The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

G3.9. CCBA Public Comment PeriodDescribe what specific steps have been taken, and communicationsmethods used, to publicize the CCBA public comment period tocommunities and other stakeholders and to facilitate their submissionof comments to CCBA. Project proponents must play an active role indistributing key project documents to affected communities andstakeholders and hold widely publicized information meetings inrelevant local or regional languages.The following steps will be taken to publicize the CCBA publiccomment period to all project stakeholders: The PDD and other project-­‐related documents will betranslated into Bahasa Indonesia. A Summary Brief of community-­‐related project activities will bedrafted and translated into Bahasa Indonesia. All stakeholders (see Section G3.8) will receive a copy of thePDD and an explanation of the CCBA public comment period,along with instructions for submitting comments to CCBA. In addition, copies of the Summary Brief will be distributed toall Project Zone communities. At the commencement of the CCBA public comment period, aseries of community meetings will be organized in Project Zonecommunities, and meeting times widely publicized according tothe channels of communication identified in the social survey(see Section G3.8). The project will be presented to community members at thesemeetings, with an emphasis on community-­‐related projectactivities, and they will have an opportunity to discuss theproject. At the conclusion of these meetings, community members willbe instructed on how to submit comments to CCBA.G3.10. Grievances and Conflict ResolutionFormalize a clear process for handling unresolved conflicts andgrievances that arise during project planning and implementation. Theproject design must include a process for hearing, responding to andresolving community and other stakeholder grievances within areasonable time period. This grievance process must be publicized tocommunities and other stakeholders and must be managed by a thirdparty or mediator to prevent any conflict of interest. Projectmanagement must attempt to resolve all reasonable grievances raised,and provide a written response to grievances within 30 days.Grievances and project responses must be documented.Together with the team that conducted the Project Zone socialsurvey, project proponents have formulated a draft process forhearing and resolving grievances from communities, othercompeting landholders and local government., The final standardoperating procedure on community conflict resolution will beprepared in consultation with local communities and will besigned by the project management. It will incorporate proceduralelements of collaboration and transparency should ease effortsat conflict resolution in the future.Several conflict resolution strategies are available for use withinthe draft process and can be applieddepending on the situation.Principallyhowever, given cultural and social barriers that canexist, the use of a third-­‐party intermediary that acts as acommunity liaison and mediator is a well-­‐documented strategy inIndonesia.This approach can be applied to local level communityissues as well as between other persons seeking to compete forland rights.176