Annual Workplan MFP II 2009-2010
Concluding the Memorandum of Understanding between the Governments of Indonesia and the United Kingdom signed in October 12th 2000, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia and the Department for International Development (DfID) of the Government of the United Kingdom signed a Letter of Arrangement in October 11th 2008, committing an initial GBP 5 million for a period of three years (2008 - 2011) to a second phase of Forest Governance and Multistakeholder Forestry Programme (MFP).
The MFP II Programme is aimed at supporting forest governance reform, with a particular focus on the negotiation and implementation of an EC - Government of Indonesia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT-VPA). The program’s objectives are to strengthen government and civil society partnerships at local and national levels to build capacity, empower community forest managers and develop and implement policy. In particular, the program will work to nurture and strengthen its network of Community Foundations in the regions, established with previous program support. Over the next three years, the program will also work with stakeholders to identify and implement necessary governance reforms for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) implementation.
Funded initially by DFID’s Forest Governance and Trade Programme, which is focused on tackling illegal logging, it was hoped that other donors would join the programme and help fund other elements of the log frame. This has not yet happened and following an Inception Review, DFID and the Ministry of Forestry agreed, at the Steering Committee meeting of 22nd June 2009, that MFP2 should be revised and re-focused to strengthen the achievement of Output 1.
Before the June 2009 SC meeting, the MFP Programme Management Unit (PMU) had submitted the first Annual Work Plan (AWP) 2009-2010 on March 2009, taking into consideration the recommendation of the Independent Evaluator and DFID Jakarta Office. The first AWP 2009/2010 consists of strategies that covered the “pessimistic and optimistic” conditions due to the limited availability of funds from DFID UK. However, only activities related directly with the VPA process and TLAS implementation such as the socialization of TLAS could be financed through the KEHATI Foundation as the service provider. The first AWP 2009/2010 has thus never been officially endorsed by the SC and the only new activities undertaken in the past 6 months was the socialization of TLAS in 4 regions, completed in September 2009.
Under these circumstances, the PMU has submited the second AWP as the new AWP 2009/2010 and seeks its endorsement at the upcoming SC meeting scheduled on October 2009. The new AWP will be based on the agreement on SC meeting June 2009; to re-focus the orientation on ouput 1 with particular emphasis on: (1) VPA negotiation process and socialization of TLAS implementation; (2) Strengthening the institutional capacity to deliver SVLK; (3) International recognition and mechanism to review and strengthen TLAS implementation; (4) Secure budget allocation to support the committed projects as planned on AWP 2008/2009 and AWP 2009/2010.
The process for the development of the new AWP 2009-2010 began with the consultative meeting between DFID, the PMU and the Director General of Production Forest Management (BPK) in July 12, 2009. The result of this consultation was a revised of logical framework with a set list of activities, estimated budget, target and milestone which has been discussed several times with the relevant stakeholder under the MoFr including the Center for Forestry Education and Training (Pusdiklat) and the Directorate General of BPK. The representative of DFID UK, Mr. Hugh Speechly also involved in developing the logframe with the PMU. The new logframe is expected to be endorsed by the SC Meeting on October 2009 as part of the new AWP 2009-2010.
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