TATTs Quarterly Report: April-June 2016

The program began in October 2014 and is set to end in April 2017. The quarterly report for April-June 2016 highlights the program's achievements and challenges during this period. During Quarter 7, the program saw an increase in training activities, with a focus on building the capacity of local facilitators and trainers. Start-up activities in the new provinces of West Sumatra and East Java were completed, and new teams were mobilized. The program also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the East Java and West Sumatra provinces and developed joint work plans with the disaster management agencies (BPBDs) to prioritize TATTs assistance up until April 2017. The program's teams are increasingly exploring the role of BPBDs in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction (DRR) in local development planning. To achieve this, provincial BPBDs need robust regulations and strong planning and budgeting skills, combined with technical capacity. As part of the program's biannual planning meeting in June, a two-day workshop was held to assist TATTs staff in understanding the decentralized government system and identifying entry-points in the provincial planning and budgeting cycle to enable greater integration of disaster management in development planning. The program continued to provide basic facilitation skills to build the confidence and skills of local disaster management facilitators. In early April, TATTs supported facilitation skills training for 29 participants from Papua and West Papua. The training was provided by professional trainers from MDF Training and Consultancy. The program also hosted a comprehensive Training of Facilitators (ToF) for contingency planning in Papua, which brought together participants from all eight TATTs provinces. In addition, the program collaborated with the World Food Programme (WFP) in April on warehouse management training in Central Java. Further collaboration with WFP is being planned, including development and support for provincial logistics clusters in key provinces. The program also supported a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment training in Maluku, including practical field exercises. Despite the challenges posed by unseasonal heavy rain and high tides in June, which created flooding, landslides, and coastal inundation in West Sumatra, Central Java, and East Java, the program continued to make progress. The disasters provided an opportunity for assessment of gaps in planning, response, and recovery capacity. The program also made use of the fasting month of Ramadan to organize internal biannual team training and planning meetings. The program's achievements during Quarter 7 include: - 19 trainings and 8 disaster simulations drills and exercises held across the TATTs target provinces involving almost 1,200 participants. - 36 in-house training, mentoring, and support activities held across the TATTs provinces involving more than 520 participants. - Start-up activities in new TATTs provinces with mobilization of teams and signed Memorandum of Understanding in East Java and West Sumatra. - TATTs Papua hosted a comprehensive Training of Facilitators for Contingency Planning involving participants from all eight TATTs provinces. - TATTs held biannual internal workshop and planning meeting including training on sub-national government systems to assist teams to mainstream disaster management and risk reduction. The program's status for Quarter 7 is as follows: - Activities On-Track: Qtr 6 - Biannual TATTs Meeting: Completed June 2016 - Mentoring sessions: Regularly conducted by all provincial teams and partners - Self-assessments implemented: Joint work plans with BPBDs for Year 2 finalized, including for new provinces - Initial stakeholder mapping: Completed for new provinces - West Sumatra and East Java - Development of plans, strategies, and policies: On-going support for local DRM planning, strategic planning, budgeting, etc. - Prioritization of disaster simulations: Simulations identified in joint work plans - Implementation of simulations: 5 simulation events, assistance for disaster simulations in Southeast Sulawesi, West Sumatra, West Papua, and Central Java - Changes to simulations decided and adapted: Built into evaluations and activity assessments - Simulation participants identified and mobilized: An on-going activity in all provinces - 512 people involved in simulations in Qtr 7 - Cross visits between participating BPBDs: Trainings for BPBD staff from all provinces held in Central Java and Papua, cross visit to Maluku - Provincial - District BPBD meetings: West Papua BPBD Coordination Meeting; Papua coordination meeting - Improvement, adaptation, and development of training modules: BNPB and Lingkar identified 5 priority training curricula for review - Testing BNPB training modules at provincial and district level: Lingkar assisted with draft competency-based curriculum review tool and draft training monev tool - Implementation of training: 16 trainings implemented during Qtr 7 - Implementation of follow-up tests: Pre-