CLIMATE ADAPTATION
Problem analysis
Indonesia is a large greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, as is also highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Over the last 35 years, climatic trends include surface temperature increases of 0.04°C per decade and total annual rainfall increase by 12 percent. Climate change has intensified the frequency of hydro-meteorological disasters (e.g., forest fires, landslides, floods, earthquakes) which make up to 80 percent of disaster occurrences in Indonesia. World Bank analysis ranks Indonesia as 12th out of 35 countries that face high mortality risks due to multiple hazards, with an estimated 40 percent of the country’s inhabitants at risk. As the world’s largest archipelago with 17,500 islands and 81,000 km of coastline, Indonesia is also extremely vulnerable to climate induced-sea level rise and coastal inundation. Average sea level rise was reported at 5.84 mm per year almost twice higher than the average global sea level rise.
Coastal- and highland communities, the majority of which are poor fishers and farmers, are among the most vulnerable populations due to their strong dependence on natural resources and limited access to information, technologies and alternative livelihood options. Our project sites extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially sea level rise, landslide, flood and erosion. Climate change impacts already being felt include the disappearance of some small islands and settlements, loss of coastal and watershed resource-based livelihoods, coastal inundation damage to public infrastructure, community well saltwater intrusion, and beach erosion.
Project objective
The project objective is to strengthen the climatic resilience of local communities (women and men) and ecosystems in most vulnerable areas in coastal and watershed ecosystems. 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-centred adaptation will focus on local community livelihood improvement and the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of coastal and watershed ecosystems.
Expected impacts
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 identified in Indonesia’s NDC & NAP
Women emporement
Special attention will be given to women groups. As incentives for mangrove conservation, economic alternative will be introduced as an innovative approach for sustainable financing. The selection of beneficiaries will be consulted with village stakeholder. The selection will be based on equity, professionalism, high commitment, and respect to mutual benefits. The project will empower and mobilize women groups as part of community participation roles of long-term commitment to mangrove conservation and green economic development. Their 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. They will be involved in designing and implementing key strategy, such as:
- 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 to create various jobs on delivery of benefits
