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

 

“Earthquakes are natural phenomena, but not all natural phenomena are disasters. Earthquakes are not deadly but collapsed buildings are what caused casualties and are then called disasters”, said Dr. Raditya Jati, Plt. Deputy for System and Strategy of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) in the Innovation Workshop: Identification of Disaster Management Problems in Special Region of Yogyakarta organized by YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU) with Elrha, Start Network, and ADRRN. This online workshop was held on the 15th anniversary of the Yogyakarta Earthquake (26/05/21) and the event began with a moment of silence to commemorate the Yogyakarta Earthquake incident.


BNPB noted that there are around 900,000 Indonesians with disabilities. Disasters are multidimensional and require the involvement of all sectors or collaborations of Pentahelix which involve all parties, government, media, experts, NGOs, and community organizations which are important frontlines. Therefore, it requires inclusive disaster management that involves everyone. 


Takeshi Komino, General Secretary of the Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), also attended the workshop and presented the Introduction to Humanitarian Innovation. He explained that humanitarian innovation is an iterative process of identifying, adapting and disseminating ideas to enhance humanitarian action. Innovation is not the same as a beautiful solution to help all people in the world, there is a difference between innovation and invention.


"Innovation is not the same as invention, traditional knowledge can be used to create local wisdom-based innovations that are effective and on target to help people in the regions," - Takeshi Komino. Thus, innovation does not always have to be associated with technology-based inventions.


The Innovation Workshop is a series of activities from IDEAKSI (ide inovasi aksi inklusi) YAKKUM Emergency Unit to seek innovations from innovative and inclusive community groups in disaster management for the most vulnerable and disabled groups. Indonesia has 12 threats of natural disasters, thus it needs mitigation efforts in the community-based disaster industry with local understanding, which is actually present in Yogyakarta. YAKKUM Emergency Unit Innovation Workshop guided 15 groups of Yogyakarta local innovators who passed the selection stage for the IDEAKSI Competition. These groups will participate in 4 series of workshops during May and June 2021 to solve disaster problems in their regions, sharpen solutions through an iterative process that involves vulnerable groups in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation stages.


The 15 teams are Caritra Foundation, Ciqal, Difagana DIY, FPRB GK, Lingkar, Lingkup, KPA DIY, Merapi Rescue Community, Ngudi Mulyo, Ngudi Rejeki Tompak, Pemuda Pemudi Baros, PB Palma, Pensil Terbang, Sekoci, dan Winongo Asri.


"We hope that through this program, all parties are actively involved and able to find innovative solutions. which accommodates the community, especially for the disabled, the elderly, and women and other vulnerable groups to have meaningful involvement, a role in decision making and control over resources in disaster preparedness and humanitarian response", - dr. Sari Mutia Timur, Director of YEU.


After 4 series of workshops, local innovator groups will then be encouraged to build partnerships with relevant stakeholders and compile innovation proposals where 10 groups will get funding opportunities of IDR 85,000,000 and piloting innovative ideas for 6 months. Follow the development of disaster management innovation that will be developed by local innovators through YEU website at www.inovasi.yeu.or.id, Instagram @YEUideaksi, and Facebook YAKKUM Emergency Unit.