REDD+ and the Agency of Indonesia’s Forest Dependent Communities

38 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 Beginning this May, over a ive-month period, I will work with CIFOR scientists to advance the design and implementation of such MRV techniques for the Papua Regency of Mamberamo Raya. Using a mixed-methods approach that includes household surveys, key informant interviews and questionnaires, focus groups, and participatory mapping, We hope to develop productive village land-use and livelihood typologies; conduct a feasibility study at the village level regarding such a participatory MRV project; and conceptually map information and communication lows across local to national governance scales. Ultimately this project will provide crucial pilot data on how to design an efective, locally-contextualized, participatory, and veriiable MRV system related to carbon monitoring and emissions reductions, and do so in a locally-to-nationally scalable way.

22.1 Mr. Walker Holton Depuy

Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat Jabatan : Ph.D Student Institusi : University of Georgia, Athens GA a. 245SIPFRPSMVII2013 b. 82EXTSIPFRPSMXI2013 23. REDD+ and the Agency of Indonesia’s Forest Dependent Communities Tujuan Penelitian : Menganalisis dampak REDD+ terhadap kehidupan dan kesejahteraan masyarakat Bidang Penelitian : Antropologi Lingkungan Daerah Penelitian : Kalteng Hutan Kalawa, Lamdau, Kaltim Mahakam Lama Penelitian : 12 dua belas bulan mulai 13 Mei 2013 Mitra Kerja : FISIP UI Dr. Suraya A. Aif 39 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 Abstrak REDD is said to rely on a single valuation language, sustained on a ‘multiple-win’ discourse that in practice lacks procedural legitimacy, impacts the agency of FDCs and reproduces existing inequities and forms of social exclusion. This paper applies Amartya Sens capability approach, as well as complimentary approaches from the critical geography literature, to understand the agency of Forest Dependent Community FDC actors within a REDD project site in Indonesia. For Sen, agency is important in evaluating what a person is free to do and achieve in pursuit of whatever goals or values he or she regards as important Sen, 1985. The research uses ethnographic interviews and participant observations, social network analysis, and cultural domain analysis, including visual ethnography, to consider the impacts of REDD project implementation beyond that related to income or consumption. This includes assessing the conlicts and power relations within and between heterogeneous groups, participation in and modes of resistance to the REDD project, and FDC actors changing connectedness to and perceptions of the forest landscape. This approach aims to beneit hard to reach actors, uncovering potential axes of marginalisation between and within sub groups. Poorly represented actors rarely form a homogenous mass, and their views are often more diicult to access without long term, in depth analysis. Such social structural diferences often coincide with difering long term goals and uses of the forest. Understanding the needs and dreams of these FDC actors will have signiicant implications for policy makers in terms of enabling contextually sensitive REDD monitoring and beneit sharing regimes.

23.1 Mr. Peter James Howson