InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), an AWS member, has published their Water Stewardship commitment in 2016 which is  followed by water stewardship pilots in London, Delhi, Beijing and lastly Bali to identify risks and opportunities of good water stewardship.

Indonesia Healthy Rivers Challenge 2020 is a competition that challenges and inspires Indonesia's next generation river leaders to contribute their own original ideas and solutions towards the development of a a Master Plan for the Welang River. AWS Indonesia acts as Expert Partner in this Project

Analysing the drivers for good water stewardship and uptake of AWS certification in Brantas basin. Over 2,000 business sites were mapped and analysed, and multiple past and present programs were assessed to analyse lessons learned in the basin. A deep-dive into the Indonesian environmental performance system PROPER was done to assess opportunities for allignment and strengthening on water stewardship. AWS Indonesia has listed Brantas basin as priority basin and is continuing engagement in the basin to boost water stewardship practices and AWS Standard uptake.

Driven by the members of the Indonesia Water Coalition, momentum has been created to support joint action and contribute to water security in West Java. West-Java is the center of economic development of Indonesia and consists of a densely populated area where the impacts of population growth, economic development, and climate change are affecting millions. This project aims to enable and create leverage for public-private partnerships through capacity building and strategy development on water stewardship and the AWS Standard.

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The Water Coalition is intended to become a multi-stakeholder platform in which private sector stakeholders are in the drivers’ seat towards good water management at watershed scale. YKAN, the Indonesian affiliate of TNC, will lead the coalition to function as initiator, liaison, bridging and coordinating organization, with AWS Indonesia as a founding member.

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:

The first AWS assessment ever in natural rubber processing! We undertook an AWS assessment at a rubber processing facility in Jambi and did a survey over all 18 rubber processing facilities in Kalimantan and Sumatra to provide Halcyon Agri and Hevea Connect with better insights into water risks and opportunities to support informed decision-making on uptake of good water stewardship.