CHS Self-Assessment: A Learning Jou...

In picture: Group photo of ACT Alliance Indonesia Forum members and YAKKUM units during the learning workshop on CHS Self-Assessment on 26 September 2023.   The learning journey of pilot self-assessment against Core Humanitarian Standards, supported by Kerk in Actie (KiA) and ACT Alliance.   BACKGROUND The motivation towards Quality and Accountability has been cultiva...

Women Groups Consolidate to Identif...

Women Groups Consolidate to Identify Challenges and to Develop Strategies for Changes in Disaster Governance The climate crisis affects communities on varying scales and intensity. The impact of disasters, especially climate-related disasters, has been detrimental to women's groups, especially because women are the leading actors who maintain their family livelihoods, such as natur...

YEU Facilitates the Development of ...

YEU with the funding support from Arbeiterwohlfahrt International (AWO International) provided assistance in five villages in Cugenang and Pacet sub-districts in Cianjur District. These villages include Mangunkerta, Gasol, Talaga, Nyalindung, and Ciputri. The program carried out by YEU covers efforts to strengthen disaster preparedness, providing support for basic needs, and ensuri...

CSR Funding Support from Jasa Rahar...

“Efforts do not betray the results”, this saying is very suitable for the Talise Plastic Bank management who continue to strive to introduce Plastic Bank to more people regardless of their background. One of the successful efforts was when the Mayor of Palu, Hadianto Rasyid, visited the exhibition booth managed by the Talise Plastic Bank in June 2023, thus promoted the Talise Plas...

A Community of Learners in the Seco...

An exchange of learning is a crucial part of YAKKUM Emergency Unit’s IDEAKSI Program.1 In its approach to community-led solutions, IDEAKSI builds a network of community innovators as an enabler for collaboration and sharing among the local communities. In the expanded ecosystem of the Second IDEAKSI,2 the sharing of learning has become richer with diverse perspectives of 23 local...

YEU and UGM Show Local Wisdom in Co...

Community resilience in facing disasters continues to be strengthened by various disaster management (DM) actors, including humanitarian institutions, one of which is the YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU), and educational institutions, such as the Faculty of Psychology at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM). YEU and the Faculty collaborated to organize the IDEAKSI Demo Day and Symposium in the F...

PERNYATAAN SIKAP DAN PESAN SOLIDARI...

PERNYATAAN SIKAP DAN PESAN SOLIDARITAS ANGGOTA-ANGGOTA FORUM ACT ALLIANCE DI INDONESIA (ACTIF) Menanggapi pernyataan yang disampaikan Forum ACT (Action by Churches Together) Palestina pada 19 Oktober 2023, kami anggota-anggota Forum ACT Alliance di Indonesia menyampaikan solidaritas dan dukacita yang mendalam. Konflik bersenjata antara kelompok militan Palestina pimpinan Hamas...

YEU Staff Prepares to Conduct an Ef...

Four representative staff from the YAKKUM Emergency Unit, Briant Nino Aditya, Brigita Ra Sekar Laras, Dhinar Rizki Linggar Kinkin, and Otniel Nahoga Christa, left for the Philippines to take part in emergency response training organized by HelpAge International from 14-19 August 2023. Other HelpAge International partners in Asia, COSE (Coalition of Service of the Elderly) from the Phi...

YEU Increases Disaster Management C...

“According to the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards, there are several barriers that prevent people with disabilities and the elderly from participating meaningfully in disaster risk reduction (DRR) actions, such as attitudinal barriers, environmental barriers, and institutional barriers”. This is the opening narration delivered in the video introduction of the Indonesian participa...

Dialogue on Loss and Damage Due to ...

For the first time at COP27, countries agreed to allocate funding to address loss and damage caused by climate change. However, the agreement requires follow-up and commitment from countries to design loss and damage funding, including who is obliged to contribute to loss and damage funding and who has the right to receive it. The Huairou Commission, a global network of women's gro...

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