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IDRs Vission & Mission for Indonesia

IRD has worked throughout Indonesia since 1999 to support peace building, train teachers and youth, improve health and nutrition, and respond to natural disasters. Strengthening Peaceful, Stable Communities: IRD implements the USAID-funded SERASI strategic grants and technical assistance program to mitigate social conflict and support peacebuilding in Aceh, Central Sulawesi, the Malukus, and Papua through 2013. SERASI provides grants to local civil society organizations, public institutions, and other partners to target the causes and consequences of violent conflict. The program uses participatory decentralized development planning to determine the most strategic use of grants for communitybased projects that promote respect for human rights and improved intergroup relations; institutionalize a legitimate peace process in Aceh; increase capacity to manage conflict; and support a democratic and transparent security sector. Building Life Skills: IRD and its partners helped young people in seven provinces prepare for lifelong learning, entrance into the workforce, and participation in community development. The USAID-funded Decentralized Basic Education III program trained 200,000 teachers in 400 schools between 2005 and 2011. The training materials were replicated by institutions outside of the original target areas, and IRD teaching methods have been adopted by ministry trainers. At the national level, IRD worked through a public-private alliance between USAID and Conoco Phillips to provide disaster preparedness training to communities affected by the May 2006 earthquake in Central Java and Yogyakarta. Under a separate agreement between USAID and Intel, IRD established computer labs and strengthened teachers computer literacy skills. Improving Health and Nutrition: IRD worked through the US Department of Agricultures Better Food for Better Lives program to help local businesses produce and market nutritious food products at reduced prices in seven provinces in Java, Bali, and Lombok, serving 1.5 million consumers. The program worked from 1999 through 2008 with several local factories to produce soy-fortified rice noodles and iodine-enriched sweet soy sauce. Better Food for Better Lives continued IRDs Noodle Food Assistance Program, which has also been replicated in other countries, including Laos and Cambodia. The programs promote local businesses, create longterm employment opportunities, and improve basic health and nutrition. The Student Health Improvement Program (SHIP), also funded by USDA, was a comprehensive public health program for 81,000 school children and their communities in five districts of Central Java and the district of Yogyakarta during 200207. SHIP used an integrated approach to improve the educational quality in targeted schools: training trainers in participatory teaching methods, strengthening school management committees, building water and sanitation facilities, distributing health kits and materials, deworming, community outreach, and capacity building of community-based organizations.

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Improving Infrastructure and Hygiene: In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, IRD and UNICEF improved the long-term health status of tsunami-affected communities, particularly women and children, in Aceh province. The program improved access to water and sanitation services and provided education on good health and hygiene practices. Under the Collaborative Small Town and Rural Communities Water Restoration Program, IRD restored and improved eight water supply systems serving 272,000 urban residents. The local water authority was trained to properly operate and maintain the facilities. IRD also worked with rural communities to construct water supply and sanitation facilities they could operate and maintain themselves. In addition, IRD rehabilitated the water and sanitation facilities in 20 UNICEF schools. To ensure these improvements would improve long-term health, IRD trained midwives, womens groups, and village water sanitation committees in hygiene promotion methodologies, and implemented UNICEFs WASH program in schools. Responding to Emergencies: Just hours after the 2006 earthquake in Yogyakarta, IRD staff began distributing food and medical supplies to hospitals and mobilizing resources to provide water, food, and shelter for victims. Working in conjunction with USDA and the World Food Program, IRD distributed 450 metric tons of prepackaged noodles to nearly 200,000 beneficiaries in affected districts. IRD also worked with international partners to deliver more than $1.8 million of medical supplies.

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SERASI
The word SERASI means harmony in many of Indonesias languages. The USAID-funded SERASI program, implemented by IRD, is a post-conflict peace building and governance project. During SERASIs first three years (200811), IRD provided small grants and technical assistance to communities in five provinces that were suffering high rates of poverty, inequality, and communal violence. In year four, the program is doing the same in the province of Papua. SERASIs work in Papua centers on health, education, and democratic governance. In health, the program provides grants for programs that improve the quality of and access to basic health services. Activities promote healthy behaviors, provide health information, and broaden services for underserved communities. Education grants support activities and organizations that expand quality basic education services to rural indigenous populations. The programs are innovative, community based, and primarily non-formal, but all have the potential to be scaled up to a wider target audience. Democratic governance grants support programs that strengthen local leadership. They aim to improve transparency, accountability, governance standards, and community participation, and to protect peoples rights. Local knowledge and expertise are critical to understanding needs and developing innovative responses. For this reason, all SERASI grants support identifying grassroots solutions to community health, education, and governance problems, and seek to maximize the involvement of all stakeholders in decision-making.. The majority of grants and in-kind support is delivered toand through Papuan organizations. These include civil society organizations, faith-based groups, universities and research institutes, and nongovernmental organizations. SERASIs program officers work directly with the organizations as they continue to develop grants and receive funding. A successful SERASI grantee addresses all three focus areas and objectives, and ideally brings multiple organizations with specific expertise together to address a larger issue. The organizations and projects receiving funding through SERASI have demonstrated a strategic need, have established community involvement, and can implement their activities within a nine-month period. They have also shown how they will continue their work after SERASI funding ends. While addressing immediate health, education, and governance needs in Papua, IRD and USAID are working together to increase their understanding of the regions issues, and identify other potential activities the SERASI model might address in the region.

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Earthquake Response in Jogjakarta

In late May 2006, a disastrous 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Central Java region of Indonesia. The earthquake killed more than 5,600 people throughout the region, but the real crisis came in providing for the hundreds of thousands of survivors of the quake after it was over. On behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, IRD implements the School Health Improvement Program (SHIP) in Central Java, and has offices in Jogjakarta which accommodate a staff of over 45 people. Despite the fact that the office itself was badly damaged during the quake, IRD staff were able to begin distributing food and medical supplies to hospitals and mobilizing resources to provide water, food and shelter for victims within hours. Recognizing the urgent need for medical supplies and pharmaceutical drugs, IRD worked with international partners to arrange the shipment and delivery of more than $1.8 million worth of medical supplies to the region. Within the first week following the disaster, IRD had distributed thousands of dollars worth of medical supplies including surgical materials, syringes, painkillers, antibiotics, antiseptic agents, and pharmaceutical drugs. IRD immediately committed $100,000 worth of food supplies from programs throughout Southeast Asia and distributed additional food supplies in the weeks following. Working in conjunction with USDA and the World Food Programme, IRD has distributed more than 80 metric tons of prepackaged noodles to more than 198,700 beneficiaries in the Bantul, Jogjakarta, Gunung Kidul, Sleman, and Klaten districts; in total, IRD is scheduled to distribute approximately 450 metric tons of noodles and biscuits to survivors over two months. IRDs water and sanitation infrastructure team is completing the assessments of 63 schools in the Bantul district and 28 schools in Klaten, and will continue to work with the affected communities to determine ongoing needs. As was the case during extensive relief work IRD provided in Banda Aceh and Sri Lanka following the tsunami and Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina, IRD is committed to providing both emergency relief as well as long-term recovery resources to victims.

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Response to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Posted on April 11, 2012 by IRD HQ The Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, caught the worlds attention with the deaths of an estimated 225,000 people and scenes of total devastation in 11 countries around the region. IRD responded immediately in two of the hardest hit countries: Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Within the first week of the disaster, IRD delivered 15,000 metric tons of rice valued at $4.9 million to the World Food Program for distribution to Aceh province, the hardest hit area. IRD also sent 40 metric tons of ready-to-eat snack noodles, two containers of clothing, and baby food, water, high-protein biscuits, and jerry cans for water purification and distribution. IRD provided water and sanitation services such as tankers, containers, and bladders in the immediate term and the installation of shallow wells, the rehabilitation of water treatment units, installation of emergency latrines, garbage collections, and other critical services in the short term for 100,000 people. Another program created jobs for displaced people through cash-for-work activities and grants to promote micro-enterprise and small business development in the most affected areas. Further programs prevented outbreaks of malaria and diarrhea, created mobile medical units, trained a network of community health workers, and helped people work through the psychological stress of the tsunami. IRD was on the ground in Hambantota, eastern Sri Lanka, just four days after the tsunami hit to assess the needs for emergency water and sanitation. The resulting programs cleaned and rehabilitated existing shallow wells in two villages and constructed new wells on government identified sites for new settlements for families who had lost their homes. From IRDs base at the Hambantota Distribution and Coordination Center, IRDs field staff distributed milk and other commodities to children in 25 local schools and repaired critical infrastructure such as water systems and schools. IRD also provided short-term employment, relief supplies, and hygiene education.

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