JAKARTA — Dompet Dhuafa, Pujiono Centre, and Indonesian Development – Humanitarian Alliance (ID-HA) held a meeting for regional Civil Society Organization (CSOs) on Thursday (15/6/2023) at Lumire Hotel & Convention Center, Central Jakarta. This meeting was held hybridly, offline and online through conference media.
This collaborative activity was held to invite every Homegrown CSO in the Southeast Asia Region to be actively involved in disaster management. The term Homegrown CSOs is civil society organizations that grow, develop, and grow in the ASEAN region.
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At this meeting, the attending organizations were encouraged to contribute to the dialogue to create a framework for anticipatory action in disaster management. This is titled: “Harnessing the Prospective Contribution of Homegrown CSOs to the Implementation of the ASEAN Framework on Anticipatory Action in Disaster Management (AFAADM).”
Prima Hadi Putra, Director of Communication & Technology of Dompet Dhuafa, said anticipatory action is an action to improve the disaster response governance system that focuses on disaster preparedness. This is because ASEAN is a country in the region that is prone to disasters.
“We are committed to overseeing this process as part of Dompet Dhuafa’s efforts to improve the system in disaster management. Homegrown CSOs intend to look further at the efforts that need to be made to stage Homegrown CSOs to engage in activities within ASEAN,” he explained.
The events at this meeting were divided into 3 talk show sessions. The first session was filled with a talk show, “What changes are needed to optimize the contribution of homegrown CSOs in the decision, policy and implementation of ASEAN disaster management and humanitarian assistance?” Then the second session continued with the talk show “Homegrown CSOs consolidated perspectives towards their meaningful contribution to the AFAADM.” The last is a talk show titled “Localization Performance Measurement Framework to CSOs constituent building and Alignment with the Broader Global South.”
The speakers who attended the talk show sessions were Puji Pujiono as Senior Expert on Disaster Management, Rahmawati Husein as Vice Chairman of Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC), Kamarul Zaman as President of SEAHUM Malaysia, Syamsul Ardiansyah as SO of Dompet Dhuafa Strategic Alliance, Nanette S. Antequisa as Executive Director of ECOWEB Philippines, and Kaimuddin from ID-HA.
This meeting has been initiated and prepared since last year when Dompet Dhuafa held the C20 presidency in Bali. In this case, Dompet Dhuafa is also trusted to coordinate SDGs. Dompet Dhuafa sees that these humanitarian issues are also important to be brought to the ASEAN level. Therefore, Dompet Dhuafa strives for this by keeping the same focus, namely strengthening the leadership of local humanitarian organizations called Homegrown CSOs at the regional level.
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“Our Homegrown CSOs strive to bring humanitarian issues to be discussed at the ASEAN level. We continue to invite and encourage CSOs at regional levels to join,” said Syamsul, who is also the Coordinator of SDGs and Humanitarian Working Group, at the end of the event session. (Dompet Dhuafa/Muthohar)