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 ...
Poverty Reduction Program in the Co...
The Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) is a partnership program to help countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific region scale up investments in climate adaptation, especially investments at the community level, that explicitly target the nexus between climate change, poverty, and gender. The CRPP has a dedicated gender window with funds earmarked specifically for...
Peer Learning as Innovators' Sharin...
On 9 March 2023, innovators of the IDEAKSI Project[i] and members of YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU) gathered at the Prime Plaza Hotel in Sleman in order to update each other and one of the partners, ADRRN Tokyo Innovation Hub, represented by their regional innovation coordinator, Miss Ikue Uchida. The innovators also prepared themselves for the next step in the project. They refreshed...
Peer Learning to BUMDes Panggung Le...
Picture 1: Group picture with the Head of Panggungharjo Village with sign 3R campaign. On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 the YEU team made a peer learning visit to Waste Management Business Group (Kupas) which is a Waste Management Site (TPS) to Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle (3R), namely TPS 3R Kupas. This business group is part of the Village-Owned Enterprise unit (BUMDes) Panggung Lest...
YEU as National Representative for ...
Picture1: The participants and the committee. The Third Country Training Program (TCTP) 2022 on "Strengthening Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DiDRR) in the ASEAN Region has been conducted on-site for five days on 5-11 February 2023 in Thailand. Participants who attended this training were from the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a...
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