IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank

Published purpose

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.