Risya Kori's Posts - Community life competence2024-03-29T00:59:30ZRisya Korihttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RisyaKorihttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2523237363?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=05f37olwhkqi1&xn_auth=noThe Dreams Come Through: How UNFPA Indonesia Mainstreaming CLCP into 8th Country Programmetag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2010-07-20:2028109:BlogPost:238812010-07-20T09:30:00.000ZRisya Korihttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RisyaKori
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">On July 7 – 9, 2010, for the first time after 2 weeks of IndoCompetence legally established, together with Constellation, I, Gaston, Dewi, Wiwin and UNFPA team (Retha, Lily, Salmiyati, Widad, Ady and Olivia) facilitated the Learning Event of Integrating CLCP into UNFPA Indonesia 8<sup>th</sup> Country Programme…</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">On July 7 – 9, 2010, for the first time after 2 weeks of IndoCompetence legally established, together with Constellation, I, Gaston, Dewi, Wiwin and UNFPA team (Retha, Lily, Salmiyati, Widad, Ady and Olivia) facilitated the Learning Event of Integrating CLCP into UNFPA Indonesia 8<sup>th</sup> Country Programme with 32 UNFPA Indonesia Country Office staffs in Bandung, West Java.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">This is the 4 years journey since October 2006, when UNFPA (Pak Zahid and I) along with friends from Local AIDS Commission of Papua and West Kalimantan were exploring the SALT visit in ChiangMai, ChiangRai and Phayao. Having IndoCompetence established and Introducing the CLCP with all UNFPA team are my dreams that fortunately came along together…..</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">It was the 2, 5 days memorable moment for UNFPA team in Bandung when for the first time they interacted in a SALTY ways as one family, where boundaries and hierarchies are forgotten. Everybody was enthusiastically contributing her/his best to build the avenue of their dream as an organization that pioneering the approach within their programme and working environment.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">Since CLCP has been integrating into 3 of UNFPA mandates (AIDS, Gender Based Violence, and Reproductive Health) within some pilot areas, some of UNFPA Indonesia Country Office staffs were experiencing or at least recognizing the approach. To have everybody equal understanding on the approach and ability to integrate within the 8<sup>th</sup> Country Programme were the challenges faced by the facilitation team, especially UNFPA team is on the process of finalizing its Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP).</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font size="3"><em><strong>“We are good in providing data and analysis but we are not good enough to stimulate for solution”, Zahidul Huque, UNFPA</strong></em></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">We started the first day deeply more into the way of thinking and the way of working to have everybody basic foundation to move on, we revisit the whole process at a glance and at the end of day 1, the UNFPA team did their SALT Self Assessment and freely expressed their understanding of SALT within the big paper of how each word means to them……thank you to Dewi for her brilliant idea! We put all the pictures on the wall as appreciation of UNFPA’s team ownership of these principles that will embedded along the way when they will practice the whole process. The session was continued with the team’s SALT Self Assessment.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font size="3"><strong><em>“After two years working with UNFPA, this is the first time I’ve heard personal story of everybody….” Abby (UNFPA)</em></strong></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">The day 1 was an ice breaking moment for the team especially when everybody shared the story of her/his personal live from the past that created “turning point” and the team SALT Self Assessment when everybody openly discussed on their strengths as well as their willingness to improve.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font size="3"><em><strong>“Thank you for those who willing to share good, bad and sad story from her/his live….I really appreciate that and see your strengths from there…” said Ade Rianom (UNFPA) when we ended the day 1.</strong></em></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">On the day 2, after short brief, the team divided into 6 groups to conduct the SALT Visit to the community of volunteers, youth, and the CSO’s partner of UNFPA, PKBI. Since the SALT Visits were the first time conducted by the whole team, varies experience among the team raised during the AAR as I was fascinated by the transformation of Richard Makalew, one of UNFPA senior staff who proudly spoke on how he learned and captured the strengths from the youth community he visited. Something that totally different from day 1 when it took him sometimes to share his experience of “Learning” within our group because he was struggling to associate the learning process with the “community” as “those who live in a certain area as a target group”. He finally realized that we can learn from anybody, even the loved ones.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">After revisited the whole CLCP process, our biggest challenge during the facilitation process were setting up a strategy on how we can accompany the team to integrate the CLCP into 8<sup>th</sup> CP without imposition but still in line with our recommendation. In the same time, we faced time limitation as we got enthusiastic proposal from UNFPA facilitator’s team that the SALT Self Assessment should be elaborate more in order to create more solid working environment for UNFPA team.</font></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">We need the concrete Action Plan for both, integrating SALT into UNFPA working environment and integrating CLCP into 8<sup>th</sup> CP, meanwhile we had only 2 hours on day 2 and half day on the day 3. In the same time, there was a big consideration to keep create enabling environment of UNFPA support staffs (financial & administration staffs) to speak out more as part of the team.</font></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3"><strong><em>“The biggest challenge in integrating the CLCP into 8<sup>th</sup> CP for me is to make myself more salty, I have tried it and I will make it one day, I need to be more patient and listen more! “ Melania Hidayat, UNFPA</em></strong></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">Thank to Gaston who delivered very strategic message at a very strategic moment to stimulate the UNFPA team to come up with their idea on integrating CLCP into UNFPA 6<sup>th</sup> CP through team brainstorming. The switching agenda came smoothly with the support of solid facilitation team while several UNFPA staffs were sharing on their experience in integrating the CLCP into their own context. At the end of the day we didn’t find any difficulty to synergize our proposed idea with the UNFPA’s as their ideas were just need to be stimulated. We gathered more than 10 ideas and simplified it into 8 ideas in which one of the recommendation was to follow-up the SALT Self Assessment into more concrete Action Plan.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">The rest of day 3 was much easier, after prior discussion, we agreed to use the first two hours on the development of “SALTY UNFPA working environment”. It was a surprised when the team proposed to work on all 6 practices from only 3 priority practices that we proposed, “we need to work on all practice if we want to achieve UNFPA as a SALTY team”, that was the reason. A fruitful discussion among them on the ways forward and they even came with the ideas of having guardian angels for each staff as a guard to keep them salty and using AAR for internal staff meeting, the ideas that came from those who feel that they need to improve more in the office relationship. The toughtful discussion where all staff blended, treated equally with no title of programme, support staff or even the office driver.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">We ended the Learning Event with how to integrate CLCP into UNFPA 8<sup>th</sup> CP. The team divided by 4 groups and it was remarkabling that the group division was benefit all staff and gave opportunity off all staff to participate. Some programme staffs were focusing more on the programme level process such as integrating CLCP into the CP assessment, development of Annual Work plan and using it as a M&E tools, meanwhile the support staffs were more into the integration of SALT within UNFPA office such as Office Management Plan and Blended Learning Programme for UNFPA staffs.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font size="3"><em><strong>“To have this event with UNFPA team is my dream, and I can feel how everybody start to improve the way we communicate and the way we will work in the office”, Widad, UNFPA said at the end of Learning Event</strong></em></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3">There was a doubt, worried and skeptical feeling during the 2, 5 days event. However, it was proof that all the doubtful and worries were gone as we had a combination of excellent participants and great facilitation team…. the strengths we’ve learned from UNFPA Indonesia team will spread more along with the implementation of UNFPA 8<sup>th</sup> CP.</font> <font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3"><img alt="" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540676568?profile=original"/></font></p>
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<p></p>THE STRENGTH STARTS FROM THERE....HOW SALT COULD BE SO POWERFUL!!!!!!tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2010-04-13:2028109:BlogPost:200432010-04-13T04:00:00.000ZRisya Korihttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RisyaKori
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><font color="#000000"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Pulooro is the small village in Konawe District, Southeast Sulawesi. We have to drive about 1,5 hours from Kendari, the capital city of Southeast Sulawesi province and take a motorbike for about 16 Kms to the area. No school, limited electricity and there is a public health center with also limited services. People mostly working as farmers for their life. No one seems interested to the area where to get in and to get out of the village, motorbike only the mode of transportation since the road to the village was not in a good condition, which is quite expensive for those who live in the village. The rest ….children goes to school by walk outside of the village ….at the beginning they still have the spirit, but some kids dropped out of the school because they were too tired to take this unpleasant journey everyday.</span></i></font></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">In contrary, the head of the village is living outside, nearby the main street. He has a good life with 2 cars under the roof of his small mansion. He did everything on purpose to hamper anybody to visit the village since he involved in illegall logging of the forest arround the village …… said one of the motorbike driver on our way to the village, one of several stories of how he steal the people’s money. The time, after I was talking about SALT approach with one of my friend from the NGO that works closely with the community members in the area.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">We were welcoming by hundred of community members packed in the village meeting room with class setting and the head of the village with his team were sitting in front of the meeting room. We didn’t have enough time to re-setting the place as we arrived in the village almost at the evening time. We should find something to break the ice since the community members were used to be in the “no speak out” situation as the Village Head even assigned someone to be a spoke person of the village to answer all of our questions.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">After we were tired of being answered by the “spoke person”, all the sadden my NGO friend, who has close relationship with the village members spoke loudly to the community ….we come here to hear the story from you and to hear your dream of this community! If you dream that your children goes to school, and you can sell your farm’s products outside of the village, the power is in yours, in this community!. After a moment of silent, one lady stood up and started talking about her concern and her dream of the community….her strengths followed by other members as at the end of the visit we were feeling that the room was filled by their power. It was the first time after sometimes they had a chance to tell people about their concern and dream.</span></i></p>
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I was a bit worried when I got my Dakar itinerary, it would be my first visit to Africa and ….. arrived at 11:55?. I got Meike’s (HIVOS) bunch of emails on some tips in the Dakar airport….do not bring much cash, do not withdraw money at the airport, you have to bargain for the taxy…. hm….confused but excited! It would be my first time joins the Constellation team in facilitating the training outside of my country.<br />
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Then, I was lucky enough to have Mukhotib, a participant from Indonesia as my…
I was a bit worried when I got my Dakar itinerary, it would be my first visit to Africa and ….. arrived at 11:55?. I got Meike’s (HIVOS) bunch of emails on some tips in the Dakar airport….do not bring much cash, do not withdraw money at the airport, you have to bargain for the taxy…. hm….confused but excited! It would be my first time joins the Constellation team in facilitating the training outside of my country.<br />
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Then, I was lucky enough to have Mukhotib, a participant from Indonesia as my company from Jakarta-Casablanca….. but not Casablanca – Dakar. Stuck for 14 hours in Casablanca because my flight was delayed after 16 hours flew from Jakarta didn’t subtract my excitement, especially until I met 2 Senegalis men, Baba and Thiam who travelled back from France. My first experience, changes my perception about African, especially Africa, a special place that I grew up, by watching and hearing million stories of people are suffering, war and conflicts. Thiam and Baba were so happy that I would visit their country, the country that they said still under developed but …peaceful! I think they are right and I didn’t have to validate the friendliness and cares of the people when they offered me anything to ensure that I would be comfort in Dakar. The excitement was even more when I saw Jean Louis (JL) and very friendly Meike at the airport, even though I had to wait for an hour getting my luggage and my special flip-chart (that I brought from Indonesia for the training :). More surprisingly my friend Mukhotib was also there as he promised to wait for me! What a trip!<br />
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Dakar has a nice weather as nice as the place that I stayed, Ndiye Kunda. I just felt like home and it reminded me of girls who sharing apartment, with Meike, Maartje, Miriam (HIVOS Team) and Indu, an Indian lady from the NGO called SIAAP as my roommates. We stayed in a secret paradise where you have to mention La Brazerade (a quite well known restaurant) to get to the place, walk on the sand, and pass small street vendors that sell a phone ID and local food on the right side with the house on the left side that always busy inside with women do the hair netting. Ndiye Kunda is a 3 storages building with approximately 6-7 rooms to accommodate 5-6 people in each room. It has a small garden and wireless is available to replace TV and you can check emails by sitting in the garden. Every time I walk to and from our secret paradise, there always someone greet me “ cava or bonjour”.<br />
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With my jet lag I attended the first preparation meeting for HIVOS Partners Training as it was also my first time met April, the Constellation coach who I knew only by her emails correspondence before Dakar. A special person, a combination of physically likes my ex supervisor but very soft and kind as a character, the person that remind me of my oldest sister who will ensure that everything will be well taken care of. I offered myself to accompany her for the rest of the day because I wanted to know her better and she gave me such comfort feeling while I was with her at the first day when we tried to find some necessary stuff to be replaced from her un-received luggage. She was born and raised within Salvation Army environment until herself join the organization and has been living in Kenya for 14 years. She considered herself as Kenyan and very proud of working and dedicating her life for Kenyan people, despite USA as her origin, something that I admire the most because it shows that she loves what she does and does what she loves…. very inspiring one!<br />
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We continued our day stopping by to get me phone ID, I really needed one to call home. The old man, the owner of the small shop gave me the new number but it didn’t work (I found out later on that my phone caused it, not the number) but he tried hard to help me to made the number work, he then replaced with another new number that I was afraid that no one would buy the previous one un-sealed (as it is in my country). Very kind man who didn’t think about business even he runs the business, something I learned that it is not about money but for him, being able to help me to call home made him happier!<br />
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I ended my day by meeting with a group of wonderful young people Erick, Marc, Marion etc from Mozambique and … Kenya (?), excuse my jetlag because my brain was completely stop at that time. I just feel so worn out but the meeting session as I always had with JL was….. about learning a new thing! I was thinking about link up Erick with my lovely friend Novy on how he could work with young people to make a difference in parliament. Very enthusiastic group that willing to always learn and they showed their interest to join the HIVOS meeting.<br />
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On my second day, I join the 2nd preparation meeting with Miriam and Meike. It was also the first time we had all Constellation full team as Ricardo arrived early in the morning. I didn’t have a problem to recognize him. He looks just exactly like his picture with a funky and unique hair. Behind his uniqueness, I found that Ricardo is a very positive mind person, mature with his very diplomatic ways of communication. In that day he could confirm Miriam to invite Eric and friends joining us for the training on the next day (thanks Ricardo!). We had a breakfast meeting in Kunda’s garden with the meeting agenda: reviewed the whole sessions and distributed the responsible person. I would be responsible for “getting to know each other” session on the 1st day of training and “building a dream” on the 2nd day. On the meeting I got to know that Ricardo came without his luggage! Again…? However…I didn’t see that it was bothered them, yes it was important to have your luggage with you when you arrived but more important think that they came for learning something more important than worried about the luggage!<br />
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“Today is the day!” Indu, my roommate said. I was a bit nervous on the the first day of the training because I would responsible for the critical session, the session that lead to the atmosphere of the whole training. My first experience team up with very experiencing coaches and I took the opportunity for this session. Some of the participants arrived on time and some were struggling to find the place for the training “Paya Residence Hotelier”, another secret place but it also happened that the board on the main street showing the direction to the place was disappeared on the first day of training. It was such a challenge to find the hotel which located in the middle of no-wher :). But once they arrived the spirit was emerged.<br />
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Getting to know each other session was turning back the atmosphere of those who were tired of a week conference of ICASA. Some said that there was a hesitation to attend the training, but they found out that this one was something different rather than just “another training”. “This is the time for me to talk about me and my life as a human being” said Parlaya from India after asked about who he is, what is his most concern in life and what his most proud of about himself, 3 key questions that was very thoughtful for the participants, the questions that were breaking the formal situation for the rest of the 2 days training.<br />
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Curiosity was slowly vanishing by the time that each session was presented by the team on what this all about. Each Constellation coach was introduced the concept with strong confident. “Sleepless energy” JL often had serious conversation with the team during After Action Review (AAR) when “innovative” Ricardo raised his million ideas and inputs, combine with a “calm” April showed the synergy and chemistry between team members, something I learned that the power of SALT brings positive energy and well teamwork when you apply it as a basic concept of your life. I got to know that this training was the first time for JL and Ricardo worked as a team. I was stunned when JL was asking everybody to criticize him on his session because he still needs to learn from others! Amazing people!<br />
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On the other side, April and Ricardo were having a unique friendship since they used to work as a team within the African countries, the working region of Salvation Army. Unique in the way they were joking and make fun of each other, they even have a special term to express the disappointment or showing that they were sorry by saying “khaaaa…” a voice of bird from the bad ending movie :)<br />
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We were lucky to team up with HIVOs team, Miriam and Meike. “this is my first experience on the training where us (HIVOS) involved in all step including facilitation, I was thinking that we paid this people and what are they doing???” said Miriam with laughing on our last AAR, the time when she understood that this is not about program but about life and this is the Constellation’s nature of work. It was also the first time for a “serious, discipline and well organized” Miriam revealed herself to HIVOS partners who she really is rather than talking about HIV/AIDS program. As Miriam’s teammate, Meike was always there for the team on bad and good time. And if we have to thank for all this, Meike is the right destination and she deserved it.<br />
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I couldn’t believe that some participants were maintaining their spirit well until the end of the training. These experiencing people showed that they always want to learn something more, especially the Self Assessment session that very well introduced by April and Ricard with the approach that I will apply within the training in my country. Everybody was involved and participated in a very serious discussion. I amazed with the open expression of African, they argued, yelled with hours of discussion to have one agreement but with no hard feeling at the end when they solved the problem. Felipe, the French Namibian guy, often showed his disagreement and critiques until the end of training but always presented and fully participated at each session. And at the end…he finally emerged his human being side by offering to arrange the taxy to the airport together with me <br />
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I didn’t feel like go home until the morning that I had to leave, the time when I was not recovered yet from my jetlag and the time, when I was enjoying and experiencing strengths from others. As I drag my luggage on the sand from my secret paradise, I promised myself that I’ll keep this memorable short visit in my mind and I will share to people in my country as my special gift from Africa.