An Analysis of the Forestry Sector’s Budget and Planning
Kabupaten Melawi – Province of West Kalimantan
Author: Hadi Prayitno
Direktur Eksekutif The Reform Initiative (TRI)
The Reform Initiatives (TRI) has developed a series of analytical instruments for examining budget policies in forest and land management. These instruments will assess the extent to which local governments effectively manage public finances for forestry development, and how beneficial such development is for the community in ensuring environmental sustainability.
The forestry sector’s budget policies aim to decrease rates of deforestation, rehabilitate critical land, facilitate community access to forest resources and develop forestry institutions at the local level. Research into these policies was undertaken by processing and analysing local government budgets (APBD) from 2009 – 2013, with results from kabupaten Melawi outlined in the budget brief “Half-Hearted Rehabilitation”.
The primary purpose of this research is to: (i) ascertain how local policies (budget and planning) improve the quality of forest and land management; (ii) analyse potential and realised forms of local revenue sourced from land-based industries; (iii) identify how and which local expenditure policies are accelerating improvements in forest and land management and; (iv) utilise budget instruments as a valuable means for helping regions improve their forest and land management.
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