GREEN GROWTH IN THE HEART OF PROJECT DATA BORNEO: INTEGRATING CONSERVATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING OF COMMUNITIES ACROSS A Country/Countries: TRANSBOUNDARY LANDSCAPE Indonesien, As of: September 2021 Implementing organisation: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - The ‘Heart of Borneo’ is a region offering a unique Germany level of biodiversity. The Heart of Borneo Declaration signed by , Malaysia and Political partner(s): Brunei aims at protecting this region. Yet the region Forest Department Sarawak - Malaysia is threatened by unsustainable resource usage on Kapuas Hulu District-West - the part of forestry and agriculture. To improve Indonesia protection further, the project is supporting a number of parts of the Heart of Borneo action plan Implementing partner(s): involving the transboundary management of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - resources, ecotourism and activities to strengthen Indonesia communities. The project is also developing a BMU grant: sustainable, ‘green economy’ management model € 4,140,926.23 and implementing this in a number of pilot sub- projects. Networking efforts between the various Duration: stakeholders drawn from government and the 03/2016 till 12/2021 private sector are fostering new partnerships that Website(s): are promoting sustainable economic growth in the http://www.wwf.de/themen-projekte/landwirts region while getting local communities involved. All chaft/green-economy-im-herzen-borneos of the project results and approaches will be used as input for the Heart of Borneo initiative, and applied as broadly as possible.

State of implementation/results

Malaysia: The development of a final master plan for land use in the State of Sarawak is progressing. One of the two projects to secure the livelihoods of local communities was able to continue (under pandemic-related restrictions): The Gaharu plantation for tea on degraded land near the habitats of orangutans. The activities in the second project, the pepper pilot project for a sustainable pepper plantation with marketing, could not be continued. However, the team has contacted potential suppliers of pepper storage equipment and the Malaysian Pepper Board to discuss further activities. In August, the team paid a courtesy visit to the Sarawak Forest Department (FDS), the key government partner in the project, to meet the new Coordinator of the Heart of Borneo (HoB) for Sarawak and the

Green Growth in the Heart of Borneo: Integrating conservation, econom... Downloaded on 27.09.21 - 1/2 new Senior Assistant Director of the International Relations Unit, who is responsible for intergovernmental initiatives such as the HoB. The Land Use Plan and the Green Economy Action Plan have been approved internally at WWF Malaysia and are being finalized at the moment. Indonesia: Experts are currently working on a document for the development of an emission reduction scenario. This is based on workshops with the technical team at district level in Putussibau and at sub-district level (Sub-KSK Agropolitan Embau) in Hulu Gurung. It covers different aspects: spatial planning, farming, fishery, plantation, social-economy, partnership, environmental services, biodiversity conservation and an implementation scenario. The final report supporting best management practices in the supply chain for palm oil in the KSK Agropolitan Area is available. The Green Economy Action Plan draft for the sub-KSK Agropolitan Area Embau is also available and in the process of finalization. Talks with palm oil companies (PT RAP of Salim Group and PT PIP of SMART Group) have been initiated to stimulate partnerships and generate market access.

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