The mission of Yagasu is to increase environmental carrying capacity and safeguards of mangrove/coastal- and watershed ecosystems for climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation, natural disaster risk reduction and green livelihood improvement.

 Working Principles

• Address the priority actions that are urgently needed in the field, where there is a total lack of- or in-sufficient support from other organizations
• Respect the traditional and local cultural values, and remain politically neutral.
• Work through partnerships with individuals and institutions at local, national, and international levels.
• Work closely with local stakeholders such as local communities, government institutions, NGOs and private sectors; and build local capacity as needed.
• Monitor and measure the outputs of each project and activity and adjust the implementation to optimize results.

 Strategic Program

• Facilitate the presence of unified, inclusive, and active environmental and community development networks; and build shared their local knowledge base.
• Generate government policy supports and public mandates for the necessary policies and actions to conduct integrated climate change mitigation and adaptation, environmental program, and community development.
• Conduct scientific findings and build partnering networks with global scientists, government agencies, and other local stakeholders on the field programs that are designed to tackle the local problem-solution issues in surrounding project areas and improve the health and welfare of local socio-cultural-economic growth.
• Conduct awareness and facilitation which include the programs and activities to revitalize “the revival” of local community capacity and to build common heritage, identity, and social visions for community development. The target of awareness activities is to establish a more positive external image of local stakeholders that is necessary to attract local, national, and international supports.
• Mobilize local community groups to restore degraded- and conserve existing mangrove-, coastal- and watershed ecosystems for carbon emission reduction, natural disaster prevention, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable living income.
• Facilitate income generation of local communities that include sustainable program design, value chain and projects to support the development of social business on climate label services and premium organic

Indonesia is a member party of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) since August 1994. The country has ratified the UNFCCC in 1995, the Kyoto Protocol in 2004, and has signed the Paris Agreement in 2015. Our program is consistent with GOI’s national regulatory and legal framework as stipulated in: