IDEPs strategic plan for Community Resilience in Indonesia

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IDEPs strategic plan for Community Resilience in
Indonesia
Helping people to help themselves
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YAYASAN IDEP is a local Indonesian NGO
IDEPs Mission is Community Empowerment
Helping people to help themselves through
relevant information, demonstrations and
training Community Resilience Working in
partnership with vulnerable communities to
establish more resilience to local risks
Disaster Relief Supporting communities struck by
disaster to attain safety and empower them to
recover in a sustainable way
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IDEPs program cycle approach
IDEP specializes in community empowerment through
development of training programs and educational
materials in four core areas
As of 2008 IDEP integrates its approaches
intoCommunity Resilience
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IDEPs perspective on Community Resilience (CR)

• Community resilience is the capacity of a
  community to adapt to and influence the course of
  environmental, social economic change. (US
  IOTWS 2007)

• IDEPs Community Resilience approach helps
• To build on communities ability to develop
  locally appropriate solutions to current and
  future challenges
• To improve community ability to withstand
  shocks
• To reduce community vulnerability
• Changes / shocks include
• Environmental (e.g. natural disaster, climate
  change)
• Economic (e.g. food in-security, loss of income)
• Social (e.g. social conflict, terrorism)
• Combination (e.g. natural disasters caused by
  environmental mismanagement)

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IDEP Lessons learned and Community Resilience
We believe that Community Resilience is an
important and attainable goal that matches our
mandate and mission

• Sustainable development Empowered communities
  can design and implement goals that match their
  needs and capacities
• Disaster preparedness Communities have the
  ability to reduce risk factors in their area
• In times of emergency Communities need to be
  able to help themselves in the critical first
  hours, days, weeks after disasters have occurred
• For sustainable recovery Empowered communities
  can design and implement goals that match their
  needs for sustainable recovery

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IDEPs Strategic Plan 2008 - 2013
IDEPs objective is To build the resilience of
Indonesian communities to better manage disaster
hardship

• IDEPs strategy for achieving this objective is
• Develop a replicable model and curriculum for
  community resilience
• Deliver training and media to communities,
  especially in disaster prone areas
• Facilitate information flow and support advocacy
  at the community level
• Work with communities to strengthen capacity for
  disaster response recovery
• Integrate resilience into community recovery
  rehabilitation strategies
• Capacity build IDEP a network of partners to
  implement community resilience

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IDEP CR Program broad scope

• Year One - Bali
• New CR media curriculum development
• 2 pilot communities (community, Gov schools)
• Concurrent school programs in other areas
• Concurrent national trainings in emergency
  response
• Lessons learned integrated into program modules
• Year Two - Bali 2 Provinces
• Program delivery through partners
• Media design and advocacy capacity building in 6
  provinces
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning for program
  improvement
• Identify additional target communities
  potential partners
• Year Three - Nation wide launch
• Train and support a network of partners to work
  with communities
• Publishing of key program results national
  launch of new curriculum
• Monitoring, evaluation and dissemination of
  learning

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IDEP CR Program roll out in each community
Together with community define program design / M
E
Participatory Community Needs Assessment (1
month)
Community Resilience Training (CRT) (7 days,
tailored to community capacity needs)
Government Workshop (2 days)
Initial Community resilience Training (CRT),
followed by launching of community program demo
site and series of Technical Trainings (CIT) to
support communities in implementing their
community resilience plans.
Development of community program demo site
Establish CDMG Community Response Plan
Establish Community Disaster Management Group
(CDMG) and create community response plan.
Teacher training for school activities
Schools integrated through teacher trainings and
demonstration activities.
Training of Community Facilitators (1 week)
Min 6 participants from each community who commit
to facilitate their community plans join Training
of facilitators (TOF).
Community Emergency Response Simulation
Community wide simulation of emergency response
plan
Continuous M E throughout process
Community Facilitators coordinate ongoing work
with support from IDEP staff. Linked with
regular monitoring and support visits (every 3
months) to check progress and provide any
technical support required.
Community DRR activities
ME support of community activities (every 3
months)
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Existing IDEP Media for Community Resilience

• CBDM self-help resource kit facilitator
  resource DVD

• Permacuture handbooks facilitators resource
  DVDs

• Documentaries, public education training videos

• Educational games, resources activity books for
  children their educators

• CBDM environmental awareness campaigning tools

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Development of new IDEP Media for CR program
IDEPs 3-year Community resilience program
includes the development and delivery of a range
of new educational media resources for use by
communities and facilitators Indonesia wide.

• Tools for socializing Community Resilience
• Handbook / Manual Facilitator's flip charts
• Educational games activity book
• 5 x Public education comic books
• Series of training videos
• Public Campaigning tools (Posters, Bags
  T-shirts)
• Tools for Emergency Response trainings
• Handbook / Manual
• Series of training videos
• Children's trauma self-help book
• Media Advocacy training and reference modules

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Contribution to the Hyogo Framework for Action
(HFA)

• Ensuring DRR is a national local priority with
  a strong institutional basis - IDEPs
  community-based program will promote community
  participation and capacity for DRR.
• Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks ad
  enhance early warning - Programs trainings
  incorporate risk assessment methodologies and
  establishment of early warning systems.
• Use knowledge, innovation and education to build
  a culture of safety and resilience at all levels
  - IDEPs innovative and informative tools can be
  used for advocacy, to raise stakeholder awareness
  deliver school and adult trainings.
• Reduce underlying risk factors - Use of
  permaculture to ensure environmental protection,
  rehabilitation, sustainable livelihoods and food
  security. Use of CBDM activities to empower local
  disaster management capacity.
• Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective
  response at all levels - Trainings focus on both
  disaster preparedness and first response and
  build capacity to respond to emergency and
  strengthen local response networks.

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Program partnerships and support
Partnership is an integral aspect of the program
- a diverse range of supporting partners ensures
that the development outcomes of the program
can be widely shared disseminated

• IDEP is still seeking partners to support this
  program
• Current negotiations with contributing donors,
  include
• Program/media development Cordaid
• Community outreach Trocaire Oxfam Au
• Media advocacy training Oxfam GB / Surfaid
  Intl
• Emergency response capacity building

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