Boosting Sustainability Practice and Performance at The Landscape Level Through Good Water Stewardship
There is a growing awareness especially among agribusinesses on water-related risks within their supply chains and on their dependence of and impact on other water users in the larger catchment or landscape. This is driven by increasingly growing issues like deforestation, droughts (and fires), water pollution, flooding, and growing conflicts between different water users over reducing water resource availability. Water as an asset isn’t valued sufficiently which is leading to overlooked risks and missed opportunities.
Good water stewardship, as defined by the AWS Standard, provides the opportunity to create impact at scale, at catchment or landscape level, and support sustainable production and protection efforts by emphasizing and strengthening good water management and governance practices. While AWS is seeing a growing uptake of its standard at the site level, multi-stakeholder collaborations at the catchment scale are still limited which is limiting contributions to good water stewardship outcomes at the catchment level. Indonesia provides the opportunity to build upon the existing landscape and jurisdictional approaches and seek ways to integrate uptake of good water stewardship as part of these, particularly in palm oil and rubber.
This project was possible thanks to a grant from the ISEAL Innovations Fund, which is supported by:
Driven by the intrinsic principles of the AWS Standard to work at catchment scale, and recognising the strengths of RSPO, GPSNR and LTKL, this project will identify and develop mechanisms to strengthen:
- District government planning, monitoring and performance measurement,
- and agriculture standards schemes in their efforts to sustainably transform agribusiness through good water stewardship.
The project not act as stand-alone initiative, but aims to drive collaborative actions by implementers and practitioners and will therefore build a Community of Practice through share knowledge and experiences.
The Project Objectives and Outputs
We will use good water stewardship as a common denominator to strengthen existing jurisdictional and landscape approaches and their attempts to tackle the challenges on peat land development and deforestation by:
Objectives |
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Practical guidance for RSPO and GPSNR on good water stewardship |
Insights in costs and benefits, including governmental and financial sector incentives |
Inclusion of water stewardship into district performance planning, monitoring and performance measurement |
Output |
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Guidance documents for palm oil and natural rubber on good water stewardship |
Report on financial mechanisms and incentives (at local and global level) for uptake of good water stewardship as part of palm oil and rubber standards at jurisdictional level |
A supplemental Indonesia specific AWS guidance document and a roadmap towards adoption of the AWS standard and guidance by jurisdiction in Indonesia |
Inclusion of good water stewardship indicators as part the LTKL Regional Competitiveness Framework in Indonesia to improve district level performance measurement |
News & Updates
Webinars & Events
AWS & GPSNR Secretariat Webinar: Pathways Towards Good Water Stewardship in Sustainable Natural Rubber Production
AWS Spotlight on Indonesia: Pathways to Good Water Stewardship in Landscape & Jurisdictional Approaches in Palm Oil & Natural Rubber
AWS Spotlight on Indonesia: Driving Good Water Stewardship in Landscape & Jurisdictional Approaches in Palm Oil & Natural Rubber
Publications
Landscape Project Report
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