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| Yayasan IDEP’s Crisis Recovery Programs |
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| Yayasan IDEP’s role in advising crisis recovery programs in Bali |
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| The months and years that followed the Bali Bombing were a critical time in Bali. Hotels and restaurants laid off staff, tour guides and taxi drivers had no customers, shops were empty, and craft people were losing their livelihoods both from the lack of tourists and also from cancelled overseas orders. Many of Bali’s youth who were either employed in tourism or export related industries or participating in related vocational training were displaced and despondent about what their future held.
This terrible crisis that affected so many lives also created a window of opportunity to gain public attention and participation in community development programs. Post Bali Bomb, several international aid agencies arrived to help implement programs that were designed to assist in the interim crisis, and in some cases address long term recovery and the development of more sustainable economic solutions for Bali.
IDEP’s experience in implementing successful programs on the ground, as well as its team of in-house expertise and established networks were useful at this time in an advisory role to assist in quickly establishing links and researching best practice options for many of these programs
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| About Yayasan IDEP’s crisis recovery programs |
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| After Yayasan IDEP’s involvement in the immediate response to the Bali Bomb was complete, we turned our attention to developing and implementing simple and effective economic recovery programs for people who were hard hit by the drop in income due to the lack of tourism.
Community Waste Management Enterprises
A pilot project that is developing small-scale, self-sustainable waste management enterprises through a local women’s groups (PKK). Click here to learn more about this program.
Community Based Crisis Response Program
With support from USAID, CRS and MPBI, Yayasan IDEP began the process of developing and pilot testing an integrated community based crisis response curriculum, based on lessons learned from the Bali tragedy. The curriculum, which is today being prepared for Indonesia wide application, addresses all three stages of disaster management; mitigation, response and recovery. Click here to learn more about this program.
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| About Yayasan IDEP’s support for other grass roots projects |
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| Yayasan IDEP also began assisting other local grass roots projects with program planning, public relations / fund raising and project implementation and developing a network of local projects that work in various fields of community development on Bali.
We developed the Bali Cares program, which supports a network of local NGOs through a non-profit gallery in downtown Ubud, Bali. The gallery promotes and sells products made by the beneficiaries of various local charitable projects and disseminates information about local projects to the public at large. Click here to learn more about this program. Organizations in the support network include:
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| • Bali Jani, a local foundation working for Balinese women’s rights and gender development. Programs include women’s legal aid, micro finance and increasing public awareness of gender related issues on Bali.
• Yayasan Bumi Sehat, a cooperative health center providing free and gentle birthing services. The patients of Yayasan Bumi Sehat donate their handicrafts in exchange for birthing and health care services.
• Crisis Care Foundation operates a small clinic in North Bali. The clinic provides urgently needed free medical services to some of the poorest families in Northern Bali.
• MACK Foundation (Membina Api Cinta Kasih or cultivating the fire of compassion), is actively working to improve Bali’s environment by developing innovative educational exchanges, small ethical industry development and environmental awareness programs.
• Pondok Pekak Library & Learning Center provides a supportive environment where culture, religion, gender and ethnicity are sources of learning rather than sources of conflict; and where people from different backgrounds can explore both the diversity they represent and the similarities they share.
• Yayasan Senang Hati brings happiness and dignity to Balinese with disabilities. Its very talented members create fine arts and crafts, which are sold as a means of developing sustainable livelihoods.
• SOS Children’s Village Orphanage is a sanctuary for orphans from throughout Bali and parts of Java. The orphanage is striving to address the children’s nutritional needs by developing kitchen gardens that are developed and maintained by the children themselves.
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