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
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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
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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.