17 December 2009, the Head of Education Unit of UNESCO, Anwar Alsaid, Programe Officer for JTIC UNESCO, Ardito M Kodijat and Humanitarian Forum Indonesia (HFI) Director Hening Parlan, attended a meeting with General Director of National Education Service for Elementary School Bambang Indriyanto,to discuss the application of "Post Disaster Needs Assessment in Education sector”. The meeting took place at the National Education Office, Jakarta.
After the Indonesian Government announced that they were opening up to International Aid agencies to help earthquake victims on Padang West Sumatera, more than 160 organizations including NGOs, INGOs, the UN, and delegations from friend countries came in droves to give a helping hand in a variety of different ways. So a systematic coordination effort for running the aid effort was a necessary condition to ensure maximum efficiency.
If we look back to how West Sumatera earthquake victims were evacuated, the distribution of food and building of temporary shelter, also when reconstruction and rehabilitation run, every organization applied different procedures, and there was little information-sharing and coordination.
So UNESCO and HFI got together to create an assessment tool to determine the needs for schools and education when disaster hits Indonesia.
“a lot of organizations weren't well coordinated in Padang. We need an integrated procedure for all organizations,” said HFI Director Hening Parlan.
She added, "there are three focuses to determine what post-disaster education needs are: data from the school principal regarding how many teachers and students are victims; assessment of the damage to school buildings, and data from the Emergency Schools Unit."
UNESCO and HFI will publish their results in March 2010, and will create a procedure for determining needs and actions when disaster hits.
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