Program and activity from non-government

98 Table 7.6: Assessment of Local Government and Institutional Capacity to Integrate Climate Change into Development Planning Component Strenghts Weakness The Role of Stakeholder • There is partnership among relevant stakeholder • Any support from international donor and cooperaton agencies • The roles and contributions of stakeholder are still partial and not yet integrated into policy Existing laws and policies • There is a law required the local government to formulate planning document which considering disater mitigation and adaptation and climate changes • Lack of understanding on how to formulate operational strategy in order to elaborate the required-aspect of the law into planning document The availability of planning document • The next mid-term plan for 2011-2014 will be formulated and also the draft of spatial plan is on-going revision – this is an opportunity to integrate climate-change issues as well as disaster management into planning documents • There is an disaster management action plan document which already formulated and agreed by stakeholder as an input for the new planning document • Lack of capacity in formulating and elaborating disaster mitigation and adaptation and climate change aspects into planning document • Disaster management action plan doesn’t have legal basis to be implemented as guidance for local stakeholders Institutional Support • The establishment of city team to for climate change under ACCCRN project • The availability of donor program and activity as media for stakeholder communication • The disaster management board is not yet established • Representativeness of people in city team is individual and ad-hoc – not really represented the institution Budget capacity • There is commitment to support for climate change program. • Budget-support from central government through decocentration and task- assistance • International donor support • Limited budget allocation for climate-change related activities 5 of total budget • Lack of coordination among agencies lead to program duplication and overlapping Program implementation • Program and activity has done and implementing by stakeholder Lack of coordination accross sector and accros-region 99 Based on facts mentioned in previous section, there are some steps need to be taken to achieve urban climate-resilience planning as follows: ♦ Strengthen capacity of local government in integrating climate change into long- term development planning. Strong scientific works on climate change scenarios and climate change impacts in Semarang City will be required to assist local government in developing horizon plan of adaptation 5 to climate change. Technical assistance and capacity building program for local government officers is required to enable them in developing horizon plan of adaptation. ♦ Integrate climate change adaptation framework into City of Semarang planning and spatial planning document Set up methodology and substance for developing and revision of City Spatial Planning RTRW with climate change issues and impacts Set up methodology and substance for Medium Term Planning RPJMD of City of Semarang related to climate change issues and impacts Increase stakeholders government, community and private understanding and concern about climate change through shared learning, communication strategy and capacity building program; ♦ Increase community resilience on climate change through finding and developing several efforts and local wisdom through climate change adaptation pilot project 5 Horizon plan of adaptation relates to the lifetime of decision-making associated with a particular activity – how far into the future is it planned. Thus it is the period of time over which a particular adaptation program is planned to be implemented Jones et al., 2004.