Green Community Development in Sulawesi (Green PNPM)

This project represents CIDA’s contribution to Indonesia’s National Program for Community Empowerment in Rural Areas (Indonesian acronym: PNPM). PNPM is a Government of Indonesia program that awards small grants to communities to help them deal with local needs such as roads irrigation water supply latrines schools and health centres. CIDA’s contribution to PNPM introduced natural resource and environmental management practices into the program and hence is known as ‘Green PNPM’. The Green PNPM project helps communities understand the negative and long-term impact of their actions on the surrounding environment and natural resources. It teaches them how to develop and implement ecological or ‘green’ PNPM proposals. Examples of such projects include small-scale renewable energy production land-use planning land or forest rehabilitation wildlife conservation eco-tourism and marketing non-timber forest products. The Green PNPM project is focussed in three provinces in Sulawesi.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2013) include: participating communities implemented 828 sub-projects to improve income generation (e.g. through cash crop production) enhance the use of renewable energy (e.g. through installations that use natural flow of water such as micro hydro) and protect ecosystems (e.g. mangrove forests). In total 426 630 beneficiaries were reached in 78 sub-districts and net household incomes increased by US$137 per year since the beginning of the project. Canada’s original investment of $16.5 million (US$14.7 million) attracted an additional US$37.3 million from other donors which contributed to extending the Green PNPM to an additional 2 099 sub-projects reaching 1 082 539 beneficiaries. These results have contributed to increase the use of environmentally sustainable solutions by communities living in the three targeted provinces of Sulawesi and to increased household incomes.