Project

Strengthening Forest Area Planning and Management in Kalimantan

Lead country

Indonesia

Participating countries

Indonesia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From December 22, 2017 to December 22, 2024

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  2. 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
  3. 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Project ID: 5029

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Biodiversity financing
  • Agrobiodiversity
  • Ecosystem-based mitigation

Landscape(s)

  • Forests
  • Conserved areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Tropical forests
  • Intact forests
  • Productive landscapes/Seascapes
  • OECM (Other effective area-based conservation measures)

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Forestry and other land use
  • Other sectors

UNDP role(s)

  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Law regulation
  • Finance economy
  • Management operation

Sub-strategy

  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Standards/ Labeling/ Guideline
  • Surveillance & Compliance
  • New/other financial schemes/mechanism
  • Sustainable land management
  • Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
  • Wildlife and habitat conservation

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Smallholder farmers

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation
  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  • 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
  • 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Conventions and protocols

  • National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

About this project

Description

The development challenge targeted by the present project involves the need for Indonesia to define, plan for and create a better balance between the development and management of major estate crops such as rubber, coffee, and oil palm, and the need for improved forest protection. The project thus focuses on creating more effective land allocations and management of forest areas with high biodiversity and ecosystem services in the context of potential estate crop development in Kalimantan and particularly in the Heart of Borneo (HoB) area. Competing priorities between the country's targeted increase in palm oil production and associated growth and employment targets for the sector need to be reconciled with commitments at both national and international levels to reducing rates of deforestation, forest fires and associated GHG emissions and biodiversity loss.The project strategy and theory of change is based on carrying out a clear process of identifying priority locations and testing approaches where enhanced forest area planning, management and associated use of incentives can be used to generate national and global incremental benefits without harming the potential for economic growth and development of the relevant Kalimantan provinces associated with increased production of estate crops. In addition to providing extensive benefits to Kalimantan including the HoB area, the national-level policies and tools to be developed by the project will also be of significant potential value to other areas of Indonesia facing similar development challenges. The strategy is focused on developing and implementing various approaches to enhancing protection of forested areas in the Non-Forest Land and in the convertible forest, both of which are subject to potential conversion (administratively and/or physically) to estate crops despite their remaining forest cover.

Objectives

Maintaining forest areas, including the biodiversity and ecosystem functions of Kalimantan"s lowland and montane areas, from the development of estate crops .

USD $9,195,000

Grant amount

USD $50,050,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($9,195,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Indonesia

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Mainstreaming of forest ecosystem service and biodiversity considerations into national and provincial policies and decision-making processes for forest area planning and management. Forest ecosystem services, including carbon and biodiversity aspects, are more fully taken into account in policies, decisions, and management actions at national and provincial (West, Central and East Kalimantan) levels

Indicators:

Number of additional people benefitting from strengthened livelihoods through solutions for management of natural resources, ecosystems services, chemicals and waste
Number of new partnership mechanisms with funding for sustainable management solutions of natural resources, ecosystem services, chemicals and waste at national and/or subnational level.
Total net area of HCV-equivalent forest within Kalimantan portions of HoB identified, mapped and with significantly enhanced legal protection due to: (i) reclassification from APL to permanent forest, (ii) removal from convertible forest category or (iii) other legal protections (e.g. within plantation set aside rules, KEE implementation, etc.)
Outcome Indicator 1.1
No. of national and/or provincial-level policy and regulatory changes. Outcome Indicator 1.2
Area of High Conservation Value (HCV) forests located within the three participating provinces and currently classified as either APL or convertible forest reclassified and/or subject to new and enforceable regulatory protections.Outcome Indicator 2.1
Tons of CO2e emissions avoided within the three Kalimantan provincesOutcome Indicator 2.2
Area of High Conservation Value (HCV) forests located within the four demonstration landscapes and currently classified as either APL or convertible forest reclassified and/or subject to new and enforceable regulatory protections.Outcome Indicator 2.3
Local institution capacity (Note: Baselines and targets to be determined during year 1)
Outcome Indicator 2.4
No. of district-level forest safeguarding plans approved and endorsed by key stakeholdersOutcome Indicator 2.5
Number of policies and regulatory changes at district levelOutcome Indicator 2.6
Percentage of forested lands within the pilot districts currently classified as either APL or convertible forest that has been reclassified to an enhanced protective statusOutcome Indicator 3.1
Incentive mechanisms in place and operational - to drive changes that significantly reduce the long-term threat or actual incidence of estate-crop driven deforestation Outcome Indicator 4.1
Technical understanding of level of jurisdictional readiness for reduced-deforestation commodity production and impacts of associated capacity building interventionsOutcome indicator 4.2
Documented examples of specific lessons shared and applied in other sub-national and national situations
Outcome 2:

Development and demonstration of strategies for integrating forest area planning, management and conservation with estate crop spatial planning and management across four districts of Kalimantan (Ketapang, Sintang, Kota Waringin Barat, and Kutai Timur) and at target landscapes within those districts. Policies and plans to deliver global and national benefits from forest conservation and estate crop development are in place in four districts of Kalimantan and innovative approaches to their implementation have been demonstrated in target landscapes containing at least 200,000 ha of forest area currently outside of the forest estate
Outcome 3:

Testing / demonstration of incentives mechanism(s) to reduce deforestation associated with the estate crops sector . Innovative ways of using financial incentives (and eliminating disincentives), designed to help reduce deforestation and forest fragmentation driven by estate crop development, have been demonstrated in target landscapes within four districts in Kalimantan
Outcome 4:

Knowledge management and M&E. Increased knowledge and understanding of the multiple factors underlying successful implementation of reduced deforestation, green growth strategies for Indonesia's estate crops sector
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