Awareness raising campaigns were conducted in each of the 9 cantons. They covered the following elements:

1. field to discuss about FLR and the planning of potential activities
2. local meetings with 77 villages, to share findings from field visits
3. radio programs in local languages
4. exchange sessions with the prefectural director for environment,
5. design & development of signboards for each village

After the participative mapping and inventory findings were shared with the communities by the installation of synoptic tables in the villages themselves, visible and accessible for everyone. This triggered community internal discussions and allowed to identify one or two low-cost restoration options per village to be implemented by the communities themselves under the technical supervision by forest service staff. The continuous information provision via various awareness raising formats and participatory meetings to identify FLR priority options in each of the cantons, led to a high momentum and legitimacy in the communities to engage in restoration.

Results of the participatory mapping and forest inventory allowed to assess forest resources and identify concrete priority options for landscape restoration in 4 zones.

Criteria for selecting priority options:

1. promote the restoration of natural forests, fragile and specific ecosystems,
2. achieve societal goals and objectives related to the conservation of biodiversity and human well-being,
3. to be implemented in the framework of existing projects in different land tenure types (protected areas, community or village forests, sacred sites),
4. limiting the fragmentation of forest areas and maintaining the connection of natural habitats.

Restoration options include the following:

1. Densely populated land (forest land, farmland, settlements): forest enrichment, agroforestry, river bank restoration)
2. Agricultural land: improved community forest management, enrichment of agroforestry systems, buffer zones around water bodies, wood energy forests
3. Dense forest, shrubland, riparian forests & savannahs: restoration of swampy savanna, riverbanks & community forests, fallow enrichment, improved pasture management
4. Wetlands, marshes, mangroves, grasslands: wetland & mangrove restoration

Participatory mapping was done by local communities in collaboration with the forestry administration and support by GIZ. It involved a true ‘cantonal’ approach by facilitating joint meetings between communities. They prepared their land use maps with guidance from advisors. This allowed to develop the relevant knowledge base for land use and restoration opportunities at regional scale and showed the importance of ecosystem connectivity in a landscape. Main steps of mapping:

1. Preparation: Analysis & documentation of existing information, local visits to potential restoration sites, meetings with leaders of the prefecture and a launching workshop
2. Awareness raising campaign in all 9 cantons and identification of two local cartographers per village (150 in total)  
3. Training of local cartographers in the development of participatory maps and the use of geoinformation tools including GPS  
4. Participatory mapping with 77 communities including joint identification of problems, mapping, verification and ground truthing of land use units by local experts and cartographers
5. Development of final maps, validation and return of maps to local stakeholders

Using modern communication network, Sapu Jerat campaign at Kitabisa.com opens new opportunity for local, national and international communities to get involved volunteering to protect endangered species like sumatran tiger by donating through the Sapu Jerat campaign and getting involved in clearing sumatran tiger traps in the buffer zones and national park areas.

Potential communities to be involved in Sapu Jerat campaign are Tiger Heart Community by Forum Harimau Kita, Sumatran Tiger Project advocacy communities (journalists, communication officers), artists, students, tourists, forest rangers, etc. 

Local, national and international communities involvement in Sapu Jerat Campaign should be closely coordinated with national park officials.  

Relevant stakeholders are engaged to identify challenges within their respective communities and solutions that are ecosystem friendly but contribute to the enhancement of local livelihoods. This process follows a prior participatory community-wide assessment and validation of results from the assessment or survey process. The assessment identifies livelihood and climatic trends and impacts on various sectors. Following this, a stakeholder meeting is initiated through which potential adaptation and sustainable livelihood stategies are proposed and adopted against each challenge and included in the overal community-based adaptation plan. A community-based action plan matrix is then generated through the stakeholder participatory process that includes the following sections: livelihood and adaptation options, duration of implementation, actors, required resources, key expected results and estimated amount to implement each adopted strategy or action.

Exchange visits were organized to places where the initiative has been active for some time and the implementation is on-going. For example, in order to acquire drought tolerant crops for local production, Ecofinder Kenya visited the Tangokona community in Busia County, Kenya where improved cassava and sweet potato varieties have been promoted and grown by local communities. The model was studied by Yala wetland communities, seeds purchased and farmers are now growing drought tolerant cassava and sweet potatoes.

This involves participation of all stakeholders at the local level in order to come up with locally viable solutions that all participants are comfortable with and that contribute to sustainable livelihoods and long term conservation of local biodiversity. We achieved this building block by involving stakeholders at different levels, i.e. at the meso or County level and micro or local community level. First, we engaged representatives of the Siaya County government departments  (such as Agriculture, Lands, Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources) and Civil society representatives working at the local and regional levels. A workshop was organised upon which the government and non-government actors discussed the challenges facing agriculture and biodiversity in relation to climate chage in the County and amicable and potential solutions sought from the participants. Secondly, local level meetings were held with community members and local leaders and resource persons including elders, retired government staff, health workers and conservation enthusiasts. The challenges facing agriculture and local biodiversity were sought and potential solutions reached. These were then analysed to come up with overal challenges and solutions from the stakeholders perspective.

Partnership among governments, private companies, academia and citizens was key to the success for Kitakyushu’s Eco-Town. Public and private sectors collaborated to establish the recycling industry even before the launch of the Eco-Town Project in 1997. For instance, a steel company, which later became one of the main companies in the formation of the Eco-Town, transformed their old-fashioned business to a new complex industrial structure including recycling. It collaborated with the city and other private entities in order to commercialize the business and recycle PET bottles. Therefore, when the policy of the national government for the Eco-Town Project and a sound material-cycle society were announced, Kitakyushu City welcomed this development and was in a good position to begin. The city also has collaborative partnership with research institutions that provides new methods and technologies for Eco-Town projects and waste management. Endorsement by the citizens to the project is another critical factor for sustainable project implementation.

Kitakyushu City could benefit from the old industrial cluster with technologies, infrastructure, and logistic systems refined during the previous industrial development era in the town. These existing assets were adapted to or repurposed for new recycling industry. There was also a demand nearby the town for recycled goods, which did not have to be transported over a long distance. As a result, transaction costs for the location of the recycling facilities has declined because the recycling industry is concentrated in the Eco-Town.

To address a social need for transportation facilities equitably accessible, understandable and usable to people of all ages and abilities, the national government enacted a law to promote smooth transportation to the elderly, disabled and others in 2006. It set a target to adopt the concept of Universal Design by 2020 for all public transportation facilities, including airports that serve more than 3,000 daily passengers. Under this law, the government developed “Universal Design Guideline”, which is also applicable to improvement of Haneda International Airport. Not only did TIAT follow this guideline, it as a private company made extensive efforts to offer a comfortable space and enhanced accessibility to all types of airport visitors.