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    Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

    Malaysia

    UMA BAWANG RESIDENTSASSOCIATION

    Empowered live

    Resilient nation

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    UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES

    Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo

    or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth

    their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition

    themselves guiding the narrative.

    To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser

    that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ

    to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models

    replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power of Local Action: Lessons from 10 Years

    the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.

    Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.

    EditorsEditor-in-Chief: Joseph Corcoran

    Managing Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding

    Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe

    Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,

    Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Brandon Payne, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu

    DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Pa

    Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.

    AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Uma Bawang Residents Association (UBRA), and in particular the guidance a

    inputs o Jok Jau Evong (Sahabat Alam Malaysia, Sarawak) and Evelyn Enna. All photo credits courtesy o UBRA. Maps courtesy o C

    World Factbook and Wikipedia.

    Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Uma Bawang Residents Association, Malaysia. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. N

    York, NY.

    http://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/Power_of_Local_Action_Final_2013.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/Power_of_Local_Action_Final_2013.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_winners&view=casestudysearch&Itemid=858http://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/Power_of_Local_Action_Final_2013.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/Power_of_Local_Action_Final_2013.pdf
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    PROJECT SUMMARYThis community-based organization operates in the orestso the Malaysian state o Sarawak. While the customary landrights o the associations indigenous Kayan people arerecognized by the Malaysian government, many lands havenot been ocially demarcated, making them vulnerable toconicting claims rom outside interests. Members o theassociation work with GIS survey and mapping technologyto compile land use maps o communally managed orests,providing a spatial basis or legally deending communityland claims in court.

    Combined with active resistance to incursions by commerciallogging and palm oil interests, including road blockadesand political advocacy, and underpinned by two decades olivelihoods development, this association has been able toresist the destruction o the Kayans traditional orest lands,and instead demonstrate their sustainable management bythe local communities that directly depend on them.

    KEY FACTS

    EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2002

    FOUNDED: 1990

    LOCATION: Northern Sarawak

    BENEFICIARIES: Roughly 100 indigenous Kayan

    BIODIVERSITY: Reforestation with native tree species

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    UMA BAWANG RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONMalaysia

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Background and Context 4

    Key Activities and Innovations 6

    Biodiversity Impacts 8

    Socioeconomic Impacts 8

    Policy Impacts 9

    Sustainability 10

    Replication 10

    Partners 10

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    n the 20 years between 1960 and 1980 alone, Asia lost almost a third

    its tropical orest cover, the highest rate o orest conversion in

    he world. Logging and unsustainable cultivation devastated tree

    over, causing severe environmental degradation on many islands o

    outh-east Asia. This loss o habitat poses a threat not only to species

    urvival but also to indigenous communities and their ways o lie.

    he Malaysian state o Sarawak, located in the north-west o the

    sland o Borneo, is an example o such extensive deorestation - over

    0 per cent o the states rainorest has been cleared. Sarawak is the

    argest o the countrys 13 states, with a total land area o 124,449

    q. km (12.4 million hectares). Located in the north-west o Borneo,

    t borders its sister state, Sabah, the neighbouring country o Brunei

    Darussalam, and Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory o Borneo. Thetate capital is Kuching, with Sibu, Miri and Bintulu being the major

    ities and towns in the state.

    arawaks population is estimated at around 2.4 million people,

    pproximately hal o whom are indigenous Dayak people o various

    thnic sub-groups. Other populations include Malays, Chinese,

    nd a small number o Indians. Eighty per cent o the total Dayak

    opulation o Sarawak live in rural areas and rely on agriculture,

    unting and gathering or subsistence. The nature o the Dayak land

    enure system is complex. Land has always been the most crucial

    esource or the Dayak people: it provides them with their basic

    ustenance, and is o major signicance to their spirituality. The right

    the Dayaks to use the land is enshrined in an indigenous systemnown as the adat, a system o land tenure that also orms the basis

    or their social, economic and cultural systems.

    Dayak customary rights to land and its resources were recognized

    uring the Brooke dynasty (1842-1946) and by the British Colonial

    Administration, and continued to be recognized ater Sarawak

    ained independence in 1963 and joined the Federation o Malaysia.

    Although these customary land rights have not been abolished by

    ny legislation and remain in orce, large portions o the customary

    ands o the Dayaks are not ocially demarcated.

    The Kayan people are an indigenous tribe o up to 27,000 pe

    categorized as a sub-group o the Dayak people. Their culture

    customs are similar to other Dayak peoples o Borneo. Traditio

    they live in longhouses on river banks and their agriculture is b

    upon shiting cultivation techniques and the cultivation o dry

    rice. They also cultivate sago, a starch extracted rom the pith o

    palm stems (Metroxylon sagu).

    The remote Kayan community o Uma Bawang is located in

    tropical rainorests o northern Sarawak, near the Keluan R

    During the 1980s, this area was heavily deorested as land was m

    available to logging companies. This imposed signicant hards

    on the Uma Bawang community as orest resources were increasdepleted. Pollution and siltation o the rivers adversely afected

    water supply and the sh catch, and irregular but requent

    destroyed crops, discouraging the resumption o arming.

    Background and Context

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    hese developments led to tensions between community members

    ving in the most powerul longhouse. Longhouses serve as the

    raditional centers o governance in Dayak cultures, and each one

    ouses several extended amilies. Some amilies benetted rom

    ood relations with logging companies, gaining the chance to

    arn income and achieve higher standards o living. However, this

    ccurred at the expense o other amilies, and compensation rom

    ogging companies or timber concessions was always insucient

    nd inequitably distributed.

    Establishing a new community

    n April 1989, these tensions led to the ormation o a new community

    hat opposed logging concessions. They based themselves in a

    emporary longhouse at Sungai Keluan (Keluan River) about six miles

    rom their original site. It became known as Uma Bawang Keluan,

    or just Keluan. Its residents ormed and ormally registered

    association, the Uma Bawang Residents Association (UBRA), in

    to coordinate their practical interventions and lobbying activ

    UBRA is open to any members o the longhouse. Its main object

    to promote the rights and interests o the Sungai Keluan commu

    and to deend their orest resources.

    The group is led by a disciplinary board, with elder Kayans, wh

    well versed in customary law, acting as advisers. The board is mup o people rom all social classes and several o the most a

    and highest ranking UBRA members are women. The organiza

    is run in a democratic ashion with board membership posit

    voted upon in biennial elections. All decisions represent

    collective interests o the longhouse members. Currently, UBRA

    60 registered members, down rom an initial 80 ounding mem

    in 1990.

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    Key Activities and Innovations

    ince its establishment, UBRA has worked to resist logging companies

    nd restore degraded orests, and advocate or the protection o

    heir 900 ha o land. Throughout the 1990s, UBRA set up blockades

    o prevent logging companies rom entering orests, its members

    acing arrests and jail terms, government oppression, law suits and

    hreats. Alongside advocacy and protest activities, the Association

    as employed innovative mapping eforts to deend customary land

    ghts and access to orestlands. UBRA also supports communities in

    eveloping diversied income generating opportunities that do not

    ndanger orest ecosystems.

    UBRAs campaigning and conservation work began in the late

    980s, when the group attempted to stop the deorestation o theirand by blockading commercial logging vehicles. This attempt was

    ltimately unsuccessul, with government soldiers arresting 42

    ommunity members and imprisoning them or two weeks while

    ogging continued. As a result, large areas o orest were degraded.

    Undeterred, UBRA has continued to protest deorestation and

    dvocate or the ormal protection o its own land, successully

    chieving ormal recognition o the UBRA Communal Forest Reserve.

    Participatory mapping to defend customary rights

    Mapping has been central to UBRAs work, by helping them to legally

    ene and deend their borders and thereore secure recognition oheir traditional lands. The group employs participatory mapping

    echniques based on the practices o participatory rural appraisal

    PRA) and rapid rural appraisal (RRA). Participatory rural appraisal

    escribes a collection o methods that enable local people to share,

    nhance, and analyse their knowledge o local conditions. In rapid

    ural appraisals, inormation is largely elicited and extracted by

    outsiders; in PRA it is largely shared and owned by local people.

    Among many applications, PRA has been used in natural resources

    management, agriculture, and programmes targeting health and

    ood security. In the case o Uma Bawang, the aim has been to help

    indigenous people communicate their traditional rights to

    to government authorities through their spatial knowledge o

    landscapes and o the ecosystems they inhabit.

    Geographic Inormation Systems (GIS) have also been employe

    convert the maps produced into computer ormat. This comp

    based system enables people to capture, record, store and ana

    data over time. It can be used to create land maps and

    decision-makers manage natural resources over a large area

    as a watershed. UBRA members have been trained in surveying

    mapping techniques, which have been used to legally deend

    communitys borders in court, ensuring a land base on which

    can subsist without harming the orest.

    Following an initial workshop in 1995, a large-scale land use

    o the Keluan project area was successully produced by U

    members. This proved to be a very useul document or reso

    management, by enabling local people to regain control

    reserved areas o communal orest. It has also been used to ide

    the boundaries between diferent individual land lots and

    thereby reduced disputes between land-owners. The land area

    been designated the UBRA Communal Forest Reserve. In re

    years, a partner organization, Sahabat Alam Malaysia, has used

    technology to input this map into computers. The use o GIS la

    combined with recent satellite imagery has greatly acilitated th

    o the Keluan map or resource management purposes. Since UB

    rst mapping workshop, its techniques have been used increas

    by the Sungai Keluan community and others to legally deend

    borders and secure ormal recognition o their traditional lands

    Experimenting with new activities

    Alongside the process o establishing their customary righ

    orest resources, one o UBRAs major goals has been to esta

    a constructive and sustainable approach to natural reso

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    management, based on alternative livelihood projects that benet

    veryone in the community. In communities whose traditional

    conomies operated on barter systems, UBRA has introduced a wide

    ariety o new skills and activities that provide cash income (which is

    ow needed or taxes, school ees and medical costs) rom marketed

    roducts. To date, these projects have included a communal rice

    arm and rice bank, a communal rice mill, ree-range pig rearing,

    sh ponds, a crats cooperative, cultivation o ruit trees, pepper and

    ighly valuable teakwood, wet rice agriculture, rog rearing, andmall-scale jatropha plantations.

    ince many o these projects were new ventures, there has been a

    ertain amount o trial and error involved in their implementation.

    he people o Keluan have been supported by various local and

    verseas organizations, but apart rom some important seed unds,

    he community has been nancially sel-sustaining. A portion o the

    evenue rom successul projects has been reinvested by UBRA into

    ew ventures, while the majority o the prots have gone directly to

    ocal producers.

    An ongoing struggle

    Apart rom these alternative livelihood activities, UBRA has

    engaged in a long-term programme o reorestation to

    regenerate orest cover lost to logging. Since 1992, villagers

    Uma Bawang and neighbouring villages have planted over 35

    seedlings o diferent local wood species like meranti, kapur

    engkabang on land degraded by commercial logging. Six

    seedling nurseries have also been built to sustain reorestaeforts.

    An important ongoing ocus o UBRAs work is that o protes

    against orest concessions or logging or plantations. The i

    success o the Associations reorestation eforts has act

    increased the human pressures on the orest environment,

    logging companies returning to the area and growing interest

    companies looking to establish oil palm plantations.

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    Impacts

    BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS

    UBRAs reorestation o lands degraded by commercial logging

    began in 1992. Initially, 4,000 seedlings o native tree species were

    planted in degraded areas, and UBRA unds also paid or Keluan

    amilies to plant an average o 200 ruit trees in household gardens.

    This project was scaled up in 2002, with a urther 9,000 seedlings

    being planted in areas surrounding the UBRA Communal Forest

    Reserve. One o the aims o this project was to rejuvenate the health

    o a stream running through this area.

    n 2006, a grant o USD 50,000 rom the UNDP GEF Small Grants

    Programme allowed UBRA to plant another 10,000 seedlings withinheir reorestation area, bringing the total number o trees planted by

    2007 to approximately 23,000. This has covered around 30 hectares

    o land in Sungai Keluan, bringing the total orested area in Keluan to

    over 1,500 ha. The reorested portions are used sustainably as open

    ccess resource areas or Keluan community members, who are

    permitted to hunt, gather non-timber orest products, and obtain

    imber. A watershed area is protected rom timber harvesting.

    The reorestation project includes the planting o native trees such

    s kapur (Dryobalanops aromatica), meranti and engkabang (both

    re native Shorea species). The trees that were chosen were nurtured

    rom seeds that were picked rom other parts o the orests. Nurseries

    were then set up to house seedlings beore they were transplantedo the orest.

    The thick oliage currently visible in the orest bears no sign o

    having been logged in the 1980s and reorestation eforts have

    estored a number o wildlie species that were lost ater the logging,

    ncluding wild boars, monkeys, deer, wildcats and many bird species.

    The nursery remains stocked with seedlings to continue the work o

    eoresting previously logged areas.

    The success o reorestation efort has unortunately led to rene

    attempts by logging companies to access the UBRA orest. UBRA

    continued to protest such eforts and recent attempts to ha

    timber on the borders o the orest were halted.

    In January 2011, however, a private commercial palm oil com

    claimed to have been awarded a provisional lease by the

    government or an area o the orest, or the purpose o clearin

    land or a plantation. The area covers part o the UBRA Comm

    Forest Reserve area in Sungai Keluan. In February, UBRA respon

    by sending a petition letter to the relevant local author

    including the Ministry o Resource Planning, to state their oppos

    to the project and request or the exclusion o their commorest reserve rom the concession area. To date, there has bee

    encroachment on the orest reserve rom this project.

    SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS

    Since its ormation in 1989, Uma Bawang Residents Associatio

    sought to bring about social, cultural, and economic benets o

    Keluan community. That year, they instituted the rst Warriors

    celebration, which has been ollowed by other communal, tradit

    estivals celebrating the culture and history o the Kayan pe

    This communality within the longhouse amilies runs through

    approaches to conservation and poverty reduction, and has be

    strong, binding actor in this groups struggle.

    The various livelihood activities initiated by UBRA have attem

    to conront the lack o local sources o cash income. The tradit

    economy o the community operates along the lines o a b

    economy, which can meet day-to-day needs but doesnt pro

    cash or payment o taxes, school ees, and medical costs. A la

    these income-generating livelihood options in the past orced s

    members o the community to leave or coastal cities, or to w

    or plantation or logging companies. UBRAs economic acti

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    are geared towards remedying this situation. While not all o the

    Associations alternative livelihood ventures have been successul,

    he variety o activities introduced has ensured that benets have

    eached many in the Keluan community.

    Project challenges

    Rice arming has been a productive, low-impact activity or

    mallholder armers. Various initiatives have sought to minimize thecosts involved in growing, storing and milling rice. A communal rice

    arming and rice bank project began in 1989, in which one plot o

    each amilys rice eld was reserved as a communal arm.

    Each resident spent six to eight days a year working on this arm.

    The produce was collectively harvested and stored in a rice bank.

    This aimed to supplement amilies individual harvests, ensuring

    hat households would not sufer rom shortages rom poor

    harvests. Loans taken rom the rice bank could be paid back rom the

    ollowing harvest. However, the communal approach was ended in

    2000, as individual commitments or amilies took precedence over

    maintaining the communal plots.

    A communal rice mill begun in 1990, however, continues to serve the

    community. This mill guarantees a lower cost to armers, charging 60

    per cent o the price o milling 100 kilograms o rice in neighbouring

    villages. Farmers continue to use this communally-owned mill,

    which has helped to improve local incomes by reducing the cost o

    arming or UBRA members.

    Another project that was eventually abandoned was ree-range

    pig rearing. This was begun in response to the diculty o hunting

    wild boar due to commercial logging. Community members began

    earing domestic pigs in 1991 as a source o protein and income.

    While this endeavour was ultimately unsustainable, more success

    has been had with sh ponds.

    UBRA supported Keluan residents to begin constructing sh ponds

    n 1992. Diferent sh species were trialled until a suitable type was

    dentied. These ponds have been maintained, and have proved

    uccessul, inspiring replication in other villages. Less successul was

    a rog-rearing project, begun in 2002, that sought to meet demand

    rom restaurants in coastal cities or certain rog species. Although a

    pen was built or housing the rogs, the project was abandoned due

    o diculties sourcing suitable rog eed.

    Other projects, too, had short-term benets, but were ultimately

    ended. These include a 1996 project to plant pepper and ruit trees,and a 1997 project to plant kayu jati (teakwood trees), in 1997. 8,000

    o the latter species were initially planted in household gardens or

    heir high-value, ast-growing properties. These trees did not grow

    well in the Keluan climate, however.

    Wet rice agriculture was introduced as an alternative to grow

    rice on hillsides. This was begun in some at, low-lying land a

    in 2001, and was initially successul, proving ar more produ

    than arming on poor hillside soils. Ultimately, however, the la

    water sources or suciently irrigating the rice elds meant tha

    project could not be sustained.

    Two recent projects have been explored as alternative liveli

    options. Growing jatropha in small-scale plantations prounprotable due to the low price o seeds and a lack o local dem

    In 2008, UBRA introduced small-scale rubber cultivation in s

    smallholdings. This project is ongoing and maximizing produ

    and accessing suitable markets will be the principal challenge

    establishing this activity as a viable source o income generatio

    Gaining access to markets has proved a challenge or enter

    development in Keluan, given its remote location, and compet

    rom cheap, mass-produced goods imported rom Indonesia. In 1

    demand rom oreign visitors to the area led to the establishme

    a regional womens crats cooperative, encompassing Keluan an

    neighbouring villages.

    Women in this cooperative, called the Baram Indigenous Wom

    Association (BIWA), made traditional artisanal handicrats or sa

    tourists. The cooperative closed, however, due to competition

    widely-sold, cheap crat items in local markets. This is indicativ

    the challenges that UBRA aces in trying to develop sustain

    income-generating activities or its members. Nonetheless, s

    successes have been achieved in this area.

    Other socioeconomic benets that have accrued to U

    members include the construction o a new longhouse in 199

    accommodate 40 amilies, and the continued maintenance o

    single road that provides access to the Sungai Keluan commun

    POLICY IMPACTS

    UBRA has consistently challenged the government and comme

    loggers by protesting and blockading access to nearby o

    in attempts to prevent logging. Although the Association

    unsuccessul in its protests in the 1980a and the communitys o

    were largely cleared, they have continued to advocate or the o

    recognition and protection o their land.

    In 2002, UBRA requested that the State Government exclude

    area rom the Long Lama Oil Palm plantation project. This req

    was granted. Today UBRAs 900 hectares o land can no longedisturbed by Government or any project as it has been exclu

    rom the States development plan, although UBRA continue

    have to ght to ensure that this agreement is honoured.

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    Sustainability and Replication

    SUSTAINABILITYo date, UBRA has been sustained by the dedication o its members.

    Although membership o the residents association is voluntary, ew

    Keluan residents have not joined. Members pay a ee, which has

    elped to cover the organizations administrative costs. Although

    UBRAs projects have received initial external unding, the activities

    hemselves oten predated these contributions and are essentially

    el-nancing. Where projects have generated income, part o this

    ccrues to UBRAs communal und. The communal rice arming and

    milling project has been the most productive source o income,

    while sale o handicrats also produced revenue. A book-keeping

    ystem ensures accountability.

    REPLICATION

    As well as its local success, UBRA has transerred knowledge and

    xpertise to neighbouring villages. Since 2006, knowledge exchange

    as been one o the initiatives key activities. UBRA members have

    rained three other Penan communities, and visited Long Belok and

    ong Nen, two neighbouring villages, to share their experience with

    etting up nurseries to support reorestation programmes.

    he Long Belok initiative began in 2006, when the community cleared

    and near their village to plant 200 sago plants (Cycas revoluta). In

    007, 40 amilies planted 200 rubber seedlings in household gardens.y mid-2007, Long Belok had successully planted 3,000 native

    ree species near their communal orest reserve area in Ulu Sungai

    elok. About 1,000 tree seedlings and 300 young sago palms remain

    n their nursery. In 2009, they planted an additional 1,000 kapur

    Dryobalanops aromatica) seedlings. In Long Nen, the communitys

    im was to restore local tree varieties, including native medicinal

    lants. Established in 2008, their nursery stores seedlings o kapur,

    meranti and sago trees. These collaborations were undertaken in

    artnership with Sahabat Alam Malysia (SAM), an NGO based in

    earby Marudi.

    PARTNERSUBRA has been assisted in its work by various local and internat

    partners. The partnership with SAM has helped to advance

    and regional knowledge-sharing and collaboration with o

    indigenous communities that have been also afected by log

    and plantations. The chairman o UBRA has worked with SA

    their Marudi oce since 1995, and currently serves as the N

    coordinator in Sarawak. The use o this oce has allowed U

    better access to communications technology, and has acilit

    collaboration with other groups, with SAM requently co-ho

    land rights awareness workshops at Uma Bawang Keluan.

    communities that have beneted rom SAM and UBRAs wor

    mainly located in the Miri, Bintulu and Kapit Divisions o Sara

    The collaborative eforts UBRA has engaged in via SAM have he

    to advance the cause o indigenous rights to orest resourc

    Sarawak. However, there is still a long way to go in this regard.

    On the international scale, UBRA has had a productive partne

    a with US-based NGO, The Borneo Project, since 1991. This grew

    o a relationship between the University o Caliornia, Berkeley

    the community o Uma Bawang Keluan. The Borneo Project he

    to provide coverage o UBRAs struggle to resist logging o

    land, and has since broadened to cover many other commun

    within Sarawak. The project assisted UBRA by providing tech

    training, international publicity, and helping with undraisingorganizations no longer work as closely, since UBRA has been la

    successul in resisting logging o their orest. The Borneo Project

    partners with and supports other indigenous land rights initia

    but the original inspiration or their work, however, remains the

    o Uma Bawang.

    More recently, UBRA has benetted rom unding rom the UNDP

    Small Grants Programme. The organization received a grant o

    50,000 grant in 2006 in partnership with WCS Malaysia. This g

    was used to expand UBRAs reorestation project in Sungai Kelu

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    FURTHER REFERENCE

    Uma Bawang Residents Association Video (Vimeo) http://vimeo.com/27016883

    Evong, J. J., and Amarthalingam, T. 2007. The Story o Ubra and the People o Uma Bawang, in Osbeck, M., Wojciechowska-Shibuy

    (eds.) 2007. Forest Partnerships. Enhancing local livelihoods and protecting the environment in Southeast Asia and the Pacic. IU

    Bangkok, Thailand. pp. 26-28. http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/orest_partnership.pd

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