Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized I. Basic Information Date prepared/updated: 03/10/2006 INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATASHEET APPRAISAL STAGE Report No.: AC1985 1. Basic Project Data Country: Indonesia Project ID: P083742 Project Name: Famers Empowerment for Agricultural Technology and Information Task Team Leader: Shobha Shetty Estimated Appraisal Date: March 13, 2006 Estimated Board Date: June 22, 2006 Managing Unit: EASRD Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan Sector: Agricultural extension and research (70%);General agriculture, fishing and forestry sector (30%) Theme: Participation and civic engagement (P);Analysis of economic growth (P);Other public sector governance (P);Rural services and infrastructure (S) IBRD Amount (US$m.): 70.00 IDA Amount (US$m.): 30.00 GEF Amount (US$m.): 0.00 PCF Amount (US$m.): 0.00 Other financing amounts by source: BORROWER/RECIPIENT 30.00 Financing Gap 0.00 30.00 Environmental Category: B - Partial Assessment Simplified Processing Simple [] Repeater [] Is this project processed under OP 8.50 (Emergency Recovery) [ ] No [] 2. Project Objectives The overall development objective of the project is to develop a demand-driven, market oriented agricultural services system, based on partnerships between farmer groups, public agencies and private sector enterprises at all levels.the outcome of increased accountability and effectiveness of public service provision in support of diversified farmer incomes would be achieved through: Emphasis on improved governance of the process for award of grants for activities by farmer groups to ensure that the process of prioritization at village, district and provincial levels is controlled by farmers whilst the extension and research services provide necessary support services to farmers organizations (management skills, information access and research) and ensure good governance in environmental and social safeguards. Emphasis on making larger partnerships work in practice through: district and provincial level funds to scale up successful farmer-managed activities (FMAs), and implement supporting district and provincial planning and technical support.
The project is intended to contribute to the attainment of the WB Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) objectives of: (i) improving the climate for high quality investment by, among other ways, creating income opportunities for poorer households and farmers; and (ii) making service delivery responsive to the needs of the poor. The Project supports the GoI s National Medium-Term Development Plan (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional, RPJMN) economic agenda related to agricultural development that includes, among others: (i) agricultural revitalization; (ii) poverty alleviation; (iii) rural development; and (iv) improvement of natural resources and environment management. 3. Project Description The Ministry of Agriculture is the Implementing Agency. The project interventions that are necessary for attaining the objectives are grouped into the following components: Component 1: Strengthening Farmer-Driven Extension This component will help farmers to increase their income and livelihoods through strengthening their capacity to adopt improved technology, agribusiness management practices and to develop partnerships. Measures will primarily include institutional reforms, human resource development and strengthening of training institutions. This component will cover 16 provinces and 53 districts. This component will be implemented by the Agency for Agricultural and Human Resource Development (AAHRD). The subcomponent pertaining to support to farmer groups will improve the technical and organizational capacity of Farmer Organizations (FOs) to deliver the services needed by their members, with a focus particularly on FOs that are involved in research, extension and agri-business. Farmer organizations will register their requests for assistance from the project and appropriate eligibility criteria will be set. The support will cover 10 preselected provinces. This component will work with FOs at all levels (village to national level) and provides a foundation for all other project components. AAHRD will be responsible for this component. Component2: Research-Extension-Farmer Linkages This component will improve the capacity of Indonesia s provincial network of adaptive research institutes (AIATs) and strengthening their linkages with extension organizations, the private sector, NGOs and farmers in order to make them more demand driven. This will include strategies to ensure that farmers are more responsive to the results of demonstration plots on the relationships between inputs and yields. The component will provide national coverage via support to AIATs in 16 provinces. This component will be managed by the Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (AARD). Component 3: Provision of Knowledge and Information Services This component supports the development of connectivity, the e-petani web-based advice, commodity price and market information, dissemination of new technologies and best practices, and funding to support innovative and high impact knowledge and service initiatives. It will provide national coverage. This component will be carried out by the Center for Data and Information (CADI).
Component 4: Project Management Project Management support will be provided to ensure appropriate collection, monitoring, evaluation and consolidation of data and information for reporting and management purposes. The central project coordination unit (CPCU) will be responsible inter alia, for coordinating the supervision missions, mid-term review, overall M&E, supervision of the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) and the preparation of the Implementation Completion Report. The central PMU will be located in the Office of the Secretary General. 4. Project Location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis From a physical environmental perspective, the project will cover a range of agroecological production zones, including areas of differing natural resource related environmental stress. The principal zones include: lowland irrigated rice; lowland nonirrigated rice; upland rain-fed mixed cropping; smallholder tree crops; and agro-forestry. Within these zones, a wide variety of farming systems have evolved, many of which are facing problems relating to decline in soil fertility and ground water quality as well as increasing incidence of pests resulting from poor farming practices. Shortages in water supply and erosion and landslides associated with inappropriate watershed management practices are also common. Some of the project areas may have isolated vulnerable groups and all of the areas will have vulnerable disadvantaged groups such as poor women, landless and minority ethnic farmers. These include farmers that work as share-croppers or do tumpang sari farming in production forests or plantations. Although isolated vulnerable groups are unlikely to be found in West, Central, East Java and in West Sumatra, they could be found in other areas covered under the project. Both categories of vulnerable groups are likely to be under-represented in farmers group activities and farmers associations, while at the same time being disproportionately impacted by the environmental issues described above. 5. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists 6. Safeguard Policies Triggered No Environmental Assessment (OP/BP 4.01) Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04) Forests (OP/BP 4.36) Pest Management (OP 4.09) Cultural Property (OPN 11.03) Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10) Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12) Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37) Projects on International Waterways (OP/BP 7.50) Projects in Disputed Areas (OP/BP 7.60)
II. Key Safeguard Policy Issues and Their Management A. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues 1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the proposed project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts: Safeguards policies under the project will be addressed in the following manner: The project will not lead to land conversion, involuntary resettlement, destruction of environmentally sensitive areas or historically significant sites and/or other cultural resources. Although the primary focus is on intensification, this is set within the context of improved agricultural extension services, access to information and support of various kinds that will result in farmers achieving a greater level of control over farming techniques, including the minimum application of agricultural inputs. Project preparation has also been based on a review (based on environmental questions integrated into PRA techniques) of existing environmental constraints and pressures faced by poor farmers. The results of this analysis have been used to shape the research and development component of the project, ensuring that it reflects specific needs of farmers faced with adapting to environmental shocks and stresses. The project will apply the following approaches to minimizing environmental risks and maximizing environmental benefits: ensuring that demand driven research and development takes into account environmental criteria such as the ecological situation for which it is intended, and the skills and knowledge base of farmers to adapt to environmental shocks and stresses; ensuring that extension agents are sufficiently well trained to address the environmental implications of the introduction of new cropping systems and farming technologies (for example by ensuring that information conveyed to farmers on the use of new pesticides to reduce losses from pests is accompanied by information and training on safe handling of chemicals, timing and dosage advice to optimize effectiveness); ensuring that guidelines for accessing grants for farmer managed activities at village and district level are revised to be (i) more equitable; (ii) gender-sensitive; and (iii) environmentally sustainable (use of negative environmental list and promoting the use of simple environmentally friendly technologiesand appropriate pest management procedures); strengthening environmental management capacity in agricultural extension colleges and training centers, particularly in terms of strengthening curricula and capacity of lecturers; expanding the capacity and outreach of IPPHTI, the national network of IPM farmers; ensuring that knowledge and information services are comprehensive in illustrating the opportunities that exist to improve farming systems based on environmentally sustainable approaches within the 5 main farming systems The main social risks are that the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups such as poor women, landless and minority ethnic farmers who will be relatively excluded in the farmers groups decision making processes and their interest in Farmers Association may not be sufficiently well represented. Specific approaches to addressing these risks will include (i) development of appropriate guidelines (adapted from the DAFEP project) for integration of social concerns (including gender) into the farmer driven extension component, and (ii) the introduction of appropriate selection criteria that would help to
identify and reward farmer organizations that are more inclusive in decision making processes, and are keen to develop their capacities in this area. 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area: Most of the environmental impacts of the project are indirect and long-term in nature, as described in preceding sections. The FEATI project itself will have few direct negative impacts. In the longer term it is likely to induce a range of positive environmental impacts by increasing the efficiency and relevance of research and extension systems, and potentially negative impacts associated with agricultural intensification. 3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. None. 4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described. The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is the implementing agency but has limited to address environmental issues associated with agricultural development and intensification, even though its regulations contain environmental safeguards and operate in close coordination with the Ministry of Environment s environmental management regulations and procedures. Capacity for environmental management and monitoring at province and district/sub district is also weak. However, since the mid 1980s the MoA has been supporting Integrated Pest Management (IPM) principles which have been widely applied in Indonesia. The reform and strengthening of extension systems is a principal component of FEATI, which will build on lessons learned from previous phases in the implementation of IPM. In addition, under the support to Farmer Organizations component, the project will work closely, inter alia, with IPPHTI, the national network of IPM farmers to expand its outreach. Environmental support to the PMU will be provided in order to address the capacity gap at the MoA as well as a program of training for province, district and sub-district officials. Since this project is in a sense, a follow-on and scaling-up of DAFEP, the experience of DAFEP could be used as a proxy of the willingness and the capacity of the Borrower to address the social safeguard issues. Reviewing the DAFEP project, the Borrower has been relatively successful in encouraging grass-roots participation and the involvement of poor women farmers. It is less clear how far it has been able to address the other vulnerable disadvantaged groups. Consequently the field manual for the Farmer Managed Activities (FMAs) will put more emphasis on encouraging the involvement of landless farmers (which in many cases are also minority isolated groups and the poorest farmer) such as farmers engaged in tumpang sari farming in production forest area. The guidelines for the farmer-managed activities (FMAs) will build on the lessons learned under DAFEP to incorporate equity considerations. Through the introduction of by-laws in the functioning of the Village Extension Management Units (UPKG), the UPKG leaders are expected to become more accountable to the farmers who elected them. The component will ensure that UPKG is inclusive and not serving a few large or influential
farmers. The Agency for Agricultural and Human Resource Development (AAHRD) in the MoA which will be responsible for the implementation of this component has agreed to incorporate these proposed changes. The proposed pilot district-level FMAs will have implementation guidelines which will specifically include an environment-related negative list. The borrower has prepared a social and environmental management plan based on the key elements presented in section D1. The plan sets out the existing regulatory context for environment and social issues, identifies key risks and mitigation and monitoring measures, assesses capacities to implement mitigation and monitoring, and identifies additional expertise, training and capacity building needs. In order to oversee implementation of the plan, community development/gender advisers will be recruited at the national and provincial PMU levels. Additional environmental expertise will also be required to oversee measures to integrate environmentally sustainable approaches into several project components. The environmental adviser(s) will develop an overall monitoring program to track progress made with the different elements of EMP, and be responsible for sensitizing the PIUs (national, provincial and district) in the area of pest management. 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. The key stakeholders are the ultimate project beneficiaries, that is to say individual farmers and their households with a focus on the poorest. The principal tool used in identifying stakeholders and in raising awareness of environmental and social issues has been Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA), tailored to take specific account of the environmental dimension to farming systems. A sample of 16 villages were selected located in West Java, Central Java, Banten, North Sulawesi, North Sumatra and East Kalimantan. The results of these assessments and discussions were supplemented by district and province level discussions in order to disseminate the main findings and identify additional issues. The PRAs formed the basis of the development of a draft social and environmental management plan. The EMP was then presented at an MoA national level workshop on February 3, 2006. The final EMP was disclosed locally on the MOA website on March 3, 2006. The national, provincial and district PMUs will be trained on safeguards particularly in the area of pesticides management and will carry out similar training for key stakeholders at the sub-district level. The environmental and social management plan was made available to the public through the Bank s Project Information Centers in Jakarta and Washington on February 23, 2006 and will also be published in the project manuals. B. Disclosure Requirements Date Environmental Assessment/Audit/Management Plan/Other: Date of receipt by the Bank 01/27/2006 Date of "in-country" disclosure 03/03/2006 Date of submission to InfoShop 02/23/2006
For category A projects, date of distributing the Executive Summary of the EA to the Executive Directors Pest Management Process: Date of receipt by the Bank Date of "in-country" disclosure Date of submission to InfoShop * If the project triggers the Pest Management and/or Cultural Property, the respective issues are to be addressed and disclosed as part of the Environmental Assessment/Audit/or EMP. If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please explain why: C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level (to be filled in when the ISDS is finalized by the project decision meeting) OP/BP/GP 4.01 - Environment Assessment Does the project require a stand-alone EA (including EMP) report? If yes, then did the Regional Environment Unit or Sector Manager (SM) review and approve the EA report? Are the cost and the accountabilities for the EMP incorporated in the credit/loan? OP 4.09 - Pest Management Does the EA adequately address the pest management issues? Is a separate PMP required? If yes, has the PMP been reviewed and approved by a safeguards specialist or SM? Are PMP requirements included in project design? If yes, does the project team include a Pest Management Specialist? The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the World Bank s Infoshop? Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public place in a form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected groups and local NGOs? All Safeguard Policies Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional responsibilities been prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard policies? Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included in the project cost? Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project include the monitoring of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies? Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed with the borrower and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal documents? No No
D. Approvals Signed and submitted by: Name Date Task Team Leader: Ms Shobha Shetty 02/22/2006 Environmental Specialist: Mr Angus Mackay 02/22/2006 Social Development Specialist Mr Isono Sadoko 02/22/2006 Additional Environmental and/or Social Development Specialist(s): Approved by: Regional Safeguards Coordinator: Mr Glenn S. Morgan 02/16/2006 Comments: Sector Manager: Mr Rahul Raturi 03/01/2006 Comments: