Ideas that inspired us
- Conservation organization tries out the process of community – local government partnerships.
- Forest based sustainable livelihoods of indigenous people help keep forests in intact.
Remarkable Communities
Dayak communities and local authority in Kapuas Hulu District, West Kalimantan (Heart of Borneo) villages in Lore Lindu Sulawesi
Catalytic projects that helped model the way
- WWF heart of Borneo NRM project in Labian Lebayan West Kalimantan
- Small grants program for tropical forests
- ICRAF IFAD innovations project
Key Features
Personal Insights
- Community forest enterprises provide motivation for sustaining forests as livelihood support
- The rules and processes of decentralization are still work in evolving. Careful “improvisation” of approaches would be the key to success.
- Capacitating communities (demand side) is doubly effective if capacitating local authorities is also done simultaneously.
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