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Incentives to encourage sustainable practices will take three forms:
Input-based: immediate remuneration or other direct benefits linked to adopting and
implementing interventions, such as building dams, planting trees, supplying dam-building
and tree-planting operations, or eliminating fire use on peat soils; 12
Performance-based: annual payments for sustaining interventions so as to achieve the desired
results, such as maintaining dams in order to keep water levels high, protecting forest from
encroachment, or reducing the incidence and extent of fire; or
Outcome-based: payments commensurate with GHG emissions reductions, initially as a proxy
for a future forest carbon market but later may be based on tradeable credits in a real market.
3.2 COMPONENT DESCRIPTIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION
GUIDANCE
3.2.1 Component 1: Deforestation and Degradation of Peat Swamp Forest Reduced
TECHNICAL APPROACH
This component forms the core of the KFCP demonstration activity, providing a framework within
which other activities must be integrated. It is also the costliest in terms of funds and management
resources. The village-level development activities are challenging in their own right and must be
harmonised with REDD-related socialisation, behaviour change, peat restoration activities,
reforestation, GHG monitoring, and payment mechanisms. Because of this complexity, and the fact
that much new ground is being broken in terms of how to operationalise REDD, this component
presents relatively high levels of social, political, and technical risk.
The technical approach to Component 1 is designed to manage risk in the following ways:
Implement a management system, described in Section 4, which ensures coordination and
communication among the KFCP field management team, government agencies, and
implementing partners.
Articulate clear roles for all groups involved in the component, directly or indirectly (see Text
Box 4.2 on group roles).
Use the PO staff to coordinate with institutions and organisations outside the KFCP who can
provide information and support.
Apply state-of-knowledge information to design, planning, implementation, estimations, and
monitoring based on inputs from research partners and consultants.
Build government support by regularly consulting and coordinating closely with district- and
provincial-level government.
Follow a detailed, consistent series of steps to engage villages (see Figure 3 and Attachment
2) to ensure their needs and concerns are taken into account, including women and
marginalised groups.
Peatland and Forest Threats
The following threats to peat swamp forests and the associated peat domes must be managed in order
to achieve significant GHG emission reductions:
Use of fire for land clearance, which often escapes beyond cultivated areas, especially during
unusually dry years (see discussion below and Attachment 7);
Failure to effectively block canals and prevent the construction of new canals threatens to
lower the water table even further, thereby increasing emissions from oxidation, and fire;
Failure to control illegal logging, which in Block E often uses small, hand-dug canals
(handil) to transport logs to rivers; and
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Since canals now give access to land that is cleared with fire, canal-blocking will itself reduce such access and the
associated fire risk along the canals, whence fire often spreads. Thus, current land users may be entitled to
compensation for giving up that access.
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