Micro-finance for community based sanitation as a tool for climate adaptation and risk management tools: a case study from Semarang City, Indonesia

IRGSC working paper no 9:

This paper presents good practices and lessons learned from a community based sanitation microfinance initiative as a tool for climate adaptation and risk management that was recently adopted by Kemijen Village in Eastern part of Semarang City, Indonesia. The paper argues that micro-finance can be used for community based adaptation planning if the conditions for sustainability can be controlled by local actors at the village level.