The document discusses building an ecosystem services program in the Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia. It notes that the Leuser Conservation Forum has grown to 400 staff over 10 years but does not receive continuous funding. The Rimba Collective could provide long-term funding by treating environmental outcomes as assets. However, it is difficult for the Forum to build programs that meet the Collective's requirements. Instead, a business partner could build the program, operate it for a set period, and transfer environmental outcomes to the Collective, bridging the gap between the Forum's work and the Collective's needs.

1. Building an Ecosystem Services
Program in the Leuser Ecosystem
March 7, Luxembourg

2. North-Eastern
Leuser
Ecosystem
2,600,000 ha

3. Building a track record
before after

4. 2017

7. The Challenge
Tin 10 years, the Leuser Conservation Forum grew to a respected, locally embedded, organization of
400 staff.
Notwithstanding its’ track record, the organization does not receive a continuous stream of
funding for its’ operations.
The Rimba Collective opens the possibility to provide much-deserved long-term funding
whereby Environmental Service Outcomes are treated as assets.
For FKL – as for most organizations of this type – it is not easy to build and operate programs in
such a way that they comply with the requirements of the founders of the Rimba Collective.
Rather than developing the required competences, it wishes to focus on what it’s good at.
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8. Bridging the gap
500 Kha for sourcing
Environmental Service
Outcomes
Business partner that
builds the program,
operates over a mutually
agreed period and
transfers
Environmental Service
Outcomes Provider
Rimba Collective
incubation and readiness
facility
Sustainable Forest management and -restoration
Agroforestry
Project preparation and implementation
Ecosystem services including Carbon
Investment planning and asset management

9. Contacts:
t.durang@forminternational.nl
p.dehaan@forminternational.nl