Hopefully this guideline can be utilized properly by all users and can contribute to increase the capacity of Civil Society Organizations and other parties, especially in carrying out policy advocacy work related to strengthening community resilience in the future.

Across the world, COVID-19 is impacting vulnerable coastal communities such as Demak, Northern Java. Here, the Building with Nature Indonesia consortium is working with coastal villages to reduce erosion, rehabilitate mangroves and revive local livelihoods.   The villagers own and maintain temporary […]

Our programme in Northern Java, Indonesia to stop coastal erosion through Building with Nature has won the prestigious Flood & Coast Excellence Award yesterday in […]

On November 19th, Indonesia showed itself as a pioneer in embracing the Building with Nature approach to help protect their eroding coastline. In a virtual event the Indonesian […]

This technical guideline discusses Associated Mangrove Aquaculture systems, in which part of an aquaculture pond is given up to make space for riverine mangroves. This […]

This technical guideline discusses the application of permeable structures as a close-to-nature and sustainable solution to increase sedimentation along eroded coastlines to allow re-colonisation of […]

From early 2018 onwards, Wetlands International Indonesia (Yayasan Lahan Basah – YLBA) and Red-Cross Climate Centre (RCCC), under Partnership for Resilience Program (PfR), join hand […]

Wetlands form natural buffers against impacts of sea level rise, floods and storms, and they are vital for water and food security and local livelihoods. […]

The Impact of COVID19 on poor and vulnerable people is severe. Also in Demak, Northern Java, where the Building with Nature Indonesia project works with […]

The Building with Nature (BwN) Indonesia Programme by the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Ecoshape Foundation and Wetlands International, is seeking a landscape design and planning firm to support the inception of 5 new Building with Nature pilots in Indonesia through development of 5 landscape propositions with the Building with Nature team and stakeholders. The consultant is requested to provide a proposal based on the boundary conditions set out in this document.