Coastal poor Community Empowerment through Sustainable Argoecology Livelihood (COASTAL)
22-0806- 13

Project Profile           

This three-year umbrella project aims to improve the livelihoods and food security for resource-poor and marginalized communities in coastal areas within the South and West districts of Lampung province. The 350 original families will receive 1,050 goats, 5,000 fingerlings, 20 beehives, horticulture seeds and trees (including mangrove). An additional 700 families will benefit from “passing on the gift.” The project will provide both technical and non-technical trainings. Non-technical trainings will include Heifer’s Cornerstones and holistic community development model; marketing and entrepreneurship, gender and social analysis. Technical trainings will include livestock management, aquaculture, apiculture, organic farming, water harvesting and natural resources management. Heifer International Indonesia will collaborate with two local project partners: MITRA BENTALA (Lampung) and YASADHANA (Lampung). Local governments and others services providers will provide technical support for this project.

Project Rationale – Local Conditions

The Indonesian coastal and marine sector is beset with a number of problems. Foremost among these are the two critical and interrelated issues of pervasive poverty in coastal communities and resource degradation. Coastal communities are among the poorest in the country, with large number of fisher and farmer families living in subsistence conditions. They are deprived from basic social amenities and service like potable water supply, sewerage and sanitation, health and education. The coastal ecosystem is subjected to continuing threats from natural process and human activities such as over fishing, destructive fishing, coastal pollution, sand mining as well as mangrove and coral degradation.

Among communities living in the coastal areas of Indonesia, poverty headcount index measures at 0.28.  This means that 28 % of coastal communities are considered poor. Lampung has the third biggest percentage of poor population in Sumatra Island. Most of them live in coastal and small islands in Lampung bay and western and eastern seashore of Lampung province

Not only excluded from social services, farmers and fishermen living in coastal areas are also excluded from financial services. They lack access to credit services by the government and other financial service providers.

Because of lack of access to education, farmers and fishermen in coastal areas have low quality of skills and knowledge. Due to economic hardship and uncertainty situation, they also often practice non sustainable natural resource management.

Opportunities for Assistance

Farmers and fishermen in Indonesia very much depend on diversified income sources.  Families usually practice cash crop, food crops as well as fishing activities. Other activities such as handcraft are also being practiced to maximize mangrove and forest by products. One of the important sources of their livelihood is livestock rising.

However, due to absence of adequate knowledge and skills, like small scale business analysis, farmers and fishermen in the coastal areas are still living below the poverty line. Absence of improved animal management is also contributing to unproductive methods of livestock rising.

This project will empower poor farmers and fishermen living in coastal areas in Lampung through productive resources like crops and livestock. In addition, both technical and non-technical trainings will provide farmers with skills on how to improve food security, nutrition, and income levels in an environmentally sound and socially viable way.

This project will also improve capacity of Self-Help Group through trainings, discussions, exchange visits, and cross-learning that will enabling them to play a broader role in the on going process of social transformation within and beyond the groups.

All of these will be implemented in the framework of values based holistic community development. These activities will also be promoted as demonstration examples to inform relevant programs and policies in the context of regional and national development.

Training and Education Plan

The project participants will receive following trainings and formal discussions:

•  VBHCD package I  (VBHCD introduction, Personal Leadership; Cornerstones, VBPM, PSRP) (5 days).

• VBCHD package II (SHG strengthening) (4 days)

• Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) (4 days).

• Village strategic planning (3 days)

• Improved animal management and health (4 days).

• Gender awareness (3 day).

• Compost training (2 days).

• Forest /mangrove conservation awareness for children (2 day).

• Organic kitchen garden (2 days).

• Human nutrition and reproduction, and traditional medicines (1 day).

• Personal and community hygiene (1 day)

• Post harvest processing and entrepreneurship training (1 day).

• Certain community according to their income sources will attend appropriate technical training on agroforestry and nursery seedling (3 days), aquaculture (1 day) or apiculture (1 day) , and natural resources management (2 days)

• Selected 70 project participants will be trained to be CAHV (6 days).

• Participants selected by their community will have study tour to another Heifer project area. 

• Food security discussions. 

In addition, some of above trainings are delivered to project participants on continual and repetitive basis covered by an already approved Partner Capacity Building Project
 

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