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Journal articleA participatory action research approach to community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration in Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Over the past several decades, vegetation fires have become regular events in Southeast Asia, Central Africa and Latin America. Indonesia’s vegetation and peat fires in 2015 and 2019 emitted significant greenhouse gas emissions and caused transboundary haze across Southeast Asian countries. Governments, NGOs and international donors have been campaigning for ‘zero and controlled burning’, however, the use of fire across the landscape still occurs. Using fire significantly reduces the cost and time of land preparation, yet it poses important negative environmental and climate externalities. A main challenge, therefore, is to introduce fire-free alternatives for land preparation. While corporations are well-equipped with knowledge and technology, communities require specialized support in learning, and provided with access to resources and technologies to implement alternatives for land preparation without burning. This paper explains the gradual change in behavior of selected communities in land preparation and farming practice on peatlands in Sumatra. We used participatory action research (PAR) approaches to transform behavior of the participating communities. PAR is a trans-disciplinary approach, where various scientific disciplines are combined with local knowledge and experience. With the community as co-researchers, the PAR steps of reflection-planning-action-monitoring were completed from 2018-2020. Communities identified, formulated, tested, and implemented peat-adapted business models in several locations (action arenas). Results show some degree of success in changing behaviour of the communities towards eco-friendly business and land management. We describe how upscaling and out-scaling of the methods and outcomes were conducted through communications and engagement with stakeholders at different levels, ranging from district, province, national and international. Keywords: Climate change, Human health and well-being, Adaptive and integrated management, Economic Development, Landscape management ID: 3486775 -
Journal articleKey lessons from a community-based forest and rangeland management initiative in Afghanistan
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.It is increasingly recognized that the management of forest and rangeland resources through the involvement of resource users is a sound strategy for the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of those resources in mountainous communities in Afghanistan. Community-based management of natural resources, especially forest and rangeland, is a priority of the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA). Accordingly, the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), with donor support, has initiated community-based natural resource management practices throughout the country. This paper highlights the key lessons learnt from successfully implementing community-based forest and rangeland management interventions under a project implemented by the FAO in two provinces (Nangarhar and Parwan), with the support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It also draws some lessons from a similar project currently ongoing in five provinces (Badghis, Bamiyan, Gazani, Kunar and Paktiya) with close collaboration of different government agencies. The paper builds on the information gathered from focus group discussions, field observations and historical records. The results indicate that more efforts are needed to make the communities and the government recognize the full potential of and emphasize community-based natural resource management through capacity building, provision of financial support, and clarification of user rights and ownership status. The results also revealed that capacity of government agencies, especially the office bearers, had to be strengthened in order to put the relevant policies and procedures issued by the GoIRA into practice more effectively and efficiently. The most important entry-point initiatives and interventions that showed progress in achieving sustainable natural resource management include: (i) providing alternative energy sources for reducing pressure on forest andrangeland in remote areas for wood fuel; and (ii) promote improved management of natural resources through awareness raising, capacity building, and introduction of new technologies. Keywords: Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), community, community-based association. ID: 3486395 -
Journal articleImpact of capacity building in leveraging community skills and livelihoods: lessons learned from social forestry in Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Indonesia encounters several challenges in forest management due to the high communities’ demand for forest resources, including the need for agricultural land within state-owned forest areas. Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) is a strategy that emphasizes on the importance of community’s involvement in forest conservation. CBFM planning has an important role in the implementation of effective and sustainable forest management through a participatory approach involving all parties in Planning, Organizing, Actuating, and Controlling. This paper aims to provide information on impact of capacity building in leveraging community skill and livehood in three schemes of Social Forestry (SF) in Indonesia, namely Paru Village Forest (VF)–West Sumatra, Cempaka Forestry Partnership (FP)–Lampung, and Tuar Tana Community Forestry (CF)–East Nusa Tenggara, in collaboration between Forestry and Environment Research, Development and Innovation Agency with the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO). The research was conducted through structured interviews, FGDs and field observations by an analysis unit while the informations obtained were analyzed through descriptively qualitative and quantitative methods. The results showed that the provided assistances and capacity building in three SF schemes have increased the active participation of group members in the preparation of technical plans and implementation of economic value species planting and processing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs).Other benefits are the reduced land boundary conflicts, an increase in the frequency of routine group meetings, an increase in the number of members who are able to process NTFPs into semi-finished or finished goods. This condition shows that the provided assistance is able to increase the capacity of farmers so as to change the perceptions and attitudes of group members and encourage them to actively participate in forest management in three SF area. Keywords: Participatory planning, Capacity building, Community Forestry, Village Forest, Forestry Partnership ID: 3487019
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