A Transformative Process for Urban Climate Resilience: The Case of Water as Leverage Resilient Cities Asia in Semarang, Indonesia

Institutional Conditions for Inclusive, Flood Resilient Urban Deltas: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Two International Resilience Programs in Southeast Asia

“…The second case study is the Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia (WaL) program. The WaL program focused on the design and cocreation of proactive and integrated climateresilience solutions (see Figure 3) and can be considered the first application of a design-led planning approach in the context of Asian cities [39,43]. While the program was initiated and funded by the Dutch government, its implementation was in collaboration with several international development partners such as UN-Habitat, the 100 Resilience Cities Program, AIIB, ADB and WWF.…”

“…The local members of the design teams and the local government partners involved in the WaL program in Semarang created the local 'WaL Taskforce' to strengthen their connecting roles. The role of this local WaL taskforce was to ensure the continuation of the program, and to organize communication with the national and regional governmental decision-makers for the implementation of the design proposals [43].…”

“…The Government Resolution 120, for instance, specifically stated the strategic partnership with the Netherlands for technological assistance and investment in the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta [58]. In the WaL program, multidisciplinary design teams were granted Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) by the program to ensure their continuing role in the further development of the solutions [43]. This condition aims to ensure continuous design team roles that could incentivize the design firms, consultants, and organizations to secure the integrated social, ecological, and economic outcomes of the project implementation.…”

Planning for inclusive flood resilience in Southeast Asia

“…The second case study is the WaL program. The WaL program focused on the design and co-creation of proactive and integrated climate resilience solutions (see Figure 5.3) and can be considered the first application of a design-led planning approach in the context of Asian cities (Laeni et al, 2021;Laeni et al, 2020a). While the program was initiated and funded by the Dutch government, its implementation was in collaboration with several international development partners such as UN-Habitat, the 100 Resilience Cities Program, AIIB, ADB and WWF.…”

“…The local members of the design teams and the local government partners involved in the WaL program in Semarang created the local 'WaL Taskforce' to strengthen their connecting roles. The role of this local WaL taskforce was to ensure the continuation of the program and to organize communication with the national and regional governmental decision-makers for the implementation of the design proposals (Laeni et al, 2021).…”