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The project summarizes the best practices and lessons learned of a number of existing programmes, providing information that may be useful to Parties to understand the potential of public programmes with socio-economic and development objectives to contribute simultaneously to poverty alleviation and large scale biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration goals. The project also aims to provide useful information to Parties to consider implementing similar programmes in their countries, thereby scaling up biodiversity conservation.

This manual determined the important principles of PLUP implementation, especially in relation to community participation in the process. A diagnostic study conducted a few months later in a project implementing PLUP along the new guidelines showed that on-the-ground PLUP implementation was still problematic as some tools and methods had not been detailed in the PLUP Manual. The purpose of this PLUP Handbook is to provide practical tools and methods for PLUP implementation based on experiments conducted by the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) together with relevant district line agencies (District Land Management Authority (DLMA) and the District Agriculture and Forestry Offices (DAFO) with the support of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in six villages of Viengkham District in 2010, and in eight more villages in 2011 in partnership with the European Union (EU)-funded Agrisud Project.

The European Union funded Collaborative Land Use Planning and Sustainable Institutional Arrangements project is being implemented by the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (Centre de coopération internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, CIRAD) in partnership with CIFOR, Telapak and several local nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and universities. The project aims to contribute to reducing environmental degradation and strengthening land tenure and community rights by collaboratively integrating all stakeholders’ views in land-use planning processes. The outputs revolve around the relationship between land-use planning, land allocation and the provision and scoping for possible payment of ecosystem services. The project focuses on two regencies (kabupaten) in Indonesia: Kapuas Hulu and Central Maluku.

Integrated landscape management (ILM) is an increasingly popular approach to addressing development, climate change, food security and a host of other global issues. But what does it mean to take a landscape approach? Can we ensure policymakers and institutions aren’t simply putting a new label on old ideas? By clearly defi ning key concepts while recognizing the diversity of perspecti ves we hope to ground ILM in a common foundati on, so that conversations about landscape management are clear, producti ve, and support real innovation.

The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book aims to clarify and disseminate sustainable landscape management methods, and to catalyse their implementation across private and public sectors worldwide. Also available in French, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia.