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2. Addressing current and future risks 3. Benefit to local community
4. Innovation 5. Collaboration
6. Scalability 7. Sustainability Strategy
There are some additional criteria that should be conducted by the implementer of pilot project:
• Implementation of pilot project has to be related to the local problems at local
administrative or cross border administrative communities on issues of environment, health, education, social, economy in which related to the
impact of climate change.
• Implementation of pilot project directed for adaptation and response effort
activities to the impact of climate change, such as: erosion, flooding, drought, landslide, and etc.
There 4 selected pilot projects of Asian Cities Climate Change Program ACCCRN as contributin of development goals and addressing climate change impacts in
Semarang:
1 Land Arrangement Models In Sub District of Sukorejo, City of Semarang by State University of Semarang
2. Micro Finance Program: Community Based Revolving Fund for Improving Sanitation in Sub District of Kemijen, City of Semarang by Perkumpulan Perdikan
Local NGO 3. Coastal Community Adaptation In Tapak Tugurejo As Resilience Community
Coping Climate Change by BINTARI Local NGO 4. Adaptation to Cope Climate Change Impacts Landslide and Cyclone in Sub
District of Tandang, City of Semarang by Centre of Planning and Public Participation
Pilot projects are necessary to help local government to better understand how climate change will impact communities and sectors, how current capacity has to be
strengthened and spatial plan to be improved to form climate change-resilience city and how to use the good lesson learnt from pilots in designing long term policies and
strategies to address climate change.
For further explanation, see detail Table 8.1 of pilot project summary.
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8.4 Adaptation and Resilience
The following table Table 8.2 attempts to categorize how the abovementioned adaptations may be understood i as contributing to resilience, and ii by reducing
the impact of climate events by facilitating disaster preparedness and disaster response. It is in this way that adaptation strategies can build resilience, by preparing
in advance they can help reduce risk and or facilitate a response that allows them to bounce back and recover.
Constraints and opportunities to strengthen adaptive capacity: Below is detailed an analysis on what the existing factors that adaptation depends upon, what are the
constraints that may exist that limits it occurring and what are the opportunities that currently exist in the studied communities that can provide a basis for further
progress in building resilience.
What are the factors upon which adaptation may depend upon? Money
Lack of access to capital may limit capacity to make investments.
Capacity levels Lack of ability to adapt to different conditions.
Understanding
Necessary to learn about adaptations and threats and how to respond.
Access to information
Information can empower by giving tools to access knowledge and resources.
Collaboration and engagement w local
government Marginalization from decision-making can exclude
from access to information, resources and tools necessary to adapt effectively to different
conditions.
Migration and growth rates
Overburdened capacity can limit the ability to be flexible and cope with change effectively.
Public service delivery
Ability to develop can hinder or stimulate development and adaptation.
Mobility
Physical access to resources, information and tools depends upon physical access.
What are the constraints to developing adaptive strategies?
Information
Urban poor communities have less access to information so are not as informed about changes and opportunities in their
environment.
Access political, economic and physical
Disadvantaged communities often suffer from isolation, physical, economic and political, which reduces their
opportunities
Capital both from local population and local
government With adequate resources vulnerability can be greatly reduced
and open up many possibilities for adaptation. Lack of local investment by government and by the population hinders the
development of alternatives.
Community collaboration
Lack of community collaboration and cohesion can undermine collective processes and projects, and can diminish the voice
that a community has in making claims.