Category: CWIS

Strengthening Climate & Weather Information Services to improve resilience

One of the important tasks of the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Program – or abbreviated as APIK – is to help BMKG in strengthening Weather and Climate Information Services, so that it can be fully utilized by the Indonesian people in general, as well as communities in East Java, Southeast Sulawesi and Maluku in particular. We believe that the improvement of weather and climate information services, is one of the most important components in increasing the resilience of communities in facing the threat of climate change. The resilience needs to be built at the level of institutional resilience, socio-economic resilience and landscape-based resilience, and to be built at the National Government level, Local Government, private sector, and Community level resilience.

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Marine Weather Information for Fisherfolk Training Module

APIK bekerjasama dengan Badan Meteorologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) pusat dan daerah, Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan (KKP), serta The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) bermaksud untuk menyelenggarakan Pelatihan Informasi Cuaca Maritim untuk Nelayan di desa Tambakrejo, Kabupaten Blitar. Pelatihan ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pengetahuan terkait layanan informasi cuaca maritim dari BMKG dan informasi terkait prakiraan lokasi ikan (PPDPI) yang berasal dari Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan (KKP). Pelatihan dibuat sebagai upaya pembentukan materi informasi cuaca maritim hingga ke level komunitas. Pada akhirnya diharapkan adanya peningkatan pemahaman berbagai komunitas terhadap informasi cuaca maritime serta dampaknya bagi kehidupan, sehingga dapat menentukan sikap serta mengambil keputusan yang tepat sebagai upaya adaptasi terhadap dinamika cuaca maritim.

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Climate & Weather Information Services Assessment Report

Climate and weather information (CWI) services 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 community leaders, farmers, and fisher folk increasingly have access to that data via mobile connectivity. Nevertheless, the CWI services marketplace remains quite fragmented with varying levels of coordination along the ‘value chain’ of service provision that collects raw data and translates it into useful information for beneficiaries.

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Climate & Weather Information Services Roadmap

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.

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The 1st step in answering the gap of climate & weather information services to build resilience

Weather and climate information services are one of the prerequisites for building resilience to climate change at the local government and community level. For regional decision makers, climate information needs to be a strong scientific base in planning and taking medium and long-term development decisions.

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