Climate Change Adaptation Program

The need to mitigate and reverse global warming is becoming increasingly urgent, affecting children's future. Wahana Visi Indonesia (WVI) as a child-focused organization, supports international efforts to reduce the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities. We help communities build their resilience to climate change and mitigate, cope with, and recover from the immediate effects of climate-related disasters. Our climate change programming is child-focused, inclusive, transparent, and accountable, supports women’s economic and social empowerment, and contributes to protecting and restoring environmental assets that help vulnerable communities' livelihoods and food security. It’s not too late to slow the pace of climate change as long as we act today. From 2011 to 2021, WVI’s program to building community resilience to climate change has reached approximately 100,000 direct beneficiaries across eight provinces in Indonesia: DKI Jakarta, East Java, West Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, West Nusa Tenggara, and East Nusa Tenggara.

OUR APPROACHES

1. Nature-based solutions: Restoring the Natural Environment through Promoting Farmers Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)

WVI integrates community development with landscape restoration approaches through regenerative agriculture and land restoration techniques, such as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). FMNR offers low-cost, scalable, and community-led solutions for restoring the natural environment, increasing land productivity, and strengthening livelihoods. Also, it encourages equal participation of men and women in the implementation. FMNR can contribute to the reduction of carbon footprints associated with forest fires while also helping communities in increasing agricultural sectors sustainably.

Wahana Visi Indonesia supports global efforts to reduce the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities. Since 2010, WVI has assisted vulnerable communities in Indonesia in building their resilience to climate change and mitigating, coping with, and recovering from the immediate effects of climate-related disasters. Our climate change programming is child-focused, inclusive, transparent, and accountable, supports women's economic and social empowerment, and helps to protect and restore environmental assets that support vulnerable communities' livelihoods and food security while mitigating climate change.

2. Community-based Disaster Risk Management: Reduce Climate Risks and Respond to Disasters through Partnering with the Most Vulnerable People

Since 2018, WVI has been collaborating closely with the Regional Disaster Management Agency (Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah, BPBD) to:

• assist communities in identifying their vulnerability to hydrometeorology and geophysical hazards.
• develop the strategies and resources necessary to increase their resilience and mitigate disaster risks and impacts, namely Community-based Disaster Preparedness Plans (CBDPP).
• assist communities in being involved in environmental and climate action through waste management.

3. Green School: Fostering Greater Children Participation in Building Climate Resilient Communities

WVI employs the green school models with positive traits:

• help students be more aware of environmental and climate change issues
• focuses on improving the quality of contextual learning, developing positive character traits, educating children about the natural and cultural environment, and encouraging children and the community to build climate-resilient communities.

4. Partnering and Collaboration: Leveraging Partnerships to Strengthen Capacity and Increase Impacts

WVI collaborates with partners to achieve inclusive, sustainable development and to broaden project impacts. We have a track record of working with different partners, including:

Let us move together to reduce the impact of climate change and create a greener earth for the community and children's better future.