Bio Carbon Fund Integrated Sustainable Forest Landscape (BioCF ISFL) Safeguard Document for Jambi Province

The Directorate General of Climate Change Control (Cq. Directorate of Climate Change Mitigation) in collaboration with the World Bank and the Regional Government of Jambi Province is developing REDD+ activities with a Result Based Payment scheme through the Bio Carbon Fund Integrated Sustainable Forest Landscape (BioCF ISFL) activity. This activity is supported by multilateral funding, which is managed by the World Bank as trustee.  This program aims to promote reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the land sector, reduced deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, sustainable agriculture, as well as better land use planning, policies and practices through REDD+ activities. BioCF ISFL activities consist of three phases, namely the preparation phase (2019 – December 2020), the pre-investment phase (planned for July 2020 – 2025) and the Result Based Payment Phase (> 2030).  

Currently the project in question is in the preparation period, one of the outputs of this preparation is the completeness of the Emission Reduction Program Document (ERPD).  In order to fulfill the completeness of the ERPD, it is necessary to prepare documents and this is a requirement for REDD+ implementation, namely the implementation of protection or security mechanisms (safeguards) to minimize negative impacts that arise in program implementation. This concept of protection or safeguards covers various issues including transparency of the national forest management structure, participation of various parties, respect for the knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, conservation of biodiversity and natural forests, emission transfer and the reverse risk of reducing emissions.  Therefore, in the current BioCF-ISFL preparation stage, one of the main activities that will be carried out is preparing the safeguards documents needed to manage all environmental and social impacts resulting from the implementation of the BioCF-ISFL project in Jambi Province. The safeguard documents in question consist of Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA), Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF), Indigenous People Planning Framework (IPPF), Feedback and Grievance Redress Mechanism (FGRM), and Resettlement Planning Framework and Process Framework (RPF -PF).  This document is used to ensure that the program design outlined in the document does not pose a high risk to social and environmental aspects. In this regard, the Directorate General of Climate Change Control intends to publish Safeguard documents where the documents in question have received input from stakeholders through Public Consultation in Jambi Province on December 5 2019.