New IDEAKSI Innovators Announced!
The First IDEAKSI (Idea, Innovation, Action, Inclusion) Program was concluded on a high note in March 2023. 4 out of 9 innovators with scale-up support have journeyed through various ways to sustain their initiatives. Taking the learnings from the earlier implementation, the Second IDEAKSI (IDEAKSI 2.0) Program commenced in May 2023 with reflective workshops for the Community-Led I...
YEU Partners Promote Resilience of ...
Persons with disabilities in Indonesia have been more involved in society. Increased support by the government can also be seen from the enactment of a law on persons with disabilities in 2016 and a number of related regulations. A biennial event named the Inclusion Gathering (Temu Inklusi) uses this momentum to continuously increase the participation of persons with disabilities up t...
Women's Leadership to Foster Streng...
Photo with Peer Exchange participants in Southeast Asia The First Peer Exchange After COVID-19 Pandemic In the years during the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, many activities have been delayed or even cancelled, including the Peer Learning Exchange activities for grassroots women's groups. Grassroots women's groups of Huairou Commission members in Southeast Asia met in the P...
Emergency Disaster Response (EDR) T...
Photo: Photo with participants and facilitators at session 2 of the Jakarta II EDR Klasis Team Disaster Emergency Response Training Transmitting knowledge to volunteers at Gereja Klasis Jakarta II The EDR Klasis Jakarta II Team Disaster Emergency Response Training was an initiative from one of the participants after participating in the phase 4 church volunteer training organize...
CBA 17 Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand...
CBA 17 Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand: Grassroots Movement Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation The 17th Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA) international conference was held on 22-25 May 2023 in Bangkok. On the last day, YAKKUM Emergency Unit had the opportunity to participate in this activity representing the grassroots women's network, Huairou Commission. This ...
A Fresh Start for the Community-Led...
IDEAKSI—an acronym for Idea, Innovation, Action, and Inclusion—has concluded its first round of nurturing local innovations for disaster management in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was launched in 2021 by YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU), as part of the Community-Led Innovation Partnership (CLIP) project. In its global partnership, programs like IDEAKSI were also initiated at the same time...
Peer Learning BUMDes Loli Tasiburi ...
Village Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) are village business institutions managed by the community and village government to strengthen the village-based economy on the needs and potential of the village.[1] The existence of BUMDes as an economic institution has been recognized since 2004, but the law was ratified in 2014 in Law No. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages.[2] Since the ratification ...
Build Back Better in Disaster Recov...
The earthquake which hit Cianjur District in West Java on 21 November 2022 with a magnitude of 5.6 SR caused damages to 67.504 houses, more than 1.000 public facilities, and even claimed 327 lives (Source: BNPB). Cianjur district has now entered the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (RR) phase based on decree number 360/2100/BPBD/2022 issued by the Head of Cianjur District on 21 Decem...
Saving Money from Plastic Waste
Mombine Berkarya group is one of five Women Plastic Entrepreneur Groups (WPEG) in Talise, Palu City, Central Sulawesi. This program (Womenpreneurs4Plastic) is implemented by YEU with support from Malteser International. This group was formed in April 2022 and then inaugurated by the Talise Village government by issuing a decree on 24 May 2022. Mombine derives from the local Kaili lang...
Nosarara: A Women-Led Collective Bu...
Nosarara is one of five Women Plastic Entrepreneur Groups (WPEGs) assisted by YEU in Ngatabaru Village, Sigi District, Central Sulawesi Province. The Nosarara group was formed on 25 July 2022 with 29 members. The name “nosarara” comes from the local language, Kaili, which means “one heart”. The name bears an expectation that the group always works collectively in one heart to ...
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