Adapting to a Changing Environment

PILAR Indonesia

Sumatera Utara, Indonésia

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
Ecossistema
Oceans
Oceans/Coasts
Tipo de comunidade
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: Asia
General Info

Endereço

Perumahan Griya Angsana Blok A-5 Jl.Pendidilkan Dusun VIII Desa Bandar Khalipah Kecamatan Percut Sei Tuan, Kab.Deli Serdang 20371
Sumatera Utara
Indonésia

E-mail

ismail.pong@gmail.com
Problem

População impactada

240 households (1100 peoples)

Tamanho

550 hectares

Principais ocupações

Fishermen

Recursos locais dos quais a comunidade depende e com que finalidade

The community depends on mangrove forests and the catch from the sea. Mangrove forests are the breeding place for fish, crab and shrimp, which are the main source of income for fishermen.

Ameaças locais aos recursos

500 acres of mangrove forest remain from total 3600 hectares. This was caused by land use conversion and illegal logging, which led to smaller areas for fish to breed and declining numbers of fish species and shallow water shrimp and crab...

Perigos climáticos

The local fishermen in Percut coastal area highly depend on the climatic conditions. The climate change is very influential on the activity of the fishermen and the amount of the catch at sea. The impact of climate change has reduced productivity and income for fishermen. Not to mention the ongoing degradation of mangrove forests has resulted in declining numbers in fish species and number of shallow water shrimp and crab. As the impact, the residential areas often affected by ocean tides. If this condition continues, it is predicted that it will increase the poverty of fishermen and the loss of many types of fish, shrimp, crab and other resources as the sources of life for fishermen, and that the effects of climate change would cause the loss of some lands for settlement because of the abrasion of sea water will continue to rise.

Nível de sensibilidade

The impacts of climate change are also very much felt by fishermen because of the higher risk they have to take when they do the activity at sea. The fisherman was very dependent on the climate conditions, and impacts of climate change will reduce productivity and income for fishermen. ?the change in weather and climate will disrupt fisheries and maritime matters, as an example; the influence of weather and climate will affect the growth of plankton containing chlorophyll, and the presence of chlorophyll plants indicates that many fish in the sea?

Nível de capacidade adaptativa

Basically, local fishermen have traditional knowledge to preserve nature and mangrove forest ecosystems. They also have a basic knowledge for developing the technique of aquaculture (fish, shrimp, crab). But they are very weak to develop that knowledge becomes an alternative livelihood, due to the decreasing natural resources and the lack of capital to create the alternative livelihood. They still need to have a capacity building and mentoring, as well as initial funding support to start creating an alternative livelihood. In addition, the potential number of species of fish and other types of mangrove plants that could become food ingredients production exist and are available around them. But they still need to have a capacity-building that they could develop the potentials and make it become the source of money for their families.
Solution

? This Program is designed to train the groups of fishermen to be able to manage aquaculture technique so that they can improve the results of fish other than the catch from the sea. Then the capacity of the women would be built to develop the business/alternative livelihood by producing the cheap foods made of fish and of several types of mangroves which are processed into more expensive food products that can increase their income. Besides foods, mangrove resources can also be processed into a variety of products which have economic values. ? Through field school approach, the community will have their knowledge developed and mobilized to design the action of disaster risk reduction and climate change. One of the actions is the mangrove reforestation efforts, and to protect the remaining forests. ? Developing a behavior change campaign to encourage people to adopt new behaviors that can adapt to the impacts of climate change hazards. Encourage the emergence of new behavior, to protect the nature that reduces future impacts.

Results

Custos Ecológicos

A ban on logging and land use conversion

Benefício Ecológico

- the number of planted mangrove trees is increasing - Increased biodiversity and abundance of fish

Indicadores Econômicos usados para medir o benefício

- Area of mangrove - The number of trees planted

Custo comunitário/social

- time to be given to follow the stages of program activities Conflict of interest between local groups Time, energy, and cost needed to develop alternative livelihood

Benefício Social/Comunitário

The Increased knowledge, capacity, and action to adjust with the climate change capacity building which applies the aquaculture technique

Indicadores comunitários/sociais usados para medir o benefício

time to be given to follow the stages of program activities Conflict of interest between local groups Time, energy, and cost needed to develop alternative livelihood

Custo Econômico

- the cost of training - capital assistance/aid - On the Job training

Benefício económico

The number of items of business results - Additional income generated

Indicadores Ecológicos usados para medir o benefício

- the report on the development of business groups

Quais foram/são os desafios que sua comunidade enfrentou na implementação desta solução?

The challenges the community faced in implementing the solution and how we overcome them are as follows

Action

Descreva o processo baseado na comunidade usado para desenvolver a solução, incluindo ferramentas e processos usados

The heart of the program is community capacity building leading to resilience through; ? Discovery education in Field Schools. In brief, Field Schools are an integrated series of learning processes undertaken by communities through direct learning and action. Usually this involves some 10 weekly half-day sessions followed by a Field Day bringing together the larger community to share learning?s, experiences, and plans. In this case, the Field School activities will focus upon community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change. ? Mobilize community to conserve mangrove ecosystem through mangrove reforestation through community based conservation initiative. This approach will be impact to improving quality of ecology and mangrove ecosystem. Strengthening capacity in aquaculture technique (fish, shrimp, and crab) within intact mangrove ecosystem. As impact, mangrove areas will preserved and economy of fishermen will increased. ? Develop and improve alternative livelihood. These activities will focus on creating an alternative livelihood and income generation. Training women to be able to develop a business that uses the potential of marine resources and mangroves. Gender participation will be enhanced in creating alternative livelihood, because their role is very important to make decisions in their families, and to increase their family income. This Program will be executed by building the partnerships with forest service of Deli Serdang District that plays a role in providing management of mangrove forests. It will also cooperate with the experts/practitioners on mangrove and fisheries in giving technical aids (mentoring) in developing the alternative livelihood, who will manage the potential fisheries and mangrove into foods and products that can be sold and increase the income of the fisherman and families. The program will also collaborate with the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics to run ?climate field school? and provide climate data. The Program will run for 1 year. The Executive team consists of a program manager who will lead the program and control the progress. And some of the coordinators (field school, livelihood, ecology and conservation).

Perigo climático preocupante

Coastal flooding or storm surge

Como sua solução reduz a exposição e amortece/protege o ecossistema afetado?

The medium and long-term Mangrove forest reforestation activities that will be undertaken will give impact on the growth of forest vegetation on the beach. It will be beneficial to withstand storm surge and flooding due to sea level rise.

How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?

Reforestation of mangrove forests will be tailored to the type of the local forest structure, so that it will create a new forest that has a strong ecosystem and can reduce the impacts of climate change. Mangrove roots will provide home to many types of fish for breading and the new forest will become a habitat for water birds and stopover for migratory birds.

Como sua solução reduz a exposição e amortece/protege as comunidades afetadas?

The improvement of quality and quantity of mangrove forests will protect the agricultural area, the location of aquaculture, and the settlement of communities who live behind of the mangrove forests, and will also withstand the wind and the waves head off toward the Mainland.

Como sua solução reduz a sensibilidade das comunidades afetadas?

Strengthening capacity in aquaculture technique (fish, shrimp, and crab) within intact mangrove ecosystem. As impact, mangrove areas will preserved and economy of fishermen will be increased. The development of alternative livelihood would also reduce the dependence of local communities on the ocean resources, and creating new economic revenue.

Como sua solução aumentou a capacidade das comunidades locais de se adaptarem a possíveis mudanças climáticas?

Through "Climate Field School" approach, we would encourage behavior change to adapt to climate change impacts. Field Schools conducted in the small group selected for the program in Percut Coastal area. A series of Field Schools will be undertaken beginning with a group-level Participatory Vulnerability Assessments and planning, and moving on to several technical Field Schools in Disaster and Climate Change Risk Reduction, aquaculture technique (fish, shrimp, and crab) within intact mangrove ecosystem, and mangrove reforestation as appropriate to the location.

Scale

Esta solução pode ser replicada em outro lugar?

- Low level of community?s knowledge. We'll do a participatory approach in the ?climate field school? activities so that the participants could participate and contribute in every stage. - The slow adoption level of community on the techniques and new things. We would encourage the inception of innovator for initiating the change and adopt alternative livelihood model and spread it to more communities. - Low level of the economy and the lack of capital. We will encourage the adoption of alternative livelihood by creating initial capital support under the agreement of the group and in accordance with the needs.

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