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applicable to climate change (Supriyanto et al. 2011, 2012). The latter study particularly highlighting farmers’ ability to control environmental, physical, economic,
human and political forms of capital to build up an active, innovative and adaptive
farming community in coastal area. Notably, these system have enabled an agricultural livelihood-based community to flourish in a coastal sandy environment utilised
as highly productive agricultural land.
The programme activities implemented under the project according to each village
were for each of the 3 target villages: 1) the purchasing of water pumps, and threewheeled motorbike for transport of goods under business development, and construction of community building facilities, revegetation of the sand dune and coastal area,
loudspeaker and communication system for the disaster warning system, construction of a tsunami evacuation route. 2) The construction of joint business kiosks
for business development, construction of a road and tsunami evacuation route and
revegetation of the dune and coastal area. 3) Business development, including the
purchase of a communal three-wheeled motorbike, purchase of water pumps, revegetation of the river area and beach area, construction of a road and tsunami evacuation
route, as well as a loudspeaker and communication system for disaster warning.
These activities were implemented over a 2-year period. The PDPT programme was
implemented within each village through a facilitator team from across the district, a
village empowerment team (of male and female representatives for each village), as
well as a technical team (headed by representatives from local and district government agencies). The programme across the three villages also had several coordinators and assistant staff employed to assist the programme, and a further team of staff
appointed to the programme in Kulon Progo from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and
Fisheries (KPP) offices, both from Kulon Progo and Jakarta. However, although the
PDPT programme was implemented through several layers of coordination through
which to engage local residents, interviews in 2019 across the three villages of Bugel,
Karang Sewu and Banaran found that there was no awareness of the programme by
most residents interviewed, and where there was awareness, only limited knowledge of the activities or the reasons for these (with residents only having heard
the programme name). Tsunami evacuation routes built under the programme have,
however, been well utilised for access to farming areas and transportation of produce
and supplies on a daily basis. Those respondents that knew about the programme
and had been involved in the programme—reported that they initially only heard
about the programme by chance, rather than through an approach that socialised
and engaged local residents with the programme’s objectives. Key community heads
reportedly also remained largely unaware of the PDPT programme and, in general,
little knowledge of what the programme entailed where it was known. Overall, findings from the interviews fundamentally highlighted a clear need for programme
activities to have focused on agricultural-related impacts of climate change on land
rather than being focused on fishing livelihoods and marine impacts. Communities
report in 2019, years on from the implementation of the PDPT commenced in 2012
and finished in 2016, that the activities to protect against climate change, such as
the protection and conservation of coastal areas against winds—remain community
organised and driven. The experience of the PDPT programme by villagers (where
S. Turner-Walker et al.
applicable to climate change (Supriyanto et al. 2011, 2012). The latter study particularly highlighting farmers’ ability to control environmental, physical, economic,
human and political forms of capital to build up an active, innovative and adaptive
farming community in coastal area. Notably, these system have enabled an agricultural livelihood-based community to flourish in a coastal sandy environment utilised
as highly productive agricultural land.
The programme activities implemented under the project according to each village
were for each of the 3 target villages: 1) the purchasing of water pumps, and threewheeled motorbike for transport of goods under business development, and construction of community building facilities, revegetation of the sand dune and coastal area,
loudspeaker and communication system for the disaster warning system, construction of a tsunami evacuation route. 2) The construction of joint business kiosks
for business development, construction of a road and tsunami evacuation route and
revegetation of the dune and coastal area. 3) Business development, including the
purchase of a communal three-wheeled motorbike, purchase of water pumps, revegetation of the river area and beach area, construction of a road and tsunami evacuation
route, as well as a loudspeaker and communication system for disaster warning.
These activities were implemented over a 2-year period. The PDPT programme was
implemented within each village through a facilitator team from across the district, a
village empowerment team (of male and female representatives for each village), as
well as a technical team (headed by representatives from local and district government agencies). The programme across the three villages also had several coordinators and assistant staff employed to assist the programme, and a further team of staff
appointed to the programme in Kulon Progo from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and
Fisheries (KPP) offices, both from Kulon Progo and Jakarta. However, although the
PDPT programme was implemented through several layers of coordination through
which to engage local residents, interviews in 2019 across the three villages of Bugel,
Karang Sewu and Banaran found that there was no awareness of the programme by
most residents interviewed, and where there was awareness, only limited knowledge of the activities or the reasons for these (with residents only having heard
the programme name). Tsunami evacuation routes built under the programme have,
however, been well utilised for access to farming areas and transportation of produce
and supplies on a daily basis. Those respondents that knew about the programme
and had been involved in the programme—reported that they initially only heard
about the programme by chance, rather than through an approach that socialised
and engaged local residents with the programme’s objectives. Key community heads
reportedly also remained largely unaware of the PDPT programme and, in general,
little knowledge of what the programme entailed where it was known. Overall, findings from the interviews fundamentally highlighted a clear need for programme
activities to have focused on agricultural-related impacts of climate change on land
rather than being focused on fishing livelihoods and marine impacts. Communities
report in 2019, years on from the implementation of the PDPT commenced in 2012
and finished in 2016, that the activities to protect against climate change, such as
the protection and conservation of coastal areas against winds—remain community
organised and driven. The experience of the PDPT programme by villagers (where