**Program Overview**
Within our Agriculture, Forest, and Land Use (AFOLU) Program Cluster, we envision that critical ecosystems such as forests and peatland across Indonesia will be governed fairly and sustainably. We believe sustainable land use management is key for Indonesia to meet its climate goal, keeping the global climate target below the 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold while providing sustainable livelihoods to forest-dependent communities and conserving biodiversity in the landscape. We intend to achieve this by safeguarding the remaining forest and peatland from deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation; maintaining forests and peatland quality through sound stewardship; and restoring degraded ecosystems to improve productivity, conservation value, and ecosystem services.
Within WRI Indonesia, AFOLU Cluster is implementing its activities under four Sub Clusters:
- **Strengthening Forest and Peat Monitoring**: We aim to enhance the monitoring capabilities of stakeholders, focusing on forests, peatlands, and landscapes. By leveraging scientific advancements, we aim to effectively support forest management and conservation efforts. We are dedicated to combating illegal forest logging and advocating for thorough reviews of palm oil business licenses.
- ** Transforming Supply Chains and Livelihoods**: Our mission is to drive the adoption of sustainable palm oil production practices at the national, regional, and global levels. We collaborate closely with government bodies, smallholders, and agriculture businesses, including palm oil, to ensure sustainable livelihoods and secure land tenure.
- ** Innovating Financing for Nature-based Solutions (**NbS**)**: Our commitment lies in financing nature-based solutions (NbS) projects. Through strategic investments and partnerships, we strive to find the most effective financing mechanisms and tools that ensure the long-term sustainability of NbS programs.
- ** Advancing Sustainable Food Systems**: Our primary objective is to expedite the transformation of food and land use systems. We actively support the reform agenda for food systems, fostering positive outcomes for the environment, health, inclusive development, and food security. We aim to align these systems with globally agreed-upon sustainable development, climate, and biodiversity goals.
**KONEKSI Research Project**
WRI Indonesia, partnered with a few other organizations, was recently selected by KONEKSI, Australia's knowledge and innovation flagship program in Indonesia, as 1 out of 38 knowledge partnerships as the inaugural recipients of Environment and Climate Change Collaborative Research Grants. The grants are provided for the selected partners in recognizing their expertise, equitable partnerships, and impact on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. The proposed research will focus on 'Conserving Ridge to Reef: Integrated and Innovative Approach to Enable Sustainable Financing in Supporting Inclusive Climate Change Projects in Indonesia', and it will be implemented in Southwest Papua Province as soon as possible.
This project proposes pathways for an integrated and innovative sustainable financing mechanism and a decentralized governance framework that allows stakeholders a greater say in decision-making and minimizes the imbalance of power' to support inclusive ridge-to-reef climate change projects in Indonesia. Several methods will be employed to achieve the desired research outputs, including the co-development of baselines and tools for managing, integrating, and monitoring upland forests, watersheds, and mangrove forests, as well as the co-development of ridge-to-reef architecture that incorporate Gender Equality, Disability Inclusion, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) indicators. Additionally, the study will incorporate GEDSI indicators to identify enabling conditions and mechanisms that facilitate equitable ridge-to-reef implementation.
**Job Highlight**
The NbS Research Senior Program Lead is responsible for ensuring the excellent delivery quality of AFOLU research under the NBS Financing Sub Cluster. Furthermore, they will lead the implementation of the KONEKSI Research Project to ensure excellent research quality and timely deliveries per the work plan. Within the AFOLU Cluster, this project will be hosted under NbS Financing Sub Cluster. A team of researchers, project staff, and consultants will support the NbS Research Senior Program Lead in accomplishing project tasks. The NbS Research Senior Program Lead will provide leadership to their team in the research program's overall strategy and on the project's day-to-day delivery.
This position will be based in Jakarta, with frequent travel to the project site. This position will report to Deputy Program Director, AFOLU, and work closely with Program Director and Senior Regional Manager for Papua. In addition, they will work with other relevant AFOLU Cluster teams to ensure alignment of research and project a