ID: Strengthening of Social Forestry in Indonesia

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The objective of the Strengthening of Social Forestry in Indonesia Project for Indonesia is to improve access to forest land use rights and strengthen community. The Project has three components. 1. Policy and institutional strengthening to support social forestry component will create an enabling environment for the successful development and strengthening of social forestry in Indonesia, and to allow for future sustainable scale-up of activities. There are three subcomponents. Subcomponent 1.1. Policy and regulations will support the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) in developing and harmonizing the relevant policies, regulations, and procedures. 1.2. Institutional strengthening subcomponent will develop the institutional capacity at the appropriate levels of government to promote the Social Forestry Program (SFP) activities consistent with the proposed project objectives. 1.3. Knowledge generation and management and technical assistance subcomponent will generate lessons learned to date from social forestry in Indonesia and to draw lessons from other countries to contribute to the achievement of the project objective. 2. Strengthening community management within social forestry component will support the effective and efficient implementation of the SFP. 2.1. Management planning subcomponent will facilitate and provide technical assistance to communities in formulating sustainable forest management plans. 2.2. Development of sustainable livelihood models subcomponent support the development and/or strengthening of sustainable livelihood models in the communities consistent with the management plans. 2.3. Development and implementation of priority community investments subcomponent support communities/farmers groups in (i) implementing the management plans; and (ii) developing and implementing priority community investments. 3. Project management and monitoring and evaluation component ensure effective and efficient implementation of project activities in order to achieve the Project Development Objective (PDO).