Facilitator of Resolution Conflict in Kutai National Park - Jakarta

Context of the REDD+ initiative

Indonesia is the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) and the world’s largest emitter from agriculture, forestry and other land use. Over the past five years, Indonesia’s annual deforestation rate has averaged around 1 million hectares, which contributes to an estimated 87 percent of Indonesia’s annual emissions. In response to this situation, in 2009, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, made a voluntary commitment to the world to reduce emissions as much as 26 percent under a business-as-usual scenario or up to 41 percent with international support by 2020.

According to the Second National Communication from Indonesia to the UNFCCC, Indonesia is expected to emit around 2.9 million metric tons (gigatons) by 2020 under the business-as-usual scenario. A commitment to reduce that amount by 26 percent would mean a reduction of 0.8 gigatons, while 41 percent would amount to a reduction of 1.2 gigatons. A reduction from an expected 2.9 to 1.7 gigatons by 2020 is a challenging commitment for a country aiming to maintain its 7 percent annual growth rate. Nevertheless, this commitment has been translated into a comprehensive National Action Plan known as RAN-GRK (PP 61/2011).

The National Action Plan for the Reduction of Green-house Gas Emissions (RAN-GRK) estimates that 87 percent of the emission-reduction target - approximately 1 gigaton - relates directly to the forestry and peat land sectors and, to address this, the government has adopted an incentive mechanism to improve management of the country’s vast forest resources while supporting climate-change mitigation.

This mechanism, known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), has five primary objectives:

(a) reduction of deforestation;(b) reduction of forest degradation;(c) conservation of carbon stocks;(d) sustainable forest management; and(e) carbon stocks enhancement.

On 26 May 2010 the Governments of Indonesia and Norway signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to establish a REDD+ Partnership. The first phase of this REDD+ Partnership (Phase 1) was to establish an agency with the capacity to implement and manage REDD+ projects initially in the pilot province, Central Kalimantan, and progressively in other priority provinces across Indonesia. The establishment of REDD+ Agency in Indonesia through Presidential Decree No.62, 2013 and the appointment of Heru Prasetyo as the head of the agency have marked the second phase of REDD+ Programme. Entering the phase, the REDD+ Agency is commencing intensive relations with its stakeholders, including the provincial governments, relevant line ministries and the Norway Government as the donor country.

Context of this ToR

One of the important issues in the governance of forests and peat land is the lack of institutional capacity for conflict resolution, especially in the case of land-based conflict resolution. These issues include the weak legislation, low capacity of the related institutions, and lack of coordination among ministries/institutions and local governments involved in the conflict resolution. The conflicts make legal certainty over land ownership difficult to realize. In the end, it is difficult to provide legal protection for good implementation of conservation programmes, business activities and other activities undertaken by the government, communities and employers. Thus, in the context of REDD+, the absence of certainty affects directly the rate of deforestation/forest degradation and peat land that are still difficult to decrease.

Regarding with this condition, UKP-PPP and BP-REDD + intend to prepare a road map in order to strengthen the institutional settlement of land conflicts in Indonesia. With the Roadmap, it is expected that we are able to map out various institutions that have similar tasks in resolving the conflict in the best way.

To produce the roadmap, there are some activities need to be done. For sure, the roadmap will be developed by the method resulted from the field test. The conflicts focused by BP-REDD+ are the ones related to National Parks and the cases of forest gazettement. Both of these involve the process of verification and recognition from the third parties. From this process, it is expected that learning materials and concrete impacts which give positive contribution to the conflicts could be obtained.

The areas selected for the field test are Tesso Nilo National Park, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Kutai Timur National Park, Sebangau National Park, and Kayan Mentarang National Park. As for the forest gazettement, the conflict resolution will be tested on the mechanism of claim and verification in Barito Selatan.

The purposes of resolution conflict programme are to give contribution to the conflict resolution in five national parks and to assist the completion of forest gazettement in Barito Selatan; and to develop roadmap to strengthen some institutions and their capacities in order to resolve the land conflict in Indonesia, in relations with REDD+. Moreover, there is a necessity to assist the national conflict resolution team and the regional facilitators to facilitate the conflict resolutions in 5 selected national parks, monitoring tasks and to identify the conflict actors and the conflict resolution reform to support the road map mentioned and accelerate the implementation of conflict resolution.

As the activities on conflict resolution are going to be implemented very soon in the aforementioned national parks, it is urgent to hire one person who will support us in the field. In East Kalimantan, we need to hire one co facilitator who will be responsible for managing the conflict in the area of Kutai National Park.

Objectives of Assignment:

Formulating the work plans in Kutai National Park;Conducting the conflict mapping in Kutai National Park;Undertaking the implementation monitoring of on-going conflict resolution in Kutai National Park;Facilitating the implementation of conflict resolution and the forest gazettement in Kutai National Park;Conducting the capacity building for all stakeholders supporting the conflict resolution in Kutai National Park.

The candidate is expected to travel to the some locations in the area of Kutai National Park, and some areas in the province of East Kalimantan. In addition, the candidate is also expected to travel to Jakarta for coordination meeting.

The details of travel are explained as follows:

Samarinda to Jakarta: three times (one time each month in October, November, and December). Duration of each travel:  three days;Samarinda to the area of Kutai National Park: two times during assignment for the total of 10 days (5 days each travel).

To apply for this post, please go to the following link and download all the necessary documents: 

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/

Reference Number: 18735

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