Following up the kick-off meeting of FORCLIME 4.0 at the beginning of the year, the Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF), as the Project Executing Agency of FORCLIME, introducing FORCLIME 4.0 to the stakeholders of West Papua on 25 March 2021 in Manokwari, West Papua province. Objective of the meeting was to collect information from relevant stakeholders for the purpose of preparing FORCLIME’s annual workplan, which then will be discussed with project partners at the provincial and district levels. Main topics during the meeting were problem tree analysis of forest management units (KPH), social forestry and biodiversity conservation, and identification of relevant activities which will be included to the annual workplan preparation. The meeting, which conducted mixed online and offline, was attended by 43 people representing the MoEF, the West Papua Forestry Service, provincial government (i.e. Regional Research and Development Agency-Balitbangda), development partners, local NGOs, local universities.

"The planned programme activities of FORCLIME 4.0 are corresponding with the West Papua KPH work plans, including KPH Tambrauw", said Petrus Tawer, the Head of KPH Tambrauw.

Similar meeting will be conducted in the following week in Jayapura for the relevant stakeholders in Papua province.

For more information, please contact:
Mohammad Sidiq, Papua Coordinator and Strategic Area Manager for Sustainable Forest Management