Project Description
The project works with companies, forest concession holders associations,
nongovernmental organizations, public sector agencies, and local
governments to increase the area of sustainable forest plantations on
degraded lands in Indonesia, and to build capacity across the country’s
forestry sector. Objectives include: 1) increasing revenues for commercial
forest rehabilitation of degraded grasslands through a combination of
traditional and climate-change revenue streams; 2) reducing costs of
sustainable plantation management by streamlining best practices at the
firm level; and 3) improving the land allocation process at the
subnational level, including social engagement, to increase incentives for
private sector investment in degraded-lands plantation forestry. Expected
impacts over a four-year period include expansion of plantation area on
degraded lands by at least 250,000 hectares; employment for over 90,000
people in rural areas; and a reduction of at least 90 million tons of CO2
emissions.