5-7 Streategies on Youth Action for Social and Environmental Changes

Share an experienced in the camp. Photo by: Cahaya Papua

Manokwari, 19 November 2016, On the youth camp for social and  environmental changes I speaks as resources person shared experiences and knowledge on how young people could involves in Social and environmental advocacy for changes. Started with question on how young people could involve in the action to reduces the massive impacts of social and environmental changes? What are the steps they should takes as beginner in advocacy or facilitation activities to respond the problem the found in their community? Here I introduced 5 values and 7 steps that as young peoples they should have to mobilizing the resources and capacity they have to respond at the social and environmental changes around them. These 5 - 7 strategies are the summary of experiences i have during my involvement in the NGO works since 2008.

5 Values of youth development for social and environmental changes

1. Understanding what you have as personal capacity before stepping on action
2. Ability to determine the objectives of changes you will bring
3. Open minds and welcome to the inputs/critic 
4. Discipline 
5. Brave to take a decisions

7 Steps for young people to start and involve in social and environmental change

1. Conducts problem analysis to understands the causes and impacts of the changes. Taking a cases of larges scale oil palm expansion in Merauke, I said this parts is about understanding why the plantation is opened and why their areas been chosen? And the what are the impacts in social and environment driven by the investment? This is crucial to understand what are the keys component of problem we want to advocates. 
2. Determine objective and component of action. Based on problem and impact analysis the young facilitator should determining the aims and keys components he/she would works to respond on problem and bring changes to the problems and reduce the impacts he/she has analyzed.
3. Maps the actors - conducts simple mapping on actors both at the level of cause and impacts would helps young people to determine communication strategy on their advocacy. The actors maps would also guiding them in packaging networking on changes action.
4. Determine and packaging communication strategy to do advocacy for changes. In this step the young facilitator should able to come with shorts position papers of communication strategy that he/she will uses in advocacy
5. Creates and expanding networking. Getting more resources and relevant parties to be involve in the action that the young people would do is crucial. Networking will includes resources (human and financial) that available and commit to support the social and environmental changes actions that the young people already plan. 
6. Develop a resources calculation that needed by young people to execute the planned action per priority components she/he has developed. In other words the young people could develop simple working plan with all resources needed to implement the activities on the plan.
7. Determine and develop a mechanism to monitoring, evaluate and measure the performance. This tools or instrument will help young facilitator to keep check and tracking their action and measure the progress of changes they've plan to be intervening. Putting log frame as monitoring tools could be the easy ways of having the M and E tools.

Accomplished the strategies I shared 1 video about "how our worlds is changing" and two reflection on respects on what you have. The with tittle "home" showing the academic analysis and the facts on how changes are happen on earth and influence all level of live should be understood by young people. The investment that happening in Papua is strongly influenced by pressure on national economic growth targets that also influenced by global demand on goods for larges scale industry and most of them are to supports the human being needs. This introduction video summarize a messages that simple things that young people here in Papua are doing would have an impacts to the globe.

This event was organized by Bentara Papua and Kurabesi Papua Explorer with funding from Rainforest Foundation Norway. About 21 participants from several customary community group and NGO in Papua such as Moi, Abun and Kna in Sorong were participating.

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Long Term Forests Management Plan of KPHP Tambrauw is Publicly Discussed

Panel discussion, Mr Max, Dona and Sepus with Marthen Nauw as Moderator

Sausapor, November 16. Attending by 38 people representing Government, Customary Community, University, Technical Unit of MoEF and Timber concession in Tambrauw the one discussion was conducted to elaborate the current long term forests management plan of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw. Specifically the discussion was aiming to gets a common agreement on spatial delineation of the forests areas that overlap among KPH, the turtle management body with the logging concession PT. Multi Wahana Wijaya. At the same time identified and listing the ideas to develop a good forests management partnership with customary community inside KPH areas.

Joined as resources person Mr. Max Tokede as the experts of Long Term Forests management plan, Mr. Dona Marewa as the head of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw and Sepus Fatem the Bupati Tambrauw adviser on natural resource management. Mr. Max on his presentation was elaborating much on the basic concept of KPH and how its position on current forests administrative arrangement. Max also pointed out the difference between forestry department with KPH in the technical services and administrative control, in which all the administrative responsibilities such as licenses control and provision of resources are handle by forestry department while field based management and onsite monitoring to the forests uses are the duties of KPH. Adding to Mr. Max, Dona Marewa shows the spatial delineation and lists of forests resources management activities the KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw will do. They includes monitoring the uses of forests product, developing social forestry plots and facilitate forests products business marketing. While Sepus Fatem shared the overall idea and progress of conservation district agenda in Tambrauw and where is KPH position as the locus of implementation. All these presentation were accomplished the opening remarks by the Secretary of Tambrauw District, Mr. Engel Kocu that reminding all the actors that management of north coast Tambrauw with many different initiative should be packaging with clear community participation. Because he remains about increasing complain from the community sites. KPH should exists and create a good condition of partnership to help local government in addressing the complex problem in the north coast of Tambrauw.

Based on the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Decree No 630/MenLHK-Setjen/2015 total area of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw is 155,423 ha with about 121,107 ha are in the production function. But jurisdictional acknowledge about 80% this forests are already granted for timber management licenses to PT Multi Wahana Wijaya and the rests are protection forests. On his presentation, the head KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw, Mr. Donna mentioned that to secure the social forestry initiative and partnership agenda with the community, the KPH has delineated about 15,385 ha of empowerment block or certain areas for social purposes. In here the pilots of village forests, community forestry, community plantation forests or customary forests will be build gradually. Donna then added that all this block are addressing to optimizing the non timber forests products and environmental services in the area. Meeting the good partnership mechanism that will be guiding the implementation of empowerment block is urgent for Tambrauw because based on customary boundary maps, all the areas of KPHP Units IV Tambrauw are inside Abun Tribes areas and indicatively based on AKA WUON Data there are about 36 clans that claiming the customary areas in this part.

Management Block Maps of KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw

At the close session, some summary was produced and listed as recommendation to be followed up by the KPHP Unit IV Tambrauw they includes: clear designation and arrangement of turtle nesting sites to be managed by the established management units. Community participation is a must so it recommended that the KPH should gradually talk and design the partnership mechanism with customary community in KPH designated areas to manage the certain area that already allocated. 

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Social Forestry Task Forces of West Papua Province, Established

One day workshop on Social Forestry in Billy Jaya Hotel Manokwari, 8 November 2016 has established the Provincial Task Forces to works facilitating the Social Forestry program in the Province. As confirmed by Mr Sahala Simanjutak - the Head of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership Maluku and Papua Regional Body – following the national indicative maps they targeting to reach 254,581 ha of social forestry areas by the end of 2019. The social forestry program here are cover 5 programs: village forests (Hutan Desa), Community Plantation Forests (Hutan Tanaman Rakyat), Community Forestry (Hutan Kemasyarakatan), Customary Forests (Hutan Adat) and Partnership forests management scheme (Kemitraan) though empowerment block in the Forests Management Units (KPH). On his opening remarks he then noted that the task force (pokja) that designed as multi-stakeholder and cross actor forum to works with the responsibility since preparation, verification, capacity building until other technical supports that relevant to the business development of social forestry program. The establishment of this task force is legally regulated on the Regulation of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership director no P.01/PKPS/PP/PSKL.0/5/2016 about the Implementation Guidance of Social Forestry Task Force.

In further, Mr Runaweri Hendrik – The head of West Papua Province Forestry Department emphasized that we have to seriously push this task forces and make it works to facilitate the target on Social Forestry. All forester in Papua been challenging to show forests are still exist and contribute a lot to development growth and the positive increasing of community livelihood changes. “Our role is to protect and manage the forests sustainably. In the relation to climate changes, forests hold crucial role counting by it covers. The social forestry program should also able to works under this clear targets in maintaining the forests reserve and covers” he added before formally opened the event.

There is no clear information about number of units that targeted to be built in West Papua Province but the social forestry units on its indicative maps has putting targets 254,581 ha spreads in 10 district. Of which about 14,550 of units has got the villages forests licenses. In detail the following matrix show the overall targets of Social forests sites in West Papua Province until the end of 2019:

No	District	Area (Ha)	Legal Approval (ha)	Village/Units
1	Fak Fak	27.062	-
2	Kaimana	35.788	11,005	Esania
3	Manokwari	23.037	-
4	Manokwari Selatan	2.727	-
5	Maybrat	1.840	-
6	Sorong	333	-
7	Sorong Selatan	18.901	3,545	Sira and Manggroholo
8	Tambrauw	12.403	-
9	Teluk Bintuni	122.045	-
10	Teluk Wondama	10.444	-
	Jumlah	254.581	14,550	3 Units

Participant that in total about 26 representing Government, NGO/CSO, university and private were agreed that the task forces should be the multistakeholder units that bring all key forestry actor into the loop of developing social forests program. Follow the Regulation of Social Forestry and Environmental Partnership director the composition of the task forces are not longer than 20 people, with head of the Forestry Department as the leader. During an hour discussion, the workshop has came up with list of recommendation and peoples who are appointing to join the task forces. From NGO in West Papua, there are Paradisea Foundation, Bentara Papua, Greenpeace, Samdhana Institute and AMAN Sorong Raya. The discussion also identifies about keys major issues that the task should pay an attention on:

1. Review and update the current indicative maps into existing potential social forests maps should become the early steps the Task Force should do. Because the current social forestry maps are developed based on the criteria and indicators that not yet considered number of units that still progressing to apply for the licenses. So assessment in to capture the tabular and spatial information is the keys activities in this partReview and update the current indicative maps into existing potential social forests maps should become the early steps the Task Force should do. Because the current social forestry maps are developed based on the criteria and indicators that not yet considered number of units that still progressing to apply for the licenses. So assessment in to capture the tabular and spatial information is the keys activities in this part
2. One of the challenges that influence the slow progress of social forestry program is on local government and community awareness and understanding of this policy and its technical regulation. The task force is responsible to conducts this awareness and socialization down to the districts government
3. Technical data base of social province in the provinces is crucial so developing a data base that include data of customary boundary territories and putting it into government system is the steps that we should do
4. Social forestry in the new regulation is cross forests function in which not only in production and protection forests are the licenses is applied but also in conservation area. Zoning and land uses spatial plan of the community together with their spatial territories maps is needs to understand extent to which are social forests sites in West Papua are potentially to be build
5. FMU/KPH is strongly recommended to cover all the social forestry initiative. They will provide capacity building to the community whose social forestry initiative are working
6. Bringing in private sector and commercial forests product players to become the co-partners of community would help them in product marketing and helps in setup stable markets flows include capacity supports
7. Customary Forests/Hutan Adat in west Papua context needs to be discussed further so the task forces based on Regulation will have a technical verification guideline to helps local government/community or NGO who are initiating customary forests licenses

Indicative areas of Social Forestry in West Papua delineated with white polygon in the Map

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