Ecological Threat :

The Mount Rian Area is widely known as water catchment?s area that holds an important role in hydrology system and natural disaster prevention effort. Some Borneo endemic species can be found within the forest area, such as several of birds? species, anteater, skunk, deer, etc that become an indicator of the quality of the forest. However, the area also facing serious threats including from the government who gave plantation right and plantation forest concession in a large scale. In the future, the high level of ecological threat facing by the ecosystem will eventually open the opportunity of natural disaster, such as drought.

Project Development Goal:

The conservation of Mt. Rian Ecosustem through microhydro-powered electricity management, knowledge management, and intitiation of community non-timber forest product business.


Project Development Objective:

1. Incresed the sense of belonging and community knowledge on forest conservation that will contribute positive impact in reducing carbon emission, water catchment protection, and biodiversity conservation;
2. Increased community capacity in techno-social management and utilization of microhydro-powered electricity and it relation with water catchment protection and forest conservation;
3. Developed non-timber forest product based community business including marketing the product;
4. Learning sharing of various informations and knowledge as part of knowledge management process.

Expected Outputs:

1. Established 1 (one) unit of microhydro;
2. Existed a strong commitment within community in water catchment protection and biodiversity conservation;
3. Increased community techno-social capacity in the effort of microhydro management related to forest conservation;
4. Existed organizational mechanism in microhydro management;
5. Established community business based on non-timber forest product and improved added value as well as quality from the electricity, and developed market linked-up for marketing purpose;
6. Existed various product for information dissemination and knowledge sharing.

Activities to be Conducted:

A. Preparation
1.1. Coordination; Facilitating community meeting that will be directly involved in the process of microhydro estabslishment in order to improve community knowledge and patiricpation during the implementation.
1.2. Consultatin, including : providing basic knowledge, technical assistance and permission if necessary;
1.3. Conduction Village level Workshop; improving community knowledge upon the project as well as building support, agreement, and community role in the implementation.

B. Micro-hydro Development
Pre-Construction
1.1 Community Mapping :
a. Socio-economical participative review
b. Ecological/water catchments area participative review
c. Micro hydro technical review
1.2 Workshop kampong
1.3 Finalizing agreement contract between Perkumpulan Lingkar Tanataka with micro hydro provider
C. Construction
1.4 Planning turbine design in provider?s workshop
1.5 Constructing and assembling turbine
1.6 Providing training for two communities representatives regarding turbine mechanism and its operational and maintenance techniques
1.7 Constructing civil building
1.8 Attaching turbine
1.9 Attaching electricity system and transmission network
1.10 Testing electricity
1.11 Handing over from developer to communities

D. Post-Construction
1. Microhydro Management
a. Conducting operational training on the utilization of microhydro
b. Strengthening work mechanism and structure of management organization.

2. Managing water catchment area related to Microhydro.

3. Developing productive community economy activities.

4. Improving community capacity and organization strengthening
a. Conducting training on participative mapping;
b. Developing agroforestry patterns;
c. Conducting training to improve community organizational capacity
d. Conducting training on entrepreneurship and development of productive economy activities;
e. Assisting community economy activities

5. Capital
Community will provide capital for community business and will be managed by community organization to improve community productive economy activities.
a. Provisioned of product processing machine
b. Improved woman?s role

6. Dissemination and Information
a. Conducting Workshop;
b. Conducting Exhibition;
c. Producing Film CD;
d. Conducting Product Launching.

VII. Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation


Project Participants and/or beneficiaries:
1. Direct : 225 people of Sapari Village