My Ideas and Stories About PAPUA

Making the rich and beautiful resources in Papua become the social economic strength for Papuan has become the long home works. Many people believe that the early start to find the answer is by understanding how Papua looks like, their communities and their special strength. And it can be realize by directly in touch with them. This blogs provides you chance to touch and gets insight ideas, trends and stories about Papua.

  • Stories About Beautiful Papua

    Every Single Place In Papua Have Its Stories To Be Shared To Build Other People Understanding About This Island

  • The Last Frotier Primary Forests

    With 42 Million ha of forests, Papua play crucial rules in Indonensia forests development targets.

  • Women and Natural Resources

    Forests or land right are not only about Man. So understanding the roles women and the impact of forests changes to women are also crucial

  • Our Traditional Value

    Papuan Community Have Been Living for Centuries with Their Knowledge and Wisdom in Managing Natural Resources and Practice Best Conservation

  • For Papuan Generation

    Every Works We Do Now Must Be Dedicated To The Future Papuan Generation

  • Dependency to Forests Resources

    Practicing Good Forests Governance in Papus About Understing the Right of Indigenous People and Their Dependency to Natural Resources

  • All Are Wonderful

    You Will Get Good Scene That You May Not Able Somewhere Else - Only In PAPUA

  • Bitter Nut Is Papuan Favorit Gums

    Bitter Nut or In Papua We Call 'Pinang' Is The Local Gum You Can See In Every Corner of the Cities. Papuan People Love To Chewing It. Sometime People Consider It As Contact Material When You Travel to The Village

  • Papuan Traditional Conservation Practices

    For Centuries, Papuan Has Practicing Local Wisdom to Sustainaible Use of Natural Resources. They Have Traditional Education System to Teaching Them How To Interact With Human, Spiritual Power and Understanding The Words Of Nature

Rabu, 30 Mei 2012

Publication: Indigenous Communities, Forest Resources and Options for REDD+ in the Buruway Sub-district, Kaimana District, West Papua

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Tittle  : Indigenous Communities, Forest Resources and Options for REDD+ in the Buruway Sub-district, Kaimana District, West Papua

Author: Peter. N Wood
Year    : 2012



Summary

This report summarises the results of participatory research on livelihoods conducted in four villages in the Buruway sub-district, Kaimana Kabupaten, West Papua, and uses the results to discuss the possible consequences from different models of REDD+ implementation in the area. It highlights the choices facing community, local Government and other stakeholders, and makes a series of recommendations for the implementation of a 'pro-poor' REDD+ approach in the area.
During field work, villagers estimated that forest products contribute 42% of their household needs, with another 37% from farming, and 19% from fisheries. About 55% of these needs are met through direct collection/harvesting or barter (non-cash), and 45% from sales (cash). Forests are the largest provider of non-cash income (41% of all non-cash) and the second largest source of cash (34% of cash income is from forest products). Farming produces the largest proportion of cash needs (45%) and the second largest proportion of non-cash needs (38%). Overall, the results of the forests-poverty linkages toolkit emphasise that:

  • forests are a vital source of a wide range of products that enable households to meet their cash and non-cash needs. This applies for men and women, poor and wealthy households
  • a high proportion of households needs are met through non-cash sources. Any scheme (such as a REDD+ scheme) which plans to pay incentives or compensation for changes in people's livelihoods needs to recognise and properly value these non-cash sources.

The report describes four possible scenarios for implementation of a REDD+ project: through enforcement, compensation, collaboration, or community-ownership. Drawing on the field data, the likely consequences of each scenario for community livelihoods and for achieving REDD+ objectives are discussed, and each scenario is evaluated against with generic principles of a 'Pro-poor REDD+ approach'. The report concludes that only collaborative or community-based approaches have the potential to avoid harm and contribute to livelihoods.

Building on this analysis, two types of forest license which are widely used by REDD+ projects - village forest (community-owned) and ecosystem restoration (externally owned) - are discussed in terms of their implications for clarification of resource rights, benefit sharing, and resource and capacity requirements.

Finally, recommendations are made for action that can be taken by communities, local Government, the private sector and civil society, in order to ensure that implementation of REDD+ is Pro-poor:

  • Clarify and secure customary rights over forest resources
  • Provide local communities with adequate information and facilitate a process of deciding whether or not to accept a REDD+ project (implement Free Prior Informed Consent)
  • Provide the capacity and technical support for overseeing implementation of Pro-poor REDD+

Full report can be downloaded in this following link: