Strategic Integration of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation to support Climate Village Program in Rural Indonesia

This study was related to climate change adaptation and mitigation in the rural community. Its primary objective was to determine a strategy for community empowerment through the integration of mitigation and adaptation actions to support the Climate Village program (PROKLIM). The Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and FGD were adopted to facilitate community in action plan development. SWOT analysis and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) were used to identify and select the most viable strategies based on their weighted scores. From the SWOT analysis, eight alternative strategies were formulated including: (1) optimizing the use of local natural resources (SO1), (2) enhancing community capacity in adaptation and mitigation (knowledge, attitudes and skills) (SO2), (3) strengthening collaborations with both governmental and non-governmental organizations (WO1), (4) augmenting financial support from village funds for adaptation and mitigation efforts (WO2), (5) reinforcing continuous training of local groups (ST1), (6) enhancing natural resource management to increase community income (ST2), (7) increasing the capacity of the local village government (WT1) and (8) promoting the benefits of Climate Village program awareness and the importance of environmental protection (WT2). Through the AHP, three strategies were found to have the highest weight as follows: (1) SO2, (2) WO2 and, (3) WO1.