Through the support of Elrha, Start Network, and the Asia Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN) on this partnership, funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU) carried out “Community-Led Innovation Partnership” / CLIP. The Community-Led Innovation Partnership puts communities affected by crises at the heart of innovation efforts to support their resilience to crises. This project aims to increase accessibility, accountability, and inclusion of people with disabilities and older people in disaster preparedness and humanitarian response through supported community-led innovation. 


In implementing this activity, YEU launched IDEAKSI (ide inovasi aksi inklusi / idea innovation action inclusion) to seek inclusive innovation ideas in disaster management for local organizations with disabilities , older people, and other most at risk groups.


IDEAKSI is expected to be the door for inclusive innovation by local innovators in the context of disaster management in Indonesia using local wisdom and knowledge.


YEU is a work unit of YAKKUM (Christian Foundation for Public Health) which was established in 2001 with the mandate of inclusive and participatory disaster response and building community resilience through community-based disaster reduction and climate change adaptation practices.


YEU has a vision to ensure that disaster-affected communities can get the right to a dignified and sustainable life, through the synergy of humanitarian services and the development of a transformative community based on organization, accountability and quality.

 

WHAT IS CLIP?

 

CLIP “Community Led Innovation Partnership" - is a partnership effort to deliver community-based innovation. CLIP aims to improve accessibility, accountability, and inclusiveness for the most at risk groups in the emergency response and preparedness process through community-supported innovation.


The CLIP project is planned to have a 3 year duration, starting from April 2020 to March 2023 for the implementation of IDEAKSI 1.0 and continuing for IDEAKSI 2.0 from April 2023 to March 2025. This project is committed to supporting innovators at the community level to generate, test, and develop solutions to priority problems faced in the emergency response & disaster preparedness both at the local and national levels.

 

Through this program, it is hoped that there will be innovative solutions that enable the community, especially women, people with disabilities, older people, and other most at risk groups to participate and be actively involved in the process of disaster management and decision-making that affects their lives.

BERITA

 

YAKKUM Emergency Unit's second IDEAKSI (ide inovasi aksi inklusi) Innovation Workshop  was held via online on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. The first session held by Ratna Susi, inclusion advisor in YEU's IDEAKSI team who delivered the Presentation on Humanitarian Inclusion Standards. Susi begins with a history of why this inclusion standard is needed. In 1994, there was a case of ethnic massacre or genocide in Rwanda, Central Africa, with about  800,000 people lost their lifes in that genocide. Many humanitarian aids came from around the world, but these aids actually worsened the situation in terms of handling the incident. “The aid carriers made their position higher than the people in need. Many practices caused inequality and then it turned into the abuse of power. Therefore, a guide called Sphere was initiated by several countries that continue to develop all the time and Indonesia is also one of these countries,” explained Susi.

 

This session continued with an on-going explanation of Sphere, the definition of inclusion, the principles and keys of the inclusion program, and ensuring inclusive innovation in making disaster innovations for IDEAKSI activities. Susi explained that an inclusion needs to involve everyone with a variety of backgrounds including age, religion, disability, gender, sexual preference, and nationality to be able to participate fully in every aspect. In addition, it is also necessary to pay attention to the accessibility of innovation users in obtaining a service. These presentations are expected to provide insight into inclusive innovation that can be accessed by everyone.

 

The next material was presented by the Project Manager, Debora Amie, who explained about knowledge mapping and key actors as collaboration partners, users, target groups, and related stakeholders. The organizers of IDEAKSI YEU led the participants, 15 selected groups of innovators, to remap what was known and what was not known regarding the issues to be raised.

 

The discussions held in this second workshop are expected to be a trigger and guide for the innovator team in making plans and conducting research again whether potential solutions already exist/have been developed previously and the efforts that need to be made so that the resulting disaster solutions are in accordance with the needs of vulnerable groups.

 

At the end of the session, Dhinar Rizky as the community organizer provided technical guidance for carrying out field research to map out the research plan. The important thing to note is to involve users, who in the context of IDEAKSI are vulnerable groups as part of the implementation team to ensure that the solutions developed are in accordance with the identified needs of vulnerable groups. In the field research process, each group will be funded in the amount of IDR 3,000,000 to carry out the research. This will be very useful for local innovators to understand user needs regarding innovations that will be carried out by the group.