Kasuari Program or South Sorong Program is a complex project to Enhance protection and management of 150.746 ha critical forest ecosystem, securing habitat for biodiversity, sink for irrecoverable carbon, and the livelihood of the local indigenous communities in South Sorong, Papua Barat Daya province. This project consists of 4 main outcomes:
- Enabling conditions in place for improved protection and management of 150.746 ha forest of high carbon, high biodiversity-value, and of indigenous importance ecosystems through development of relevant policies and planning.
- Capacity developed for key stakeholders to support sustainable management of ± 150.746 ha forest of high carbon and high biodiversity-value.
- Forest-positive livelihood of ± 2692 indigenous people improved through provisioning of production tools, establishment of community-enterprise entities, capacity building in production and business management, and assistance in market development.
- By December 2028, at least one sustainable financing mechanism is operationalized, providing support for the management of ± 150.746 of forest of high-carbon, high biodiversity-value and of indigenous importance.
To implement all of the outcomes we developed activities at the site level. We have strengthened by improving management and monitoring of social forestry including costumery forest for the Konda District Communities in South Sorong Regency. We have developed activities to support biodiversity identification, monitoring and protection in around 150,000 ha forest area overall of South Sorong Regency. In other hand we have developed positive livelihood by strengthen product and market of Sago, one of core product of social forestry and have develop ecotourism in Klaugin Village, South Sorong Regency, both of are to support sustainable livelihood and to improve sustainable forest management and utilization. All activities involve government, communities and potential private sector which have related these issues. For all of activities, we want to develop an exit strategy to support sustainability of the program by the government, communities or related private sectors were involved or established in the program through their own funds or the other potential scheme fund.
In assisting Intervention for the development of sustainable financing models to support forest area management in the Strategic Area over the long term, we require an individual or a group consultant to conduct a rigorous assessment of sustainable financing mechanisms, roadmaps, and suitable financing models for the sustainability of Kasuari South Sorong project.
