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

 

"Mangroves are very important for local residents, because they act as forts or wave barriers and prevent abrasion," said Wawan Widya from Keluarga Pemuda Pemudi Baros (KP2B) / Baros Youth Family.

 

Wawan is a member of the Baros Youth Family (Keluarga Pemuda Pemudi Baros / KP2B). A group of young people from Baros that is trying to protect the coast by planting mangroves as a natural protection fortress for the residents of the southern coast of Yogyakarta. Established in 1978 and having its address at the mouth of the Opak River in Baros Hamlet, Tirtohargo Village, Kapanewon Kretek, Bantul Regency, D.I. Yogyakarta Province, KP2B currently consists of 40 young people from Baros and is the spearhead of coastal area conservation through mangrove conservation.

 

Together with the local community living around the Opak River estuary, KP2B initiated in 2003 to care for the environment through the development of community-based mangrove forests that have great potential as environmental tourism areas.

 

 

Efforts to develop the mangrove forest area emerged from the idea of finding solutions to various problems faced by local communities living around the mouth of the Opak River, among others related to the threat of land abrasion, sea water intrusion into agricultural wells, wind with high levels of salt which reduces agricultural productivity, and the threat of a Tsunami hazard and shipping waste from other areas along the Opak River.

 

“One of the efforts to foster land conservation around the mouth of the Opak river is by planting mangrove trees. Mangrove planting was carried out in several plantings and it was found that the most suitable species in this area was Api-api (Avicennia sp.).” as quoted from Mangrove Jogjakarta.

 

Mangrove conservation is useful not only to answer the problems of local communities, but can also be a habitat and food source for various animals. Therefore, the efforts made by KP2B are not limited to planting and maintaining mangroves and coastal vegetation, but also observing and inventorying fauna (birds), restocking mangrove crabs and fish, and developing ecotourism potential.

Wawan Widya also explained that the action of planting mangroves should always be carried out because the biggest obstacles faced were garbage and abrasion, which resulted in a very low level of mangrove life in the Baros area.

 

"Since 2003 until now KP2B has planted mangroves covering an area of 10 ha on the Baros coast with varying heights between 5-7 meters," said Nurcholis, coordinator of KP2B.

 

KP2B aspires to develop a community nursery to provide mangrove seedlings in order to expand the Baros mangrove forest. In 2021, through the Inclusive Innovation Action Idea (IDEAKSI) activity, although it has not yet succeeded in qualifying as 10 innovations that receive funding, KP2B has qualified to become one of 15 local innovator teams participating in a series of capacity building activities.

Nurcholis said that by participating in IDEAKSI's activities, even though he had not yet succeeded in accessing funding, "We learned a lot, learning about disaster mitigation and sorting out priorities when evacuating or saving during a disaster. We also learned to think about innovation."


 

Sources:

http://www.mangrovejogjakarta.com/

KP2B, “Penanaman Mangrove Sebagai Benteng Perlindungan Alami WargaPesisir Selatan Yogyakarta”. 2021.

The Green Volunteers, “Konservasi Hutan Mangrove Baros oleh Keluarga Pemuda pemudi Baros”. 2019.

KP2B, “Mangrove”, video untuk Demo Day CLIP IDEAKSI.