Water Stewardship Actions
Water stewardship enables water users to work together to identify and achieve common goals for sustainable water management and shared water security.
Towards Good Water Stewardship at IHGs Resort Hotel in Bali
Towards Good Water Stewardship at IHGs Resort Hotel in Bali
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.
Expert Partner in Indonesia Healthy Rivers Challenge 2020
Expert Partner in Indonesia Healthy Rivers Challenge 2020
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
Water Stewardship Brantas River
Water Stewardship Brantas River
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.
Partners for Water (RVO The Netherlands) and Australian Water Partnership
Joint action on water security and climate resilience in West-Java
Joint action on water security and climate resilience in West-Java
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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Water Coalition
Water Coalition
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.
Boosting Sustainability Practice and Performance at The Landscape Level Through Good Water Stewardship
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 |
Action Learning Project - Rubber Processing in Sumatra and Kalimantan
Action Learning Project - Rubber Processing in Sumatra and Kalimantan
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.