New IDEAKSI Innovators Announced!
Written by Lorenzo Fellycyano. Originally posted by YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU) on 9th September 2023.
The First IDEAKSI (Idea, Innovation, Action, Inclusion) Programme 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) Programme commenced in May 2023 with reflective workshops for the Community-Led Innovation Partnership (CLIP) Team in Indonesia. These activities prepared the team to enhance the programmatic approaches to IDEAKSI with the good practices from the First IDEAKSI.
Refreshed from the workshops, the CLIP Team held 7 roadshow events to cover all 5 districts in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, at the end of May and in early June 2023. The roadshows introduced the YEU CLIP Team and its IDEAKSI 2.0 call for concept notes to 124 community groups facing various issues, including farmer groups and community disaster-risk reduction (DRR) task forces.
The roadshows mark the first out of four phases of the Second IDEAKSI (Exploration, Discovery, Development and Growth). In this exploration phase, priority issues in the community are being identified. It gives community groups a sense of understanding of the underlying root causes of the issues and possible innovative ideas to address them.
IDEAKSI Indonesia Innovation Hub Expands to Other Provinces
In the middle of this exploration process, YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU) as the CLIP innovation hub in Indonesia cemented its collaborative efforts to expand the hub. It partners with the Church World Service (CWS) Indonesia to specifically support innovators in the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and Jakarta.
As an IDEAKSI Innovation Hub, CWS Indonesia will in turn partner with 6 innovators to address agriculture and human migration issues in relation to disaster management. YEU will also support the innovators through the service of its local innovation advisors, mentoring sessions, training opportunities, and collective advocacy.
CWS Indonesia embarked on the IDEAKSI exploration process by arranging similar roadshows in July 2023 to gather ideas from community groups. Concept notes, or proposals, submitted to CWS Indonesia have undergone a selection process since August, with support from YEU.
The Discovery Phase in Yogyakarta
In Yogyakarta, the selection process began immediately after YEU closed the call for concept notes in June 2023. Intriguing ideas in the 50 proposals YEU received were submitted by 41 community groups in the province, including organizations for persons with disabilities and women farmers’ groups.
After a round of scoring by technical reviewers, community reviewers, and YEU itself, 25 proposals from 22 groups were selected for final interviews in July. Careful rounds of discussions have been held since to agree on a list of 15 groups that will be the IDEAKSI 2.0 innovators.
After much deliberation, 15 innovation ideas from 15 groups were chosen to receive further support in IDEAKSI. They received endorsements from the Asian Disaster Reduction & Response Network (ADRRN) Executive Committee.
Ready for Take-off
The 15 selected groups got the chance to refine their innovation approach and proposals in August 2023. This included three innovation workshops, partner assessments, mentoring sessions with local experts, and support to conduct surveys. These activities help the groups to better understand their organizational capacity, the innovation ecosystem they are in, and the actual condition of the various environments where they will implement innovations.
In September, the new innovators will be undergoing a formal agreement process with YEU for collaboration and receiving financial grants. After 2 months of fine-tuning the ideas, their innovative ideas will be pitched at a Demo Day and Symposium event in October 2023 for the public and stakeholders.
The aforementioned process marks the beginning of the development phase of the Second IDEAKSI. Throughout the following months, the 15 IDEAKSI 2.0 innovators in Yogyakarta will be developing their innovation ideas in their respective communities. Later, in April 2024, innovators will enter the growth phase to seek sustainability, wider utilization, and possibilities of scaling up their innovations.
IDEAKSI 2.0 Innovators in Yogyakarta
YEU gladly announces below the list of IDEAKSI 2.0 innovators in the Special Region of Yogyakarta!
1. Murtigading DRR Forum
Field: Disaster forum / village task force
Area: Bantul (district)
Innovation Idea: Mobile Public Kitchen
Issue: Disaster management (DM) logistics innovation
2. Gempita
Field: Waste bank
Area: Suryatmajan (village)
Innovation Idea: Minimalist waste transport tool
Issue: DM and waste bank innovation
3. Ngudi Makmur Farmers’ Group
Field: Farming
Area: Bolang (sub-village)
Innovation Idea: Integrated goat farming
Issue: DM innovation
4. Prima Gadung Youth Group
Field: Youth group
Area: Nganjir (sub-village)
Innovation Idea: Sewing the earth using Javanese bamboo
Issue: Landslide prevention
5. Purwosari Millennial Farmers
Field: Farming
Area: Purwosari (sub-district)
Innovation Idea: Smart drip irrigation
Issue: Drought
6. Unggul Jiwa Self-Help Group
Field: Disability organization
Area: Kaligintung (village)
Innovation Idea: Disaster-responsive and climate change-adaptive agricultural land management
Issue: Flooding
7. Luhur Jiwa Self-Help Group
Field: Disability organization
Area: Sidoluhur (village)
Innovation Idea: Horticultural agriculture diversification to increase the recovery of persons with psychosocial disabilities
Issue: Farming
8. Mitra Sejahtera Disability Empowerment Center (PPDMS)
Field: Disability organization
Area: Gunungkidul (district)
Innovation Idea: Inclusive Learning-Disaster (ILearn-Disaster) home visit
Issue: Disaster education innovation
9. Kebon Tirtohargo Tourism Group (BonHargo)
Field: Tourism village
Area: Tirtohargo (village)
Innovation Idea: Inclusive DM education studio at BonHargo
Issue: Disaster education innovation
10. Merapi Rescue Disaster-Preparedness Group
Field: Disaster forum / village task force
Area: Sleman (district)
Innovation Idea: Inclusion-based DM for the community
Issue: Inclusive evacuation mechanisms
11. Wanita Karya Women Farmers’ Group
Field: Farming
Area: Jurug (sub-village)
Innovation Idea: Cultivating catfish and water spinach in single-use water
Issue: Food security
12. Artha Mandiri Granary of Kemadang Javanese Christian Church
Field: Food security
Area: Tanjungsari (sub-district)
Innovation Idea: Food barn for disaster preparedness
Issue: Drought, product processing for DM
13. Melati Women Farmers’ Group
Field: Farming
Area: Watugajah (sub-village)
Innovation Idea: Waste management
Issue: Waste bank management
14. Pita Merah Jogja (The Jogja Red Ribbon)
Field: Support group for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)
Area: Yogyakarta (municipality)
Innovation Idea: Disaster emergency features in the PLHIV Health Monitoring (MONTOV) application
Issue: Digital technology
15. Teater Inklusi (Inclusion Theater)
Field: Performing arts, social inclusion education, stigma reduction
Area: Yogyakarta (municipality)
Innovation Idea: Mobile entertainment for disaster information
Issue: DRR information dissemination and psychosocial support service
The Community-Led Innovation Partnership is a joint initiative between Elrha, Start Network, Asia Disaster Reduction and Response Network, Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud in Guatemala, Center for Disaster Preparedness in the Philippines, and Yakkum Emergency Unit in Indonesia, which supports the emergence and development of locally-driven solutions to humanitarian problems. It is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
