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Green livelihood access for Central Kalimantan's inclusive environmental response to climate change - Final Joint Evaluation

eval_number:

1939

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1939

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Green jobs

category:

Enterprises

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comments:

Project design should allow for sufficient time to expose and familiarize communities with the REDD+ perspective and the ability to include short-time livelihood activities. To convey the complex REDD+ concept a tailor-made tool or training kit would be beneficial to include in participatory REDD+ approaches.

challenges:

If one is able to combine short-term and long-term activities, communities will more easily accept and engage themselves in long-term REDD+ activities as plantations. GLACIER has shown good examples of short-term livelihood support to facilitate the uptake of longer-term interventions.

success:

The complex concept of REDD+, with benefits for a large global community, and linked to the objective to reduce GHG emissions, is difficult to convey to rural communities. The long-term timeframe of REDD+ activities aimed at carbon stock improvement and enhancement are difficult to accommodate for households who need direct returns from their landholdings and require short-term positive livelihood impacts.

context:

The engagement of local rural communities for REDD+ interventions in their villages and on their land will be only viable if the long-term perspective of the carbon stock increment and enhancement activities, with a long-term footpath, are combined with short-term positive livelihood impacts of the direct beneficiaries.

description:

There remains a certain, most probable inherent, friction in the compatibility of the direct short-term livelihood needs of rural communities, expressed and documented in a bottom-up participatory approach, with the more indirect long-term, top-down and from a global vision formulated perspectives of REDD+. The approach of packaging short-term incentives with more long-term interventions, as developed by GLACIER, seems to be a promising pathway for future REDD+ projects. Targeted users: Direct beneficiaries are the communities who dedicate their communal and private land for REDD+ activities through e.g. agroforestry plantations, for which they receive free inputs and a daily wage, as direct positive livelihood impact. Over time these agroforestry plantations will benefit indirect global beneficiaries through reduced emissions from the afforested peat land.

administrative_issues:

N/A

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/193958

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location:

country:

Indonesia

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Green livelihood access for Central Kalimantan's inclusive environmental response to climate change - Final Joint Evaluation