Developing disaster risk reduction learning materials on disability-inclusion for sudden-onset natural hazards
December 12, 2018
More than 80% of persons with disabilities around the world have not participated in community disaster management and risk reduction processes. Most persons with disabilities also do not have a personal emergency preparedness plan (UNISDR, 2013). This data supports the common knowledge that persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected by disasters. Driven by the urgent needs of the availability of accessible information for ....
On Saturday (1/12), the Disaster Management Team of Karya Bakti Sub Village in the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, conducted an earthquake simulation exercise. At 9 AM sharp, a siren was turned on. A few minutes later, more than 100 community members and school children evacuated to a nearby football field. The Disaster Management Team members, each wearing an orange t-shirt, started to run around, giving guidance to the evacuees. Some team .... 
The Disaster Management Office (DMO) of West Papua Province has legalised the Disability Inclusion Service Unit (Unit LIDi) on September 27, 2018. It aims to strengthen DMO's services for all community, including for persons with disabilities. Based on the Head of National DMO Regulation Number 14/2014, Unit LIDi is being operated by DMO staffs, disabled people's organisations and other disaster management stakeholders. Another key .... 
Cassava, palm sugar, banana, coffee, pumpkin and bamboo are among the best-selling products of village-owned enterprises in Rejosari and Katongan Village in Yogyakarta, as well as Bangunsari and Sidamulih Village in West Java. The development and strengthening of the village-owned enterprises in those villages are part of the Building Resilience in Indonesia: Integrating Inclusion and Risk Management in Rural Community Development .... 
Earlier this year, ASB Team in West Sumatra has been working on strengthening infrastructures in Pesisir Selatan and the Mentawai Island District. This activity is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In relation with ASB’s continuous effort to support community resilience towards disaster, the infrastructures are focused on increasing the availability and accessibility of evacuation route and evacuation center. .... .JPG "Handovering the Keeping School Safe from Disaster Programme")
In the last 15 years, 46.648 schools in Indonesia were affected by disasters (National Secretariat of the Disaster Resilience Education Unit, 2017). Followed by a fact that the geographical location of Magelang District has made it prone to various natural hazards, ASB started the “Keeping School Safe from Disaster” Programme in early 2017, with supports from Aktion Deutschland Hilft and Deutsche Telekom. For about 17 month, ASB .... 
In 2017, the Indonesian National Disaster Management Authority (known as BNPB) announced April 26 as the National Disaster Preparedness Day. This was part of the BNPB continuous effort to raise awareness and develop community resilience towards disaster. This year, ASB celebrated the day by organising a series of evacuation simulations in several places across the country. More than 13,000 people in Kupang, Magelang, Pesisir Selatan and the .... .JPG "Strengthening Resilience in the Mentawai Islands")
The weather in West Sumatra was unpredictable during our training activities with the community in the Mentawai Islands, but the ASB team and the community-based disaster management team kept going strong. The training activities, which took place in January this year, consisted of three topics: search and rescue, first aid, logistics and emergency shelter. Similar to the previous training run in Pesisir Selatan District, this activity was .... 
February has been a busy month for the ASB team who are implementing a project in the Magelang District, Central Java. The project, which started in early 2017, is focusing on developing school resilience towards natural hazards. The project covers 81 schools, including primary schools, kindergartens and special schools for children with disabilities. In collaboration with seven facilitators from Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) .... 