CLIMATE ADAPTATION

Project Objective

The project objective is to strengthen climatic resilience of local communities (women and men) and ecosystems in most vulnerable areas in coasta and watershed ecosystem. This will be done by improving communities’ access to climate adaptive livelihood options, and by harnessing biodiversity and ecosystem services to reduce communities’ climatic vulnerability. The ecosystem-based and community-centered adaptation will focus on local community livelihood improvement and the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of coastal and watershed ecosystem.

Expected Impact

Increased climate resilience of vulnerable communities (women and men) in coastal- and watershed areas through ecosystem-based and community- centered adaptation.

Outcomes

Increased sustainably managed coastal- and watershed ecosystems.
Increased adoption of social and low-carbon livelihoods by vulnerable communities (women and men – W/M).
Strengthened institutional and regulatory systems for climate-responsive planning and development as indentified in Indonesia`s NDC and NAP

TRAININGS FOR WOMEN GROUPS

PARADIGM SHIFT OF EMPOWERING WOMEN

Changing mindset from village development “as business as usual” into climate resilience village approaches that integrate ecosystem resilience and social economic resilience.
Implementing village SDGs that shift abstract concept into concrete actions, conceptual plan measurable activities and sustainable actions
Supporting to unfortune and poor women to manage micro-household business will bring their confidence in supporting family income.
Women lead social business fosters green-economic markets at national and global level.
Set of VSP, MPA and VR policy based on the local wisdom and traditional rules will guarantee the long-term ecosystem conservation and sustainable green economic of communities.

The integrated policies at village levels will reduce land-use change, deforestation and over-exploitation of natural resources

HOW WOMEN ACTIONS LINK TO SDG`s

Goal 5 Gender Equality : the program empower and mobilize women groups as leading roles of long-term resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Goal 15 Life on Land : protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

The women groups is involved in designing and implementing key strategy:

► Actively incorporate women’s voice in project implementation

► Explicitly seek to employ women as communication liaisons, so they become active agents of change.

► Increase women inclusion in decision making (women represent village-based committees)

► Empower women’s lead capacity in developing sustainable social business.

The women roles are significantly transforming power imbalances that lead to gender in social equality, not only in number people involved but also in spreading locations and scope of activities.