Implementing Collaborative Management in Key Biodiversity Area Danau Poso, Indonesia

Perkumpulan Inovasi Komunitas, known as Imunitas, is working in the Danau Poso (Lake Poso) region of Central Sulawesi, an understudied and unique site of freshwater biodiversity. Imunitas is working with the villages of Meko, Salukaiya, Uronosari, and Owini to improve watershed management in the hillsides surrounding the lake. This includes facilitating improved regulations and governance leading to better practices covering 4,000 hectares and promoting better land use management practices by 60 households, leading to better management of 600 hectares. Imunitas is also providing alternative livelihood training to 50 households to incentivize a move away from unsustainable hillside farming.