Following up the kick-off meeting of FORCLIME 4.0 at the beginning of the year, the Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF), as the Project Executing Agency of FORCLIME, introducing FORCLIME 4.0 to the stakeholders of West Papua on 25 March 2021 in Manokwari, West Papua province. Objective of the meeting was to collect information from relevant stakeholders for the purpose of preparing FORCLIME’s annual workplan, which then will be discussed with project partners at the provincial and district levels. Main topics during the meeting were problem tree analysis of forest management units (KPH), social forestry and biodiversity conservation, and identification of relevant activities which will be included to the annual workplan preparation. The meeting, which conducted mixed online and offline, was attended by 43 people representing the MoEF, the West Papua Forestry Service, provincial government (i.e. Regional Research and Development Agency-Balitbangda), development partners, local NGOs, local universities.

"The planned programme activities of FORCLIME 4.0 are corresponding with the West Papua KPH work plans, including KPH Tambrauw", said Petrus Tawer, the Head of KPH Tambrauw.

Similar meeting will be conducted in the following week in Jayapura for the relevant stakeholders in Papua province.

For more information, please contact:
Mohammad Sidiq, Papua Coordinator and Strategic Area Manager for Sustainable Forest Management

Created: 14 April 2021

To support sustainable gender mainstreaming in national development goals, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) is working with stakeholders to continue to step up efforts and implement strategies for incorporating gender mainstreaming into the forestry and environment sectors.

This includes providing gender mainstreaming (PUG) training and information for policymakers. The objective is to integrate gender components into the development agenda and government institutions’ capacity-building activities. This is in line with the Government of Indonesia’s commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 5 on gender equality. Implementation of gender mainstreaming will contribute to reducing gaps in access, participation, control, and development benefits between women and men.

To make information more readily available, MoEF launched the Gender Mainstreaming Learning System (SRAGEN) at the end of March 2021. SRAGEN is a digital platform consisting of various policy documents, learning material, activities and agendas to support gender mainstreaming. Information is disseminated through MoEF’s Gender Mainstreaming website, http://pug.menlhk.go.id/, and its social media channels, such as YouTube (insert link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAbI7LKONGixYlSveodH6aA), Instagram and Twitter (@gender_klhk). This ensures that both internal and external stakeholders of MoEF can easily access gender-related information.

MoEF’s development partners are supporting its goal to integrate gender mainstreaming components into policies, planning, programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Its partners include the Forests and Climate Change Programme (FORCLIME) and Climate Smart Land Use in ASEAN (CSLU) project – which are funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH – as well as various other institutions such as the Multistakeholder Forestry Programme Phase 4 (MFP4).

For more information, please contact:
Zahra Mutiara, Advisor, CSLU
Edy Marbyanto, Strategic area manager for Human Capacity Development

Created: 29 March 2021

The Coordination and Communication Forum of Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve, supported by FORCLIME, conducted a coordination meeting on 3 March 2021 in Palu, Central Sulawesi. The meeting discussed implemented activities and follow up plans, particularly related to promoting sustainable products including the environmental services from the biosphere reserve. The meeting, which opened by the Head of BAPPEDA (local development planning agency) as the Chairman of the Coordination and Communication Forum, attended by 25 participants representing provincial government officials and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) members.

The Head of BAPPEDA, Mr. Faizal Mang, said on the meeting that a better quality and promotion will improve marketing and price of products and services, which then will lead to increase income and reduce poverty. Branding biosphere product as sustainable product will be contributed to that. Furthermore, he said the Coordination and Communication Forum, supported by GIZ, will facilitate to improve quality and promotion of products from the biosphere reserve.

As the follow up from the meeting, the Forum will develop a database of products and services that already put the biosphere logo on their products to avoid misuse of the logo that currently happened. In the meantime, SMEs that intend to put the Biosphere logo have to register. In addition, the Forum will enlist the Biosphere logo to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights for property rights purposes. Furthermore, the meeting also agreed to review the current management plan and will develop 2025 Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve roadmap.

For more information, please contact:
Ismet Khaeruddin, Coordinator for Central Sulawesi Province

Created: 26 March 2021