Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP) Design ...

which government-to-government activities on REDD in Indonesia will be implemented. This places the
Governments of Indonesia (GoI) and Australia (GoA) firmly as partners in directing and benefiting from
the activities that the Facility will undertake. All activities delivered through the Facility aim to reach the
overarching goal of IFCI, which is to demonstrate that REDD can be part of an equitable and effective
post-2012 global outcome on climate change. The KFCP is a financially and technically significant part
of the Facility.
1.2 KALIMANTAN FORESTS AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP OVERVIEW
KFCP Goal: to demonstrate a credible, equitable, and effective approach to reducing greenhouse
gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, including from the degradation of
peatlands, that can inform a post-2012 global climate change agreement and enable Indonesia’s
meaningful participation in future international carbon markets.
As the first demonstration activity under the IAFCP—the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership—
the Governments of Indonesia and Australia will work in partnership to pursue multiple objectives
intended to demonstrate REDD-related activities at a scale that will achieve development results and cobenefits
while also generating knowledge that can applied elsewhere in Indonesia and used to inform
international discussions on REDD. The KFCP is intended to be a learning activity in which technical,
scientific, and institutional innovations are tested, refined, and communicated to add to the body of
REDD knowledge and experience. The KFCP goal is stated below. The Objective Tree for the KFCP
(Figure 2) indicates its goal, purpose, four components, and supporting outputs to achieve REDD-related
results. 1 The four components correspond to the key aspects of REDD: 1) reducing greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions through incentives to local people and technical means; 2) developing methods and
capacity to measure and monitor GHG emissions; 3) developing and testing equitable and practicable
payment mechanisms to channel financial payments to those people and organisations that contribute to
achieving emissions reductions, and 4) building institutional and technical readiness on the part of local
government and villages to implement REDD on a sustainable basis.
The KFCP design document is divided into sections that address the following aspects of the design:
Section 2: introduces information on the design process, Indonesian and Australian government
REDD policies and programs, international context for REDD, an overview of the KFCP design,
and a description of relevant GoI and donor programs;
Section 3: explains the implementation strategy and provides detailed description of the design
of the four components;
Section 4: describes the structure and process of KFCP management and partnership
coordination;
Section 5: discusses compliance with AusAID policies and approaches to cross-cutting issues;
Section 6: describes approaches to risk management and sustainability;
Section 7: describes the framework for monitoring, evaluation, and knowledge capture;
Section 8: discusses KFCP‘s current budget and the strategy for scaling up if more funds become
available; and
Attachments: 12 attachments provide details on the background and technical approach.
The Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership is one of the first large-scale REDD demonstration
activities in Indonesia and the first in tropical peatland anywhere in the world. Land clearing and fires in
Indonesia‘s peatlands are a major source of global GHG emissions because these ecosystems contain
very high carbon stocks, mostly in belowground biomass. Exposed peat dries rapidly, resulting in
oxidation of the organic matter, and creating a serious threat of fire in dry periods. Halting peatland
drainage, along with stopping or reversing degradation/deforestation of peat swamp forest, offers great
potential for emission reductions.
The KFCP will work to contribute to REDD in many areas, including:
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The KFCP goal has been divided into a goal and purpose statement in keeping with standard practice.
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