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Building Collaboration and Shared Learning for Sustainable and Equitable Forest Management
The project forms part to the Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) global project, implemented in 11 countries and 30 research sites. CIFOR’s ACM program was developed in 1998, based on lessons from past research (i.e. Criteria & Indicator of Sustainable Forest Management, and the ongoing research on Livelihoods, Community-Based Management & Devolution. The program aims to address global problems in forestry and simultaneously contribute to our scientific understanding of the processes involved.1 ACM in our usage, is a value-adding approach whereby people who have interests in a forest agree to act together to plan, observe, and learn from the implementation of their plans while recognizing that plans often fail to achieve their stated objectives. ACM is characterized by conscious efforts among such groups to communicate, collaborate, negotiate, and seek out opportunities to learn collectively about the impacts of their actions.2
 Located in Baru Pelepat Village, Bungo District, Jambi Province, Indonesia, the project aims to build stakeholders’ capacity to adapt and to collaborate in facing rapid dynamics and complexities in managing their forest. Similar to ACM projects in other locations, Participatory Action Research (PAR) is used as a central feature, and ACM facilitators worked with local communities and other stakeholders to catalyze learning processes, designed to improve local human and natural well-being, and gender equity.3 At the same time, we also observed and analyzed the process.
The strong foundation of this project was laid down in phase 1 (1999-2002) through a series of context studies, rapport building with stakeholders, and establishment of learning platforms with major funding from the Asian Development Bank (RETA 5812). The International Development Research Centre supported part of our fieldwork in 2001. Phase 2 (2003 to 2006), funded by the Multistakeholder Forestry Program (MFP), a bilateral program between the UK’s DfID and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. The project was run by three collaborating institutions: CIFOR and two local NGOs: Gita Buana Foundation and Center for Studies on Law and Autonomy Regulation (PSHK-ODA). The team received valuable guidance and input from our national steering committee: Prof. M. Agung Sarjono (Center for Social Forestry, Mulawarman University), Mr. Dani W. Munggoro (Inspirit Innovation Circle), Dr. Tetra Yanuariadi (Ministry of Forestry), Ms. Sih Yuniati (National Forest Council).
This phase focused on strengthening learning platforms at village level including women’s groups, and between villages and the district and central governments. The largest learning forum that allow learning between local communities and the district government was established in early 2006, called the Multistakeholder Discussion Forum of Bungo District. The need for such a forum emerged from government officials, who acknowledged gaining valuable knowledge and building good relations through the learning processes we have been catalyzing. The forum was then linked with the Indonesian Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) created by several young individuals at MoF, Inspirit, CIFOR and MFP, and with the international FGLG facilitated by IIED.
Link With Other Projects
Lessons from this project have been scaled-up and scaled-out through participation in shared learning events coordinated by the Responsive Policy project, through various knowledge exchange events, and by using their experience to develop new tools for the other ACM project in Danau Sentarum National Park. In mid 2004, the project linked with the CAPRi project ,located in two districts (Tanjung Jabung Barat and Bungo) in the same province, to reinforce each other. A new project, the Landscape Mosaics Project (part of the Biodiversity Platform), will take Jambi Province as one of its research sites. Baru Pelepat Village and/or Bungo district is one of the sites being considered. In Jambi, the Landscape Mosaics Biodiversity project is being coordinated by ICRAF.
Related Publications
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Kusumanto, T.; Yuliani, L.; Macoun, P.; Indriatmoko, Y.; Adnan, H. 2005. Learning to adapt: managing forests together in Indonesia. CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia. 191p. ISBN: 979-3361-68-9. |
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Yuliani, L.; Tadjudin, D.; Indriatmoko, Y.; Munggoro, D.; Gaban, F.; Maulana, F.; (eds.). 2007. Multistakeholder forestry: steps for change. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. 132p. ISBN: 978-979-24-4679-1|979-24-4679-6. |
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Indriatmoko, Y.; Yuliani, L.; Tarigan, Y.; Gaban, F.; Maulana, F.; Munggoro, D.; Lopulalan, D.; Adnan, H. 2007. Dari desa ke desa: dinamika gender dan pengelolaan kekayaan alam (Dari desa ke desa: dinamika gender dan pengelolaan kekayaan alam).131p. ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-979-24-4686-9; ISBN-10: 979-24-4686-9. |
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COMMING SOON!!
The Anthology of Research in Bungo District (tentative title), a book consisting of papers written by researchers at CIFOR, ICRAF, NGOs, and government officials (first edition will be in Indonesian). |
FILM
 The People of Baru Pelepat: learning to change
Format: VCD
Duration : 20 minutes
Language : English subtitle
To ask for free copy: contact Rahayu Koesnadi (Ms) r.koesnadi@cgiar.org.
For overseas delivery, mailing costs will be applied.
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1 Colfer, C.J.P. 2005. The Complex Forest: Communities, Uncertainty, & Adaptive Collaborative Management. RFF, Washington D.C., USA.
2 This definition was initially crafted by Ravi Prabhu (Prabhu et al. 2001) and modified by the ACM team at an October 2001 meeting of the program’s International Steering Committee in Manila.
3 Adopted and modified from Colfer, C.J.P. 2005. The Complex Forest: Communities, Uncertainty, & Adaptive Collaborative Management. RFF, Washington D.C., USA.
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