TERMS OF REFERENCE

PROJECT COMMUNICATION OFFICER

I.          BACKGROUND

The Government of Indonesia recognizes that unrestrained natural resource exploitation will undo existing development gains and render certain development goals unachievable. Neither do turnkey solutions for low carbon development exist. Thus, Indonesia continues to work to pioneer solutions for sustainable development. The commitment to balance and enable social equity, environmental health, and economic growth is clearly outlined within Indonesia’s National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJM-N) 2015-2019. These goals are underpinned by Indonesia’s unprecedented voluntary commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 26% and up to 41% by 2020, with international support including the REDD+ Indonesia-Norway Partnership. Indonesia’s successful actualization of sustainable development, including the protection of its vast forests, is critical not only for its own national development and wellbeing, but in its significant contribution to global climate change mitigation.

To this end, Phase 1 of the REDD+ Partnership persistently emphasized collaborative ways to create enabling conditions for sustainable development: Work to strengthen the nation’s geospatial infrastructure reinforced cross-ministerial collaboration. Information sharing under initiatives like the moratorium—and tackling unsustainable environmental exploitation through a Multi-Door Approach to regulatory due diligence and law enforcement—emphasised coordination and information sharing. Decade long participatory mapping efforts by Masyarakat Hukum Adat (MHA) were integrated into the national One Map initiative. Key achievements include the release of the National REDD+ Strategy (STRANAS) in September 2012, completing the groundwork for a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system, the design and preparation of a Fund for REDD+ (FREDDI) and the development of safeguards called Principles, Criteria and Indicators for REDD+ Safeguards in Indonesia (PRISAI).

Following the completion of Phase 1, the National REDD+ Agency was established through Presidential Regulation 62/2013 to ensure the continued implementation of REDD+ in Indonesia. The Partnership entered into an Interim Phase centered on building the institutional capacity of the REDD+ Agency. This ensured that the foundational work completed by the Working Groups of the National REDD+ Task Force (SATGAS REDD+) in gathering baseline information, supporting the establishment of and monitoring the moratorium, and ensuring the overall body of knowledge from Phase I was transferred. The Interim Phase also included a portfolio of time sensitive issues including preventing forest and peat fires, implementing the Constitution Court Ruling No. 35/2012 (MK 35) recognizing the tenure rights of Masyarakat Hukum Adat, land conflict resolution in national parks, and strengthening gender inclusion.

Integration into Ministry of Environment and Forestry in 2014, the newly elected Jokowi - Kalla administration laid out their priority agenda, NAWACITA, and decisively integrated Indonesia’s on-going reforms for more efficient, transparent, and accountable government with the country’s commitment to achieve the “triple wins” of sustainable development: social equity, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. REDD+ serves a critical role in helping fulfill the prioritization on alleviating rural poverty and enabling development, emphasizing good governance and anti-corruption as keys to improve forest and peat land management, and supporting the shift towards low emissions development, a commitment reflected by the decision of the Administration to reduce fuel subsidies by 70% between 2014 and 2015.

Most markedly, these priorities resulted in merging the Ministries of Environment and Forestry, and—through Presidential Decree No. 16 of 2015 issued on 21 January 2015—consolidating ad hoc climate change related institutions—including the REDD+ Agency and the National Climate Change Council (DNPI), previously responsible for representing Indonesia at the UNFCCC—under the new Directorate General for Climate Change (DG-CCC) within the new Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF).

For the Partnership, this means continued a new Directorate General leads implementation, where it is understood that REDD+, as a multi-sector programme, will be mainstreamed in policies and plans across several Directorate Generals (Echelon I) within the ministry, as well as with the requisite engagement of other relevant ministries. The new, more streamlined bureaucracy has the potential to ensure better coordination of climate change issues by one mandated body, including REDD+.

Transition Phase

The Interim Phase remains the implementation platform of the Partnership. Under this arrangement, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry is mandated to establish both a REDD+ funding instrument and the mechanism for Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV).

The Interim Phase will also focus on providing technical support to the MoEF on five priorities REDD+ programs based on the foundational work completed in Phase 1, the former National REDD+ Agency, transition phase 2016 and in line with the objectives of Indonesia’s National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJM-N) 2015-2019. These are:

1.       MRV System;

2.       Funding Instrument;

3.       Legal Basis and Sub National Activities;

4.       Institutional and Technical Support to Directorate General of Climate Change and

5.       Media and stakeholders communication, and policy processes.

II.        DESCRIPTION OF RESPONSIBILITIES

Works in a small team of Project Advisors to coordinate communications at different levels of the project, and reports to the Project Communication Manager and Program Director. The project entails close collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and Environment (KLHK). Specific responsibilities include:

1.     Supports the development of project Communications and Consultations strategy

2.     Contribute to and ensure publication of project communication outputs (newsletters/ website/pamphlets/info graphics)

3.     In consultation with project communication manager, arrange media gathering or press conference and prepare press releases

4.     Attend selected project meetings

5.     Support project events organizing    

6.     Attend and take minutes of project team meetings

7.     Coordinate and keep overview of project consultations meeting reports

8.     Contribute to and coordinate preparation of project reports to donor(s)

9.     Support registering project outputs in Kemitraan’s tracking system

Interested applicants can send their resumes and application lette to recruitment@kemitraan.or.id by October 8, 2017 at the latest.