The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

will be offered at large, and offsite stakeholders who arenegatively impacted by the loss of oil palm employmentopportunities may apply as well.Finally, for those people who currently work in the activeplantation to the north of the Project Area and who would benegatively impacted by the project’s plans to prevent furtherexpansion of that plantation into the Project Area (expansion thatis currently illegal by the terms of the plantation’s license), theproject intends, via leakage mitigation contracts, to undertake acooperative forest rehabilitation program that would offer thesestakeholders additional employment opportunities.CM2.3. Net Impacts on Other Stakeholder GroupsDemonstrate that the project is not likely to result in net negativeimpacts on the well-­‐being of other stakeholder groups.All off-­‐site stakeholders negatively impacted by project activitieseither belong to an inchoate group (displaced oil palmplantations) or are engaged in illegal activities (loggingoperations). Conversely, project activities may result insubstantial positive off-­‐site impacts both from maintenance andimprovements in ecosystem services and from secondary andindirect effects of social and economic programs undertaken byproject proponents.Ultimately, estimating net impacts on off-­‐site stakeholders is toospeculative to be of much use, although it should be noted thatthe total potential off-­‐site impacts are minor in comparison tothe significant and overwhelmingly positive on-­‐site stakeholderimpacts of proposed project activities.CM3. Community Impact MonitoringCM3.1. Preliminary Community Monitoring PlanDevelop an initial plan for selecting community variables to bemonitored and the frequency of monitoring and reporting to ensurethat monitoring variables are directly linked to the project’s communitydevelopment objectives and to anticipated impacts (positive andnegative).The Rimba Raya project is committed to the development ofsustainable livelihoods for communities in the Project Zone.Monitoring activities used to measure the project’s impact oncommunity livelihoods will need to be designed to suit specificgoals and interventions. A sustainable livelihoods framework(based on Bebbington 1999) can be used to guide this process.The framework is based on the premise that user groups andindividual households have five capital assets, which they can usefor various livelihood outcomes. These five capital assets include:1. Physical capital (e.g., household assets, agriculturalimplements, transport, energy, communication and otherinfrastructure, technology)2. Financial capital (e.g., credit, savings, remittances,pensions)3. Social capital (e.g. adherence to rules, relationships oftrust, mutuality of interest, leadership, kin and ethnicnetworks, social networks or organizations, access towider institutions, ability to demand)4. Natural capital (e.g. soil fertility, water resources, forestresources, grazing resources, land quantity and quality)5. Human capital (e.g. knowledge and information, skills,health, ability to work)247