Strengthening Rights and Economies of Adat and Local Communities

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The development objective of the Strengthening Rights and Economies of Adat and Local Communities Project for Indonesia is to improve the capacity of participating indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to engage in tenure security processes and livelihood opportunities from sustainable management of forests and land. There are three components in this project. 1) The first component, Subgrants to Strengthen IPLC Capacity to Enhance Tenure Security and Improve Livelihoods will, through the provision of subgrants, build the capacity of IPLCs to pursue (a) clarity and security over their rights to land (including forestland) in rural areas and (b) improved livelihoods. This component will result in mechanisms, skills, and outputs that will assist the participating IPLCs to advance efforts to strengthen tenure and improve their well-being. It will help the participating IPLCs to fulfill (to the extent possible) government requirements for greater land tenure security and access to services that improve livelihoods. 2) The second component, Inform Policy Processes and Dialogues will focus on strengthening how IPLC representatives engage in national and subnational policy and decision-making processes that will inform issues regarding REDD+, addressing drivers of deforestation, landscape management, and IPLC livelihoods. 3) The third component, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Institutional Development will finance management and supervision of the project. Associated with management, it will finance the cost of monitoring compliance with safeguards, M&E, financial management (FM), procurement, safeguard specialists, communication/knowledge management specialists, and a project grants management team. It will also finance the coordination meetings involving the NSC and NEA and any regional meetings with the DGM-I constituents to provide updates of the program and sharing insights from activities.This component will also support the design and implementation of a strategy for the continued communication (exchange) between the NSC and the people it represents and ensure there is adequate capacity in the NEA for knowledge management (that is, coordinating appropriate and well-timed trainings and extracting lessons learned).The component will also cover the costs of establishing and operating a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanism that engages local communities and informs the implementation of the project in addition to tracking performance.