HANDS! PROJECT

2014/2015 AND 2015/2016

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

AND OUR FUTURE

May 19, 2015

HANDs! Regional Meeting in Kuala Lumpur

Ai Goto, Assistant Director & Purwoko Adhi Nugroho, Program Associate

The Japan Foundation, Jakarta

HANDs! Project

HANDs! Project 2014-2020 Hope and Dreams (HANDs!) Project is an annual youth

exchange program for 7 years aiming to foster capacity

building among youth (18 to 35 years old) for learning and

later creating actual projects using creative methods

for supporting communities in making disaster

education.

Offices involved: JF Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala

Lumpur, New Delhi, Tokyo

Target: Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, India,

Japan (more to be added)

Project Development

Previous program

Indonesia Youth Competition

for Disaster Education

(YCDE) in 2012 to 2013

- 2012: 139 groups (536 participants) for 24 seats to Japan

(Kizuna)

- 2013: 319 groups (1276 participants) for 24 seats to

Japan (JENESYS 2.0)

- Received more than 3,800 likes on FB in a week!

Disaster

Creativity

Disaster Education

+Creativity

About HANDs Expected Outcome from Year 1:

Engages and develops a total of 24 motivated youths from Japan and ASEAN countries

Engages a minimum of 10,000 people digitally

Initiating a network of youths

Creating and realizing new ideas or solutions =>> ACCOMPLISHED

Expected Outcome after 7 Years:

Engages and develops a minimum of 200 motivated youths from Japan and ASEAN countries

Engages a minimum of 100,000 people digitally

An active self-initiated network

Able to involve the Local and National Government of participating countries

Able to affect on national educational system in participating countries

=>> DISCUSS MORE LATER TODAY

Program Outline

Day 1

Half-day Orientation

Half-day workshop and group discussion

Day 2

Half-day Workshop and group discussion

Half-day site visit

Day 3

Site visits and other activities

Day 4

Activities with the locals

Day 5

Making action plan

Indonesia

Sept 26-30, 2014

Philippines

Oct 01-05, 2014

Thailand

Feb 15-21, 2015

Japan

Feb 21-27, 2015

HANDs! Time Frame for 2014-2015

Date Action

1 April - June 2014 Program Planning

2 Early July 2014 Approve Project & Budget

3 July 21 Aug 15, 2014 Call for Application for Participants

4 Aug 18 29, 2014 Selection of Participants

5 Sept 1 25, 2014 Administration & Phase 1 Preparation

6 Sept 26 Oct 5, 2014 HANDs Phase 1: Indonesia & Philippines

7 Oct - Nov 2015 Phase 1 Evaluation

Administration Process & Phase 2 Preparation

8 Feb 21-27 2015 HANDs Phase 2: Thailand & Japan

9 March 2015 HANDs 1st Year Evaluation

Program in Indonesia

Program in Philippines

Program in Thailand

Program in Japan

Learning community development project in Fukushima

Meeting with key persons in

Tokyo

HANDs! Project 1st Year Outcome Trained the 24 participants from the 6 countries.

Developed 8 action plans to be implemented in 2015.

Outreached to 6.3 million audience via ARENA123 on TVRI. (January and February, 2015) [Indonesia]

Outreached audience through Thai PBS TV [Thailand]

Outreached audience through TBS TV Jonetsu Tairiku and magazine Axis through Nagata san [Japan].

HANDs! Project 1st Year Outcome

--Indonesia [outreach event] Talk-show for UN4U event on

October 17, 2014

Collaboration with UNIC, UNOCHA, UNESCO, and others.

At Bina Nusantara University (BINUS)

HANDs! Project 1st Year Outcome

--Indonesia [outreach + OJT]

Evacuation and Three activities at EPA language training center at Depok.

Target: 267 nurse and caregivers

Objective:

To introduce ways to take care of people in case of emergency.

To provide opportunity for HANDs! Members to practice their learning.

QUESTIONNAIRE

RESULTS Japan Trip

Overall experience with HANDs Japan

Trip

Excellent Good Somewhat good Not good

Life-changing experience with HANDs!

Japan Trip

Very life-changing Life-changing Somewhat life-changing not life-changing

The most significant 2 things participants

gained/learned during Japan Trip

1: Visiting the disaster areas in Tohoku area in Japan,

especially schools are highly valued.

2: Meeting with key persons and learned case study

analysis from various on-going projects.

For whom do you think the HANDs Project is

suitable? Who should join in the HANDs!

Project 2015-2016? (1st year participants voice)

University students

Young Professionals

People from different field with passion about disaster education

People who can stand out and share comment with others

Various expertise with same level and better English

Emerging leaders

Fresh grads

Design & Creative area people

Policy Makers

Social Activist

Youth

Different backgrounds (country, religion, etc)

Students 18-24 years

Strong will and personal capacity

Artist and non-artist, so action plan can more practical

Media People

YEAR 1 REVIEW

1st Year in Short

Program development: Trial and error

phase

Created basic framework

Wind, Water & Soil type

Started to set up project standards

What to improve? No Project Scenario

HANDs! Project

Indonesia:

-Program A

-Program B

-Program C

Philippines:

-Program C

-Program D

-Program E

Thailand:

-Program B

-Program C

-Program F

Japan:

-Program C

-Program D

-Program G

What to improve? No Project Scenario Create Projet Scenario

HANDs! Project

Set up goal and specific expected outome

Indonesia

Program A

Program B

Program C

Philippines

Program D

Program E

Program F

Thailand

Program G

Program H

Program I

Japan

Program J

Program K

Program L

Goal Achieved!!

Key: Balance of universalism and localism

Action

Plan A

Action

Plan B

Action

Plan C

What to Keep?

Disaster

Creativity

Disaster Education

+Creativity

What to Keep?

Other Unique Selling Points (USP)

Multicultural & Diversity

Multilateral Approach Multi-way of learning process

Focus on Human Capacity Development

Community Based

Project Outcome Oriented

Multicutural Approach (Country Office Initiated)

(Head Office Initiated)

(Bilateral) (Multilateral)

HANDs! Project

Young Muslim Intellectual (YMI)

KIZUNA, JENESYS

Small Local Projects

Japanese Language Fellows

Human Capacity Development (Human Capacity Development)

(Non Human Capacity Development)

(Learning from Japan) (Mutual Learning)

HANDs! Project JF Fellows

JENESYS

Impact to Community (Impact to Community)

(Learning Stays in Participants)

(General) (Community Based)

HANDs! Project 2nd Year

(Action Plans)

HANDs! Project 1st Year Intellectual Conferences

Project Outcome Oriented (Focus on Follow Up Activities)

(Broadly disseminating outcomes)

(No Specific Issue) (Issue Oriented)

HANDs! Project

Young Muslim Intellectual (YMI)

KIZUNA, JENESYS

Japanese Studies Fellows

HANDS! IN 2020 Our Future, Our Long-term Goal

HANDs! in 2020

200+ ALUMNI MEMBERS

Actively communicating with each other

Passionate about disaster education (and

other community issues)

Continue to collaborate & create projects

HANDS! OUR WAY What do we value?

HANDs! values:

1

You are our Hope and Dreams

We are professionals developing human capacity. Any of our

decision making should provide value to the participants.

Questions to ask:

Will this increase the learning of the participants?

What can they get?

HANDs! values:

2

We are professionals,

serving professionals.

Question to ask:

How can we provide value to the participants,

the organizers, and the program?

HANDs! values:

3

We are creatives, serving creatives.

Question to ask:

How about, What if?

Not We cannot, because

Think big & long term.

2020 and beyond.

PROGRAM 2015/2016

HANDs! 2nd year

2014/2015 : Trial & Error / Starting Up Phase

2015/2016 : Develop & Standardize

Purposes

To do human capacity development in the area of disaster education + creativity.

To provide opportunities for participants to have creative

mindset, so that they can continuously change the community.

To create the pool of active alumni who continuously

communicate and create activities.

Q: How much do we want to stick with Disaster Education?

Outcome? Expected Outcome from Year 2:

Engage and develop additional 24+ motivated youths from Japan and ASEAN countries

Engage a minimum of 10,000 people digitally

Initiate a network of youths

Create and realize new ideas and solutions

Continued involving the 1st year HANDs! members

Realize Action Plans from the 1st year

Seek involvement of Nepal (JFND) and Myanmar (JFBKK)

Expected Outcome after 7 Years: Engages and develops a minimum of 200+ motivated youths from

Japan and ASEAN countries

Engages a minimum of 100,000 people digitally

An active self-initiated network

Able to involve the Local and National Government of participating countries

Able to affect on national educational system in participating countries

Who are Our Participants? GOOD PARTICIPANTS

Wind Type (artists/coordinator etc.)

: Having good artistic/creative skills

Water Type (organizers etc.): Having good coordination skills

In common:

Determined/serious about the issues

Eager to learn and collaborate with others locally & internationally

Good communication skills (including English)

25 35 year-old midcareer professionals. + Outstanding university students.

BAD PARTICIPANTS

come and go, just to add to resume, not putting HANDs as 1st priority (disappear in the middle of program)

Selection Process

4 ways

Open competition

Individual competition

Open competition

Group competition

Nomination

Individually

Nomination

By group

Selection Process

[2014]

Only sending CV/Bio [Malaysia] nomination

CV + Project experiences + Rough proposal (idea)

[Indonesia] Open call

CV + Idea [Philippines] nomination

[2015] OPEN CALL

Paper / Proposal + Interview or Roundtable Presentation

+ Discussion

What to learn?

Learning outcome

Skills

Attitude

Knowledge

HANDs!

2014

focus

Methodology

Two International Group Trips + Some Domestic

Activities

Domestic activities can be organized BEFORE, BETWEEN,

or/and AFTER the group trips.

Our program will offer:

Life-changing experiences. Not just eye-opening.

Inspire to foster creative mindset & design thinking.

Thank you very much!

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

--Helen Keller