The RIMBA Corridor is located to fulfill the mandate of Presidential Regulation No. 13/2012 on the Sumatra Island Spatial Plan regarding the development of ecosystem corridors. The RIMBA Integrated Ecosystem Area - also known as the RIMBA Corridor - is one of five ecosystem corridors listed in the Perpres. The corridor serves to maintain wildlife connectivity as well as to reduce the potential for human-wildlife conflict. The corridor covers more than 3.8 million hectares and 19 districts in Riau, Jambi and West Sumatra provinces. Most of the RIMBA Corridor is in Jambi (2.1 million hectares, or 54%), with about a third in West Sumatra (1.3 million hectares, or 35%), and the remainder in Riau (440,000 hectares, or 11%). The RIMBA corridor is critical for carbon sequestration and economic development, covering three important watersheds - Indragiri Hulu, Kampar and Batanghari - that deliver water to an area of more than one million hectares.

Based on the Sumatra Island Spatial Plan, WWF Indonesia has developed a Program that is a spatial-based ecosystem management initiative that integrates and strengthens forest and ecosystem connectivity through investment and natural capital, biodiversity conservation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction through a Green Economic Development scheme called the RIMBA Program. In line with the RIMBA Program developed, in early 2016 WWF Indonesia received funding support from the Millennium Challenge Account - Indonesia (MCA-I) for the Green Prosperity Project window, with an activity concept entitled "Strengthening Natural Resource Management and Increasing Carbon Stocks Across Central Sumatra by Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Connectivity and Alleviating Poverty through Green Economic Development"..

The RIMBA Program's green economic development framework aims to: (1) maintain ecosystem functions in the long term; (2) improve human well-being and social equity through sustainable and community-based management practices; (3) reduce social and environmental risks and ecological scarcity.

RIMBA Cluster I, which includes Kuantan Singingi and Kampar Districts (Riau Province), Dharmasraya District (West Sumatra Province), and Tebo District (Jambi Province), seeks to encourage the strengthening of forests in their function as wildlife corridors through good spatial allocation and innovation-based interventions in forestry. Land use management is an important key in managing the area in Cluster I, considering the history of high encroachment, especially in the HL Batabuh area. This area is a connecting corridor between Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and Rimbang Baling SM, which is a migration route for large Sumatran tigers and elephants.

Dharmasraya Regency has its greatest potential in the plantation sector with an area of around 71,601.29 Ha or around 23.66% of the total area of the regency and consists of oil palm and rubber plants. Rubber is one of the important plantation commodities, both as a source of income, employment opportunities and a driver of economic growth of new centers in the area around rubber plantations as well as preservation of the environment and biological resources. However, as a country with the largest area and the second largest production in the world, Indonesia still faces several obstacles, namely low productivity, especially smallholder rubber which constitutes the majority (91%) of the national rubber area and a limited variety of processed products, which are dominated by crumb rubber. The low productivity of smallholder rubber plantations is due to the large number of old, damaged and unproductive areas, the use of seeds that are not superior clones and plantation conditions that resemble forests. Therefore, efforts are needed to accelerate the rejuvenation of smallholder rubber and the development of downstream industries.

The development of rubber plantations plays an important role in the national economy, namely as a source of foreign exchange, a source of industrial raw materials, a source of income and community welfare as well as the development of economic growth centers in the region and at the same time plays a role in preserving environmental functions. In general, rubber farmers in Indonesia use freezers that are not recommended by the Rubber Factory & Government, the materials that farmers use are: TSP Fertilizer, Hydrocarate Fertilizer, Battery Water, Alum, Forest Gadung, Papaya sap, Pineapple water.

Through MCA-I funding, in order to support the success of rubber development, after the Rubber Plant Cultivation training, it is necessary to increase the capacity of rubber farmers through training in making sap thickeners without chemicals (Dourob sop) to help farmers avoid chemicals in rubber cultivation and apply good and correct tapping (notching). To realize these achievements, it is necessary to recruit a training consultant as well as provide procurement of goods.

Currently we need :

Agricultural Training Consultant

1. Scope of Work :

A. Objective

• Farmers are able to make their own good sap thickener and avoid the use of chemicals in rubber cultivation and get good and clean bokar quality.
• Farmers get good equipment so that tree trunks are not quickly damaged and can increase production yields.

B. Output

1. Modules for making Dourob soup
2. Trained 25 people from representatives of 11 groups of rubber farmers in Dharmasrayam district to be able to make sap thickener (Dourob sop) independently which is free from chemicals.
3. The availability of 11 units of Dourob soup making equipment to process Dourob soup to 11 groups of assisted rubber farmers in Dharmasraya district at the time of training, each group received 1 unit of processing equipment.
4. Organized 500 units of rubber production equipment and distributed to 100 assisted rubber farmers in Dharmasraya district to get production equipment.
   1. Hardening Stone Grid 150 @ 100 units,
   2. Hardening Stone Grid 600 @ 100 units,
   3. Lower tapping knife @ 100 units,
   4. Upper Tapping Blade @ 100 units,

C. Responsibility

1. Training 25 rubber farmers

1. Compile work plan and activities (Timeline)
2. Conduct training for Rubber Farmer groups
3. Performing the role of facilitator
4. Compiling and making Modules
5. Compile report

1. Equipment Procurement:
   1. 500 units of rubber production equipment (Sharpening Stone Grid 150 @ 100 units, Sharpening Stone Grid 600 @ 100 units, Lower Tapping Knife @ 100 units, Upper Tapping Knife @ 100 units, Sap Freezer @ 100 units)
   2. 11 units Dourob soup making equipment (sap freezer)
   3. Training Materials

1. Qualifications

• Understand the materials and equipment to be delivered
• Have the ability to train rubber farmers
• Has worked in training rubber farmers
• Have the ability to create modules
• Minimum high school or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of experience in facilitating training for rubber farmers or working with the same organization

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1. Execution Time

This activity will be implemented in August 2017.

Candidates should provide details of relevant qualifications in the form of a CV to RecruitmentRIMBA@wwf.id by July 15, 2017 stating the position applied for.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted