Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Investment Program (ICWRMIP)

GEF Grant No. 0216-INO.

Name of Client: Directorate of Conservation Area and Forest Protection, Ministry of Forestry.

Name of Senior Professional staff (Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader) involved and functions performed:

Sunarno Agus Nusantoro-  Project Director.

Darrel J. Kitchener- International Expert (Biodiversity Conservation Specialist/Forest Ecologist).

Urooj S. Malik- International Expert (Natural Resources Economic Valuation Expert).

Suer Suryad- Team Leader / Conservation Area Management Specialist.

The objective of the ICWRM in the Citarum River Basin (CRB) is to achieve clean, healthy and productive catchments and rivers, while conserving globally and locally significant biological diversity and bringing about sustainable benefits to all people of the CRB through collaborative efforts between government and the community.
The overall scope of work includes the 4 (four) components, there are

Component 1 - Biodiversity Inventory/Habitat Mapping/GIS System Development,

Component 2 - Pilot Projects for Habitat Restoration within Pas,

Component 3 - Sustainable Financing through Implementation of PES, and

Component 4 - Mainstreaming Biodiversity in the Production Landscape.
Project outcomes are directed toward addressing gaps found during management effectively tracking tools (METT) analysis conducted during the surveys. Summary of the project outcomes are: (1) Effective coordination of protected areas (PAs) management (enhanced capacity for PAs management; mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into IWRM; master plan for basin management including PAs; regulatory mechanisms); (2) Enhanced biodiversity conservation within the CRB (PA management planning; biodiversity conservation in production landscapes through integrated spatial planning; payment for environmental services (PES)); (3) Empowered local communities through participation in planning and managing the conservation of biodiversity in PAs and production landscapes (education and awareness programs; pilot projects for sustainable livelihood-cum-conservation; PES); (4) Effective use of data for biodiversity conservation (biodiversity monitoring programs; GIS mapping system and database).
The project activities are among others:
1.  Provide comprehensive baseline data for all 8 PAs that accurately describes land cover conditions, habitat types, flora and fauna distribution and populations, topography and other biophysical conditions;
2.  Establish databases appropriate to the interests of PAs planners and managers, and integrate them into the Forestry Information Center (PIKA) DJPHKA database. The database will be user-friendly, functional and reliable, and integrated with a GIS system developed simultaneously;
3. Develop GIS systems that will support PAs planning and management, including park spatial planning, program implementation, capacity building, program monitoring and supervision, and making map-based reports;
4. Develop the institutional capacity of planners, managers, NGOs, and community members for monitoring biodiversity, using maps and other monitoring tools, and reporting and presenting information;
5. Prepare, revise, or strengthen management action plans for the 8 PAs, based on the improved biodiversity data made available through the above-mentioned tasks; and;
6. Initiate the measures for biodiversity conservation management recommended in the strengthened PAs management plans. These measures may include, but are not limited to, establishment of regular programs for biodiversity monitoring, park zoning and boundary marking, public awareness-raising, and staff training.
7. Apply land rehabilitation models that can address degradation issues in conservation areas. These models will be carried out through a participatory approach involving various stakeholders who can benefit from improving and increasing the coverage of forests within PAs;
8. Rehabilitate land in three conservation areas: Masigit Kereumbi Hunting Park, Kamojang Tourism Park, and Mount Tangkuban Perahu Tourism Park. The rehabilitation programs at these three sites will utilize assisted natural regeneration (ANR) and enrichment planting of local species within PA boundaries, and planting of appropriate species of cropping plants in community fields bordering the parks to act as buffers;
9. Provide seed banks for supplying rehabilitation activities in PAs throughout the CRB, not limited only to the three sites targeted in this program. Community members will receive training and supplementary income through this activity; and;
10.Capture the results of the demonstration projects to be disseminated among other stakeholders interested in land rehabilitation and reforestation, and develop a set of guidelines for application in similar rehabilitation projects in other conservation areas.
11.Create new funding sources for providing sustainable funds for the management of conservation areas/biodiversity conservation;
12.Carry out economic valuations of potential, yet to be developed tourism and biodiversity resources in and around conservation areas;
13.Identify preconditions that can be applied and to initiate PES programs for tourism and biodiversity services. This includes evaluations of the functions of areas that have potential for tourism, to avoid problems relating to area status; and
14.Build an institutional communication system and model that allows, or supports the application of PES for tourism and biodiversity services.
15.Identify areas that can be used as an entry point for mainstreaming biodiversity conservation (regulations, official meeting of provincial and district government development planning board [Bappeda]);
16.Identify topic that can be brought up into seminar, workshop or discussion among stakeholders;
17.Publication of biodiversity conservation program under the larger ICWRMIP project;
18.Increased awareness of all stakeholders on biodiversity conservation;
19.Implement village conservation model (MCV) involving all stakeholders responsible for area management (conservation area and production landscape); and
20.Land rehabilitation at the production landscape.