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Children as pioneers of change in building

community Resilience in DRR and CCA

A lesson learnt from the implementation of Child Centered

DRR Project in Indonesia

By Vanda Lengkong (Plan Indonesia)

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Background

• High vulnerability of disaster in Indonesia due to geographical condition and the impact of

climate change which rapidly increase the growth of

small-scale climatic disasters (localized

disaster)

•

94% disaster in 2002-2006 are climate related (drought, landslide, flood, cyclone and

abration)

•

Disaster management still been dominated by top down relief effort which majority targeting

adult

•

Chidlren

been seen as a passive actors who don’t have any capacity or as a victim only

•

Children been categorized as vulnerable groups because lack of access in regards to

information and have a passive involvement in DRR and climate change

•

Fulfillment of child rights based on CRS -

4 pillars:Protection, Survival, Development dan

Participation

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Impact of disaster to children

Physic impact

Education

impact

Economic

impact

Psychosocial

impact

reconstruction

rehabilitation

Livelihood impact to children’s parents

death

injured

disable

Drop out

from school

Quality

descnent

Document

lost

Trauma

Spirit descent

Descent in study

Education

for all

Child

right

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Brief Profile of CCDRR Project

• Been implemented since mid 2007 until now (part of Plan International’s DRR Program funded by DFID)

• Piloted in two location of PUs

(Sikka, NTT and Rembang, Central Java) and in Jakarta and Bogor West Java

• Child Centered approach (school and community based) and used two strategy of implementation: direct implementation at PU level (existence of DRR Facilitators) and through partnership with local partners (project in Jakarta and Bogor) and with academics for research work

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Main focus of CCDRR projects

Awareness rising and giving access to children including other stakeholders to learn about DRR and Climate change and done a concrete action to reduce it risk including promoting children’s role and engagement

and ensured their voices

are being considered in build up a community resilience

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GOAL

Safe and resilient communities where children, young citizen and their communities build a culture of safety and actively participate

in reducing the risks of disasters

and the impact of Climate Change

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Objectives• To improve awareness on the importance of child

participation in DRR

• To improve children’s understanding on DRR and climate change

• Establishing networking and partnership with DRR actors in district and national level

• Advocating DRR policy which is sensitive with Child Rights & Participation issues

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Target beneficiaries

60 Shools

(primary and junior high school) 7 children group in Sikka, Rembang, Jakarta, Bogor dan

Yogyakarta: pupils and teachers, school committee and community surrounding schools and parents

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Why children?

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Children are effective drivers of change, and effective in

questioning the status

quo

•

Children care about present and future risks. Many studies from around the world

show that children are worried about environment, disasters and climate change,

and they want to do something about these problems.

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Well educated/informed children are often better educated than their parents

and usually better informed about global issues.

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Why children?•

Research shows that children have a clearer appreciation

about long term

risks

compared to their elders who are usually most focused on short and

medium term risks.

•

By involving children and schools, governments can get messages into a large

number of households

and push for knowledge and change precisely where it is

needed.

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Involving children establishes DRR with the next generation, and support

intergenerational dialogue and learning

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Project Activities•

Project preparation (staff capacity building on DRR related issues)

•

Baseline survey at school and community level (in Sikka

and Rembang)

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Project socialization to beneficiaries and relevant stakeholders

•

DRR training of trainer for local facilitator (mostly teacher)

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DRR awareness raising and education campaign with children and community

•

DRR training for children using Hazard Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (HVCA) module including first aid training

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Risk assessment and mapping activity by children

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• Development of DRR materials (leaflet, booklet, flipchart, poster, videos, information board etc)

• Micro seed grant (small project initiate by children based on the result of HVCA process)

• DRR simulation/mock drill based on potential risks in each area

• Advocacy work in district (develop participatory contigency planning at village and district level), national and

international level through children participation in different competition and DRR workshop and conferences including Plan engagement in DRR related networks

• Research work by external researcher in collaboration with IDS UK and RMIT Australia

• Participatory monitoring and evaluation

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Plan Indonesia CCA’s

work

“Make the Link, Be the Change!”

School Link Projects.

Children Participatory Video on Climate Change Impacts

Children networking in flood preparedness in Jakarta

Video Documentary and Poster on Children in a

Changing Climate.

Children Participate in UNFCCC Conference (COP 13, 14

dan

15)

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School Link Project (SLP): Make the Link Be the Change

International Climate Change Educational

Project involving 100 Schools from 13

Countries (2008 –

2009)

In Indonesia, SLP has involving 4 Senior

High Schools: SMA 70 Jakarta, SMA 82

Jakarta, SMA Lab School and SMA 34

Jakarta, with targeted 80 students.

Key Issues that was raised are:1. Impacts of climate change2. Mitigation strategy towards behavior change3. Adaptation strategies

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This project is to generate evidence based to promote children

participation in DRR and Climate change as well as amplifying

their voice in DRR policy through the used of participatory tools

and action research

Developing innovative participatory tools to promote child and youth-centered DRR and CCA

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Networking and coordinations

• District: BPBD, Government (Education Agency), Scouts, School components and government at village level

• National : BNPB, DNPI, Consirtium

for Disaster Education (CDE) and other DRR actors and media.

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What we learnt …Findings and Lesson learnt…

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Children as risks identifier

Children (boys and girls) have different perspective and priority about disaster risk compare to adults

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Children as Risk Communicators

Children able to communicate and share information on DRR and CCA to their peers, family and event to local government

Children’s Theater group in Sikka, NTT

Scout group in Rembang

Central Java

Disaster Preparedness Team in Jakarta

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Children as a risk communicator

•

Invoilving

children in DRR and CCA since beginning will ensure inter

generation’s transfer knowledge

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Using participative tools is the best way to communicate risks and influence

policy makers (video documenter project)

•

Promoting lesson learnt on peer learning

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Children as an agent and pioneers of change

Rembang

Children voice in changing community behavior towards illegal mining in their school

environments

“I don’t feel secure at school as people were done rock mining above our school buillding, I was

afraid that it will causes a landslide to my school “, said Wati (11) during school development

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What we learnt …Conclusions..

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Children participation is important to be considered in the

whole management cycle of DRR . Involving children in disaster

management will lead to more effective result since children have

their own uniqueness and have a long term view of risk as well as

creative and innovative in supporting it.

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Children have a significant roles in DRR activities. They

able to act as risk identifier, risk communicator (information

dissemination to others including adult) and pioneer of change in their

society, if their capacity has been well equipped and maintained

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The value of children’s creativity and knowledge should be more

recognized, respected and encourage by adults. They are capable of

making constructive contribution to DRR decision making at all

level including the global debate on climate change (children

participation in international event)

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Inclusion of DRR and Climate Change should be done totally, equal and comprehensive (level of participation) which means that children not only been put in the position of consultation only but more on open an access to information on disaster and climate change dynamics which affected their rights (paradigm shifting including behavior and commitment from adults)

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Regular coordination and collaboration with relevant stakeholder including government agencies particularly disaster management agency and education agency in all level is crucial in order to build up project ownership and leads to proper project sustainability

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“We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrowed it from our children, so its time to listen to them”

Kita tidak

mewarisi

bumi

ini

dari

nenek

moyang

kita, kita

meminjamnya

dari

anak-anak

kita

dan

sudah

saatnya

kita mendengarkan

mereka

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kasih Thank You