Village-Based Forest Management

The objective of this paper is to document the role of and share lessons learned from supporting village-level planning within USAID LESTARI’s integrated landscape planning approach for improving forest management within four priority landscapes in Indonesia. A major part of the LESTARI landscape approach involves engagement with local stakeholders to support the development of sustainable forest management planning. This includes providing technical assistance to conduct environmental assessments, regional development plans, spatial plans, conservation area management plans, Forest Management Unit plans, and village development plans. The paper explains that village- level engagement is a crucial part of LESTARI’s overall approach because: (1) it contributes to bottom-up development for inclusion and sustainability; (2) villages have overlapping jurisdictions with national parks and Forest Management Unit areas; (3) villages now control significant annual budgets, which represent a large untapped resource for forest conservation; and (4) the feasibility of affecting village budgets is generally higher than other options such as increasing national park budgets.

Country
Indonesia
Sectors
Natural Climate Solutions, Biodiversity Conservation, Gender and Social Inclusion, Natural Resource Management
Strategic Objective
Adaptation, Mitigation
Topics
Adaptation, Biodiversity Conservation, Carbon, Emissions, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification, Climate Strategy, Conflict and Governance, Forest/Forestry, Gender and Social Inclusion, Sustainable Land Management, Land Use, Mitigation, Natural Climate Solutions, Natural Resource Management, Private Sector Engagement, Sustainable Landscapes
Region
Asia

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