Kubu Raya PIA Report

Participatory Impact Assessment

Kubu Raya, West-Kalimantan, Indonesia

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In 2023, we assessed the impact of our programme activities through the lens of community members

Why PIAs?

Data Collection

Results

Findings

Read the full 2020 study

Why PIAs?

Community Ownership

Local Knowledge Integration

Participatory Impact Assessments (PIAs) prioritize community input in evaluating project outcomes.

Trust and Relationship Building

Meaningful Indicators

Adaptive Management

Data Collection

Data was collected by trained field facilitators across 5 coastal villages in Kubu Raya

+12 FGDs

+146 participants

of survey and discussion time

60+ hours

51% women

Part 1: Activity Scoring

Communities were asked to identify program activities they had participated in, and then score them on across 3 variables

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1. Importance for daily life

2. Motivation to join the program

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3. Time burden

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Importance for daily life

Motivation to join the program

Time burden

Summary Results Part 1

Health & Social Forestry

Financial Inclusion

Health and social forestry program activities received the highest total score as the importance for daily life and motivation to join.

But, they were also perceived as having the highest time burden

Financial security and inclusion was scored as the third most important for daily life and motivation to join the programme.

but notably had a much lower time burden, suggesting a perceived high benefit but lower 'cost' or burden by respondents

Part 2: Influence Matrix

We divided the community representatives into three groups (leaders only, mixed gender, and women-only) and asked them to score the different activities in terms of their degree of influence on the identified outcomes

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The identified outcomes

How activities influenced outcomes

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Changes (outcomes) that were identified across PIAs by community members

How activities influence outcomes

Leaders

Women

Mixed gender

Combined

Mean Score

Outcomes

Activities

How activities influence outcomes

Leaders

Women

Mixed gender

Combined

Mean Score

Outcomes

Activities

How activities influence outcomes

Leaders

Women

Mixed gender

Combined

Mean Score

Outcomes

Activities

How activities influence outcomes

Leaders

Women

Mixed gender

Combined

Mean Score

Outcomes

Activities

Summary Results part 2

HEALTH PROGRAM

Improved Healthcare

Is perceived by leaders to strongly impact outcomes beyond improved health & healthcare knowledge

as an outcome was equally impacted by the health program as it was by financial resilience

Education & Literacy

Capacity Building

Contributed to nearly every outcome

Contributed to nearly every outcome

Results show the programme has contributed to a variety of positive outcomes spanning social, economic and environmental dimensions

Findings

There were expected results such as conservation activities contributing to environmental outcomes and socioeconomic activities contributing to socioeconomic outcomes. However, we also saw a few interesting pathways of change that suggest the importance of an integrated, holistic approach

SOCIAL

ECONOMIC

ENVIRONMENTAL

The findings support the importance of holistic approaches to natural resource management and conservation projects

* this presentation is a summary of the paper "Using a participatory impact assessment framework to evaluate a community-led mangrove and fisheries conservation approach in West Kalimantan, Indonesia" (Miller et al., 2020) for more detailed analysis, assumptions and recommendations please access the full study publication

Thank you to our funders who support YPIs conservation programme in Kubu Raya