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Plan Indonesia Invites Young People in Jogja to Lead Climate Change Awareness and Comprehensive School Safety Campaign - Indonesia | ReliefWeb
Plan Indonesia believe young people can contribute to the resilience of their communities, provide innovative solutions, drive social progress, and inspire positive change in society. At the same time, climate change and disaster impacts can also directly or indirectly affect young people.
Therefore, the Comprehensive School Safety Model Province's project encourages participation through meaningful collaboration and partnerships with and for youth and youth-led communities.
To realize this, Yayasan Plan International Indonesia (Plan Indonesia) invited 30 young people to participate in the Youth Capacity Building and Youth-Led Campaign Planning on 3-5 March 2023 in Yogyakarta. This event is part of Plan Indonesia's effort to ensure youth participation and leadership in every climate & safe school campaign.
The selected 30 young people were representatives from communities and organizations on various issues such as education, climate change, gender transformation, health, and child protection. Those selected are young people interested in youth participation, gender transformation, climate education, and disaster risk reduction.
During the training, they learned various materials such as disaster risk reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, disaster preparedness, advocacy strategy, gender transformation campaign, campaign strategy, monitoring and evaluation.
Rio (20), one participant, said he was very motivated after participating in the activity. "I learned about safe school (SPAB) and networked with fellow Yogyakarta communities through this event. This is such an honour, as I am still new to initiating my campaign," said Rio, a Youth for Environmental Law Indonesia (Youthfel Indonesia) community participant.
Ensuring youth participation in every campaign
Plan Indonesia's Safe School Project Manager, Enos Ndapareda, said that young people are significant in raising awareness of climate change and reducing disaster risk in Yogyakarta.
Almost all parts of Indonesia are disaster-prone areas, including Yogyakarta Province. The potential for these disasters is the background for the need to prepare human resources to improve disaster preparedness and awareness.
"The preparation of human resources is done by starting from school and young people. So, this activity is a joint positive action initiated and led directly by young people. At the same time, young people can build networks or coalitions," said Enos at the opening ceremony of the capacity building in Yogyakarta Friday (3/3).
Meanwhile, the Education, Youth, and Sports Office of Yogyakarta Province appreciated Plan Indonesia's effort to ensure youth participation.
"We acknowledge Plan Indonesia's efforts in involving young people in Yogyakarta. Hopefully, participants could gain knowledge and establish friendships with fellow youth in Yogyakarta," said the Head of the Youth Section of the Youth and Sports Center, Rini Admiwati, who attended the opening ceremony.
Through this activity, the 30 young participants were invited to design youth-led climate change and safe school awareness campaigns creatively. This activity also involved presenters and facilitators from the DIY Regional Disaster Management Agency, UGM Center for Natural Disaster Studies (PSBA), and RedR Indonesia.
After the event, selected participants will receive a seed grant to conduct social media campaign activities and youth gatherings from February 2023 to January 2024. The hope is that this campaign will increase awareness and practice of school safety and integrate risk reduction and resilience into education sector strategies, policies, and plans.
This activity is also in line with the work of Plan Indonesia, which implements the Comprehensive School Safety model province program in Yogyakarta, supported by Prudence Foundation through Plan International Hong Kong.
--About Yayasan Plan International Indonesia (Plan Indonesia)
Since 1969, Plan International has operated in Indonesia; in 2017, it changed its name to the Yayasan Plan International Indonesia (Plan Indonesia). We seek to advance girls' equality and the realization of children's rights. To enable meaningful engagement in life decisions, we also work with young people.
Plan Indonesia, a subsidiary of Plan International Inc., runs a major child sponsorship program. In East Nusa Tenggara, Plan Indonesia has fostered 36,000 boys and girls, with five pledges to uphold their fundamental rights: the right to birth certificates, essential vaccinations, clean water, sanitation, and cleanliness, as well as education.
Plan Indonesia operates in eight provinces through seven thematic programs, including Climate Resilience Led by Youth, Disaster Preparedness and Gender Responsive Humanitarian Response, Youth Health, Elimination of Violence against Children and Youth, Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship, and Resilient Schools.
These initiatives seek to strengthen the ability of social movements to engage and focus on 3 million girls to have equal representation, equal power, and equal freedom.
For further details: plan-international.or.id
Contact person:
Muhammad Reysa
Programme Communications Specialist