BAPPENAS, GGGI launch green growth videos
Indonesia’s National Development Agency (BAPPENAS) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) have launched videos to explain their strategies to encourage the systematic implementation of growth that is environmentally-friendly and socially-responsible across the Southeast Asian country.
The graphic videos, produced by Daemeter Consulting, as a member of the PWC Alliance implementing team, and Impro Production, highlight the importance of integrating Green Growth into the development planning processes in the regions. This is particularly crucial in a vast archipelagic country like Indonesia, which is divided into 34 provinces and hundreds of districts and cities, each with their own administration. With such an approach, green growth will be adapted to the needs of each region, in terms of local geographic, social, economic and cultural conditions.
The Indonesia Green Growth Program, supported by GGGI, designed a special participatory process to assist stakeholders to reflect on the region’s development in the context of the five dimensions of green growth – a framework that was built with stakeholders in the first year of this program in Indonesia. The five dimensions are growth that is sustainable with minimum environmental impact; resilient against social, economic, and environmental shocks; inclusive and equitable; sustains healthy and productive ecosystems; and supports the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
This participatory process was tested for the first time at district level in a workshop on March 17 and 18, 2014. The workshop “Building A Shared Vision for Green Growth” was conducted in Murung Raya District, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Daemeter Consulting helped design and execute the participatory and creative workshop for GGGI and the local government.
In the workshop, participants comprising mainly local government officials visualized the development priorities of their respective agencies, and through role-play, reflected on them from the perspectives of other stakeholders, such as rubber farmers and NGOs. The participants also reflected on these priorities in the context of the five dimensions of green growth and explored what support will be needed to achieve this vision of green development. (Watch the video for more details on the results of the Murung Raya workshop.)
The participatory process to build a shared vision for green growth was the first step towards systematically mainstreaming the five dimensions of green growth at grass roots level. The program encourages similar workshops in other areas to promote the realization of growth in the context of sustainable development, which will be very valuable for present and future generations.