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Materiality
Assessment Appendix 1: Appendix 2: Appendix 3:
Climate Green Inclusive and Stakeholder GRI Content Assurance Glossary of
Action Innovation Progress Engagement Index Statement Terms

Sustainable Living Village (SLV) TRANSFORMATIVE + INCLUSIVE
Programme PARTNERSHIPS PROGRESS
The SLV Programme aims is to improve community resilience and livelihood
sustainability at the village and landscape levels. The SLV programme intends to uplift
and nurture communities and alleviate poverty by fostering inclusion and improving
livelihoods while providing environmental protection.
Aligned under Transformative Partnerships and Inclusive Progress pillars, this
programme is part of Apical2030 to support 30 villages through SLV by 2030. Apical
will be collaborating with local partners to implement customised initiatives that are
suited to the needs of villagers and communities.
The SLV Programme was launched in January 2023, in partnership with local partners
namely, Yayasan Inisiatif Dagang Hijau (IDH), Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (YEL),
Forum Konservassi Leuser (FKL) as well as Provincial and District Government. The
signing of the MoU between Apical and IDH marks the beginning of a three-year
partnership for the SLV Programme.

The key 4 priorities of the SLV in Aceh Singkil are:

COMMUNITY ECOSYSTEM SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNERSHIPS
Enhance livelihood Forest protection & Driving supply chain Collaboration with
resilience conservation transformation local government and
relevant stakeholders
Will Be Implemented Across 4 Key Focuses

Establish sustainable Protext approx. Assist 1,000 independent Support formation of
livelihood model in 13,000 ha of forest smallholders Production, Protection
6 villages through supply Strengthen supply chain and Inclusion (PPI)
chain monitoring & monitoring through Compact in Aceh Singkil
conservation use of technology

SLV programme was initiated at priority landscapes, programme has also been established, whereby
namely Aceh Singkil. Aceh Singkil plays a crucial 252 farmers from three villages will receive training,
role in protecting the Leuser Ecosystem, consisting while another 116 farmers attended STDB registration
of 2.6 million ha of tropical forest and home to and another 49 farmers were educated on Good
various Sumatran animal species such as the orang Agricultural Practices (GAP) training.
utan, rhinocerous, Sumatra tiger and the elephant.
In Singkil, rapid illegal land conversion for oil palm Our SLV programme at East Kalimantan completed
plantations poses a challenge to this vital ecosystem’s a scoping study by Solidaridad to develop baseline
sustainability. demographic data in villages. The findings of the
study will be utilised to create a Final Workplan that
Our SLV programme at Aceh Singkil implemented a will include programmes for farmers such as cacao
honey cultivation initiative that recorded 44 registered cultivation in three villages in East Kutai, the workplan
farmers, of which 16 were female farmers. This is being finalised and we target to implement the
initiative involved providing training and setting up activities by 2024.
honeycombs in five villages. A smallholder support

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