The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

Table 40. Parameters for the Rimba Raya Community Monitoring PlanCapital Asset Principle Possible Criterion Possible Indicator for the Seruyan AreaPhysicalPhysical capitalis maintainedand improvedover time.Physical status of housing ismaintained or improved.Access to fishing equipment ismaintained or improvedNumber of households that have upgraded from leaf to aluminiumroofs.Number of individuals with fishing boats or other fishing equipment.FinancialSocialNaturalFinancial capitalgrows and isequitablydistributed.Maintenance ofa set of dynamicrules and norms.Yield and qualityof naturalresource goodsand services isimproved.Household savingsgrow and are equitablydistributed.Job opportunities increase andare equitably distributed.Increased communityinvolvement in communityorganizations.Increased participation informal electoral process.People are empowered withregard to negotiations over landrights.Local village laws, adat, aremaintained and enforced.Communities have increasedaccess to arable land.Communities have landsecurity.Water quality of river improvesIncome and expenditures of families (e.g., proportion of householdswith income higher than the current level of income)Employment rates (e.g., number of family members with a job orbusiness; distribution of job opportunities across gender and socialstatus)Number of households with members involved in at least onecommunity organization or programProportion of families who participate in the formal electoral process(Number of households with actual voters.)Number of grievances recorded against oil palm companies declines.Level of adherence to adat laws and frequency of penalties beinggiven for those breaking them.Decrease in flooding of their agricultural land.Increase in productivity of arable land.Forests and agricultural areas that are important to meeting basicneeds become available.e.g., water quality monitored for turbidity and pollution, draining ofpeat swamps in the area stopped, hopefully in turn reducing flooding249