Expression of Interest

Social marketing training and campaigns will be implemented to expand community-based forest management at 15 sites in Indonesia, through government agencies and local community associations. Each campaign will target a local population of about 20,000 people, and aim to change the behaviour of the communities such that they understand the importance of sustainable forest management and support its implementation actively. This will result in the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity and improve the management of about one million hectares of protected areas in Indonesia with direct community-led management of buffer zones. Capacity of the local partners will be greatly strengthened so that they can sustain the campaigns and their impacts beyond the initial project.

This project aims to: foster understanding of the importance of forest management; build an effective and replicabe community-involved approach to forest management through a clear co-management approach; and increase forest cover while reducing forest degradation and clearing by directly engaging local communities.