Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019
CENTRAL SULAWESI EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI EMERGENCY RESPONSE
SEPTEMBER 2018- MARCH 2019
Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019
Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 RESPONSE HIGHLIGHTS 2 CHILD PROTECTION 3 EDUCATION 5 SHELTER, FOOD AND NON-FOOD 8 HEALTH AND NUTRITION 10 WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE 12 LIVELIHOODS 14 REPSONDING WITH ACCOUNTABILITY 16 FINANCIALS 17 Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 1
Executive Summary
On 28 September 2018, a series of ago. The organisation has catered to cash transfers as a dominant modality strong earthquakes struck Central the life-saving needs of affected (where appropriate) for the delivery Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, including communities across 116 villages of aid will be mainstreamed across a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, 10 km in four districts. Throughout the Response activities. Disaster Risk deep, with an epicenter close to the six-month period, the respons has Reduction will also be mainstreamed provincial capital, Palu. This earthquake reached 30,654 households or across sectors to ensure that people triggered a tsunami, with waves 100,551 distinct beneficiaries, 38,519 are able to build back better and are reaching a maximum height of three of whom are children. prepared for possible emergencies in meters. The combination of the the future. earthquake, tsunami, liquefaction and With the shift to the recovery phase, landslides caused significant damage which will continue until September The geographical focus will be and loss of life across the affected ar- 2020, there will be an ongoing focus narrowed to 10 villages from the eas of Palu, Donggala, Sigi, and Parimo on the sectors of shelter and districts of Palu, Sigi and Donggala, districts. livelihoods, with the inclusion of targeting 5,000 households or about Education in Emergency (EiE) 20,000 people. WVI will continue to Significant gains have been made since integrated with water, sanitation and work with the government, partners Wahana Visi Indonesia (WVI) launched hygiene (WaSH), health and nutrition and other stakeholders throughout its emergency response six months and sectors. The use of multi-purpose the response.
Six months on, Wahana Visi Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Response has reached
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Child Protection
When the earthquake struck and participate in structured play and Central Sulawesi, the normal routines educational activities. The intervention of children were disrupted. Classes has benefited 6,573 children while 78 were suspended while most of the community volunteers were trained affected population were housed in on providing psychosocial support. temporary shelters. The aftershocks further fueled the fear and anxiety of The impact of the disaster also the children. increased the vulnerability of children to different protection issues. In a Recognising the importance of joint assessment conducted by WVI psychosocial support during along with partners in the early days emergencies, Wahana Visi Indonesia of the response, women and girls immediately set up child-friendly expressed their concern over privacy spaces to provide a sense of normalcy issues because of toilets that do not to the children. There were 40 CFSes have locks and because of over- set up in the past six months, which crowding. The child protection cluster provided nurturing environments also warned about high prevalence of for children to access psychosocial early marriage and teenage pregnancy. support, mingle with other children WVI equipped 41 community cadres Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 4
from nine villages on (PFA), age-appropriate and inclusive community-based child protection CFS operations, child development mechanism. A cadre is a group of and rights, identification of vulnerable volunteers who were trained to children and referral, child promote child rights and protection safeguarding, and reporting. Where in emergencies at the local level. appropriate,children and parents will be referred for additional Moving Forward psychological support through identified and mapped referral As the response transitions to systems. recovery phase, WVI will scale up child protection initiatives, putting Family tracking and reunification premium on capacitating community activities will also continue during the members as child protection advo- rehabilitation and recovery phase. cates. They will also receive capacity building on psychological first aid Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 5
Education
The successive disasters took a toll To address this need, WVI, along with on the educational services in the partners, has provided tents which affected communities, disrupting served as temporary learning spaces the education of 184,876 students. for children. It is estimated that 1,509 schools were impacted by the earthquake, Aside from tents, the response has so tsunami, and liquefaction, with far built six (6) temporary 1,451classrooms severely damaged learning classrooms (TLC) while and 4,600 others in need of rehabil- 12,590 learners received school kits. itation. The joint needs assessment The organisation also worked closely report showed that there was an with the education ministry, providing 88% decrease in school attendance in training for 673 teachers on education areas visited, due to lack of teachers, in emergencies. damage to school buildings, and fear to return to school. Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 6
Moving Forward It will also contribute to build a In the months to follow, the response stable learning environment for will continue to support the building children by supporting the roll out of temporary learning classrooms and of the Comprehensive School Safety in providing school kits for the approach or known as Safe School affected students. model. Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 7
Providing conducive learning spaces for quake-affected students
12-year old Aldo is relieved that he and his classmates no longer need to stay in the tents for their classes.
“It’s hot and uncomfortable inside the tent,” he shares. Following the disasters that struck Central Sulawesi in September 2018, students had to use tents as temporary learning spaces. At least 1,509 schools were impacted by the earthquake, disrupting the education of more than 184,000 students.
“Our classes were suspended for a month. When our school reopend, I did not immediately go back because our classrooms were damaged. I’ve missed playing with my classmates and attending my classes, especially the Indonesian language class,” Aldo adds.
Wahana Visi Indonesia, along with partners, has constructed six temporary classrooms in Aldo’s school. The construction of a gender latrine is also on-going while other classroom materials like tables and chairs are to be provided to the school.
“I like it here. There’s more air coming in,” Aldo smiles, referring to the TLC. With a conducive learning space, he is more excited to go to school. He said he’s studying hard because he hopes to become a soldier one day and be able to protect his nation.
To date, World Vision has constructed 12 temporary learning classrooms (TLC). The initiative aims to complete 54 TLCs for nine schools until September 2019. Each school will also have gender-sensitive latrines to ensure that children have access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 8
Food and Non-Food Items
One of Wahana Visi Indonesia’s goals assistance. Through the response, at the start of the response was to 11,464 emergency shelter kits (tar- complement the government’s efforts paulin, rope) were immediately in providing the immediate needs of distributed to those in need. The the affected communities. Due to the lack of foods that also confronted damages caused by the quake, tsunami the quake survivors was addressed and liquefaction in infrastructures, through food package distribution including houses, thousands were that catered to 11,537 households rendered homeless. Initial and kitchen kit distribution for 2,748 information from the Shelter households. cluster showed that there were at least 35,000 households who were in Other non-food items like solar need of immediate emergency shelter lanterns and mosquito nets and plastic and basic household Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 9
mats were also provided in the early local partners, will be involved in the days of the response. construction of temporary shelters and repairs of damaged Moving Forward houses. In the post distribution monitoring report conducted by WVI in The distribution of family kits will also December 2019, 75.6% of the continue to ensure that the needs of respondents said that their main target communities for these items problem is shelter. are met. All these will also be supplemented by the delivery of As the response moves to recovery kitchen kits. and rehabilitation phase, WVI, through Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 10
Health and Nutrition
The disruption of health and Spaces (WAYCS), which served as community services impacted the a safe space for 1,629 mothers to most vulnerable groups, including care for their young children through pregnant and lactating mothers and breastfeeding, social support, play and children aged 0-59 months. The interaction. Health cluster reported that there were over 45,000 women who were Meanwhile, the lack of income of pregnant when the disaster happened. parents due to the economic impact of the disaster has affected the In response, Wahana Visi Indonesia nutrition of children. At least 1,672 provided Emergency Medical Services children were monitored for their through Mobile Clinics in growth, either in Posyandus, huntara collaboration with local Public Health or Infant and Young Child Feeding Center (PHC) and District Health (IYCF) activities. Through WVI’s Offices (DHO) to serve internally on-going multi-purpose cash assis- displaced people (IDPs) and other tance, 471 families with pregnant and affected populations. At least 24 lactatiing Women, Adolescent and Young Child Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 11
mothers and children under 7 were growth monitoring record books, and also provided with cash support, hand washing station. To date, at least allowing them to provide the 42 Posyandus or health clinics have nutritional needs of their children. been reactivated and the work will continue in the coming days. Moving Forward WVI will support the WVI will also provide support to reconstruction and rehabilitation of Puskesmas in conducting programs health centers (Puskesmas) at the sub that address malnutrition among district level and at the village level children. This includes Community with the Posyandu. Equipment like Management of Acute Malnutrition weighing scales, microtoise, (CMAM) and provision of nutritious mother and child health books, food for malnourished children who are found in Posyandus. Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 12
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Poor water, sanitation and hygiene can To address the gaps, the response has lead to adverse impact to the well- either rehabilitated or developed 182 being of children. The joint needs water points. To date, 11, 962, 270 assessment report showed that 28% litres of water through water of the camps visited did not have ac- trucking and mobile water treament cess to clean water while the WASH units have been distributed in IDP cluster reported that there were camps which catered to 19,217 152,000 people in need of WaSH people. services after the series of emergencies. Access to improved sanitation facilities, including latrines, gender- Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 13
sensitive bathing spaces and hand Moving forward washing facilities was also prioritised. WVI will be providing water The said interventions were further piping and borehole assistance in the complemented by hygiene promotion targeted temporary shelters/camps. activities and distribution of hygiene The recovery phase will also focus kits (as part of the Family Kits) and on hygiene promotion activities in children’s hygiene kits. The hygiene schools and in the targeted promotion initiative, which has so far communities to prevent water-borne benefited 12,405 people is diseases among children below 5. increasing the awareness of the community members in protecting In line to the Ministry of Health’s themselves from hygiene and National Strategy, volunteers will sanitation-related diseases and in be trained on Community Led Total creating a more conducive Sanitation (CLTS) to promote “open environment for children. defecation free” (ODF) communities. Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 14
Livelihoods
Restoration of the livelihoods of The multi-purpose cash assistance, earthquake and tsunami affected meanwhile, has provided a total of families or households is critical to $345,748.95 cash to 3,357 people. ensure that basic needs of children are provided for. Towards this end, WVI- Moving forward CENTRE embarked on cash-based WVI will consider more targeted and programming for livelihoods through sustainable livelihood cash-for-work activities and interventions, aimed at rehabilitating provision of multi-purpose cash, the capacities of people and institu- given the level of functionality of local tions through the provision of skills markets. While local economy and development opportunities and livelihoods may take some time to returning the community’s access to fully recover, infusion of cash will help sustainable economic opportunities. sustain the families and allow them to This can be in the form of replace- provide for their identified ment of productive assets such as priority needs and help local economy boats and fishing nets, small animal to recover. To date, the response has husbandry livestock, or any other assisted a total of 1,941 households tradesmen’s tools. through cash for work activities. Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 15
‘We can be farmers again’
After the 7.1 magnitude quake that hit 50-year old Taufik’s village in Central Sulawesi, he and other farmers thought that it would be impossible to go back to farming.
“Our farms were affected and we do not have the resources to start again,” he shares. For people like him who rely on farming for source of income, it was hard to cope. Taufik had to collect coconut fruits and sold those to a coconut processing shop, earning him IDR40,000 if he gets at least 20 coconuts.
Reports from the local agriculture department shows that the disaster has impacted close to 8000 hectares of farming land in Sigi District alone. In Taufik’s village, 100 hectares were affected. The Gumbasa dam and the irrigation system that support farming activities were heavily damaged. While the government is committed to repairing the damaged facilities, the repair may take some time because of the extent of damage.
Restoring community assets through cash-for-work Recognising that the loss of livelihoods could impact the well-being of children because parents are not able to provide for their basic needs, Wahana Visi Indonesia, with support from different partners, has implemented cash- for-work program. In Taufik’s village, through Taiwan ICDF, 500 households worked together to level at least 200 farm lands and to clear those from debris, in time for the planting season in May. The community are also working together to construct or rehabilitate up to 50 shallow water wells or well with depth up to 15 meters near the farmland. With the damaged water source for farmlands, farmers will be forced to rely on rainwater. These water wells will be an alternative solution should the rainwater won’t be enough.
Moving forward Now that the lands are ready and mechanisms are in place to support the farmers, Taufik is excited to go back to farming. The project will provide him and his fellow farmers with farm inputs that include seedling, fertilizer, pesticide and other materials in the form of voucher. Ten hand tractors will be given to the farmers and will be managed by the organised farmers’ groups to ensure that everyone is able to access the machineries. They are also provided with capacity building on good agriculture practices.
“Me and my fellow villagers are now starting to be active again, and it feels good that we are able to go back to what we do. Thank you,” Taufik smiles.
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Responding with Accountability
TOTAL BUDGET SPENT: USD4,874,482
Wahana Visi Indonesia recognises that The response has established feed- community engagement is an back mechanism, mainly using call important part of humanitarian work. center (dedicated mobile number for Listening to the voices of the community members to contact WV), communities we work with, feedback boxes and help desks. Over providing avenues for them to share the last six months, a total of 12,275 their thoughts and feedback are all feedback has been received by vital in ensuring that they are involved CENTRE, of which 60% are in their own recovery. The expression of gratefulness, 39% are operationalisation of WVI Program suggestions and quality improvement Accountability Framework which feedbacks, and 1% consisting of includes Information Provision, queries. Consultation, Feedback Mechanisms and Participation allowed the Moving forward, WVI will continue to response to get community feedback provide mechanisms for the trends and analysis, which are being communities, including children, used as references moving forward. to be heard. Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019 17
Financials (as of March 2019)
Expenses Summary YTD Actual Expenses Child Protection
Education and Life Skills 9% 2% 9% 0% Health and Nutrition 6% 3% Water and Sanitation
8% Livelihood
Relief Distribution 42% 21% Food A ss ista nce
Disaster Mitigation
Programme and Project Management
TOTAL BUDGET SPENT: USD4,874,482
Funding StatusChart Title
21% BUDGET REQUIREMENT: USD18Million BUDGET COMMITTED: USD 14.3 Million FUNDING GAP: USD3.7 Million 79%
Committed Gap Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019
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CONTACT INFORMATION
MARGARETTHA SIREGAR YACOBUS RUNTUWENE Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs Director Response Manager Wahana Visi Indonesia CENTRE - Wahana Visi Indonesia [email protected] [email protected] +62 811 175 3974 +62 811 175 3974 Central Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Response: 6-Month On | March 2019
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