News
December 07, 2020
Consultancy: MEAL Framework and tools Development
August 03, 2020
Inclusive research: working with organisations of persons with disabilities in WASH research
July 01, 2020
Series of online training on research and disability
July 01, 2020
Putting The Sendai Framework into Action
July 01, 2020
Responding to COVID-19: Priority of protection for most at-risk groups
March 27, 2020
New research project: Investing in inclusive WASH
November 12, 2019
Commemorating #TsunamiDay with students with seeing difficulties
August 12, 2019
Upholding the Roles of Persons with Disabilities as Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Front-liners
December 12, 2018
Developing disaster risk reduction learning materials on disability-inclusion for sudden-onset natural hazards
December 11, 2018
Managing Disaster Risk in the Coastal Areas of West Sumatra
November 16, 2018
Initiation of Disability Inclusion Service Unit in West Papua
August 27, 2018
Pelatihan Pengkajian Kebutuhan Pasca Bencana (JITUPASNA) Gempa Lombok
June 20, 2018
Local product supporting rural economic resilience
June 20, 2018
Strengthening infrastructures to support community resilience towards disasters
June 20, 2018
Handovering the Keeping School Safe from Disaster Programme
Local product supporting rural economic resilience
June 20, 2018
Bamboo crafts making in Ciamis District
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 Programmes. Since November 2016, ASB and Paluma Nusantara, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, collaborate in implementing the programme which integrating community resilience programme and risk-aware socio economic development.
The village-owned enterprises in the programme’s working area are developing local products and optimalising local resources. Persons with disabilities are actively taking part in the process, together the village authority, women group and farmer association. The village-owned enterprises also received practical knowledge in expanding their market through online marketing. Last month, 32 entrepreneurs and volunteers from Katongan and Rejosari Village participated in an online marketing workshop. One of the specific objectives of this workshop was to introduce cassava products to a wider market as the festivities of the Eid al-Fitr was approaching.
