approaches in engaging them in adoption and implementation the BMPs. Finally, LESTARI will work to operationalize the CMMPs developed under IFACS, while incorporating the key findings from the IFACS Lessons Learned Technical Briefing for CMMPs. This includes a more thorough screening and selection process for private sector partners. It also includes engaging in wider policy support and outreach at the national level, as CMMPs can potentially be utilized by GOI for establishing national standards and regulations. Table 13 LESTARI Strategic Approach 7 LESTARI 7 - PRIVATE SECTOR BMPs Activities Inputs 7.1 Identification of private sector entities within the landscapes LTTA (mining) 7.2 Development of Sustainability Screening/Selection Criteria (as part of sustainability tool) STTA (Sustainability tool expert) 7.3 Stakeholder engagement (private sectors, association, government institutions) on national level and landscape level LESTARI team LESTARI Team LESTARI team Milestones List of potential partners for improved BMPs for each landscape from timber companies, oil palm companies and mining companies with related information which includes latest status, certification, size of area, policy, etc. Shortlisted potential partners screened through tool and analysis of Lessons Learned from IFACS Inputs on shortlisted partners from multistakeholder consultations (related ministries, associations, big buyers) Results of field-check for shortlisted potential partners Public consultation at national and landscape level (coordination related stakeholders) Private Sector Stakeholder engaged through MOUs 7.4 CMMP status analysis and follow-up LESTARI team Screening process of current CMMPs conducted to categorize progress Agreement formed to pursue next step on CMMP operationalizing USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 67 7.5 BMP implementation LESTARI team, Subcontracts, STTA BMP implementation documented 7.6 Sustainability Reporting Toolkit and BMP monitoring and evaluation LESTARI team Impacts on deforestation and degradation, and peatland management documented 7.7 BMP monitoring and evaluation LESTARI team Impacts on deforestation and degradation, and peatland management documented USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 68 Figure 18 LESTARI 7 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 69 LESTARI 8 – PES and REDD+ Innovative Finance With the creation of Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF), Global Environment Fund, and the Green Climate Fund, there is increased opportunity for districts to access funds to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation. This is linked in part to the Strategic Action Plan for REDD+ (SRAP) at the provincial level. All of the provinces in which LESTARI landscapes exist have completed SRAPs and are in the process of completing the other requirements. An important and more omnipresent source of funding is from government budgets. The Innovative Financing strategic approach will work closely with the Forest and Land Use Governance and Advocacy Technical Theme to access GOI budget for green enterprises and activities that support the GOI commitment for reduced emissions by 2020. Our theory of change is that mobilizing national and international climate change financing resources will develop capacities for sustainable land use and forest management, and ultimately conserve biodiversity and reduce emissions (see Figure 19 LESTARI 8 Theory of Change). C1.5 Payment for Ecosystem Services and REDD+ Innovative Finance IFACS produced five project concept notes (PCNs) for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and submitted them to the ICCTF. LESTARI now has received a preliminary indication that those concept notes will receive multi-year significant funding leveraged through USAID investment. LESTARI will identify additional opportunities for similar funding. In addition, a review of existing Climate Change Action plans (SRAP) for Aceh, Central Kalimantan, and Papua provinces and engagement of the provincial level government will identify the potential for accessing government funds. If funding can be accessed, REDD+ projects design documents will be developed based on the targets areas within the Landscape Baseline Analysis Plan, SEA-LEDS, and LCPs and contribute to reducing emissions at the district level. Training and establishment of a MRV mechanism through which the projects can report results will be developed in the subsequent stages so that these projects can be ultimately taken to market if the opportunity arises. To target increased financing from government agencies, LESTARI will work with central and local (provincial & district) government officials to include LEDS, forest conservation, and climate change mitigation programs to meet reduced emission commitments, especially through Payment for Environmental Services (PES). LESTARI will also identify and engage related ministries to gain more access and support additional financing sources and to explore potential collaboration with similar programs from the government in optimizing the benefits to the communities and environment. IFACS has already started this work for mangrove conservation in Mimika District and for fire prevention and management in Katingan’s focal districts in Central Kalimantan. Besides lobbying for secured funding for these programs, LESTARI staff will identify DAK funding sources to magnify impact. This additional funding is key to catalyzing local government leadership in climate change mitigation and forest conservation. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 70 Table 14 LESTARI Strategic Approach 8 LESTARI 8 - PES AND REDD+ INNOVATIVE FINANCE Activities Inputs Milestones PES 8.1 Initial assessment for potential Payment for Environmental Services initiatives LESTARI team STTA List of potential Payment for Environmental Services (potential partners, beneficiaries, related stakeholders) and finding in the landscape PES Legal Draft produced 8.2 Support the development of provincial regulations and strategic plan (RENSTRA) related to PES including engagement, consultation, and advocacy with provincial level Public Consultation of regulation at the provincial level LESTARI team STTA Issuance of policy at provincial level on PES RENSTRA (which includes PES) developed DPRD and other government bodies engaged, and supportive of PES REDD+ 8.3 REDD+ funding mechanism identification LESTARI team STTA Funding (primary enablling condition for project development) confirmed 8.4 REDD+ working group establishment LESTARI team Project scale working groups established through coordination with REDD+ team at provincial level 8.5 Project design documents and safeguards development LESTARI team PDD and Safeguards developed USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 71 Figure 19 LESTARI 8 Theory of Change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 72 PROJECT COORDINATION, MANAGMENT, AND COMMUNICATIONS Coordination and Management Success and sustainability of LESTARI hinges on effective horizontal and vertical coordination and communication both within and beyond the project. LESTARI uses a mixed-matrix management approach, as landscapes staff are supported technically by the Jakarta office but report to staff inside the landscape offices (p.141). Within the project, the COP will facilitate integration and collaboration among staff and subcontractors to ensure synergy among technical themes, and work with partners to ensure landscape-level best practices and lessons learned inform provincial and national-level policy. Beyond the project, the COP will ensure effective coordination and communication with USAID/Indonesia, RDMA, and Washington, and USG investments that contribute to or draw from LESTARI’s success. This includes new and ongoing DOI and USFS initiatives, TFCAs, various USAID procurements, and the MCC/MCA-I Green Prosperity Program. Further, in coordination with the USAID COR, the COP will deepen ongoing relationships to leverage impact from diplomatic and donor initiatives including but not limited to Norway’s REDD+ Partnership Program, World Bank and ADB FIPs, KfW and EU work in Aceh, and UKCCU’s Protarih project in Papua. Finally, LESTARI will strengthen coordination and communications with the private sector at the association and firm level. This includes working with AMCHAM, APHI, KADIN, other associations, and ongoing partners like Freeport to leverage financial and technical support for sustainable financing of Papua conservation initiatives. We will regularly communicate on LESTARI achievements, and make relentless efforts to identify opportunities for amplifying LESTARI results in the landscapes and at the national level. The LESTARI offices are strategic, giving landscape coordinators and staff reach from the community to the provincial government. Jakarta staff will plan quarterly meetings in each landscape, giving them opportunity to meet and interact with a wider variety of stakeholders. This year, LESTARI roll-out is planned for October and November, bringing USAID staff and LESTARI Jakarta staff to the landscape to meet the key stakeholders and see the need for the landscape initiatives chosen for each. Risks and assumptions for this year include planned district elections in some landscapes, which can disrupt and delay planned activities for some time, as well as the disruption caused by the fires in Kalimantan, which in September was making flights impossible out of the Palangkaraya base there, and is a significant risk for health and wellbeing of staff and partners there and in Aceh. Table 15 LESTARI Offices LESTARI OFFICES LESTARI Head Office Jakarta Central Kalimantan Palangkaraya Banda Aceh LESTARI Regional Offices Aceh Tapak Tuan Gayo Lues USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 73 Medan Jayapura Sarmi Papua Merauke Timika Quarterly Tim Teknis Meetings. Under COP leadership, we will ensure regular day-to-day coordination with Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bappenas, Ministry of Finance, and other GOI agencies to ensure effectiveness of quarterly Tim Teknis meetings. LESTARI project and technical documents and meeting agendas will be distributed and discussed with participants well ahead of all meetings. LESTARI will facilitate presentations from landscape partners to build awareness of field-level impact. With USAID, LESTARI will facilitate field trips for Tim Teknis members at least once each year. Coordinate and collaborate with other USAID-funded activities. LESTARI will continue and amplify coordination and collaboration opportunities among USAID and USG partners working in Indonesia on landscape and forest conservation issues. We will facilitate a USAID Partners Quarterly Meetings at the LESTARI office to share lessons learned and best practices. We will share a quarterly email, highlighting specific events and opportunities for collaboration. Our Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Coordinator will work with USAID and partners to ensure timely annual reporting of results. Document and disseminate best practices and lessons learned. Ms. Ekaputri, working with LESTARI communications staff, will ensure regular, effective documentation of LESTARI successful integration models, best practices, and lessons learned, and regularly feed this documentation into a variety of platforms to ensure efficient sharing of information at and among landscapes, provincial and national-level government agencies, and the donor, NGO, and project community. Toward the final year of IFACS, USAID’s leadership in innovation in sustainable landscapes management and conservation has resulted in models (MSF, CCLA, CMMP, LCP), tools, and approaches that contribute to development innovations and need to be widely shared among a variety of stakeholders. LESTARI will use project communication materials, social media outlets, short videos, seminars, meetings, and workshops as forums from the landscape to national levels to ensure USAID LESTARI achievements are shared in a manner that amplifies the impact of USAID’s investment and influences GOI, NGOs, the private sector, and donors and their projects to use and adapt these resources. A best practices and lessons learned section will be presented clearly in all LESTARI work plans and reports. AMEP Integration This Year 1 Work Plan is closely integrated with LESTARI’s Activity Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (AMEP), which will be utilized to monitor and evaluate LESTARI activities outlined in this work plan as well as subsequent work plans. The AMEP is a living document that outlines Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems, protocols, and data collection methodologies. Throughout implementation, this framework will ensure continuous learning while improving coordination and collaboration to track, evaluate, and articulate results and impacts. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 74 The AMEP incorporates a theory of change approach to define all building blocks required to bring about positive change whereby multi-stakeholders’ interests and actions are better aligned with sustainable outcomes. LESTARI’s theories of change not only illustrate the causal linkages between project interventions, but also how these interventions address drivers to deforestation to reduce high level threats to ecosystems, species, and human wellbeing targets. In addition, performance indicators have been selected to monitor progress toward achievement of outcomes and impacts along each Results Chain. Theories of Change will also serve as a project management tool to review critical assumptions driving LESTARI strategic approaches, facilitate early identification of technical challenges, manage stakeholder expectations, and serve as a framework for gathering evidence. GENDER INTEGRATION The economic, political and cultural attributes associated with being a man or a woman in Indonesian society vary considerably throughout the country. These attributes can facilitate or hinder the ability of individuals, households, and communities to access and assert their rights to benefit from ecological services and natural resources. LESTARI’s approach to gender will ensure that all local stakeholders (men, women, girls, and boys) improve their understanding, awareness, and ability to act together to conserve biodiversity in the selected landscapes and reduce GHG emissions for the benefit of their communities. Increased devolution of land use planning and co-management in proposed LESTARI program areas ostensibly offers avenues for increased citizen participation and inclusion of marginalized groups such as women and indigenous people so that they can realize their rights. In practice, however, devolution of NRM tends to exacerbate existing power hierarchies in the absence of proactive policies and interventions to safeguard the interests of disenfranchised groups. Indonesia has attempted to address these issues by mainstreaming gender into provincial development plans, and establishing provincial gender focal points and local gender mainstreaming working groups (Pokja PUG). However, World Bank and ADB report that discrimination against women and other disenfranchised groups persists. In this context, LESTARI will develop a deliberate approach to social inclusion informed by evidence-based research to achieve project outcomes that benefit all community members. We will do this by improving our understanding of how economic, political, and cultural attributes and related dynamics of the different social groups within each landscape may affect achievement of the desired project results. Led by the Biodiversity Conservation Specialist, Dr. Abidah Setyowati, we will conduct gender assessments as part of the Baseline Analysis to define obstacles, opportunities, and decision-making dynamics related to the access, use, and management of natural resources. Based on this improved understanding, we will integrate gender and other marginalized group responsive strategies and related activities across activities. Even though these will be integrated into the overall work plan post-gender analyses, some or all of the following activities will be mainstreamed into LESTARI: The CBS approach will ensure that underrepresented constituencies are engaged and integral to the success of the project. CCAs will also specifically support the development of livelihood options that benefit the disadvantaged. Where feasible, MSFs will be enriched with leaders that effectively represent stakeholder groups traditionally underrepresented. Where this is not possible, we will identify and develop the capacity of potential leaders and CBOs dedicated to improving their constituencies understanding of their rights and ability to advocate. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 75 Where feasible, LCPs will include activities that address major concerns of these groups. If not feasible, supplementary activities will be designed/implemented to address concerns. We will promote BMPs as codified in CMMPs to engage the private sector that respect the rights of the entire population within local communities. GRANTS FUND LESTARI will employ a Grants under Contract (GUC) program that supports project objectives, leverages funding from other non-USG resources, and builds the capacity of local partners. The grants program will be used to achieve the overall results and targeted outcomes of the LESTARI project. Criteria for awards and grantees include those that: Support a process of constructive engagement and planning between communities, NGOs, local government, the private sector, and other relevant institutions to work collaboratively towards sustainable landscapes management and effective biodiversity conservation Pilot private sector engagement activities in support of the project’s objectives, including but not limited to innovative partnerships with landscape communities for Green Development initiatives, stimulating payment for environmental services opportunities, and catalyzing responsible tourism development Support LEDS-based sustainable development initiatives to catalyze community support for conservation co-management in areas adjacent to protected areas in LESTARI landscapes Support LESTARI’s goals through communications and advocacy campaigns led by NGOs, MSFs, civil society or the private sector to build informed constituencies for conservation Support via activities, equipment, materials to develop citizen-based district level mechanisms for monitoring compliance with existing land use regulations and planning processes, especially in carbon rich and biologically diverse forests in target landscapes Provide innovative opportunities to support, engage and empower women to participate in and benefit from decisions related to their access to natural resources In an effort to leverage additional non-USG funds and foster networking among its partners, LESTARI may seek opportunities to develop Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) with grant recipients and a third party. These partnerships are in line with the Global Development Alliance (GDA) initiative that promotes strategic alliances between USAID and private and public sector partners as a business model for achieving development objectives. 7 These parties may include the host government, private foundations, businesses, or individuals that provide financial or programmatic resources that complement or further enhance the work of the grant recipient. The grant recipient is not responsible for meeting the leveraging amounts/resources and leveraging is not subject to audit under the grant. 7 AAPD 04-16: Public-Private Alliance Guidelines and Collaboration Agreement (December 30, 2004) USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 76 Grant funds will not be used for the following activities: Activities that duplicate the activities of other USG-supported program or programs conducted by other organizations in LESTARI target regions8 Activities that are inconsistent with international standards of human rights or with democratic goals of racial and ethnic tolerance and harmony Activities that support or promote the expansion of industrial scale logging or any other industrial scale extractive activity into areas that were primary/intact forests as of December 30, 2013 Ceremonies, parties, celebrations, or “representation” expenses except for those that are specified in the grant (for example, opening ceremonies) to promote the visibility of USAID in the eyes of the communities USAID is trying to serve Involuntary sterilization programs9 Abortion-related activities and biomedical research relating to abortion10 Activities not approved by USAID The full procedure for the selection of grantees is detailed in the Grants Management plan for LESTARI. The full criteria for selection of grantees will be detailed in the RFAs released biannually. Goals for Year 1 Request for Applications In this first year, the second quarter RFA will be focused on assessments of stakeholders necessary to lay the groundwork for LESTARI’s engagement in the landscapes. This will serve the dual purpose of serving to identify the better CSOs active in the landscapes. A second RFA will focus on advocacy, particularly related to the fires in Kalimantan, and to environmental governance related to land use rationalization in the other landscapes. The second round of RFAs in the third quarter of the project will be tailored to the needs of landscape activities as they mature, and as national dialogue progresses. Undoubtedly the themes will continue to be advocacy and governance, however. In an effort to leverage additional non-USG funds and foster networking among its partners, LESTARI may seek opportunities to develop Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) with grant recipients and a third party. These partnerships are in line with the Global Development Alliance (GDA) initiative that promotes strategic alliances between USAID and private and public sector partners as a business model for achieving development objectives.11 These parties may include the host government, private foundations, businesses, or individuals that provide financial or programmatic resources that complement or further enhance the work of the grant recipient. The grant recipient is not responsible for meeting the leveraging amounts/resources and leveraging is not subject to audit under the grant. 8 In the event that an application reveals such duplication, the applicant will be advised appropriately of other US program or other potential funding sources for such activities. 9 MSP16.a Requirements for Voluntary Sterilization Programs. 10 MSP16.b Prohibition on Abortion-Related Activities. 11 AAPD 04-16: Public-Private Alliance Guidelines and Collaboration Agreement (December 30, 2004) USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 77 EMMP INTEGRATION All LESTARI activities will operate in full compliance with USAID’s regulations and requirements regarding the environmental impact of project activities. As noted in the Initial Environmental Examination (IEE), a Categorical Exclusion is recommended for LESTARI activities involving: training and technical assistance; academic analyses and studies; document and information transfers; and development planning assistance. A Negative Determination with Conditions is recommended for LESTARI activities involving: small-scale field studies or research; forest, mangrove, or other rehabilitation; wildlife corridor protection; non-timber forest product harvesting and agroforestry; identification, promotion and implementation of best management practices; fire management; microenterprise and microfinance; market linkages; ecotourism; spatial and resource management plans; and policy development. For all LESTARI activities under the Negative Determination with Conditions designation, throughout the life of the project, we will ensure that a thorough Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring (EMMP) Plan is developed and submitted. We will screen all sub-program and sub-grant activities using the Environmental Screening Form (ESF) and complete a full environmental assessment when necessary. Moreover, we will ensure that LESTARI subcontractors and sub-grantees have the capacity to adhere to IEE requirements and provide trainings when necessary. Finally, the EMMP will be integrated into our regular monitoring and reporting processes, including the Activity Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and current and subsequent Annual Work Plans, with any necessary adjustments to activity implementation in order to minimize adverse impacts to the environment. Appendix 1 of this document contains the full LESTARI EMMP for Year 1, including tables illustrating the results of the environmental screening of activities, identified environmental impacts, mitigation measures, and monitoring indicators. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 78 LESTARI INITIATIVES NATIONAL INITIATIVES Adapting from lessons learned through IFACS project implementation, LESTARI places greater emphasis on building and nurturing national-level relationships in order to increase impact at the landscape level; amplify tools, approaches, models, and lessons learned from LESTARI landscapes to other critical areas; and ensure sustainability of LESTARI climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation beyond the life of project through necessary policy reform and budget support. This is essential to clarify and resolve ongoing gaps in roles and responsibilities under decentralization reform between the national, provincial, and district level governments as well as work with highly centralized natural resource extraction companies (natural forest concessions, large palm oil companies, and large mining operations) whose key decisions are made from Jakarta. Building these bridges from the landscapes to the national level is especially important in national park management and other instances where the national government maintains significant authority through deconcentrated rather than decentralized institutional arrangements. Over the course of LESTARI implementation, the project intends to build strong relationships between landscape-level partners and national-level government officials, private sector players, and NGO activists so that lessons learned from the LESTARI landscape experience can inform Indonesia’s climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation policy. A twoway communication flow ensures national-level learning and support at the landscape level and, simultaneously, regular landscape partner engagement with national-level leaders in Jakarta. While LESTARI emphasizes and works within existing legal and institutional frameworks, it will identify evidence-based policy constraints to optimizing outcomes and note options for reform summarized in a policy matrix. Thus, LESTARI will seek to inform plans (notably RTRW, RPJM/P, RAD), programs (RENSTRA) and policies through enhanced evidence-based public discourse (MSFs and SEAs). In LESTARI’s first year, emphasis is placed on building necessary relationships, fostering meaningful links, and creating shared visions for more effective integration. This will include drawing from existing networks to support national-level campaigns, such as haze prevention advocacy in collaboration with community organizations SIKAP (Indonesia Solidarity for Children Affected by Smoke) and Thamrin School. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 79 Table 16 LESTARI National Initiatives National Level LESTARI Initiatives Strategic Approach Project Coordination, Management, and Communications LESTARI 1 – Awareness and Advocacy LESTARI 2 – Operationalize SEALEDS and LCPs LESTARI 3 – Environmental Governance Activities Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Comments LESTARI Launch Meetings and workshops in Jakarta, provinces, and landscapes In close coordination with USAID & BAPPENAS LESTARI Tim Kecil Meetings Quarterly meetings In close coordination with USAID & BAPPENAS LESTARI Green Governance Awards LTTA; journalist network; PPP; national outreach event; grant Partner with national-level media group or other partner Interfaith Dialog on Climate Change & Conservation LTTA; journalist network; national outreach event; grant Coordinate with US Embassy; hot at @america Analysis of Spatial Planning policy opportunities for integration of LEDS & conservation recommendations STTA in collaboration with Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning; workshop Assess status of relevant district and provincial spatial plans; analyze procedures for efficiently incorporating SEA-LEDS and LCP recommendations Analyze current licensing and permitting policies and procedures; adapt sustainability screening tool to strengthen this process LTTA; STTA; analysis; meetings Ensure applicability of sustainability screening tool and effective targeting at national, provincial or district level; creation of model for broader adaptation Analyze existing Spatial Plan; adapt LEDS land-use tool to strengthen monitoring LTTA; STTA; analysis; meetings Creation of monitoring tool as model for adaptation at provincial and district levels, within and beyond landscapes USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 80 National Level LESTARI Initiatives Strategic Approach Activities Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Comments LESTARI 4 – CoManagement Coordination with Social Forestry DG to align GOI social forestry targets with LESTARI co-management conservation objectives; Explore FMU-Conservation opportunities LTTA; international workshop and training; development of field models Leverage GOI commitment for significant allocation of forest through social forestry; agree on model FMU-Conservation targets for Cyclops and Singkil LESTARI 5 – Protected Area Management Coordination with PHKA to establish working relationship at national and field (BTN/BKSDA) levels; roll-out METT at the PA level to be adopted as a model at national level LTTA; WWF; WCS; meetings; workshop Ensure effective working relationship; establish national model applied in LESTARI PAs LESTARI 6 – Green Enterprises Public consultation with related stakeholders and investment outreach and marketing for potential green enterprises PPPs LTTA; STTA; meetings LESTARI 7 – Private Sector BMP Coordination with KLHK, APHI and natural forest concessions to improve policy framework to incentivize concessionaires to invest in SFM and conservation set-asides Explore FMU-Production PPP model to catalyze investment in these FMUs LTTA; STTA; meetings; field trips; workshop LTTA; STTA; policy analysis USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Carry-on important work started under IFACS to clarify policy opportunities for HPHs to be more effective forest stewards; pre-condition for operationalization of CMMPs; FMU-Production PPP model established P a g e | 81 National Level LESTARI Initiatives Strategic Approach Activities Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Comments Submission of at least 4 LESTARI PCNs to ICCTF in first-round proposal requests STTA; meetings Complete PCN work commenced under IFACS; results in financial leveraging Analysis of emerging climate change and conservation finance opportunities STTA (PT Hydro); meetings; proposal development Provide longer-term framework for PES, climate change mitigation, and conservation financing Gender Integration Gender assessment in all landscapes STTA and Lestari Team Gender Integration Trainings for gender integrated planning involving selected team members in all landscapes T STTA and Lestari Team e Gender Integration Initiate the implementation of action plan Lestari Team e L LESTARI 8 – PES and REDD Innovative Finance USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Milestone: action plan for gender integration in each landscape developed P a g e | 82 LANDSCAPE INITIATIVES Introduction This chapter explains the LESTARI Work Plan to be implemented at the landscape level. Each of the 6 LESTARI landscapes is discussed with regards to profile and initiatives. The landscape profile illustrates the unique socioeconomic and environmental features of the land and its communities. It also briefly discusses the land use transition projections and the GHG emissions profile of the landscape, which were revealed by the Landscape Baseline Analysis. This information, in conjunction with consultations with LESTARI team members in the field, was used to design the landscape initiatives. The landscape initiatives section highlights the core initiatives to be implemented in each landscape, such as supporting comanagement of a national park or green enterprise development involving ecotourism. Each initiative is tackled through the implementation of various strategic approaches and is designed to address the challenges underlying deforestation, degradation, and GHG emissions that are unique to each landscape. The section concludes with summary tables of actionable activities and inputs to support each of the core initiatives per landscape. Leuser Landscape Landscape Profile The Leuser Landscape encompasses a region in Aceh that is rich in natural resources and dominated by the agriculture industry. Crops such as cacao, nutmeg, rubber, and oil palm are important contributors to the region’s development and community livelihoods. This landscape in Aceh has combined the IFACS Aceh Tenggara and Aceh Selatan landscapes into one. Management from one area can affect other areas, and so it is strategic to treat the Leuser National Park and surrounding areas as a single landscape. As well as being at the request of local stakeholders to improve social and political cohesion, Leuser National Park provides a shared focal point for both of the former IFACS landscapes. Other areas where there is deviation from the IFACS landscape are described below. The Leuser value landscape is largely defined by the Leuser National Park and contains large tracts of lowland and montane forests supporting Sumatran mega diversity and key species (tiger, elephant, rhino, and orangutans). The landscape includes at least 375,000 ha of orangutan habitat. Forested buffer zones surrounding the national park are delineated by watersheds and are currently gazetted as protection and production forests. While the national park is located in two provinces, the 627,000 ha of park located in Aceh province is included within the value landscape and areas within North Sumatra are excluded. The Singkil Wildlife Reserve in its entirety is included in the VL as well as forested areas connecting the reserve to the national park (that also encompasses the Trumon corridor). Gayo Lues has significant areas of pine forests that are to be managed commercially in the near future. These pine forests and forested uplands in northern Gayo Lues are also included in the VL. The operational landscape is largely defined by the district boundary of Gayo Lues, Aceh Tenggara, and Aceh Selatan. A significant proportion of Aceh Barat Daya and the adjacent villages that have an impact on forest conservation within the VL are also included in the OL and will be targeted for activities to reduce pressure on the national park and surrounding forested watersheds. A small fraction of Singkil and Subussalam districts are included in the operational landscape to allow activities in villages and communities that may impact the Singkil Wildlife Reserve and are located along the Singkil River. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 83 According to the Landscape Baseline Analysis, projected land transitions in the Leuser Landscape are dominated by primary and secondary dryland forest converted for agriculture, brush, agroforestry, mixed agriculture, and some transmigration projects. Such transitions are responsible for the vast majority of projected emissions in the Leuser Landscape. Moreover, the majority of these emissions are projected to occur within Leuser National Park and Singkil Wildlife Reserve, and other use zones (APL). Nearly half of all land-based emissions in the Leuser Landscape occur on peat lands that are restricted to the areas along the coast. Landscape Initiatives Core initiatives that will relieve pressure on forest resources and reduce GHG emissions in this landscape are: Collaborative management of Gunung Leuser National Park and Trumon-Singkil Corridor Green Enterprise Development (nutmeg, cacao, tourism) Payment for Environmental Services (water, carbon) Collaborative management of Gunung Leuser National Park, surrounding protection forest, and wildlife reserve is an important initiative to be implemented in the LESTARI Leuser Landscape. LESTARI will improve management in these areas by applying innovative tools such as METT in order to enhance the capacity of park management authorities to measure and address threats to conservation. LESTARI will also support park management authorities in improving data and geospatial tools to monitor and enforce wildlife encroachment and poaching. Within this initiative, co-management of areas adjacent to these PAs will also be a focus, as plantation expansion and lack of available land continue to put pressure on forests and their biodiversity resources. This will occur through a continuation, improvement, and implementation of community conservation agreements. In conjunction, LESTARI will support park management authorities to build better relations with districts and communities inside or adjacent to CAs to reduce the threat of encroachment. Overall, such efforts to improve the co-management of these areas will directly improve the welfare and protection of key species, such as the orangutan, which are under threat from both habitat loss and poaching/trafficking. LESTARI will also support orangutan conservation initiatives in Rawa Singkil Nature Reserve through the Grants Fund. This initiative will be executed through Technical Theme 2, its corresponding strategic approaches, and grants under contract. Within the Leuser Landscape, Green Enterprise Development will focus on supporting new and existing enterprises that benefit conservation as well as local communities living within or adjacent to conservation forests. This will involve supporting small businesses based on the sustainable use of crops such as nutmeg and cacao that directly contribute to alternative livelihood development. LESTARI will also work with STI to design ecotourism opportunities that can generate revenue and support the sustainable financing of conservation areas. The Green Enterprise initiative will also involve engaging with private sector concessionaires operating in the Leuser Landscape. It will promote the adoption of best management practices and operationalization of CMMPs so that companies are able to effectively reduce their land use impacts and enhance their performance on sustainability. Finally, LESTARI will focus on scaling up payment for environmental services as a mechanism to support sustainable financing for conservation in the Leuser Landscape. PES involves incentivizing conservation by connecting beneficiaries and stewards of environmental services through formalized agreements. The focus this year will be the USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 84 support of the Trumon Corridor Management for Reduced Deforestation Project, the design of which was funded by IFACS and which is congruent with LESTARI’s geographic and technical scope. This project is expected be funded by the ICCTF this year. The project will reduce forest loss and incidence of fire, and begin some forest restoration activities. To do this, it will be necessary to obtain authorization and approval from the stakeholders in government, concession holders, and communities in the zone of the project. These stakeholders will need to be in concurrence with the project implementation before the project can move into implementation, and so this year’s activities will be aimed at reaching agreement on the work plan as well as production of an initial map of the proposed corridor’s boundaries. Moreover, through LESTARI’s support, local partners have received donations from philanthropic sources to carry out surveys on orangutan population and habitat. This will eventually contribute to the improvement of orangutan conservation. A lower-priority initiative within this operational landscape is on improving spatial planning implementation, as it is clear that deforestation is occurring outside of the protected areas and the forest estate. There is a need for strengthening local partners’ commitment for low emission development through sustainable visions that conserve water resources. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 85 PRIORITY INITIATIVE: COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF GUNUNG LEUSER NATIONAL PARK AND TRUMON-SINGKIL CORRIDOR SA Activities Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Comments Protected Area Management Co-management Capacity building of the UPTD KPH 4.1 Needs assessment of UPTD KPH 5 and 6 4.3 Capacity building program based on needs assessment involving MSF 4.5 Implement program plan LESTARI Team Collaborate with other projects that are working with KPH Co-management with communities adjacent to TNGL & critical areas 4.1 Identify areas, needs assessment, and type of co-management 4.3 Initiate a co-management agreement 4.4 Develop a capacity development program based on needs assessment 4.5 Implement program plan (e.g., livelihood, village plan, campaign & awareness, etc) 5.1 Dissemination & Capacity Building on METT for LESTARI Team, MSF, BKSDA Aceh, GL National Park 5.3 Participatory METT assessment KLHK experts and LESTARI team USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Involving all levels of staff and local stakeholders to develop collaborative strategy plan to enhance the effectiveness of NP management P a g e | 86 Capacity building for improved conservation area management (SMART Patrols) LESTARI Team in collaboration with YLI and Leuser Comm Forum Patrol mechanism developed (preventive, repressive, etc) jointly with GL National Park & SM Rawa Singkil Reserve; team formed and regular patrols and evalaution carried out 5.4 Capacity building for improved conservation (Enforcement) LESTARI Team External resource persons (e.g., Police HQ, Public Prosecutors Office, etc) Target group identified, curriculum/module developed, Training executed and law enforcers supported in investigation process and prosecution 5.4 Capacity building for improved conservation (Mitigate conflicts between wildlife and communities) LESTARI Team HWC Team established; relevant party coordination established; human wild conflict reduced 5.4 Environmental Governance Revitalization of MSF in 3 district 3.7 Revitalization of MSF to serve as bridge between citizens and local government 3.7 Support the recognition of the MSF by the provincial government LESTARI team A series of multi-party coordination with other districts such as Aceh Barat Daya, Singkil, Subulussalam, included ways of working (SOP) and guidelines on how the MSF is involved and invite inputs from the community at the target village LESTARI team MSF in 3 districts Potetial SK Bupati for MSF role as input mechanism STTA 3.8 Capacity building of the MSF LESTARI team USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 MSF with cpacity to act as citizen-based input mechanism that reports to the government on land-use issues. Capacity including mapping technique, faciltitating technique /advocacy, leadership, communication method, etc P a g e | 87 LESTARI team 3.5 Capacity building for more scientific and participatory monitoring of land use Team IDS BKPRD Monitoring implemented and data linked to the provincial and national level Central Government Awareness and Advocacy Operationalize SEA & LCPs Operationalize SEAs & LCPs 2.1 Needs assessment for authorized officials in law enforcement on land utilization LESTARI team 2.5 Updating SEAs in compliance with the Regional Medium Term Development Plan by incorporating inputs from LCP (follow up of the position paper), CCLA, MSF LESTARI team 2.6 Improve system in law enforcement on land utilization LESTARI team 2.6 Managerial and Technical Capacity development for civil servants LESTARI team Dissemination of the SEAs to the Line Agencies Advocacy and Campaign Strategy 1.1 Awareness and advocacy strategy analysis LESTARI team Target audience, message, desired behavior, and appropriate media identified 1.2 Formation of community-civil society champions LESTARI team Civil society champions trained and advocate for strong sustainability vision LESTARI team Constituencies for improved conservation and land use management developed LESTARI team Formation of journalist networks 1.3 1.4 Advocacy campaign implementation Formation of journalist networks USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 88 PRIORITY INITIATIVE: GREEN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT (CACAO, NUTMEG, TOURISM) Sustainable Livelihoods and Alternative Livelihoods Green Enterprises 6.1 Market Assessment & Value Chain Analysis for potential commodity and community needs assessment. LESTARI Team, STTA Potential commodities: cacao, patchouli, candle nut, pine trees, lemon grass, nutmeg 6.2 Identify and select potential players within the landscape LESTARI Team Potential partnering with big private sectors in the landscape (oil palm companies, mining companies & timber companies) 6.3 Identify criteria and necessary methodology LESTARI team Business agreement to be adjusted with the authority and prevailing mechanism 6.4 PPP development Program Plan LESTARI Team Capacity building (access to various business services) for various farmers of local commodities 6.6 Smallholder market, and envoroinmnetal threats analysis LESTARI Team 6.7 Supply chain model development LESTARI Team, Private sector demand for commodities identified 6.8 Comunity outreach program LESTARI Team Communities and individuals join program based on need 6.9 Targeted technical assistance (with focus on women) Critical areas and appropriate sustainable economic practices identified Environmental Safeguards identified Grants Financial Institutions Economic benefits realized by communities and comply with environmental safeguards Private companies PRIORITY INITIATIVE: PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 89 Innovative Finance 8.3 8.2 Coordination Meeting (District, Province and National levels). LESTARI team Technical Meeting at the District level and Provincial level with relevant stakeholders resulting in support for current PCNs (Trumon and Gayo Lues – PES) Technical support for Implementation of climate change projects in Trumon and Gayo Lues – PES LESTARI team Two key pilot initiatives working as PES models for scaling up and replication in the landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 90 Figure 20 LESTARI Leuser Operational Landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 91 Katingan-Kahayan Landscape Landscape Profile The Katingan-Kahayan Landscape in Central Kalimantan covers more than 4 million hectares and includes both deep peat land and Sebangau National Park. The region’s economy depends on forestry, agriculture, commodities, trade, services, and mining sectors. Much of the landscape is vulnerable to forest fires, illegal logging, forest degradation, and conversion for oil palm plantations. Such unsustainable land use management continues to release large emissions while also negatively impacting the health and livelihoods of local communities. The Katingan-Kahayan Landscape is largely based on the IFACS Katingan landscape but has incorporated several key differences. First, the landscape has been designed on sound hydrological and forest connectivity approaches. Listening to local stakeholders that wanted to have more inclusivity, the landscape has been extended. Factors important in maintaining sustainable landscapes such as local stakeholder and community distribution patterns have also been included. In total, the landscape in Central Kalimantan is very different from the IFACS landscape and also from that discussed in the Tetra Tech proposal. The value landscape in Central Kalimantan is dominated by the Sebangau National Park that is included in its entirety, and surrounding peatlands adjoining it. Because of local stakeholder requests, the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape has been extended to include the Central Kalimantan portion of the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (BBBR). IFACS worked with three concessions surrounding this PA, and thus the VL has been expanded to include the cluster of private sector timber concessions that will be managed as a ‘nested sub-landscape’ within the broader Katingan-Kahayan Landscape. Other dominant features of the Central Kalimantan landscape are the Katingan and Kahayan Rivers that give the landscape its name. The value landscape therefore includes important forest and peat lands within river catchments that provide connectivity between the Sebangau and BBBR National Parks sub-landscapes. This means that a large part of Gunung Mas District is included in the VL. Another important private sector partner for IFACS in the Katingan watershed was PT Rimba Makmur Utama (RMU). This company has been granted a 103,000-hectare ecosystem restoration (ER) license on the eastern half of peat dome that lies between the Katingan and Seruyun Rivers. The Katingan-Kahayan VL includes the western half of this peat dome as an important target for conservation until an ER license can be granted for this area. Important areas of forest contiguous with the BBBR National Park, and that connect with the Sebangau National Park in the south, are included in the VL. A large portion of these forests is located in Gunung Mas District. This is a departure from the Tetra Tech proposal and IFACS landscape. It is designed to provide sustainable impacts to the interconnected value landscape. The operational landscape is defined by Katingan and Pulang Pisau districts as well as Palangkaraya municipality. Gunung Mas district is also included within the operational landscape, for the reasons above. Similar to the Leuser Landscape, villages surrounding important conservation targets in adjacent neighboring districts are included in the operational landscape. Villages located along the Seruyun River and that impact the proposed extension of the ER site west of RMU are included in the Katingan-Kahayan operational landscape. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 92 Projected land transitions in this landscape, as determined in the Landscape Baseline Analysis, are dominated by the following: Secondary swamp forest to brush and open land (often caused from fire) on peat lands – most likely to occur within conservation areas (HSAW), production forest (HP), and production conversion forest (HPK). Secondary swamp forest (on mineral soils) lost to brush and open land, farming land, and plantations – most likely to occur within production forests (HP) and to a lesser extent limited production forests (HPT), conversion production forest (HPK), and other use areas (APL). Secondary dryland forest lost to brush, open land, and agricultural land predicted to occur within production forests (HP) and to a lesser extent limited production forests (HPT), conversion production forest (HPK), and other use areas (APL)). Secondary forest to plantations are predicted at a low rate of ~400 hectares per year. Degradation of primary forest to secondary forest at a rate of ~3,000 hectares per annum is mostly likely to occur where it is planned – in forest concessions with production forest types. Projected emissions within the landscape for Katingan-Kahayan constitute 58% of all baseline emissions over LESTARI landscapes. As the landscape contains significant amounts of peat (31% of the landscape), all of which is modified to some extent, emissions from peat account for 62% of all land based emissions, even when there is no land cover transition. As expected from the analysis of land cover transitions mentioned above, significant additional emissions come from deforestation of secondary swamp forest on peat lands. Landscape Initiatives The emissions baseline analysis has significant consequence for the design of LESTARI in the Katingan-Kahayan Landscape. Maximum effort should be placed where expected emissions are greatest – peat lands. Hence the core initiatives to be implemented in the Katingan-Kayahan Landscape are: Integrated Fire Management (IFM) Bukit Baka Bukit Raya co-management IFM will be a core, broad initiative implemented in this landscape. This will involve enhancing awareness and advocacy with communities in understanding the environmental, health, and economic detriments to fire and haze. IFM will also focus on enhancing environmental governance by developing capacity among government agencies in preventing and suppressing fires, as well as monitoring and enforcing laws and regulations. LESTARI will also go beyond fire to directly support peatland restoration activities (silviculture, replanting, rewetting) in order to mitigate emissions and prevent further loss of secondary swamp forest to brush and open land. Such efforts will be complemented by working with rubber farmers to improve the quality of their crops, which will serve as an economic incentive to reduce fire hazard and maintain peat moisture. Finally, the IFM initiative will include the co-management of Sebangau National Park with WWF. This will include capacity building for park management staff, sustainable financing mechanisms for conservation, and enhanced relations with adjacent communities to reduce the threat of encroachment. In year two, LESTARI will begin to work on the SEA-LEDS plan in this landscape. Congruent to the initiative on integrated fire management is the proposed REDD+ Project in Pulang Pisau District, which will focus on the development of integrated forest management that reduces the threats to forest and peat land (reduces illegal logging and clearance and reduces peatland fires), primarily through increasing agricultural production and developing USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 93 the local economy. This year, LESTARI will support this project begun under IFACS by developing participatory community-based village-forest management for the implementation of REDD+ and training in community-based forest and peatland fire management in village forests. This will leverage funds from the ICCTF. BBBR co-management will focus on improving the management of areas both within and adjacent to the protected area. METT will be used as a tool to enhance the capacity of park authorities to monitor and detect threats. Sustainable financing mechanisms will be designed and implemented to generate revenue that feeds back into conservation efforts. In communities adjacent to BBBR, LESTARI will support the operationalizing of LCPs and SEA-LEDS so that district spatial plans are constructed with a shared vision of sustainable and equitable land use. Finally, LESTARI will engage with private sector concessions around BBBR so that best management practices are implemented and CMMPs are operationalized. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 94 Figure 21 Katingan-Kahayan Operational Landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 95 PRIORITY INITIATIVE: INTEGRATED FIRE MANAGEMENT IN AND AROUND SEBANGAU NATIONAL PARK PES and REDD+ Innovaitive Finance Awareness and Advocacy SA Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Comments 1.1 Awareness and advocacy strategy analysis LESTARI team Target audience, message, desired behavior and appropriate media identified 1.2 Formation of commnuity-civil society champions LESTARI team Civil society champions trained and advocate for strong sustainability vision 1.3 Advocacy campaign implementation LESTARI team Constutuencies for improved peat land management developed 1.4 Formation of journalist networks LESTARI team 1.5 PES Policy Advocacy 8.1 Assessment for potential Payment for Environmental Services initiative for fire prevention 8.2 8.3 8.4 Environ mental Governa nce Activities 3.1 Grants Support for development of provincial regulations and strategic pan related to PES Engagement, consultation and advocacy with provincial and national level Technical support for Implementation of climate change project in Pulang Pisau including community-based forest and peatland fire management in village forests Conduct analysis of licensing and permitting related to land use on peatland LESTARI team LESTARI team LESTARI team LESTARI team STTA USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Formation of journalist networks (see PES and REDD+ Innovative Financing below) Asssessment of budget details used in fire management (primarily in fighting fires) and prevention and examine models that can reduce fire through incentive schemes Pioneer PES initiative (incentive) for communities to implement Integrated Fire Management Gain support from National and regional levels Key pilot initiatives working as REDD / PES models for scaling up and replication in the landscape Spatial plan and licensing analysis that details issue leading to GHG emissions and MSF recommendations for more transparent and P a g e | 96 Co-Management Protected area management LEDS friendly process 3.2 Licensing transparency protocol development LESTARI staff 3.3 Dispute resolution mechanism development LESTARI staff 3.5 Capacity building for scientific and participatory monitoring LESTARI staff Build monitoring capacity of SDI / BKPRD / PPNS and facilitate regular land use monitoring 3.6 Identify and train leaders in each landscape on land use issues, rights and responsibilities LESTARI staff Community members that understand and can articulate rights and responsibilities effectively 3.7 Revitalize MSF to serve as bridge between citizens and government LESTARI staff 5.1 Dissemination and socialization on the application of METT to evaluate effective management of conservation areas 5.3 Participatory METT assessment LESTARI team (WWF) 5.4 Capacity building activities to improve conservation areas management LESTARI team 4.1 Stakeholder mapping, areas analysis and needs assessment for comanagement models LESTARI team Multi-stakeholder dialogue LESTARI team 4.2 Expert from KHLK & LESTARI team STTA USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Clarifying and resolve conflicts around boundaries of protected areas and company concessions Initiate collaboration with the Directorate for Conservation, MOEF Publish and publicize the METT assessment identifying areas of improvement Supports to enable conservation area managers to adopt collaborative measures to address areas for improvement. Potetial areas and villages, needs of stakeholders identified Dialogue betwen UPT and relevant parties; support for local initiatives on forest management by local communities (village forest, city forest, P a g e | 97 Private Sector BMPs conservation village etc); Letters of intent signed 4.4 Development of co-management (partnership) agreements 4.3 Develop a capacity development program based on needs assessment Grants 7.1 Identify potential private sectors (timber, palm oil concession, mining) in order to select potential partner LESTARI team STTA 7.2 Develop Sustainability Screening/Selection Criteria STTA LESTARI team 7.3 Stakeholder engagement (private sectors, association, government institutions) on national level and landscape level LESTARI Team LESTARI team (e.g. MoU, Joint Declaration, Joint Commitment, Joint Program) Capacity building (e.g., village forest in Buntoi Village, strengthen educational and customary forest in Palangkaraya, advocating conservation village in the buffer region) See IFACS previous achievements PRIORITY INITIATIVE: BUKIT BAKA BUKIT RAYA CO-MANAGEMENT Co-management 4.1 Stakeholder mapping, areas analysis and needs assessment for comanagement models 4.2 Initiate discussion with concession holders to begin the process of connecting Sebangau NP and Bukit Baka/Bukit Raya NP 4.4 Development of co-management (partnership) agreements STTA LESTARI team Potetial areas and villages, needs of stakeholders identified LESTARI team LESTARI team USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Facilitate the development of KPH in each District P a g e | 98 Protected area manage-ment Private Sector BMPs 5.1 Dissemination and socialization on the application of METT to evaluate effective management of conservation areas 5.3 Participatory METT assessment LESTARI team (WWF) 7.1 Identify potential private sectors (timber, palm oil concession, mining) in order to select potential partner LESTARI team STTA 7.2 Develop Sustainability Screening/Selection Criteria STTA LESTARI team 7.3 Stakeholder engagement (private sectors, association, government institutions) on national level and landscape level LESTARI Team Expert from KHLK & LESTARI team Publish and publicize the METT assessment identifying areas of improvement See IFACS previous achievements T USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 99 Lorentz Lowlands Landscape Landscape Profile The IFACS Asmat and Mimika landscapes have been combined into a single Lorentz Lowlands Landscape. The areas included in these two districts are superficially similar to the IFACS landscape. Previously, Tetra Tech proposed to extend the Asmat landscape east into Mappi and Bouven Digoel. However Asmat and Mimika share many common characteristics such as ecosystems and similar cultures that are not found in Mappi and Bouven Digoel. Further, the Lorentz National Park provides a shared centerpiece in the landscape. The proposal to treat Mimika- Asmat and Mappi-Bouven Digoel as separate landscapes was made. Defining landscapes in Papua has been simpler than in Aceh and Kalimantan. IFACS followed a simple district approach, with one focal district in each landscape. The LESTARI value landscapes in southern Papua are a significant revision of IFACS Mimika and Asmat landscapes. As there is a focus on and contiguity with mangroves and Lorentz National Park CAs between Mimika and Asmat districts, the “Lorentz” Lowlands (defined by an arbitrary upper elevation of 200m above sea level) combines the forest within the two districts into a single value landscape. The Lorentz Lowlands therefore consist of largely intact upland (free draining, mineral soil) forests in the northern parts of the landscape, extensive lowland swamp forests, and mangrove ecosystems. The operational landscape is defined by the Mimika and Asmat districts. A unique aspect of this landscape is the Mimika and Asmat Mangroves that stretch along 500 km of coastline and cover over 400,000 ha of mangroves. The bordering freshwater swamp forest covers an additional approximately 1M ha. These mangrove and backwater swamps are a world-class asset and harbor some of the highest carbon stock per hectare of any forest on the planet. They need to be managed sustainably to mitigate vast GHG emissions and conserve important biodiversity and environmental services that local communities enjoy. Landscape Initiatives Emissions from inside the national park account for only 4.7% of total landscape emissions Nevertheless, it is crucial that key initiatives implemented directly in the value landscapes should take into account forward-looking pressures and potential emissions that can impact the park. Improved collaboration will be key, but targeted to address future planned and unplanned pressures that will impact the park. An important part of the initiative in the Lorentz Lowlands will include more intensive focus on small-scale extractive industries and their adoption of BMPs, as forested areas around the economic centers of Mimika and Agats are increasingly being exploited for timber. Improved community based management is also key for these large ‘wilderness’ areas in order to enhance community aspirations for the sustainable management of these forest resources and the environmental resources that they provide. The conversion of swamps to oil palm plantations threatens the hydrological sustainability of the system, and future conversion of mangroves for fishponds aquaculture may cause significant ecosystem loss. While only 171 hectares of mangrove is degraded each year, a unique aspect of LESTARI in this landscape will be the establishment of an internationally recognized South Papua Mangrove Conservation Corridor (such as through the establishment of an Essential Ecosystem Area (Kawasan ekosistem esensial) and potential support for a nomination for Lorentz mangroves and wetlands as a RAMSAR site. These initiatives will cover 500,000 ha of mangroves and approximately 1M ha of bordering USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 100 freshwater swamp forest along the coast. It will be managed through a regional mangrove management coordination body currently being set up under the IFACS project. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 101 PRIORITY INITIATIVE: LORENTZ NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH PAPUA MANGROVES; ASMAT CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES Activities 4.1 Stakeholder mapping to identify area and type of co-management inside and adjacent to Lorentz National Park, Rawa Baki-Vriendschap and Mimika-Asmat Mangroves critical areas Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Comments LESTARI team Participatory approach with stakeholders to; Mimika & Asmat are designated as pilot areas (4 villages outside NP and 1 within) 4.2 Dialogue to promote collaboration at all levels of Mimika and Asmat District governments and Papua Provincial Government LESTARI team Regularly held dialogues and support policy coordination between provincial and national government to operationalize the Mimika Mangrove Management Plan through the KKMD and expand the initiative to Asmat 4.3 Facilitate process to resolve conflicts and build capacity of stakeholders for comanagement LESTARI team Mechanism for conflict resolution identified, especially for villages inside the Lorentz National Park and Mimika-Asmat Protected Mangrove areas 4.4 Develop co-management partnerships agreements (between the Lorentz NP and communities), Freeport and communities and the District Government (KPH) and Communities; and develop management plans under each agreement LESTARI team Asmat & Mimika: max 2 villages 4.5 Support agreement implementation and monitoring LESTARI team To include institutional strengthening KPH as well as community actors Prote cted Area Mana geme nt Co-Management SA 5.1 Dissemination and socialization on application of METT with the Lorentz LESTARI team; STTA USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Simultaneously held with stakeholder mapping P a g e | 102 Awareness and Advocacy Environmental Governance National Park 5.3 METT application in Lorentz National Park through participatory assessments LESTARI team 5.4 Capacity building activities based on METT LESTARI 3.8 Revitalizing / forming MSF and build mechanism through MSF to engage citizens LESTARI team 3.9 Develop and Implement Training activities for district government officials and other MSF members LESTARI team Advocacy training through monthly thematic meeting series focusing on land use decisions being made that affect the Mimika-Asmat Mangroves, 3.7 Identify & train community leaders on land use rights and responsibilities (especially within Mimika-Asmat mangroves and Lorentz National Park) LESTARI team Starts during stakeholder mapping and results in cadre of comm. leaders that capture, understand and can articulate land use issues and communicate these effectively 3.6 Build Monitoring capacity of SDI, BKPRD & PPNS for more scientific and participatory monitoring; facilitate regular monitoring LESTARI team Identify parties for collaboration with SDI and monitoring implemented and linked to provincial and national levels 1.1 Awareness and Advocacy Strategy Analysis Grantee Target audience, message, desired behavior, appropriate media and local resources and organization capable or with potential important role in constituency building identified This activity will be based on the METT and the needs of the Lorentz NP to improve management effectiveness. Asmat: legalization of MSF priority. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 MSF will be developed as the mechanism through which citizen-based input can be provided and is recognized by district leaders P a g e | 103 Operationalize SEAs & LCPs 1.2 Formation of community-civil society champions Grantee Linked to 3.7 training in advocacy for strong sustainability vision in the Mimika and Asmat focusing on the sustainable use and protection of mangroves, and shared responsibility for the management and protection of Lorentz 1.3 Awareness and advocacy strategy implementation LESTARI team Implementation of above strategy prioritizing media and champions to communicate message 1.4 Empower media coverage LESTARI team Journalist networks, training and field visits to Lorentz, Rawa Baki and Mimika-Asmat Mangroves 1.5 Advocacy and Lobbying through media and champions LESTARI team CS champions lobbying for government owned sustainable development vision that reduces emissions and deforestation Status of SEA-LEDS and LCP recommendations that have been incorporated for the protection the Mangroves and Lorentz National Park through series of workshops 2.1 SEA-LEDS and LCP recommendation analysis 2.2 Formation and facilitation of appropriate level SEA-LCP working groups LESTARI team Permanent groups that can revise and maintain SEA utility for policies, plans and programs. 2.3 SEA-LEDS revision LESTARI team Updated SEA considering new threats to the landscape STTA USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Entry-points for operationalization in district (and provincial) spatial and development plans and budgets defined. SEA, spatial plan and LCP guidelines development P a g e | 104 PES and REDD Innovative Finance Green Enterprises 2.4 Capacity building for district government for planning and management in accordance with SEA and LCP recommendations LESTARI team Ensure that SEA (and LCPs) are operationalized through RENSTRA and new regulations that assure reduced pressure on Mangroves and Lorentz National Park. Potential regulations include the establishment of Essential Ecosystem Areas (Kawasan Ekosistem Esensial) and nomination of Lorentz Lowlands as a RAMSAR site. 6.1 Market Assessment & Value chain analysis for every potential commodities and community needs assessment STTA Assessment will include food security for local communities, sustainability of mangrove commodities (such as crabs) and potential marketability of alternative commodities. HIPKAL (small timber license association) is categorized as Green Enterprises 6.2 Identification of potential private sector partners for green enterprises within the landscape partners STTA List of partners from timber, oil palm and mining companies Enabling conditions for project development for PCNs in Mimika LESTARI team Mimika already has a PCN for the Mimika Mangrove project with potential funding through the ICCTF. LESTARI will facilitate the implementation of Mimika Mangrove Climate Mitigation project Asmat already has an assessment, only needs to develop a SRAK and possible projects in year 2 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 105 Figure 22 Lorentz Lowlands Operational Landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 106 Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape Landscape Profile The Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape is a new area for USAID projects. It covers a large undeveloped expanse of lowland forest on a lowland mineral terrace, and extensive peat lands, swamps and some mangrove in the lower reaches towards the coast. The landscape is characterized by Papua’s largest river, the Digul, which forms the eastern boundary of the landscape. Southeast Papua has long been the focus of large development plans for the expansion in agricultural and land-based energy estates. The MIFEE (Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate) project that was initiated under the SBY government has been revisited and supported by the Jokowi administration. The actual impact of MIFEE spreads beyond the Merauke district, as large parcels of land have long been designated for conversion to oil palm and pulp plantations in Bouven Digoel and Mappi districts. We propose an extension to the Lorentz value landscape to encapsulate the forested areas slated for conversion within the ‘location license’ of these oil palm and industrial timber plantation companies. These companies are not operating in the landscape to date and LESTARI has the opportunity to provide local stakeholders and plantation developers’ information to mitigate impact from the plantations. The operational landscape is defined by Mappi district and a significant portion of Bouven Digoel district bounded by the Digul River. Landscape Initiatives The core initiative in the Mappi-Bouven Digoel Landscape is to rationalize current and proposed plantations to ensure conservation of HCV and HCS forest. Whilst embracing peatland management and efforts to reduce deforestation, this will be carried out via private sector engagement, including investment screening for companies that have yet to start operation in the landscape. LESTARI has the opportunity to provide local stakeholders and plantation developers information to mitigate impacts from plantation development. Information that can be developed through LESTARI includes land use and tenure patterns, community and biodiversity values within the license areas, and proposal development scenarios that aim to mitigate GHG emissions and the loss of biodiversity while directing development towards areas where socio-economic and cultural impact is minimized. Communicating initiatives to encourage multi-functional landscapes that have had little development to date will be key to applying a successful landscape approach strategy. When developing a strategy to mitigate impacts of oil palm and industrial pulp plantations, communications and advocacy will be key activities to build constituencies for conservation and a low emissions development approach. As these are new areas for USAID project implementation, establishing MSFs, creating a sustainable landscape vision, and improving spatial planning through a foundational SEA-LEDS will be potential key activities throughout the districts. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 107 PRIORITY INITIATIVE: MAPPI-BOUVEN DIGOEL LAND-USE RATIONALIZATION TO ENSURE CONSERVATION OF HCV AND HCS FOREST Operationalize SEAs & LCPs Environmental Governance SA 3.7 Activities Stakeholder mapping and Forming MSF and build mechanism through MSF to engage citizens Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 LESTARI team Q4 Comments MSF will be developed after a thorough participative stakeholder mapping has been completed identifying key actor that can become a mechanism through which citizen-based input can be provided, and is recognized by district leaders Lessons learned from the process in Mimika, Sarmi and Asmat 3.8 Develop and Implement Training activities for district government officials and other MSF members LESTARI team Advocacy training through monthly thematic meeting series focusing on land use decisions being made that affect primary forest and livelihoods in MappiBouven Digoel 3.6 Identify & start to train community leaders on land use rights and responsibilities (especially in relation to licenses that have been issued on traditional lands) LESTARI team; STTA Starts during stakeholder mapping and results in cadre of comm. leaders that capture, understand and can articulate land use issues and communicate these effectively 2.1 SEA-LEDS recommendation analysis STTA Status of SEA-LEDS and identification of entry-points for improving SEA-LEDS for operationalization of recommendations into district (and provincial) spatial and development plans and budgets defined. SEA, spatial plan and LCP guidelines development 2.2 Formation of appropriate level SEA-LCP working groups LESTARI team Permanent groups that can revise and maintain SEA utility for policies, plans and programs. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 108 Green Enterprises Private Sector BMPs Awareness and Advocacy LESTARI team Updated SEA considering data already available for Mappi, and collection of important places (HCV 5&6) for Bouven Digoel to be included in SEA for the district. LESTARI team Ensure that SEA (and LCPs) are operationalized through RENSTRA and any new regulations (spatial plans) and reduce pressure on the forest resources in Mappi-Bouven Digoel landscape 6.1 Market Assessment & Value chain analysis for every potential commodities and community needs assessment STTA Assessment will include food security for local communities, sustainability of current exploited commodities and potential marketability of alternative commodities. 6.2 Identification of potential private sector partners for green enterprises within the landscape partners STTA List of partners from timber and oil palm companies that can potential support Green Enterprises through PPP 2.3 SEA-LEDS revision including data collection (participative mapping) where needed 2.5 Capacity building for district government for planning and management in accordance with SEA and LCP recommendations 7.1 Private Sector Identification STTA List of potential partners for improved BMPs in the landscape identified including data on status, certification, area of concession and sustainability policy 7.2 Sustainability Screening / Selection Criteria development STTA Shortlisted potential partners screened through tool Inputs on shortlisted partners from multi-stakeholder consultations (with local, provincial and national levels); Field verification; Public consultation leading to MOU for BMP implementation with private sector 7.3 Private sector stakeholder Engagement 1.1 Awareness and advocacy strategy analysis LESTARI team Target audience, message, desired behavior and appropriate media identified 1.2 Formation of community-civil society champions LESTARI team Civil society champions trained and advocate for strong sustainability vision USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 109 1.3 Advocacy campaign implementation LESTARI team Constutuencies for improved conservation and land use management developed 1.4 Formation of journalist networks LESTARI team Formation of journalist networks USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 110 Figure 23 Mappi-Bouven Digoel Operational Landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 111 Sarmi Landscape Landscape Profile The LESTARI Sarmi Landscape in northern Papua is similar to that of IFACS. Almost all of its area – ranging from the low coastal land up to the Foja Mountain in the hinterlands – is covered with natural forests. This includes extensive areas of lowland peat swamp forest as well as mangrove forests along the 200 km coast. 97% of the landscape is still forest covered, with 74% of that amount in a pristine state. The region is known for its rich biodiversity in all forest types including tree-kangaroos, the enigmatic Northern Cassowary, 16 species of parrot and cockatoos, and 6 species of birds of paradise – all of which are relatively common throughout the landscape. As 96% of the Sarmi Landscape is forestcovered, the operational landscape is almost identical to the VL. At present, Sarmi’s emerging economy relies on the development of large-scale palm oil and some mining of iron sands. Although historical deforestation and degradation rates have been low, the accessibility of Sarmi and Papua in general through ever-improving infrastructure could lead to rapid and unsustainable expansion in areas designated for development, especially in the palm oil sector. The entire northern coastline has been designated for industrial activities. If not managed carefully, these developments will pose a threat to biodiversity, the loss of large tracts of currently intact forest, and local community livelihoods. Landscape Initiatives The core initiative in the Sarmi Landscape is to ensure high conservation value (HCV) and high carbon stock (HCS) conservation. Historical deforestation and degradation rates are relatively low, and 70% of the landscape is currently within natural forest timber concessions. These companies are therefore important managers of the northern Papua lowland forests and the adoption of Best Management Practices (BMPs) could further minimize GHG emissions and forest loss. Potential large-scale deforestation and associated GHG emissions will come from future development of industrial scale plantations. As such, the primary LESTARI initiative in the landscape is to improve environmental governance and ensure that impacts of these developments are mitigated. Moreover, extensive areas of this landscape have been designated for oil palm development. Therefore, LESTARI activities within the operational landscape will focus on engaging these companies to embrace low-emissions plantation development and incorporate Community Conservation Agreements developed under IFACS. LESTARI will also support the monitoring and enforcement of land use decisions through operationalizing SEA-LEDS and LCPs and strengthening the MSF and other local partners’ landscape vision and commitment for low emissions development (Theme 1). By applying this approach, it is expected that there would be shared responsibility in conserving the area and maintaining a balance between development and conservation objectives. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 112 PRIORITY INITIATIVE: SARMI HCV & HCS CONSERVATION Operationalize SEAs & LCPs Environmental Governance SA Activities Inputs Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Comments 3.7 Revitalization of MSFs to serve as a bridge between citizens and local government LESTARI team MSF will be revitalized to become a mechanism through which citizen-based input can be provided, and is officially recognized by district leaders 3.8 Development and implementation of training activities for district government officials and other MSF members (e.g. participatory development, conflict resolution, and civil society engagement) LESTARI team Advocacy training through monthly thematic meeting series focusing on land use decisions being made that affect the currently intact forest in Sarmi 3.6 Identification and training of leaders in each landscape from CBOs (women, youth, and indigenous populations) on land use issues, rights and responsibilities LESTARI team; STTA Starts during stakeholder mapping and results in cadre of comm. leaders that capture, understand and can articulate land use issues and communicate these effectively 3.5 Capacity building for more scientific and participatory monitoring at the landscape level 2.2 Formation of appropriate level SEA-LCP working groups LESTARI team Permanent groups that can revise and maintain SEA utility for policies, plans and programs. 2.3 SEA-LEDS revision including data collection (participative mapping) where needed LESTARI team Updated SEA considering data already available for Sarmi, and integration of important places mapped through CCLA. 2.5 Capacity building for district government for planning and management in accordance with SEA and LCP recommendations LESTARI team Ensure that SEA (and LCPs) are operationalized through RENSTRA and any new regulations (spatial plans) and reduce pressure on the forest resources in Sarmi landscape MSF and SDI lead monitoring of spatial plan USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 113 Green Enterprises Awareness and Advocacy 6.1 Market Assessment & Value chain analysis for every potential commodities and community needs assessment STTA Assessment will include food security for local communities, sustainability of current exploited commodities and potential marketability of alternative commodities. 6.2 Identification of potential private sector partners for green enterprises within the landscape partners STTA List of partners from timber and oil palm companies 1.1 Awareness and advocacy strategy analysis LESTARI team Target audience, message, desired behavior and appropriate media identified 1.2 Formation of community-civil society champions LESTARI team Civil society champions trained and advocate for strong sustainability vision 1.3 Advocacy campaign implementation LESTARI team Constutuencies for improved conservation and land use management developed 1.4 Formation of journalist networks LESTARI team Formation of journalist networks USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 114 Figure 24 Sarmi Operational Landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 115 Cyclops Landscape Landscape Profile Another small but valuable landscape in northern Papua is the Cyclops Landscape. USAID has been providing assistance to local stakeholders for the conservation of this unique natural reserve for 15 years. The proximity of the mountain range to the provincial capital provides a focal point for conservation of environmental services. Due to the proximity of Papua’s largest population center, the mountain range is under threat from illegal logging, charcoal making, wildlife poaching, and encroachment for agricultural land by mountain communities migrating to the capital. The value landscape is defined by the remaining forest within and surrounding the nature reserve. The operational landscape contains the bordering buffer zone to the reserve. There is no peat in the Cyclops Landscape. Emissions are derived from land use change and are expectedly low compared to other LESTARI landscapes. The data used in the Landscape Baseline Analysis cannot identify emerging and increasing threats to the nature reserve. The mountain range is important for biodiversity (containing several endemic species restricted to this mountain range) and forests provide important environmental services. The actual rate of degradation is likely to be higher than that reported here. There is provincial awareness of the pressures on the reserve from communities living around it such as unsustainable charcoal making from Sowang (Xanthosthemon novaguineense). Landscape Initiatives Since this is a strict nature reserve where activities are not allowed inside the PA, key activities will be focused on co-management within the buffer zone. Stopping deforestation in the Cyclops Landscape will only be effective if multiple stakeholders are fully engaged. Voices of local community members located in and around the forest area, government entities, and the private sector that benefits from the environmental and ecosystems services must all be included in a collaborative management effort. A Cyclops Nature Reserve collaborative management master plan has already been developed by Universitas Cendrawasih. This is intended to reduce encroachment pressure and gain broader support for conservation from local communities and municipal, district, and provincial governments. LESTARI also supports enhancing protected area management in the Cyclops Landscape. This includes facilitating dialogues and conservation agreements with local communities, as well as capacity building for park management authorities to utilize modern tools such as METT to monitor and address threats to forest and biodiversity resources. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 116 PRIORITY INITIATIVE: CYCLOPS CO-MANAGEMENT (Conservation FMU / KPH-K) Co-Management SA Inputs 4.1 Identify areas, needs assessment, and type of comanagement STTA 4.4 Develop a capacity development program based on needs assessment LESTARI Team 4.2 Facilitate series of thematic dialogues to improve co-management 4.5 Implement program plan (e.g., livelihood, village plan, campaign & awareness, etc) 4.3 Initiate a co-management agreement 4.2 Protected Area Management Activities 5.1 5.3 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 If possible, establish a collaborative forum for Cyclops coordinated by BKSDA and KPHK LESTARI Team Grants LESTARI Team and Grants To support database management of Cyclops center To support the government’s plan to establish a botanical garden in the buffer zone of cyclops Involving LESTARI Team, KPHK, BKSDA, MSF, Provincial and District Forestry Unit in Papua, and others I Support dialogues for policy coordination Dissemination & Capacity Building on METT METT assessment involving from the management to the front-line staff Comments Technical experts from KLHK and LESTARI Team LESTARI Team USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 117 5.3 Awareness and Advocacy 5.3 Collaborative development of strategy to enhance the effectiveness of Cyclops conservation areas management Develop Collaborative Program Plan LESTARI Team LESTARI Team 1.1 Awareness and advocacy strategy analysis LESTARI Team 1.2 Formation of community-civil society champions LESTARI Team 1.3 Advocacy campaign implementation LESTARI Team 1.4 Formation of journalist networks LESTARI Team USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Target audience, message, desired behavior and appropriate media identified Civil society champions trained and advocate for strong sustainability vision Constutuencies for improved conservation and land use management developed Formation of journalist networks P a g e | 118 Figure 25 Cyclops Operational Landscape USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 119 APPENDICES USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 120 APPENDIX 1: ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION AND MONITORING PLAN (EMMP) The EMMP builds upon the LESTARI Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) and Environmental Threshold Decisions contained therein, and defines practical steps for LESTARI to mitigate and monitor possible environmental impacts. Given the development of the IEE pre-award it is worth noting the following: The IEE included both (i) Categorical Exclusion (CE) and (ii) Negative Determination with Conditions (NDw/C) for illustrative activities outlined in the LESTARI Scope of Work. As a result, the EMMP first screened these activities with the work plan to determine which should be subject to a CE or an NDw/C. Activities with Moderate and Unknown Risk that triggered Negative Determination with Conditions (NDw/C) threshold decisions were subject to environmental review and mitigation and monitoring actions. This EMMP addresses environmental compliance as set out in section C.11 of Contract AID497-TO-15-00005. This EMMP is to be used in conjunction with the Activity Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (AMEP). As project activities evolve over time, the EMMP will be updated. The results of the environmental screening of LESTARI Year 1 activities within the work plan to determine which should be subject to a CE or an NDw/C are summarized in table below. X X 1.2 Formation of community-civil society champions X X 1.3 Awareness and advocacy strategy implementation X X 1.4 Empowerment of media coverage X X U 1.5 Advocacy and lobbying X 2.1 SEA-LEDS and LCP recommendation analysis X X 2.2 Formation and facilitation of appropriate level SEALEDS working groups X X 2.3 LCP revision and LCP-SEA-LEDS integration plan (updated position paper produced under IFACS) U X 2.4 Regulation development that incorporates SEA and LCP recommendations U X USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 121 Significant Adverse Impact No significant adverse impact (CE) Moderate (M) or unknown risk (U) 1.1. Awareness and advocacy strategy analysis High-Risk (By Strategic Approach) Very Low Risk LESTARI Activities With specified mitigation, no significant adverse impact (NDw/C) Recommended Determinations Screening result 2.5 Capacity building for district government for planning and management in accordance with SEA and LCP recommendations X X 3.1 Analysis of licensing and permitting processes directly related to land use X X 3.2 Development of licensing transparency protocols (Environmental Assessment and Monitoring Tool) and procedures at the provincial level X X 3.3 Dispute resolution mechanism development X X 3.4 Development of publicly accessible database registry for spatial planning, permitting, and licensing linked to OneMap, X X 3.5 Capacity building for more scientific and participatory monitoring at the landscape level X X 3.6 Identification and training of leaders in each landscape from CBOs (women, youth, and indigenous populations) on land use issues, rights and responsibilities X X 3.7 Revitalization or formation of MSFs to serve as a bridge between citizens and local government X X 3.8 Development and implementation of training activities for district government officials and other MSF members (e.g. participatory development, conflict resolution, and civil society engagement) X X 4.1 Stakeholder mapping, area analysis, and need assessments for co-management model (adjacent to conservation areas and critical HCV forests) X X 4.2 Dialogue between stakeholders X X 4.3 Facilitation of process to resolve conflicts and build capacity of stakeholders for co-management X X 4.4 The development of partnership agreements and stakeholder (such as community) management plans U X 4.5 Implementation of management plans U X 4.6 Support policy coordination between government in provincial and national level X X 4.7 Identification of innovative financing opportunities for conservation areas X X 4.8 Innovative financing plan development X X 5.1 METT dissemination and socialization X X 5.2 Advocacy for adoption of participatory METT in the national level X X 5.3 Participatory METT assessment X X USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 122 5.4 Capacity building and implementation of improved conservation areas management U X 5.5 National and Provincial coordination X X 5.6 Identification of innovative financing opportunities for conservation areas X X 5.7 Innovative financing plan development X X X X X X 6.1 Market Assessment/Value Chain analysis for potential commodities and community needs assessment Identification of potential private sectors partners for green enterprises (especially within or close to critical area) 6.2 Technical assistance and investment outreach, and marketing for potential green enterprise PPPs 6.3 PPP development (including multi-stakeholder coordination) U X 6.4 Technical evaluation and additional support where appropriate U X 6.6 Smallholder commodity, market and environmental threat analysis X X 6.7 Supply chain model development X X 6.8 Community outreach program X X 6.9 Village development plan and environmental safeguards U X 6.10 Targeted technical assistance U X 6.11 Technical evaluation and additional support where appropriate U X 7.1 Identification of private sector entities within the landscapes X X 7.2 Development of Sustainability Screening/Selection Criteria (as part of sustainability tool) X X 7.3 Stakeholder engagement (private sectors, association, government institutions) on national level and landscape level X X 7.4 CMMP status analysis and follow-up X X U 7.5 BMP implementation X 7.6 Sustainability Reporting Toolkit and BMP monitoring and evaluation X X 7.7 BMP monitoring and evaluation X X 8.1 Initial assessment for potential Payment for Environmental Services initiatives X X USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 123 8.2 Support the development of provincial regulations and strategic plan (RENSTRA) related to PES including engagement, consultation, and advocacy with provincial level U X 8.3 REDD+ funding mechanism identification X X 8.4 REDD+ working group establishment X X 8.5 Project design documents and safeguards development X X USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 124 The table below summarizes mitigation and monitoring measures proposed by USAID LESTARI in response to the potential major negative environmental impacts and issues. Activities and Processes 1.5 Advocacy and lobbying Advocacy and lobbying for better land use will involve identifying champions, working with the MSF and affecting local, District, Provincial or National level policies, programs and plans. 2.3 LCP revision and LCP-SEA-LEDS integration plan (updated position paper produced under IFACS), and 2.4 Regulation development that incorporates SEA and LCP recommendations. Identified Environmental Impacts Do Impacts Require Further Consideration? Mitigation Measures Monitoring Indicators USAID has deemed activities that affect spatial plans, policy development etc as NDw/C. If there are unknown consequences of policies, plans, and programs reform this could potentially harm the environment, and livelihoods and promote further environmental damage. Yes LESTARI will only support advocacy and lobbying activities when the consequences of policies, plans, and programs reform is known. Impact assessment of policies, plans, and programs reform carried out before embarking on advocacy and lobbying activities USAID has deemed activities that affect spatial plans, policy development etc as NDw/C. However, the LCP and SEALEDS are designed to promote sustainability and biodiversity conservation. Yes. The SEA-LEDS is governed by law 32/2009, which has built in safeguards to ensure recommendations from SEA promote sustainable development. LCP are a scientifically-based document that describes the status of conservation and No specific measures needed, as long as SEA and LCP are carried out in the manner in which they were designed. LESTARI will not support desktop and non-participatory approaches. Proper implementation of SEAs and LCP (participatory, inline with regulations etc.). USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 125 needs for improvement. 4.4 The development of partnership agreements and stakeholder (such as community) management plans and 4.5 Implementation of management plans. The development and implementation of partnership agreements (co-management) is designed negotiate, define and guarantee a fair sharing if management, entitlements and responsibilities over natural resources. While aimed at conservation and sustainable NRM utilization, thus may encourage unsustainable use where parties are granted new access to forests. Yes. 5.4 Capacity building and implementation of improved conservation areas management. Even though resource management, implementation of best management practices is determined as NDw/C in the IEE, the capacity building and implementation will bring no negative environmental impacts. No. In line with National Park and Protected area management and will increase the authorities ability to protect these areas. 6.3 PPP development (including multistakeholder coordination) and 6.4 Technical evaluation and additional support where appropriate. PPP development aims to link the two parties in an agreement for improved management of a resource that benefits both parties. In all cases the monitoring of the impacts of these partnerships is important especially where parties are given access to natural resources or provide products that could potentially cause Yes. Co-management agreements must include commitments for conservation and sustainable NR use and strong monitoring that measures performance for conservation and sustainable NRM use with future rights and access. Co-management agreements with performance based incentives / disincentives and their implementation based on conservation / sustainable NR use commitments. All PPP development must discuss and finalize commitments of both parties for conservation and sustainable NR use before being promoted by LESTARI. PPPs must include commitments for conservation and sustainable NR use and strong monitoring that measures performance for PPPs with performance based incentives / disincentives and their implementation based on conservation / sustainable NR use commitments. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 126 deforestation (such as agricultural crops grown on previously forested land. conservation and sustainable NRM use with future partnerships. 6.9 Village development plan and environmental safeguards, 6.10 Targeted technical assistance and 6.11 Technical evaluation and additional support where appropriate. This strategic approach is designed to improve local livelihoods of communities living in and around the protected areas. Development Plans an associated technical support must be based on commitments for conservation and sustainable NR use such as those in CCA. Yes. All technical livelihood support for communities for advancing village development plans must be based on strong commitments for conservation such as in a functioning CCA. Technical livelihood support for communities must include commitments for conservation and sustainable NR use and strong monitoring that measures performance for conservation and sustainable NRM use with future technical support. These commitments should be included in CCAs or village spatial plans and zonation regulations (RTR Kws Perdesaan). Technical livelihood support with performance based incentives / disincentives and their implementation based on conservation / sustainable NR use commitments contained within CCAs or Village Spatial Plans and zonation regulations 7.5 BMP implementation. BMP implementation is designed to reduce impact on the environment while allowing the company to carry out their core business (including harvesting of timber, growing oil palm and mining). Best management practices are measure against a business-asusual baseline that does not consider forest and biodiversity Yes. The environmental impact of BMP implemented by companies should be measured to assure a reduced impact on the environment. BMP can be measure through a 3rd party (such as a certification body for companies under certification schemes) or through direct monitoring with the company Reduced impact on environment (forest, GHG emissions and biodiversity) through the implementation of BMPs compared to the BAU scenario. USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 127 conservation or impacts on climate change. 8.2 Support the development of provincial regulations and strategic plan (RENSTRA) related to PES including engagement, consultation, and advocacy with provincial level Even though policy development (including fiscal incentives and /or reforms) is determined as NDw/C in the IEE, regulations that will allow the use of PES for improved environmental management, especially the protection of forests and biodiversity to reduce GHG emissions will be performance based mechanisms and not exacerbate environmental damage to measure their reduced impact. No. regulations will support performance based payments. Monitoring will be an essential component of the PES For grants and subcontracts disbursed under this contract, LESTARI will use the impact assessment tools found in the USAID/ABC Environmental Review Form to screen grant proposals. This will help ensure that funded proposals do not result in adverse environmental impacts, help develop mitigation measures as necessary, and specify monitoring and reporting for grantees and subcontractors. If activities are not currently covered under the approved IEE and ETD, the project will write an Environmental Review Report. Mitigation and monitoring requirements will be included in agreements and contract. Monitoring Indicators Impact assessment of policies, plans, and programs reform carried out before embarking on advocacy and lobbying activities Monitoring and Reporting Frequency Prior to any advocacy and lobbying activities Responsible Parties Records Generated Communications and governance Assessment report considering staff wider implications of policy, program, and plan change USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 128 Proper implementation of SEAs and LCP As needed with all activities where SEA and LCP are involved Forest Governance Advisor Brief assessment report of compliance regarding good environmental governance principles Co-management agreements with performance based incentives / disincentives and their implementation based on conservation / sustainable NR use commitments. Prior to co-management agreements being finalized Biodiversity Conservation Specialist Assessment of the commitment from both parties to adhere to conservation and sustainable NR use PPPs with performance based incentives / disincentives and their implementation based on conservation / sustainable NR use commitments. Prior to PPP finalization Private Sector Specialist Assessment of the commitment from both parties to adhere to conservation and sustainable NR use Technical livelihood support with performance based incentives / disincentives and their implementation based on conservation / sustainable NR use commitments contained within CCAs or Village Spatial Plans and zonation regulations Prior to technical livelihoods support Biodiversity Conservation Specialist Assessment of the commitment from both parties to adhere to conservation and sustainable NR use Reduced impact on environment (forest, GHG emissions and biodiversity) through the implementation of BMPs compared to the BAU scenario. Annually after engagement with private sectors that are implementing BMPs Forestry Private Sector Engagement Advisor Monitoring report of environmental compliance USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 129 APPENDIX 2: PERFORMANCE INDICATORS STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND TASKS MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATOR ASSUMPTION TARGETS B Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 LOP LESTARI Goals Reduced GHG emissions from land-use sector 1. Percentage reduction in GHG emissions as a result of USG assistance measured using actual emissions compared to REL (disaggregated by reduced emission from deforestation and degradation, peatlands management, fire per landscape and district) (KR 1) Comparison of actual emissions to REL following GOI methodology for LandBased GHG Emission and Sequestration Baseline Calculations. The REDD Abacus SP program is used to calculate land cover changes and related emissions. Reductions in deforestation and degradation will lead to reductions in GHG emissions. 0% red ucti on Not meas ure Not meas ure 30% reducti on 40% reduc tion 41% reduc tion 41% reducti on Key species protected See #3 See #3 See #3 See #3 See #3 See #3 See #3 See #3 See #3 See #3 Carbon rich forest, peatland, mangrove ecosystems and the habitat of key species conserved 2. Number of hectares of biological significance and/or natural resources under improved natural resource management as a result of USG assistance (disaggregated by district, CA, concessions area, and key species habitat) (FACTS 4.8.126) (KR 2) District: Co-management plan in place and under implementation as evidenced by incorporation into government program and budget. Improved management will lead to the conservation of key species habitats as well as contribute to reduction in GHG emissions. 0 Not meas ure 1.7 M 2.5 M 3M 1.5 M 8.7 M CA: Increased METT score Concessions: CMMP in place and under implementation as evidenced by incorporation in business SOP and company budget USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 130 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND TASKS MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATOR ASSUMPTION TARGETS B Reduced rate of deforestation and degradation Reduced threat on key species See #1 3. Percentage reduction in poaching in focus area Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 LOP See #1 See #1 See #1 See #1 See #1 See #1 See #1 See #1 See #1 Analysis of Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) data Reduction in poaching will lead to conservation of key species in focus area TB D 10% reduc tion 10% reduc tion 10% reducti on 10% reduc tion 10% reduc tion 50% reducti on Intermediate Result 1: Improved Land Use Governance Technical Theme 1: Forest & Land Use Governance & Advocacy Awareness and Advocacy (C1.1; C4.1; C4.2) Operationalize SEA-LEDS & LCPs (C1.2) 4. Number of stakeholders participating in communication programs to improve awareness and understanding of LEDS and biodiversity conservation. Sign-in sheet from communication trainings and meetings. Communication products developed by stakeholders. Increase awareness and understanding, supported by continuous advocacy will lead to increased commitment of key stakeholders regarding the positive benefits of conservation and sustainable use of forests and the species they encompass, which in turn lead to improved land use decision making, thus contributes to improved land use governance. 0 1,000 4,000 5,000 3,500 1,500 15,000 5. Number of districts incorporating high quality SEA-LEDS & LCPs into draft spatial plans and midterm development plan. Comparison of SEA-LEDS & LCPs recommendation to draft of spatial plans and mid-term development plan using the method of citation analysis Incorporation of SEA-LEDS & LCPs recommendation into government planning documents will lead to improved land use policy, which contributes to improved land use governance. 0 2 5 5 0 0 12 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 131 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND TASKS MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATOR ASSUMPTION TARGETS B Environmental Governance (C1.3, C1.4, C4.3, C1.6) Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 LOP 6. Number of models for successful integration of district, provincial, and national low emissions development and forest conservation strategies developed and shared at all levels of government and with other key stakeholders (KR 8) Evaluation of the effectiveness of models developed Successful integration of district, provincial and national LEDS and forest conservation strategies will lead to removal of policy and procedural barriers to LEDS and conservation based land use decisions, thus create improved land use governance. 0 2 5 10 10 3 30 7. Number of Multi Stakeholder Forum (MSF) operational as citizen based mechanisms for public input on land use Review of the process of public consultation, review Bupati decree of MSF, qualitative assessment to learn the effectiveness of MSF The success of MSF to bridge communication between local government and wider public in land use will lead to more transparent, participatory and accountable land use decisions. Those principles are prerequisite of good governance. 0 2 4 4 3 0 13 8. Number of community champions participating in advocacy activities (meetings, participatory mapping) disaggregated by sex Reports from facilitators, sign-in sheets, minutes of public consultation meetings Better informed constituencies including men, women, and indigenous groups in targeted landscapes, who have secured rights and benefits through comanagement, and derive cobenefits from conservation and sustainable use of forest resources, will improve land use decisions and reduce the level of encroachment in CA and critical areas. 0 100 300 400 200 0 1000 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 132 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND TASKS MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATOR ASSUMPTION TARGETS B Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 LOP 9. Number of public policies introduced, adopted, repealed, changed or implemented consistent with citizen input (FACTS 2.4.1-12) (KR 6, KR 7) – contribute to FACTS 4.8.2-28 Review the process of policies development, minutes of public consultation meetings, comparison of policies introduces with citizen input (citation analysis) When stakeholder’s voices continue to be heard by their government, it will ensure sustainability of MSF and lead to improved land use regulatory framework as prerequisite of improved land use governance 0 3 5 10 10 2 30 10. Percentage of new licenses that follow the SOP / screening process (KR 7) Review the licensing process, interview licensing officers and business enterprises Improved licensing process will ensure the certainty of land use and transparency 0% Not meas ure Not meas ure 100% 100% 100% 100% Review the content of comanagement agreements, evaluation of the effectiveness of their implementation Co-management agreement that secure community rights and benefits will lead to reduction in land use conflicts and increase commitment to better forest management 0 3 12 15 10 5 45 Intermediate Result 2: Improved Forest Management Technical Theme 2: Conservation Co-Management CoManagement (C2.3, C3.2, C4.4) 11. Number of co-management agreements formed that secure community rights and benefits USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 133 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND TASKS MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATOR ASSUMPTION TARGETS B Protected Area Management (C2.1, C2.2, C1.7) Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 LOP 12. Number of CAs with at least 70 point in METT scores across LESTARI landscapes (KR 3) METT baseline and endline assessment To maximize the potential of protected areas, it is important to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their management and the threats that they face. Addressing the weaknesses and reducing threats will lead to increase effectiveness of CAs management. TB D 0 1 2 2 2 7 13. Number of people receiving USG supported training in natural resources management and/or biodiversity conservation (FACTS 4.8.1-27) Sign-in sheets, training reports Increased capacity to manage natural resources and/or biodiversity conservation will lead to improved land use governance and forest management 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 3,000 1,000 10,000 14. Number of people (disaggregated by sex) with improved (social, ecological, and economic) co-benefits derived from conservation and sustainable use of forest resources – contribute to FACTS 4.8.1-6 Random survey and onsite observations Co-benefits derived from sustainable use of forest resource will provide incentives for people to be committed to LEDS and forest conservation. 0 0 7,500 7,500 7,500 7,500 30,000 15. Number of new USG-supported public-private partnerships (PPPs) formed (FACTS PPP 5) (KR 4) PPP document signed by both public and private entities PPP will provide incentives both for governments, private sectors and communities to embrace LEDS and conservation oriented practices. 0 3 5 5 5 2 20 Technical Theme 3: Private Sector Engagement Green Enterprises (C3.1, C4.5) USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 134 STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND TASKS MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATOR ASSUMPTION TARGETS B Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 LOP 16. Amount of investment mobilized (in USD), from public and private sources for climate change as a result of USG assistance (disaggregated by CA, district and landscape, source and type of financing) (FACTS 4.8.2-10) (KR 5) Finance documents (e.g., APBD, finance reports, etc). Interviews the financers. LESTARI programs should attract additional funds that are necessary to increase capacities for addressing land use and forest conservation. Such funds represent knowledge and commitment of local stakeholders to, and institutionalization of, the issues being addressed with the funds. $0 2M 4M 4M 5M 5M 20 M Private Sector BMP (C3.3) 17. Number of private sector firms that have improved management practices as a result of USG assistance (FACTS 4.6.2-9) Review the CMMP/conservation plan document, incorporation into SOP and budget line item allocated by concessionaires to implement the plan. Spotcheck to observe field implementation Implementation of CMMPs/conservation plan will ensure that HCV areas in concessions are managed in sustainable manner. 0 2 2 2 2 2 10 PES and REDD Innovative Finance (C1.5) See #16 See #16 See #16 See #16 See #16 See #16 See #16 See #16 See #16 See #16 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 135 APPENDIX 3: RESULTS FRAMEWORK USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 136 APPENDIX 4: MAP OF TECHNICAL COMPONENTS AND TASKS TO STRATEGIC APPROACHES LESTARI Strategic Approaches Awareness and Advocacy Tasks included in Strategic Approaches (RFP Technical Components: 1. Land Use Governance; 2. CAs & Species; 3. Private Sector; 4. Constituencies) C1.1. Increasing government level awareness, appreciation, and advocacy to ensure that government decision-makers embrace a conservation and sustainable use vision for land use planning C4.1. Improve local level awareness, appreciation, and advocacy. Improve key stakeholders’ awareness, appreciation and advocacy for healthy ecosystems, leveraging increased availability of mobile and internet based technology Technical Component 1, 4 C4.2. Empower media coverage of environmental issues. Strengthen the ability of media and citizen journalists to monitor, document, and publicize the positive and negative consequences of land use decisions, including those made by private sector actors in the landscapes Operationalize SEAs & LCPs Environmental Governance C1.2. Operationalizing Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) and Landscape Conservation Plans (LCPs) developed by USAID IFACS within land use plans C1.3. Improving licensing and permitting processes so they are public and accessible, subject to public oversight, compliant with laws and regulations, and violations are enforced C1.4. Monitoring and enforcing land use, including increasing district government prosecution and adjudication capacity, building on USAID C4J activities, and capacity to use remote sensing and other geospatial tools, building on the spatial data infrastructure units established previously by USAID IFACS USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 137 1,4 1,4 C4.3. Strengthen citizen based mechanisms for public input on land use. Building on the multi-stakeholder forums established under USAID IFACS, support citizen-based mechanisms for public input and monitoring of land use decisions by key groups, especially local communities, indigenous groups, and women. This task is closely aligned with the Component 1 task to encourage districts to solicit and adopt input from citizen based mechanisms C1.6. Increasing district governments’ willingness to adopt input from citizen-based mechanisms. This is connected to the work with multistakeholder forums under Component 4. Co-Management C2.3 Improve co-management adjacent to Conservation Areas by building staff knowledge and implementation of improved collaborative management strategies with adjacent districts and local communities. This task is closely linked to Component 4’s collaborative management task. C3.2. Pilot innovative financing for critical areas. Mobilize financing opportunities, including payments for ecosystem services, to incentivize sustainable enterprises that meet required criteria for environment and social soundness C4.4. Improve co-management adjacent to critical areas. Provide technical assistance to establish co-management arrangements between communities living in and near critical areas and the appropriate government entities. Includes defining acquiring clear tenure. Closely linked to LESTARI 2. SEAS. See IUCN definition of "co-management". USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 138 2 Protected Area Management Green Enterprises C2.1. Improve Conservation Area management by determining priority needs and actions for addressing threats specific to each CAs and the species they harbor in consultation with key stakeholders. Once these have been identified, support the implementation of priority actions to address threats and strengthen the protection and/or management of CA and the species they harbor. These may include management planning; improving data, monitoring and information systems; increasing the use of technology to monitor and enforce wildlife encroachment and poaching; enhancing patrols; improving public relations with districts and communities inside or adjacent to CAs; and other capacity building C2.2. Pilot innovative financing for Conservation Area by identifying and trailing CA sustainable financing and revenue-generating strategies C1.7. Enhance national level policy coordination Component 2 C3.1. Develop public private partnerships for green enterprises. This includes reviewing existing or conducting new market and feasibility studies to explore the potential for ecotourism and other environmentfriendly sustainable enterprises that will directly benefit conservation and local communities living within and adjacent to high conservation area forests. Equality important is cultivating relationships with key private sector actors in the project’s landscapes to identify sources of coinvestment in the above conservation efforts. Finally, the Contractor should develop and pilot sustainable business models that can have broad impacts, including outside the specified landscapes, and disseminate the results of pilots USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 139 2 3 C4.5. Improved sustainable livelihoods and alternative livelihoods for communities adjacent to critical areas. Provide technical assistance to communities living in or near critical areas to improve sustainable natural resources management practices, including those that might lead to eventual third party certification, that enhance productivity and income or adopt locally appropriate alternative livelihoods or green enterprises in order to reduce encroachment. Communities receiving livelihood support must acknowledge and agree to reduce encroachment through formal agreements such as the Community Conservation and Livelihoods Agreements (CCLAs) developed under the USAID IFACS project Private Sector BMP C3.3. Industry certification, best management practices (BMPs) and Conservation Management and Mitigation Plans (CMMPs). Support private sector-led efforts to make explicit commitments towards zero deforestation and conservation of HCV and other critical areas including support for third party certification, implementation of BMPs and CMMPs 3 PES and REDD Innovative Finance C1.5.Enhance district readiness to access financing (DAK, REDD+, etc.) by building necessary capacity, supporting MRV systems, and informing policies, rules, and systems for the equitable distribution of funds generated from payments for carbon or other ecosystem services 3 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 140 APPENDIX 5: SPATIAL PLANNING AND SEA DOCUMENT STATUS IN LESTARI LANDSCAPES No. Landscape / Province / District Leuser I. Province of Aceh District of Aceh Selatan SPATIAL PLAN SEA SPATIAL PLAN Medium Term Dev. Plan SEA Medium Term Development Plan Position Paper Technical Material for Provincial Spatial Planning, to be completed with PDF and shape map Medium Term Provincial Development Plan and one example of the Medium Term Development Plan of a District that has issued relevant Regional Regulation Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Qanun: no.19/2013 PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material: 20122032, incomplete Qanun: PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available 1. District of South East Aceh 2. District of Gayo Lues Technical Material: 20102030 Qanun: PDF Map: Shape Map: available 3. District of Aceh Barat Daya (South Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet Technical Material: Qanun: no.1/2013 PDF Map: Shape Map: available Documents to be Completed SEA Draft Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 2014-2034 Available SEA Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 2012-2032 Available SEA Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 2013-2033 Available USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Technical Material for District Spatial Planning, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts if any after 2010-2030, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional P a g e | 141 No. Landscape / Province / District 4. 5. West Aceh) District of Aceh Singkil Subulus salam City SPATIAL PLAN SEA SPATIAL PLAN Medium Term Dev. Plan SEA Medium Term Development Plan Position Paper available Documents to be Completed Regulation on Spatial Planning Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: no.5/2015 PDF Map: available Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for Provincial Spatial Planning, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Katingan-Kahayan II. Province of Central Kalimantan 6. District of Katinga n Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: PDF Map: available Shape Map: available (not yet updated) 7. Kota Palangk araya Technical Material: 20102030 Regional Regulation: PDF Map: available Shape Map: available 8. District of Technical Material for Spatial Planning: SEA Draft Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 2014-2034 Available Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts if any after 2010-2030, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning SEA Draft Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 2013 - 2033 SEA Draft Regional Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Regional USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Available P a g e | 142 Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for No. Landscape / Province / District SPATIAL PLAN SEA SPATIAL PLAN Medium Term Dev. Plan SEA Medium Term Development Plan Position Paper Documents to be Completed Pulang Pisau Regional Regulation: PDF Map: available Shape Map: available (but not updated) Gunung Mas District Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 10. Kotawar ingin Timur District Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for Spatial Plan for new districts, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 9. Regulation on Spatial Planning 2014-2034 Regulation no.2/2014 (2013-2018) Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Lorentz Lowlands III. Papua Province 11. District of Mimika Technical Material: available Regional Regulation: no.23/2013 PDF Map: available Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation no.15/2011 PDF Map: available Shape Map: available Regional Regulation no. 14/2013 SEA Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 2011-2031 Technical Material for Provincial Spatial Planning, complete with Shape Map SEA RPJMD 2013 SEA Regional Regulation No.3/2009 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Available P a g e | 143 Technical Material for District Spatial Planning, complete with Shape Map No. Landscape / Province / District 12. District of Asmat Mappi-Boven Digoel 13. District of Mappi 14. District of Boven Digoel SPATIAL PLAN SEA SPATIAL PLAN Medium Term Dev. Plan SEA Medium Term Development Plan Position Paper Documents to be Completed Technical Material: v.2010, incomplete Regional Regulation: no.6/2013 (not yet available material for Regional Regulation) PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for District Spatial Planning, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: no. 3/2012 (not yet available material for Regional Regulation) PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for District Spatial Planning, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Technical Material for Spatial Planning: Regional Regulation: no.14/2012 (not yet available material for Regional Regulation) PDF Map: Shape Map: not yet available Technical Material for District Spatial Planning, Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Technical Material: 2009 Regional Regulation: no.21/2009 PDF Map: Shape Map: available (not yet complete) Technical Material for Revised District Spatial Plan (if any), Technical Material for Spatial Planning, complete with PDF and shape map Document and status of Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning Cyclops 15. District of Jayapur a USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 144 No. Landscape / Province / District SPATIAL PLAN 16. Kota Jayapur a Technical Material: 2013, complete Regional Regulation: no.1/2014 PDF Map: complete Shape Map: not yet available 17. District of Sarmi Technical Material: 2011, Complete Regional Regulation: no.2/2014, not yet available material Regional Regulation PDF Map: complete Shape Map: available SEA SPATIAL PLAN Medium Term Dev. Plan SEA Medium Term Development Plan Position Paper Documents to be Completed Sarmi SEA Draft Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning 2013-2033 Year 20122016 Draft REGIONAL REGULATIO N 2012-2016 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 Available P a g e | 145 Regional Regulation on Spatial Planning APPENDIX 6: STAFFING PLAN USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 146 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 147 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 148 USAID LESTARI Year 1 Annual Work Plan – September 25, 2015 P a g e | 149 LESTARI Wisma GKBI, 12th Floor, #1210 Jl. Jend. Sudirman No. 28, Jakarta 10210, Indonesia. Phone: +62-21 574 0565 Fax: +62-21 574 0566 Email: [email protected]