Read Full Report here: APIK CWIS Roadmap
Climate and weather information services (CWIS) are used by a wide range of actors in Indonesia—public, private, and civil society—to fulfill specific, placed-based needs, from maximizing crop yields to navigating coastal waters to warning communities of impending flood risk. Recent advances in technology enable meteorologists to capture larger quantities of more precise weather data, while mobile and internet-based communications are steadily (albeit disparately based on location) allowing more and more community leaders, farmers, and fisher folk to access real-time weather updates. Nevertheless, the CWIS “marketplace” remains quite fragmented with varying levels of coordination along the “value chain” of service provision that collects raw data, translates it into information useful for decision-makers, and, ultimately, leads to tangible socioeconomic and security benefits at the community level.
Building from the broad evaluation of climate services described in the APIK Climate and Weather Information Services Assessment Report, the following CWIS Roadmap sets forth the Adaptasi Perubahan Iklim dan Ketangguhan (APIK) Project’s implementation strategy for improving the development and dissemination processes that will help to ensure that climate services are both used and useful.
More specifically, the Roadmap serves to narrow the Project’s focus and home in on key technical assistance entry-points for the coming four years. For each of APIK’s priority provinces—East Java, Southeast Sulawesi, and Maluku—the document describes: (1) priority application areas for technical assistance; (2) a preliminary analysis of specific climate services value chains within each application area, including the respective users and beneficiaries
ultimately served; and (3) the Project’s proposed portfolio of assistance activities to help strengthen each value chain and close critical information gaps at the place-based level.
Throughout the Roadmap report—and as part of its broader approach—APIK strives to keep the users and beneficiaries at the fore, such that improvements along the value chain of climate services yield safer, more resilient communities.
The following executive summary is presented in three subsections. First, we review APIK’s technical approach to improving climate and weather information services as presented in the aforementioned CWIS Assessment Report accompanied by the principal information gaps identified during the assessment process. Second, we summarize the focal areas and technical assistance strategies in the APIK priority provinces, identifying key stakeholders and partners
in each locale. Importantly, the work at the provincial and local level is also then linked with supporting activities with national-level service providers. Finally, we discuss the immediate next steps during Project Year (PY) 2 as the Project transitions from the evaluation of climate services in Indonesia to activity implementation.
Technical Approach to Strengthening CWI Services
Broadly speaking, climate and weather information services consist of the hardware (sensor networks, weather station infrastructure, and IT equipment), software (trained staff, recognized communication and dissemination platforms, local awareness) and the supporting institutional arrangements (codified roles and responsibilities, data sharing policies, dedicated funding) that facilitate the systematic collection, analysis, packaging, communication, and use
of meteorological, hydrological, and climate data. Robust CWIS are integral to Indonesia’s.
National Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation (RAN-API) in the context of hydrometeorological disaster risk reduction and development planning. At the
international level, the WMO also recognized the critical role of improved climate services, establishing the Global Framework for Climate Services in 2012 as a worldwide mechanism for coordinated actions to enhance the quality, quantity, and application of climate services.
Climate and weather information services are most impactful when an active process is put in place to transform raw environmental observations into actionable information communicated to the right people at the right time. Toward this end, the APIK Project uses the concept of a climate and weather information value chain to frame the institutional roles and action steps required in the transformation of data into decisions. These steps are: (1) raw data collection and organization, (2) product development (including data analysis,
visualization, and packaging), (3) communication and dissemination, (4) application and use, and (5) benefit realization. The notion of climate and weather information services as a value chain operating in the context of a market allows us to identify and segment the key climate and weather services actors and define the roles that such actors play across all the links of
the value chain. Additionally, this approach seeks to connect those that collect and produce CWI services (the “supply side”) and those that apply them at the local level (the “demand side”) and, ultimately, detect specific gaps or weaknesses in the value chain and target technical assistance efforts accordingly.
Based on research conducted for the Assessment Report, the APIK team previously identified a series of critical gaps along the CWIS value chain in Indonesia. Exhibit 1 below provides a summary of these gaps.
Read Full Report here: APIK CWIS Roadmap