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

 

IDEAKSI Innovation Workshop was held on 29/06 & 30/06 and attended by 15 local innovator groups with outcome to deepen the knowledge of local innovators in creating community-based inclusive innovations. In the Workshop entitled Analysis of Research Findings and Development of Innovation Proposals, representative from each group of local innovators presented their research findings in the field, learned about business models, building community-based innovation partnerships, innovation prototypes and inclusive design, as well as participating in mentoring sessions from mentors who are experts in the field according to the innovation theme planned by the group.

Taking place online via Zoom, this 2-day activity is useful for sharpening the innovation ideas of the groups. The local innovators were also prepared to be able to continue their innovations in a sustainable manner and were strengthened through business model sessions presented by Ryani Sisca, Program Director at  Social Innovation Acceleration Program (SIAP). According to Ryani, the key word in running a business is “sustainability” and this can be achieved through marketing through the right business model for each group.


One of the local innovators, Mr. Doddy from Difagana DIY said that "The innovations that will be carried out by groups have social intentions and we want to help those in need so that they are not for sale", and according to Ryani Sisca there are types of sustainability that can be done without a business selling products, namely by selling services or soft skills. These services can be packaged as either a facilitator or an expert in the field being carried out. With this, the groups can still be sustainable because it has a source of income to support the continuation of the group's business.


Winta Adhitia Guspara, a product design lecturer at UKDW, was a speaker in the IDEAKSI Modeling session to share experiences and knowledge in designing prototypes. Mr. Winta explained that it is necessary to be able to see and be taken into account when designing modeling and prototyping, “what might change in the future is how we imagine both in terms of representation in 3 dimensions and the situation of the system products and services designed, this is what is called a prototype".


The session on the following day also provided platform for local innovators to discuss, learn, and ask mentors who are experts in their fields. The experts who were brought in to guide the breakout room session were Benny Usdisanto from RedR Indonesia who facilitated the “Documents related to development of disaster reduction in villages”, Pramono from PSLH UGM in “Environmental conservation (agriculture, waste management, and mangrove) session”, Rahma Utami from Suarise who became a mentor for the group that would create an inclusive application and website, M. Amrun from Combine Resource Institution to assist the group in the “Village Information System” session, and Agus from DIY BPPTKG who facilitated the “Evacuation and Early Warning Tool” session. Warning Systems".


After participating in the mentoring session, Dhinar Rizky from YEU explained about IDEAKSI's follow-up plan and how to fill in the proposal. This proposal will later be selected by a team of judges and donors to select 9 groups that are entitled to qualify for the next stage. These 9 groups will also receive funding of IDR 85,000,000 to realize the innovation ideas that have been designed. The friendship between groups will also not be broken even though there will be 5 groups that do not qualify. YEU has planned a tentative demo day as a place for groups to introduce their ideas to a wider audience in the hope of being able to partner with more parties. In addition, there will be future trainings that will still involve 14 groups of local innovators.