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

Demonstrating genuine emissions reductions can be achieved from REDD activities;
Demonstrating credible, equitable, and effective approaches to REDD;
Trialing innovative, market-oriented approaches to REDD financing and REDD
implementation measures;
Documenting the positive and negative social and economic impacts of the REDD
demonstration on participating communities, especially focusing on the results of KFCP
interventions that are targeted at communities with emphasis on gender;
Providing lessons learned from the KFCP for Indonesia and Australia to introduce to the
UNFCCC negotiations on REDD to support efforts to include REDD in a post-2012 global
climate change outcome;
Contributing to IAFCP objectives by complementing and supporting IAFCP activities including
the Roadmap for Access to International Carbon Markets, the development of the Forest
Resource Information System (FRIS) and the National Carbon Accounting System (INCAS) for
Indonesia, and the FireWatch Indonesia project;
Demonstrating how to effectively manage and conserve tropical peat forests based on state-ofthe-art
scientific knowledge, with the potential to apply these techniques throughout Indonesia‘s
extensive peatlands;
Producing co-benefits in terms of providing livelihood options and cash payments for REDD
services to target villages, conserving biodiversity, reducing health impacts and economic losses
from smoke, and clarifying land tenure and property rights of communities, thereby providing a
basis for economic security while reducing the threat of conflict;
Contributing to strengthening Indonesia‘s REDD-enabling environment by identifying policy
options, clarifying institutional responsibilities and capacity-building requirements, and outlining
options for the socialisation of REDD and related issues.
Site Location and Description. The KFCP field demonstration activity will be implemented within a
single peat dome of approximately 120,000 hectares 2 in the northern part of the Ex-Mega Rice Project
(EMRP) area in Central Kalimantan (approximately 2 o south and 115 o east—see Map 1). The Kapuas
River to the west and southwest and the Mantangai River to the east and southeast border the site. Within
the EMRP area, roughly half of the site is located in the northern part of EMRP Block A, and half to the
north in Block E. The demonstration site lies completely within Kapuas District, divided between the
sub-districts of Mantangai and Timpah. The demonstration site is sparsely populated, with approximately
9,000—mostly Ngaju Dayak—residents living in 14 villages and hamlets strung out along the banks of
the Kapuas River (see Map 2). The residents of these villages use land near their villages for food crop
and rubber cultivation, while harvesting timber, non-timber forest products (NTFPs), and fish from more
remote parts of the demonstration site. Villages are relatively remote; have limited public infrastructure;
and the level of access to, and quality of both health and education services, is relatively poor impacting
on maternal health and women. Isolation limits the range of available employment opportunities, and the
deforestation of large areas of land since 1996 has greatly reduced livelihood opportunities.
The majority of the KFCP demonstration site is part of the National Forest Estate, which is under the
Ministry of Forestry‘s (MoF) authority. The current designation of this area is ‗production forest‘, but
will likely change to ‗protection forest‘ or ‗wildlife reserve‘ status within the next year or two. Dayak
communities have lived within the site for generations and claim land within five kilometres of their
villages based on their customary law. Much of the demonstration area is located on a peat dome (peat
over three metres in depth) that is very sensitive to disturbance. The EMRP‘s canal building dramatically
altered the area hydrology and much of the forest was cleared or degraded. Relatively intact peat swamp
forest covers the northern half of the dome (Block E). The southern part of the area (Block A North) is a
mixture of logged over and degraded peat swamp forest and cleared areas.
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About 70,000 hectares are covered in logged-over forest, while in the southern part of the dome covering 50,000 hectares,
much of the forest has been cleared and the remainder is very degraded. Emissions from peatland degradation contribute
significant GHG emissions globally. About 30% of global peat occurs in the tropics—and two-thirds of that percentage occurs
in Indonesia. Indonesia contains about 22.5 million hectares of peatland (12% of Indonesia‘s land area).
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