Indonesia
Members of the Indonesia Consortium include: CARE, CRS, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision, the International Medical Corps, and the Indonesian Society for Disaster Management. CRS-Indonesia will serve as the lead agency. All members enjoy close working relationships with other NGOs, government agencies, and national organizations with emergency response and/or disaster risk reduction programs.
Phase I of the ECB project fostered strong coordination between Consortium members. Under the first phase, a Joint Needs Assessment tool was collaboratively designed to improve information exchange among Consortium members. This tool has now been successfully applied during recent emergencies, and UNOCHA currently recommends that the tool be used as a model for the development of an Integrated Needs Assessment tool for Indonesia.
Through the 2007 Disaster Management Law, the Indonesian government mandated the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities. The Indonesia Consortium will focus on DRR as well as staff capacity and accountability, which are crucial to effectively assist emergency-affected communities.
ECB’s Phase II has already created further opportunities for Indonesia Consortium members to strengthen their relationships with each other and with key emergency stakeholders in Indonesia, including: Government ministries, UN agencies, the private sector, and both national and local NGOs.
Latest News
ECB Presentations at the Symposium on Disaster Impact & Assessment in Asia
Sean Granville Ross (Mercy Corps) and Maharani Harjoko (Save the Children) will present two papers on behalf of the Indonesia consortium on August 25 in Vietnam. The first presentation will share highlights from a paper entitled Practical experience of how knowledge, learning and experience can be used to improve humanitarian response. The second presentation will share insights from the paper focusing on The ECB Project Development of the Joint Needs Assessment tool. View the full symposium agenda and participants list.
West Sumatra Joint Needs Assessment Case Study & Joint Evaluation Released
A case study is now available summarizing the Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) methodology developed by ECB agencies and partners in Indonesia. It also presents key findings and a summary of recommendations from an After Action Review that examined JNA implementation following the 2009 earthquakes in West Sumatra and West Java.
The JNA project is ongoing within the ECB Indonesia consortium - teams are currently working on reviewing the JNA template and developing the JNA data entry platform. The template has also been tested for the first time in Bolivia in February-March 2010.
The West Sumatra Joint Evaluation report is available with key lessons learnt and recommendations from the evaluation team.
Background to the earthquake:
On September 30 2009, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale (RS) struck the West Sumatra Province of Indonesia at 5.16 pm, a second quake followed shortly afterwards at 5.38pm measuring 6.2RS (source BMKG).
The epicenter was approximately 78 km north-west of Padang city, but tremors have been reported as far as Malaysia and Singapore. Latest government figures have confirmed over 1,000 deaths in the city and surrounding districts. It is expected this total will continue to rise rapidly as many more remain trapped under rubble from collapsed buildings. Many communities have been displaced due to excessive rains and land slides. Communications networks and transport links are also badly damaged whilst local hospitals face a tremendous influx of injured residents.
A team of ECB Consortium members comprising Country Directors and Emergency Response specialists has already convened to launch a ECB Joint Needs Assessment of the worst affected areas. Malka Older, Director of Programs at Mercy Corps Indonesia, is coordinating the field-based assessment teams that will use this tool which has been piloted and developed as part of Indonesia’s collaborative work to improve their emergency response and build capacity together since 2007. Sean Granville, Mercy Corps Indonesia Country Director, and Gunnawan Zakki, ECB Consortium Field Facilitator will coordinate ECB combined efforts at the national level.
Working closely with UNOCHA, the consortium member agencies will continue to support the government’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) lead on this ongoing emergency. In addition, a small fund is available should the consortium decide to proceed with a targeted capacity building activity or joint evaluation to follow on from the assessment results. Find out about how the ECB team deployed the Joint Needs Assessment tool and our plans for building on the lessons learnt from West Sumatra.
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