Research Project

This project highlights vulnerable community knowledge to identify climate-related
challenges and develop strategies to strengthen resilience. This project seeks to develop a Model of Future-proofing for Climate Resilience by Engaging Communities. The aims of this project to build strong and enduring partnerships that will promote climate resilience for key vulnerable groups: people with disabilities, diverse women, and older people (and people who live at the nexus of these), in Lombok, Makassar and Sumbawa. This project funded by KONEKSI and DFAT Australia. Through participatory action research, the project offers three key innovations:

1. Deep community engagement, facilitated through co-design processes at every level of the research program.
2. Demonstration of the intersectional disadvantages accrued through climate change (for example, acknowledging that poverty impacts nutrition, and that older people can also be women living with disabilities) through a constant iterative comparison approach.
3. Development and consolidation of an interdisciplinary, international team bringing together expertise in climate resilience, environmental governance, human rights, social inclusion, gender, disability, ageing, law and policy.

This project highlights vulnerable community knowledge to identify climate-related
challenges and develop strategies to strengthen resilience. This project seeks to develop a Model of Future-proofing for Climate Resilience by Engaging Communities. The aims of this project to build strong and enduring partnerships that will promote climate resilience for key vulnerable groups: people with disabilities, diverse women, and older people (and people who live at the nexus of these), in Lombok, Makassar and Sumbawa. This project funded by KONEKSI and DFAT Australia. Through participatory action research, the project offers three key innovations:

1. Deep community engagement, facilitated through co-design processes at every level of the research program.
2. Demonstration of the intersectional disadvantages accrued through climate change (for example, acknowledging that poverty impacts nutrition, and that older people can also be women living with disabilities) through a constant iterative comparison approach.
3. Development and consolidation of an interdisciplinary, international team bringing together expertise in climate resilience, environmental governance, human rights, social inclusion, gender, disability, ageing, law and policy.

The project aims to co-develop a series of capacity building activities for health workers, staff of climate and disaster agencies as well as staff of women empowerment and social services in Central and Southeast Sulawesi province to strengthen and integrate climate-health responses. We will in focus on Sexual-Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues. GEDSI is an integral part of the project since climate crisis and climate-induced disasters disproportionately affect women and girls e.g. worsening SRHR. Participatory, co-development and inclusive approaches including facilitating the active inclusion of women and vulnerable groups such as people living with disability (PwD) will be employed to ensure the application of GEDSI principles.

The expected outputs and outcomes are:

1. Identification of strengths and limitations or gaps in the capacity of health workers, staff of climate and disaster agencies as well as staff of women empowerment and social services in Central and Southeast Sulawesi province to enhance and integrate climate-health responses,
2. Co-designed and co-developed capacity building modules,
3. Piloting a series of capacity building activities,
4. Monitoring, evaluating and identifying lessons learned from the capacity building pilot,
5. Coalition-building with stakeholders in both provinces to upscale the capacity building models to other districts.

The project contributes to the achievement of SDGs 1, 3, 5, 10, 13 and 17. This project will align with other projects under Climate and Health cluster e.g. technology, health system strengthening, governance and adaptive society.

The project aims to build partnerships between the Indonesian government and vulnerable communities experiencing loss and damages due to climate change and to advance Indonesia’s interests in and claims for climate reparations through the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage. The objectives of the project includes:

1. Establish an Indonesia-based consortium to research, evidence and
   empower climate-vulnerable communities experiencing material and non-material
   loss and damages to pursue inclusive solutions for adaptation and compensation,
2. Develop a community-led, socially-inclusive and gender-sensitive, climate-impact
   monitoring system,
3. Provide relevant Indonesian government ministries with
   the political, legal and strategic resources to develop strategic policies on the Loss
   and Damage that will ensure Indonesian communities are compensated for climate related loss and damages.

The project’s multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research consortium uses a co-learning, cooperative inquiry approach to empower rural and urban communities to produce evidence-based knowledge of loss and damages and design planning for climate reparations. This project funded by KONEKSI and DFAT Australia.

An exploratory study examining the intersection of climate crisis and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Central Sulawesi. Ipas Indonesia collaborated with Hasanuddin University in South Sulawesi to investigate the impact of the climate crisis on reproductive health. Those findings, based on a qualitative and participatory approach. This project proactively collaborating with environmental organizations to raise awareness of the concerning nexus between the climate crisis and its potential to cause a reproductive health crisis, particularly among vulnerable communities that are profoundly impacted by environmental factors and lack access to adequate health services. 

This qualitative case study focuses on Desa Kalukubodo, a coastal community in Takalar Regency, South Sulawesi, and analyzes the impact of climate change on women's reproductive health in disaster-affected areas.

Specific targets to be achieved include:

• Identifying reproductive health risk factors for women that are influenced by climate change;
• Evaluating the access to and affordability of reproductive health services in climate crisis situations;
• Analyzing adaptation strategies employed by women and communities in facing health challenges resulting from disasters related to climate change; and
• Formulating evidence-based policy recommendations to strengthen the resilience of the health system, particularly reproductive health services, against the impacts of climate change.

The approach used is a case study approach, in which data are collected through a series of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) involving women and members of the local community. In line with Hasanuddin University's research strategic plan, which emphasizes innovation in public health and environmental resilience, this study also employs a multidisciplinary approach expected to make a tangible contribution to mitigating the impacts of climate change on women's health and to strengthening evidence-based policies.