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This Chapter presents the case of Grebeg Air Gajah Wong as an example of how public-private collaboration can successfully be implemented as an Integrated Community River Management Project in Central Java through the involvement of a local institution. As part of its corporate social responsibility, the Martha Tilaar Group initiated the project in 2012 in collaboration with the local government and the community to clean the River Gajah Wong in the region. In this project, the four strategic corporate social responsibilities of the Martha Tilaar Group are implemented, which are based on the principles of women’s empowerment of caring for green business, culture and education. The objective of the Grebeg Air Gajah Wong programme is to revitalise the river in the Sleman District and Depok Sub-District of Yogyakarta through the local Grebeg institution of communal activities by the villagers in order to clean the river and make its water usable and accessible again for people in the community. The main considerations are presented where the River Gajah Wong has several functions for the benefit of the people, ranging from irrigation to domestic use. The discussions were interactive throughout the process, from identifying the causes to the possible solutions, pertaining to the major outcome that the management of the cleanliness and maintenance of the river cannot be left only to the government without the full participation of the members of the local community. The project has not only increased the awareness of the local people regarding the importance of maintaining the sanitation of the water in the River Gajah Wong through the Grebeg institution, but also of the other stakeholders where education and training links up with the local knowledge and practice of sustainable water management.
Holistic views of water and the environment and of human health and society need to inform and influence the way that resources and services are managed in indigenous areas and beyond.
—Jimenez et al. (2014)
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A Public–Private Partnership (PPP) refers to a cooperative arrangement between two or more public and private sectors, usually for the long term. Although governments have used such a mix of public and private endeavours throughout history, a clear trend towards governments across the globe making greater use of various PPP arrangements has developed over the past decades. As a commercial legal relationship, PPP has been defined by the Government of India in 2011 as: “an arrangement between a government/ statutory entity/ government-owned entity on one side and a private sector entity on the other, for the provision of public assets and/or public services…” (cf. Ministry of Finance, India 2005).
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The United Nations (2017) estimates that approximately 70% of all water abstracted from rivers, lakes and aquifers is used for irrigation, while at the same time more than 80% of wastewater resulting from human activities is discharged into rivers or the sea without any pollution removal. Since clean water and sanitation are key conditions for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, the civil society is called upon for not only investment in water research and development, but also promotion for the inclusion of women, youth and indigenous communities in water resources management.
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Tilaar, M. (2019). Grebeg Air Gajah Wong: An Integrated Community River Management Project in Java. In: Slikkerveer, L., Baourakis, G., Saefullah, K. (eds) Integrated Community-Managed Development. Cooperative Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05423-6_16
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