Chapter 4
Integration into Development:
Translating International Frameworks
into Village-Level Adaptation
Skye Turner-Walker, Esti Anantasari, and Arry Retnowati
Abstract International climate change commitments have progressively prioritised
addressing adaptation, particularly under the mechanisms of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In response, climate change
adaptive capacity and resilience enhancing activities have been increasingly directed
at local community or village scales. The aim of this chapter is to understand how
conceptual underpinnings of adaptation are articulated into the programming of adaptation activities implemented at the local village levels under national adaptation
planning in Indonesia. The local-level experiences of adaptation programming in
implementation offer several insights to guide adaptation approaches and conceptions in informing national adaptation programming implementation at village levels.
This chapter, therefore, situates the national adaptation programmes implemented
in two case studies of agricultural areas in the Yogyakarta Region of Java, amidst
Indonesia’s country commitments and priorities on adaptation to village activity-level
implementation. The chapter presents the local experiences of farmers in two key
adaptation projects implemented at the village level as part of broader nation-wide
programming. The results of which detail findings captured post-project implementation and provide examples of the implications of adaptation framing on programmatic outcomes over long-range timeframes. This chapter draws conclusions that
significant gaps and disjuncture between the top-down nature of national adaptation
programming directives exist in the translation of programming into village activities. In particular, in the ways in which local participants are engaged and have
the agency to direct the activities of adaptation programming in a manner that is
culturally and contextually appropriate, as well as locally specific, and able to be
sustained in the uptake of the programme activities. These findings suggest that
S. Turner-Walker (B)
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia
e-mail: skye.turner-walker@anu.edu.au
E. Anantasari · A. Retnowati
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
e-mail: esti.anantasari@ugm.ac.id
A. Retnowati
e-mail: arry_retnowati@ugm.ac.id
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R. Djalante et al. (eds.), Climate Change Research, Policy and Actions in Indonesia,
Springer Climate, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55536-8_4
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Integration into Development:
Translating International Frameworks
into Village-Level Adaptation
Skye Turner-Walker, Esti Anantasari, and Arry Retnowati
Abstract International climate change commitments have progressively prioritised
addressing adaptation, particularly under the mechanisms of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In response, climate change
adaptive capacity and resilience enhancing activities have been increasingly directed
at local community or village scales. The aim of this chapter is to understand how
conceptual underpinnings of adaptation are articulated into the programming of adaptation activities implemented at the local village levels under national adaptation
planning in Indonesia. The local-level experiences of adaptation programming in
implementation offer several insights to guide adaptation approaches and conceptions in informing national adaptation programming implementation at village levels.
This chapter, therefore, situates the national adaptation programmes implemented
in two case studies of agricultural areas in the Yogyakarta Region of Java, amidst
Indonesia’s country commitments and priorities on adaptation to village activity-level
implementation. The chapter presents the local experiences of farmers in two key
adaptation projects implemented at the village level as part of broader nation-wide
programming. The results of which detail findings captured post-project implementation and provide examples of the implications of adaptation framing on programmatic outcomes over long-range timeframes. This chapter draws conclusions that
significant gaps and disjuncture between the top-down nature of national adaptation
programming directives exist in the translation of programming into village activities. In particular, in the ways in which local participants are engaged and have
the agency to direct the activities of adaptation programming in a manner that is
culturally and contextually appropriate, as well as locally specific, and able to be
sustained in the uptake of the programme activities. These findings suggest that
S. Turner-Walker (B)
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia
e-mail: skye.turner-walker@anu.edu.au
E. Anantasari · A. Retnowati
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
e-mail: esti.anantasari@ugm.ac.id
A. Retnowati
e-mail: arry_retnowati@ugm.ac.id
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Djalante et al. (eds.), Climate Change Research, Policy and Actions in Indonesia,
Springer Climate, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55536-8_4
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