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Disaster Management Ten Years

after the Devastation
Jakarta As one of the most disaster-
prone countries in the world, Indonesia
has developed a wealth of expertise,
along with a very complex set of
challenges, in disaster management.
Recent eruptions in Mount Sinabung
and the relentless forest res in Sumatra
have also put the media spotlight on
Indonesias natural and manmade
disasters both in terms of peoples
health and for their economic impact.
Economic losses from forest res the
2014 Riau haze episodes alone is 30
trillion IDR (2.61 billion USD) -- even
bigger than the Aceh tsunami, said the
Spokesman for Indonesias National
Disaster Management Agency (BNPB),
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, at a recent
panel discussion organized by the
Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club
(JFCC).
Some 100 million Indonesians live in
areas prone to natural disasters, such
as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and
oods, according to BNPB. Data from
the UNs International Strategy for
Disaster Risk Reduction (UN-ISDR)
shows that Indonesia ranks rst out 265
countries in terms of human exposure to
tsunami hazard, and rst out of 162
countries for human exposures to
landslides. With 127 active volcanoes
strung across the Indonesian
archipelago, many observers are
wondering about the Indonesias state
of preparedness when the next large-
scale disaster strikes.
These discussion are taking on a special
signicance as the 10th anniversary of
the December 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami come up later this year, an
occasion to mark both the signicant
achievements of Indonesias disaster
management experience, together with
its international partners, and to
emphasize the continued need for
preparedness.
One difculty is that many disaster
management experiences are not
replicable. We have a lot of experience
in volcanic eruptions, but dont have a
single model that can be replicated in
different scenarios Pak Sutopo said.
There are can be no textbook
approach. There are too many variables
in the Indonesian context, he added.
Special challenges for Indonesia, he
said, currently include the constant
turnover in disaster managers at the
local level, an issue that BNPB would
like to address as a matter of priority; a
continued high rate of environmental
degradation (including forest loss); a
high population concentration,
particularly in Java; commercial
development of high-risk vulnerability
areas by regional authorities, with weak
law enforcement; and climate change.
The 2004 tsunami was the second real
wake-up call in the history of our
nation, Sutopo said, referring to the
rst one as having taken place back in
1928 with the Youth Pledge (Sumpah
Pemuda). Leadership has been key,
and under President Yudhoyono we
have increased funding for disaster
management by 3,000%, and built a
complete system for disaster
management through the national
agency, Sutopo said.
On relief efforts, Indonesia has done
quite well, said United Nations
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THEN
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Tsunami+10:
Commitment,
Resilience, and
Knowledge
A combination photo shows (top) a man (L) who lost his
three sisters, and his wife, standing in the ruins of their
house in Kathaluwa which was devastated by the 2004
tsunami, and (bottom) a family walking past homes built
for tsunami victims at a development in Kathaluwa in
2009.
Photos: REUTERS/Yves Herman/Andrew Caballero-
Reynolds
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Q&A with Titi Moektijasih
Humanitarian Affairs
Analyst, UN OCHA
Q: Tell me a little bit about
yourself and how you found
yourself in Aceh in 2004.
A: I was born in Bogor, but we
are from Central Java. I studied
at Tarakanita Secretarial
Academy in Jakarta then
worked in French company.
Then I worked at UNDP for two
years and UNICEF from
1991-2001. Afterward, I started
my masters in management at
UI, and became a orist. I own
my own ower shop. At that
time I saw OCHA advertise for a
post in Aceh, three times.
Thinking that OCHA was
desperately in need, I applied
out of curiosity and in one
month I got the job. I have been
working for OCHA since 2003 as
Coordination Ofcer, beginning
in Aceh. I was in Aceh until 30
December 2004. Since then this
position title has changed to
Liaison and Coordination
Ofcer, then to Humanitarian
Affairs Analyst but the work that
I do is the same.
Q: What was your role?
A: My role was to facilitate
coordination from international
organizations, to update
situation reports, to see what we
can do. I had to compile
information, advocate to those
who can give support or aid. At
that time, the military operation
area (daerah operasi militer/
DOM) had been changed to civil
emergency (darurat sipil) which
allowed certain NGOs to do
their micro-economic livelihood
projects.
Development Programme Assistant
Country Manager, Kristanto Sinandang,
who heads UNDPs Crisis Prevention
and Recovery Unit, adding that on
recovery, we would like to pay more
attention.
The international community and the
government of Indonesia are focused on
more of a community-based approach
in determining recovery needs,
Kristanto said, adding that UNDP is
working with BNPB on human recovery
needs assessments that complement
more conventional assessments
focused on infrastructure needs.
UNDP's Disaster Recovery Index is a
good example of a tool that allows
Government agencies to measure their
progress in human development terms,
Kristanto said, and Indonesia is the rst
country to develop some of these
indicators and tools, he added.
Key elements for the tenth anniversary
of the Tsunami, form the Governments
perspective, will be to showcase
Indonesias resilience in the face of
crisis, and to leverage momentum for
Indonesia on disaster risk reduction
efforts.
At a recent meeting at BNPB, the story
of Indonesias disaster management
experience was seen as developing over
three phases:
First, the period of the disaster
marketplace (2004-2009), during which
the commitment to disaster
management was built through the
establishment of the national agency
and the laws on disaster management
and spatial planning (UU no. 24 / 2007
on Disaster management and UU no.
26/ 2007 on Spacial Planning.) We
acted immediately to implement the
Hyogo Framework of Action, Pak
Sutopo says, in reference to the 10-year
plan endorsed by the UN General
Assembly in 2005 to make the world
safer from natural hazards.
Second, the disaster management
foundations period (2010-2014) during
which the tsunami master plan was
developed, President Yudhoyono was
recognized UN Champion of Disaster
Risk Reduction DRR and Indonesia
functioned as a disaster research lab.
ASEAN context, countries come to
Indonesia to learn from us, Pak Sutopo
says, adding that one example of
Indonesias contribution to knowledge
transfer on is the assistance given by
Indonesia to Myanmar for developing its
own legal framework on disaster
management. "We have a strong
coordination mechanism all has to be
done through BNPB, and for
international community, it has to go
through UN OCHA (Ofce of
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) to
make sure that the assistance ts the
need on the ground, Pak Sutopo says.
The third phase (2015-2019) is
Indonesias aspiration of becoming a
global centre of knowledge for disaster
management, as its successes in Aceh
and elsewhere have become part of the
countrys soft diplomacy.
Among the activities that are being
envisaged for the tenth anniversary are
the strengthening of the current
knowledge centres on Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR) and the complete the
exhibits in the Tsunami Museum in
Aceh.
Stakeholders for the 10
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anniversary
activities will include the Indonesian
National Disaster Management Agency
(BNPB), the National Platform for DRR
(Planas PRB), the Ministry of Marine
Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), the Ministry
of Energy and Mineral Resources
(ESDM), the Indonesian Agency for
Meteorology, Climatology and
Geophysics (BMKG), the State Ministry
of Research and Technology (Ristek),
the National Development Planning
Agency (Bappenas), the Aceh Provincial
Government, and the President's
Delivery Unit for Development
Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4), in
addition to Intergovernmental
Coordination Group for the Pacic
Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
(ICG/PTWS), United Nations agencies,
and other international community
partners. Additional national partners
currently include Galeri Foto Jurnalistik
Antara in Jakarta, the Tempo Media
Group, and the NGO Dompet Dhuafa.
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Q: What were the professional
challenges?
A: Building trust. They knew I
was not Acehnese. I had to
throw away my identity and
become Acehnese.
Q: What happened when the
Tsunami struck?
A: I lived around four kilometres
from the beach. After the rst
earthquake, I went outside and
talked to people. They said
there was a building not far
away from our place that had
crumbled. I went back to my
room to pack my bag then ran
with other people. At that time I
realized that in that kind of
situation, when you want to
save yourself, you should not
use transportation because it
kills people. I began to see the
water coming after us and I got
pushed to higher ground, and
grabbed ahold of a fence. The
bigger waves surged and
knocked me unconscious. When
I woke up, I was on top of a
plank of wood with my foot
squashed between trees, and
thinking that I was not on earth
anymore. But I realized I was
alive when I heard all the noises
around me: children crying,
people asking for help. I saw a
three-oor building, and
managed to make my way there
and to helped the injured
people. The next day I went to a
mosque to get some food and
check if they had a toilet. It was
clogged. I realized then that
when disaster strikes, the rst
thing people should pay
attention to is water, sanitation
and hygiene. Everyday there
were aftershocks, which kept us
awake and always ready to run
for safety. Most of the stores
and big supermarket
surrounding the grand mosque
were looted. I didnt have a
change of clothes until the third
day when I borrowed a mobile
from a journalist to inform my
colleague in Jakarta and my
clothes t
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Interview with Titi Moektijasih
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Jakarta - Activate Talks are a series of events featuring inspirational
speakers and innovations for children, part of UNICEFs initiatives for
2014 (the Year of Innovation for Children) as we approach the 25th
anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child later this
year.
In Indonesia, the series kicked off with "Achieving Equity: Innovation
for Indonesian Children, an event at Erasmus Huis in Jakarta
featuring Anis Baswedan, the initiator and chairman of the NGO
Indonesia Mengajar (Teaching Indonesia) that works towards making
education accessible to remote parts of the country; Toshi Nakamura,
the 39 year old co-founder of the non-prot organization Kopernik, a
technology marketplace for the developing world, Dr. Aziz, a well-
known social activist and medical doctor who spent years improve
the lives of young children in North Maluku by successfully linking
malaria control programmes with community empowerment and
economic schemes; Mia Sutanto, a leading advocate of breast
feeding for children, who launched Indonesias rst mother-to-mother
support groups to promote peer exchange of information on
breastfeeding; and Tri Mumpuni, whose work in
the area of sustainable energy for local
communities has become a benchmark of
excellence in development.
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Innovation for Indonesian Children
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family that I am alive. On the
fourth day, I met colleagues
from OCHA to help a little kid
whose lungs were full of water
and couldnt be admitted to
hospital. On 30 December, I ew
myself back to Jakarta.
Q: What did you do when you
come back to Jakarta?
A: I secluded myself for one
month because I didnt want to
hear people asking me lightly
and joke about my experience in
the Aceh Tsunami. It made me
angry, I hated people for asking
me those questions. I didnt
think that I was traumatized. I
came into the ofce with a ticket
to Aceh in my hand. I loved
working in Aceh, there were a lot
of things I could do on the
ground and I wanted to help
them directly. But the head of
my ofce in Jakarta told me to
meet the stress counselor and
after talking, I was convinced
that I should work in Jakarta
instead.
Q: Can you describe what you
remember the most vividly?
A: When I couldnt run and
realized this might be time for
me to die, I surrendered. All my
experiences in life vanished in a
few seconds.
Q: What is the value to
Indonesia of the UN
experience in humanitarian
coordination?
A: Our main job is to coordinate
emergency response.
Government wants to know who
are international actors involved.
We help to collecting
information and in coordination
through clusters. Coordination is
easy to say but hard to do. It is
a skill that you learn by doing. In
Indonesia, authorities are used
to giving commands, but
coordination is about
persuasion. So we help to bring
consensus.
This interview is the rst in a series of
talks with UN Indonesia staff for the 10
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anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Q&A with Sally Jackson
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Pulse Lab Jakarta
Q: You're an expert in Monitoring
& Evaluation (M&E). In a nutshell,
why is M&E important?
A: Monitoring allows us to
continuously measure and
document our progress so that we
know if we are meeting our
projects objectives. The idea is
that if we do this and see our
project has gone off track, that we
can take early corrective action.
Evaluation is done to assess
whether our project has met the
objectives that it set out to. It is
important for improving policy and
practice and accountability.
Q: Everyone is talking about
innovation in the context of
development. What innovations
do you see as having potential
for M&E in development and
humanitarian emergencies?
A: One of the innovations is big
data. Digital data is continuously
being generated as a result of our
day-to-day activities. When
combined with traditional M&E
methods (snapshot data such as
household surveys), these
additional data sources have the
potential to provide development
planners with a more complete
picture of a situation.
Other innovations include things
like crowd sourcing, which has
been used to great effect. Here in
Jakarta, a new project called
PetaJakarta (Map Jakarta) is using
Tweets about ooding to map oods
in real-time, and provide the
information for residents. The
Government of Indonesia provides a
service called Lapor! that enables
people to register complaints about
public services using mobile phone
SMS and apps, and websites.
Another way of getting information is
through putting sensors on
infrastructure, or items like hand
washing stations, to learn about how
they are actually being used.
Q: Big data has featured
prominently when talking about
new ways of approaching
development -- but now some say
that big data can't deliver on the
high expectations that have been
created. What are your thoughts
about this?
A: There has been a lot of hype
about big data. I recently read an
article in The Economist about the
big data backlash [SJ2]. Now people
are asking questions - they want to
know what can big data actually do?
At the moment, in the public sector,
both the proponents and the
naysayers are largely making
arguments that are based on theory
but there are plenty of situations in
which big data is being used
effectively in the private sector. We
need to build a body of practice in
the public sector, so that we can
work out what is and what is not
possible and thats why we have
the lab here in Jakarta. Christian
Bason of MindLab phrased it well
when he said make the future
concrete by undertaking
experiments [SJ3].
Q: Can big data help improve
development targets M&E as we
move toward the post-2015
development agenda?
A: In a recent interview [SJ4] with UN
Radio, Deborah Rugg, who chairs
the evaluation group in the UN
system, pointed out that that there is
a need for continuous information for
mid-course corrections as opposed
to nding out that interventions failed
once its too late. She said, We
dont want to wait 10 years to nd
out we havent achieved our goals.
Mid-term monitoring using big data
is one way that we could potentially
get low cost information in close to
real-time for the post-2015
development agenda.
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Q: Where is the greatest
potential for using
innovative M&E in support
of Indonesia's
development priorities, do
you think?
A: Together with the national
government partners and
agencies, we have identied
a number of thematic
priority areas: public service
delivery monitoring,
maternal mortality, and
deforestation. We now want
to focus on specic projects
and are calling on agencies
working in many different
areas of development to get
involved in some new
projects with us.
Q: What is your interest in
this work?
A: To improve the data that
is available for decision-
making.
Water and Energy
Jakarta - Has it ever occurred to us to celebrate water as the key to achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)? This years World Water Day commemoration in Jakarta did exactly that,
focusing on the interdependence of energy production and water management in an online live lecture at
Atma Jaya University.
From food to malaria, water is the key, said Hubert Gijzen, Director of UNESCO Regional Science
Bureau for Asia and the Pacic.
Water and energy are closely interlinked and interdependent. In order to generate and transmit energy,
water is also needed, particularly for hydroelectric, nuclear, and thermal energy sources. Conversely,
about 8 percent of the global energy generation is used for pumping, treating and transporting water to
various consumers. Thirty-three percent of achievement of the MDGs depends on the water, said
Gijzen.
Ari Setiadi Murwanto, Director of Water Resources Utilization Ministry of Public Works said that while
Indonesia has 131 rivers it only uses about 6 percent of them. Water, food, and energy are related to one
another, so they must be managed properly. "The government is responsible for the management of rivers
and, of course, needs the support from the public, he said.
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Jakarta - As many as one out of seven people in the
world may be living with some form of disability at
some point in their life, according to an international
survey by the World Health Organization (WHO) and
the World Bank. Here in Indonesia, estimates on
disability can vary greatly. More than 11 million
Indonesians were considered disabled in 2010,
according to a study by the Ministry of Social Affairs,
(other estimates put the gure as high as 10 percent of
Indonesias population, or 24 million people).
Whats certain is this: most of the persons with
disabilities are of working age, and there is a law in
Indonesia (UU No.4/1997) that requires state and
private companies to set aside one job for every 100
employees for the disabled. The problem? Most
companies are unaware that this law even exists.
Yudhi Hermawan, 19-years old, is one of the many
visually impaired people who struggles to nd a job.
He once attended a job fair in Jakarta where not a
single company, out of thousands represented there,
would even consider his application. Hermawan's
misadventures at the job fair were recently featured in
a lm, Job (un)fair, a collaboration between the
International Labour Organization (ILO) and Yayasan
Halaman Foundation (YKH) which aims to raise
awareness of challenges faced by persons with
disabilities when seeking employment,
"The blind can do more than just massage or be a
musician, says Aris, a visually impaired 28-year old
who is also featured in the documentary. We have
various skills, we can be a writer or even a computer
programmer, and some of us are now well-known
lecturers at famous universities," Aris says.
ILO and YKH have held video screenings of Job (un)fair
in a number of cities, including Jakarta, Yogyakarta,
and Surabaya. "The ILO trusts that these participatory
videos will provide further awareness of disability and a
sense of priority in the public, in particular among
decision-makers," states Michiko Miyamoto, Deputy
Director of ILO in Indonesia. Once employers
understand the regulation, the reactions of companies
have been quite positive resulting in some employers
voluntarily increasing their quota to 2 percent or even
more.
The law holds great potential for generating
employment for persons with disabilities, says Peter
van Rooij, Director of ILO in Indonesia. There are 2
million jobs in the garment industry in Indonesia. If all
employers in that industry observed the 1 percent
quota, that would create 20,000 new jobs for disabled
persons, mostly young women, van Rooij.
Indonesia ratied the UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities in 2011. Under the
Convention, UN Member States accept to take
measures to prevent persons with disabilities from
being subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment, to
ensure their personal mobility and prohibit
discrimination concerning all forms of employment.
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Remembering the Rwanda
Genocide, in Indonesia
Jakarta - Remembering the tragic events of 20 years
ago, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the
Rwanda Genocide was held for the rst time by the
UN in Indonesia with a seminar hosted by UNIC
Jakarta on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Speakers included
Artanti Wardhani, lecturer at the Department of
International Relations at the University of Indonesia;
Myrta Kaulard, Country Director of the World Food
Programme (WFP) in Indonesia, who served in the
Great Lakes region as a junior ofcer in 1994; and
Haris Azhar, the National Executive Coordinator of
the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of
Violence, also known as KontraS.
Artanti Wardhani delivered a historical overview of the
circumstances leading up to the Rwandan genocide,
and of the measures taken and not taken during
and after the mass killings. Reconciliation focuses on
reconstructing the Rwandan identity, Wardhani said,
balancing justice, truth, peace, and security to heal
the wounds of the genocide.
In April 1994, Myrta Kaulard was a young
professional at the beginning of her UN career,
posted in neighbouring Burundi. As the killings
started in Rwanda, a Bosnian priest sheltered some
of the Tutsi in his parish but soon ran out of food. He
came to WFP in Burundi to ask for emergency
supplies, which were quickly dispatched, with
Kaulard assigned to the delivery mission. She saw
what she described as inhumane crowds: drunk,
drugged, their faces covered with masks from
banana trees, holding bows and arrows, and looking
for bodies. Kaulard recalled one night when she
could not sleep because of the sound of what she
perceived to be the howling of wolves or dogs this
was the sound of Hutus militias beginning their
nighttime hunt for Tutsis. Kaulard ended her
recollections by appealing for the need for constant
vigilance against the exploitation of the very brutal
elements that are hidden inside every human being.
Haris Azhar spoke at length about the implications of
the Rwanda experience for Indonesia, highlighting
the need to come to terms with the mass killings of
1965-66 as well as the need to end impunity for hate
crimes. One conclusion that could be drawn, he said,
was that national frameworks must be strengthened
to uphold the rule of law and guarantee peoples
access to justice. Human rights should not come
after genocide. They should be used as a prevention
mechanism, Azhar said, emphasizing the need for
nation-wide education on human rights to address
racism and discrimination and to prevent violence.
A short video produced by UN Regional Information
Centre in Brussels as part of the 7 Billion Others
Campaign, featuring a perpetrator of the killings in
Rwanda and two survivors, concluded the event.
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Slavery: Is it History?
Bandung, West Java - More than 15 million men,
women, and children died as a result of the global
slave trade over period of more than 300 years, but
those victims are now being honored throughout
the world, and the achievements of their
descendants celebrated, thanks to a 17 December
2007 resolution by the United Nations General
Assembly. Here in Indonesia, the UN's International
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and
the Transatlantic Slave Trade was celebrated for the
rst time on 11 April 2014, in the building that most
represents solidarity between Asian and African
nations -- the Gedung Konferensi Asia-Africa, home
to the 1955 Conference in Bandung that gave birth
to the Non-Aligned Movement.
United Nations Information Centre - Jakarta, in
partnership with Parahyangan Catholic University,
and with the collaboration of the United Nations
agency for Education, Science and Culture
(UNESCO), organized a lm screening and
discussion on 11 April to mark the observation.
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May
1: Humanitarian Civil-Military Training Course [UNOCHA]
1-3: 16th Session of the World Meteorological Organization Regional Association V
(RAV-16) in Jakarta
3-6: World Press Freedom Day [UNESCO]
4-5: Abu Dhabi Ascent
4-17: United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination - Asia-Pacic Training
[UNOCHA]
5: MDGs - Whats Next? - a Lecture at Universitas Udayana for Pertemuan Sela
Nasional Mahasiswa Hubungan Internasional Indonesia (PSNMHII) XXVI in Denpasar, Bali
5: SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands [WHO]
5-6: Forests Asia Summit in Jakarta
5-11: MY World Global Week of Action
7: Workshop on Building a Business for REDD+
7: UNDP Partner Appreciation transforming Lives Together
7: Launching of Disability Module in Hotel Borobudur, Jakarta [UNFPA]
8: UNHCR Media Brieng in Medan
17: World Telecommunication and Information Society Day [ITU]
18: Launch of the #ENDviolence initiative: Phase 2
20-21: Integrated Vector Management (IVM) Online Launch in Bogor [FAO]
20-21: Workshop on Enhancing the Protection of Biodiversity and Critical Habitat of
Orangutan in Tropical Forest of Sumatra [UNESCO]
21: Seminar on Ecology Diversity Synergy [UNIDO]
22: World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 Mid-year update
29: International Day of UN Peacekeepers
31: World No-Tobacco Day [WHO]
June
3 & 5: Workshop to Finalize Procurement System of Reproductive Health (RH) Supplies
to Support Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) Implementation in Jakarta [UNFPA]
4-6: Media Summit on Climate Change, ICTs and Disaster Risk Reduction [UNOCHA]
5: World Environment Day [UNEP]
6-8: Post-2015 Youth Global Strategy Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand
9: International Day of UN Peacekeepers Seminar at Bina Nusantara University [UNIC]
9-14: Training on Developing Strategic Partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations &
Moslem Leaders in Yogyakarta [UNFPA]
12: World Day Against Child Labour [ILO]
14: World Blood Donor Day: Safe Blood for Saving Mothers [WHO]
16-18: Ecosystem-based Disaster Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Guiding
Development Policies in the 21st Century in Bogor
18: Launch of National Action Plan of Maternal Health 2016-2030 in Bogor [WHO]
19: MISP Advocacy and Socialization Workshop for Army and BNBP in Jakarta [UNFPA]
20: World Refugee Day [UNHCR]
23: United Nations Public Service Day
26: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafcking
26: United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
DID YOU
KNOW?
The World Humanitarian Summit will take place in
Istanbul, Turkey in 2016. The summit will convene
groups and people to address future humanitarian
challenges.