SurveyMETER visited Cita Sehat Foundation (CSF) Bantul on Jalan Parangtritis Km. 10 Yogyakarta on Friday, November 20, 2015. The CSF is a health empowerment organization in Indonesia, one of which is on elderly group assistance. The visit was done by the SurveyMETER Executive Director, Dr. Ni Wayan Suriastini M.Phil, accompanied by Dian Purnomo, the author of a book about Alzheimer's and Dementia “The Moment When My Mother Forgets Me”.

Since the CSF has been assisting the elderly for 2 years at one of the hamlets in Pleret village of Bantul district, the venture aimed to share knowledge and mentoring on how to take care of the elderly. Dwi Endah Kurniasih, SKM as the Regional Head of CSF, welcomed the visitors. Direct visits to assisted hamlets were also carried out in this activity to meet health cadres and the elderly who are the target of the home visit program.

CSF has been carried out program activities in assisting the elderly including posyandu for the elderly, hypertension club, diabetes club, home visit, nutrition garden, and almsgiving of garbage exchange for money to fund elderly activities in the village. Some programs would be adaptively implemented in the villages assisted by SurveyMETER such as at Guwosari village, Pajangan, Bantul. CSF would also include elderly cadres from Guwosari in the upcoming cadre training. (TPA/JF)

The Village Assistance Program from SurveyMETER continued in 2015. This year, it focused on assisting the elderly in Watugedug Hamlet, Guwosari Village. It was a self-initiative and independent program held by SurveyMETER under full support of the Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI). In 2013-2014 this assistance program concentrated on issues of village administration systems, basic public services of ECED, the preparation of village profiles, and the elderly group empowerment in Guwosari Village and Jatimulyo Village.

Assistance activities for the elderly in Watugedug Hamlet were focused on mentoring the capacity of companion cadres. They commenced with training in elderly gymnastics for the elderly companion cadres of Watugedug Hamlet on April 5, 2015. It was expected that after participating in the training they could lead the elderly to exercise. In this initial activity, the elderly were directly involved. They felt happy because apart from being able to gather with other elderly people, they also got the benefits directly because they felt better and fresher after participating in gymnastics. This elderly exercise program was scheduled once a month in conjunction with the implementation of the elderly posyandu.

The following activity was socialization and advocacy from SurveyMETER to the Guwosari Village government as well as providing additional material to the elderly companion cadres of Watugedug Hamlet on April 28, 2015. SurveyMETER invited Mr. Sudiman M.Pd.I of the Social Organization Melati Sleman to advocate for village staff and elderly companion cadres. SurveyMETER also provided assistance with 3 units of tensimeters to the elderly companion cadres of Watugedug Hamlet on the occasion.

Another program was "homecare" visits by companion cadres to bedridden elderly people or those who are no longer capable to perform daily activities independently. The cadre team was divided into 3 groups, each of which had dependent elderly assisted based on the area to visit. They conducted several activities during home care, such as providing food parcels, participating in cleaning their houses if necessary, performing blood pressure measurements, and last but not least, listening to their storytelling. The elderly seemed commonly feeling lonely so they need a friend to talk to or just listen to their stories. It commenced on May 3, 2015, and used to be routinely held every two weeks.

The village community most welcomed these empowerment programs.

(TPA/JF)

Various activities have been conducted by the rural assistance team of SurveyMETER in the Jatimulyo Village and Guwosari Village. These assistance activities also became coverings activities in 2013. In Jatimulyo Village, the closing years was filled by "Gebyar PAUD Ceria" on December 25, 2013.  The event was held in the village hall of Jatimulyo, and has been followed by all the PAUD students in Jatimulyo, which consisted a play group (KB) and units of similiar PAUD.

The event took place with a very rousing and full of cheerfulness along the event. The series of events begins with cheerful healthy exercise together in hall of Jatimulyo Jatimulyo Village . After breakfast together, the series of the next event was a number of competition, like educational games, performance art, and creativity of children. The event closed with the awarding prizes for winners and door prizes mementos handover for participants. And all was organized by SurveyMETER, not only organizing the event, but also gifts, and door prizes. (JF_Trans by A5)

On December 26, 2013, at the Guwosari Village Hall complex, Pajangan District, Bantul, the year closing activities of the Village Assistance Team from SurveyMETER were filled with two activities a day. The first one was “ECED Learning and Environmental Management Training” attended by 12 ECED in Guwosari Village. The training material was delivered by an ECED expert, Dra. Kis Rahayu, principal of the Aisyiah Ngampilan Excellent ECED and a lecturer in ECED education subject at Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta. Although it was held for a full day from morning until late in the afternoon, all participants were enthusiastic since they received different training materials from the previous one.

It seemed to be a closing bonus from a series of 8 Training Of Trainers (TOT) on Nutrition Education for 3 ECED components, namely ECED educators, parents, and students throughout Guwosari Village, delivered by One Earth Integral Education Foundation.

The second activity was “Family Basic Data Collection Training for 2014 Guwosari Village Profile”. It was attended by each hamlet administrator throughout Guwosari Village and 30 youths from the Guwosari Village Youth Organization, took place from afternoon to evening, and was delivered by Edy Purwanto, M.Sc from SurveyMETER.

It aimed to follow up on the sub-program of assisting the preparation of online village profiles in the PRODESKEL program of the Ministry of Home Affairs already carried out by SurveyMETER in this village. Having completed the training activities, Guwosari Village, accompanied by SurveyMETER, would continue to independently prepare 2014 village profiles by involving 2 to 3 youths in each hamlet as field data collectors. For the effectiveness of the data collection process, officers would participate in community meetings in their hamlet by distributing basic family data forms.. Later they would conduct a short training to the community on how to fill out the questionnaires so they could fill them out independently by themselves.

The innovation in the preparation of PRODESKEL by involving the youth was also to identify a comparison of the effectiveness of the family data collection process involved Posyandu cadres in each hamlet in previous years.  (JF)

The focus of SurveyMETER's assistance to Jatimulyo village of Dlingo sub-district and Guwosari village of Pajangan sub-District in Bantul district since informed a few months earlier (read; Village Assistance Program) is village assistance to support facilitation, identification, and development village potential in three ways. The first is good data ownership (coverage, updated, quality) by assisting in preparing village profiles in 2012, institutionalizing village administration, and reporting systems. Second, improving basic education services for early childhood education (ECED). Third, improving basic health services, especially health problems for the elderly.

In contrast to Jatimulyo village where the ECED assessment is focusing on governance issues and learning tools, Guwosari is on nutrition education in the ECED environment issues.

The preparation of ECED mentoring activities in Guwosari Village was launched with an internal discussion of the Mentoring Team on Sunday, September 22, 2013, regarding the plan to provide Nutrition Education Training of Trainers (TOT) materials delivered by One Earth Integral Education Foundation every Friday for 8 meetings. Later on Thursday, September 26, 2013, SurveyMETER held a presentation on Nutrition Education by One Earth Integral Education Foundation attended by the Assistance Team, such as Sukamtiningsih, Fita Herawati, Setyo Pujiastuti, Nasiruddin, and Okie Judhijanto, while the speakers from One Earth Integral Education Foundation were dr. Djoko Pramono MM, Ardi Pras, and Anisa Mira Fauziah S.E.

The Nutrition Education Program introduced by One Earth Integral Education Foundation is to offer education based on four themes bundled into one package. First, Me and Myself contains hygiene materials, sources of nutrition, and nutritional composition. Second, Me and the Surroundings encompasses children begin to learn about nutritional information (for example; intake of more fruit and vegetables, reducing sugar and soda, meeting the body's water needs) and value-based (discipline of consuming a balanced healthy menu, caring for others, sorting out healthy and unhealthy foods).

Third, Me and the World involves nutritional information (calorie and calcium intakes, healthy snacks), value-based of understanding, cooperation, and sacrifice (that mutual as a child I will grow as I grow calcium, sourced from a healthy menu). Fourth, Citizens of the World expect that children will practice nutrition information (the importance of iron, cooperation between children and parents in preparing healthy menus, children's awareness of healthy menu intake), value-based of care for others, serving others, and confidence (after all nutritional information and values are given and expected to grow confident).

Parenting materials are taught to parents through presentations, demonstrations, exercises, and self-empowerment, while to children, those are conveyed through the platform of motion and singing (utilizing musical instruments, sing a song they are familiar with), storytelling, traditional playgames, contest, exercise, pasting pictures, and coloring.

On Thursday, October 10, 2013, the SurveyMETER Mentoring Team conducted socialization of the Nutrition Education TOT training activities to ECED educators in Guwosari Village. The event was held at the Guwosari Village Hall, opened directly by the village head, Mr. Suharto.

Attended by 15 ECED administrators who represented 12 of 18 ECED in Guwosari which later decided together at the end of the socialization that all (12) attendees would enlist the training respectively sent 2 educators, 1 parent, and 1 student of ECED. The training would be held every Friday from 08.00-10.30, commencing on October 25, 2013, at the Guwosari Village Hall. (JF)

Mendampingi Perbaikan Tatakelola dan Perangkat Pembelajaran PAUD

Program Pendampingan Desa Jatimulyo Kecamatan Dlingo dan Desa Guwosari Kecamatan Pajangan  Kabupaten Bantul yang dimulai Desember tahun 2012 lalu terus berjalan. Beberapa pekan kedepan, program pendampingan Pembuatan Profil Desa dan Kelurahan (Prodeskel) di kedua desa akan selesai. Sementara program pendampingan PAUD di kedua desa memasuki serangkaian kegiatan yang merupakan tindak lanjut dari asesmen keadaan sejumlah PAUD tersebut. Bedanya, di Desa Jatimulyo asesmen PAUD difokuskan pada masalah tatakelola dan perangkat pembelajaran, sementara di Desa Guwosari fokus pada masalah edukasi nutrisi di lingkungan PAUD.

Diantara masalah utama yang ditemukan dari proses asesmen PAUD di Desa Jatimulyo adalah pengelola PAUD belum memiliki program perencanaan yang bisa mendukung perangkat pembelajaran. Untuk merencanakan kegiatan pendampingan terkait masalah tersebut, pada tanggal 20 September lalu, Tim Pendamping SurveyMETER mengadakan sharing dan konsultasi mengenai program perencanaan perangkat pembelajaran PAUD dengan Kepala PAUD Nur’aini, Ibu Kis Rahayu yang juga sebagai ketua Pusat Unggulan PAUD Terpadu Provinsi DIY. PAUD Nur’aini merupakan salah satu PAUD unggulan dan favorit ini di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta dimana Ibu Kis Rahayu adalah PAUD Nur’aini  ini menjadi tujuan studi banding PAUD dari berbagai daerah di Indonesia.

Hasil konsultasi tersebut tergambar bagaimana dengan melalui pendidikan dan latihan yang terpadu pengelola PAUD bisa menguasai beragam masalah meliputi; kurikulum baku PAUD, perencanaan pembelajaran, komunikasi dengan anak, gizi anak, bagaimana bermain yang mendidik, dan mengenal ADK.

Selanjutnya Tim Pendamping SurveyMETER yang dikoordinir oleh Fita Herawati STP bersama Direktur Eksekutif SurveyMETER, Dr Ni Wayan Suriastini MPhil, pada tanggal 28 September, melakukan kunjungan dan observasi terhadap PAUD Anak Merdeka di Dusun Tegalawas Desa Jatimulyo. Tujuannya, untuk melihat langsung sejauh mana kegiatan pembelajaran  PAUD yang sudah berjalan. Selain itu pada kunjungan ini juga dilakukan wawancara langsung dengan 4 guru KB PAUD Anak Merdeka, 1 orang wali murid, serta wawancara dengan istri kepala desa untuk mengetahui gambaran pelayananan kesehatan ibu dan balita di desa ini.

Paska dua kegiatan tersebut, Tim Pendamping SurveyMETER melakukan diskusi untuk perencanaan kegiatan lanjutan yaitu pendidikan dan pelatihan (Diklat) bagi guru dari keenam PAUD tersebut. Diklat tersebut akan dilakukan berjenjang yaitu tanggal pada 28 Oktober, 14 November, dan 21 November.

Pada tanggal 5 Oktober kemarin Tim Pendamping SurveyMETER melakukan sosialisasi rencana kegiatan Diklat tersebut sekaligus memastikan komitmen guru dari keenam PAUD tersebut untuk berpartisipasi penuh. Hasil dari kesepakatan ada 7 PAUD yang berkomitment untuk mengikuti pelatihan pada periode ini yaitu: PAUD Jambu, Semangka, Apel 1, Manggis, Mangga, Anak Merdeka dan Apel 2. Berhubung kapasitas hanya 6 PAUD maka Apel 1 akan ikut pada pelatihan berikutnya.  Pada pertemuan ini juga dilakukan Theory of Change (TOC) dengan semua pendidik PAUD yang hadir, mengenai pertanyaan apa tujuan dari penyelenggaraan PAUD di desa ini? Para pendidik PAUD menyatakan bahwa tujuan dari PAUD adalah untuk mendidik anak menjadi anak yang pintar, cerdas, mandiri, kreatif, inovatif, pemberani, dasar berakhlak, mulia, disiplin dan sopan santun (TPA/JF)

SurveyMETER melaksanakan tugas pendampingan dan mentoring kepada Civil Society Organization (CSO) mitra SUM2 Program. SurveyMETER melakukan pendampingan dan mentoring pada kegiatan Semi Annual Survey (SAS) dan Monitoring Kualitas Data (MKD) dari 12 CSO tersebut.

Semi Annual Survey (SAS) dilaksanakan secara serentak oleh 12 CSO pada bulan Februari - Maret 2013. Responden SAS ini adalah kelompok dampingan (KD) dan non kelompok dampingan (Non-KD) yang berada di wilayah dampingan masing-masing CSO. Tugas mentoring SurveyMETER dalam SAS ini adalah membantu CSO untuk mendesain panduan manual dan modul (instrumen) survei, melaksanakan Training Of Trainers (TOT) di dua wilayah, melakukan koreksi, observasi lapangan, serta kegiatan-kegiatan lainnya untuk menjaga dan menjamin kualitas data.

Kegiatan selanjutnya paska SAS ini adalah pelaksanaan Monitoring Kualitas Data (MKD) dari 12 CSO tersebut. MKD dilaksanakan pada 16 Juni hingga 02 Juli 2013. Kegiatan MKD ini dilakukan dengan metode Focus Group Discussion (FGD), dimana petugas dari SurveyMETER bertindak sebagai pemandu manajerial dan pelaksana program CSO untuk mengidentifikasi dan melakukan penilaian bersama terhadap permasalahan dan kekurangan dalam manajemen kualitas data, baik pada program-program internal CSO ataupun pada pelaksanan Semi Annual Survey (SAS) 2013. Terhadap permasalahan yang ditemukan tersebut, internal CSO secara bersama-sama akan menentukan tindak lanjut untuk memperbaiki kekurangan-kekurangan. Bahkan, pada saat MKD ini juga disusun timeline dan penanggungjawab untuk kegiatan-kegiatan tindak lanjut tersebut. [JF] 

As a follow-up to the ECED mentoring agenda in the Village Assistance Program, SurveyMETER held an ECED Teacher Capacity Training on Monday, March 18, 2013, at PAUD Nur'aini Ngampilan, Yogyakarta City. It was attended by 33 ECED teachers in Jatimulyo village, Dlingo, Bantul, and conducted by implementing class observation and discussion methods from 08.00-12.00 a.m.

According to the village assistance program coordinator, Setyo Pujiastuti, the materials presented included making a daily activity plan (RKH), creating educational game props (APE) from natural materials and used goods, and managing institutions. All speakers from PAUD Nur'aini management under the leadership of Ms. Kis Rahayu. She is the head of the Center for Excellence for Integrated Early Childhood Education in the DIY Province in addition to being a lecturer in the ECED teacher education department at Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta. PAUD Nur'aini is one of the leading and favorite ECEDs in the Special Region of Yogyakarta.

The purpose of the training was to increase the capacity of ECED teachers in Jatimulyo village, most of whom did not have any teacher education or ECED teaching background. According to Setyo, this training would be continued on March 27, 2013, in Jatimulyo village, Dlingo District. “Later, Ms. Kis Rahayu and PAUD Nur'aini administrators would in turn come to Jatimulyo village. The teaching materials were micro-teaching, ECED pieces of knowledge, and the extensions to make APE from natural materials,” said Setyo.

She added that the concept and technical involvement of SurveyMETER in this activity was to not only offer training concepts but also to accompany and facilitate speakers and training venues. "For further training on March 27th, the administrator of PAUD Jatimulyo village will prepare the technical concept draft," said Setyo. [JF]

The SUM2 (Scaling up the HIV Response Among Most-at-risk Populations) program is a kind of support and cooperation between the Governments of Indonesia and the United States in efforts to control HIV in Indonesia, which began in 2010 to 2015. This collaboration has actually been started in 1993 until 2010 through HAPP (HIV/AIDS Prevention Project, followed by ASA I Program (2000-2005), ASA II Program (2005-2010).

The SUM program aims to improve the overall management capacity for NGOs in Indonesia that focus on HIV/AIDS, with a long-term objective of improving access and quality of comprehensive service for communities vulnerable to and affected by HIV/AIDS in Indonesia. The support provided by SUM will focus on 3 things. First, to increase the technical capacity and organizational performance needed to carry out active, comprehensive, integrated, and sustainable interventions impacted on increasing service utilization and changing the behavior of high-risk groups in a significant and measurable manner. Second, to increase strategic information management capacity to respond to HIV/AIDS issues in high-risk groups. One form of assistance for this strategic information aspect is integrated biological and behavioral surveillance as well as monitoring and evaluation. Third, to provide and monitor financial support to civil society organizations/NGOs to encourage the expansion of effective, integrated, and sustainable interventions in high-risk groups in areas where large populations of MARPPs and high rates of HIV transmission exist.

(www.sum2.or.id).

To be able to have a significant impact, the SUM2 Program works in a number of cities in 8 provinces with the highest MARPs (Most-at-risk Populations), namely DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Sumatra, Riau Islands, Papua, and West Papua.

In-depth interview carried out by the SurveyMETER team, Henry Setyo Nugroho, with the Bandungwangi Foundation, October 10, 2012. (Photo:Dok.Iip-SM)

SurveyMETER Engagement

SurveyMETER was involved in the SUM2 program starting October 2012 for an initial period of 1 year, in its capacity for monitoring and evaluation of CSOs (Civil Society Organizations) working in HIV/AIDS control programs, as well as other providers (Penabulu, Satunama, and Circle, for organizational development and financial management). SurveyMETER provided assistance to 8 CSOs in DKI Jakarta and 7 CSOs in East Java. It was expected the involvement of SurveyMETER in the SUM program would encourage CSO sovereignty, especially in terms of monitoring and evaluation, specifically towards data production, data quality, data management, data analysis, as well as utilizing software for data entry programs..

SurveyMETER's role in the SUM2 program was more categorically to ensure a timely monthly CSOs reporting with good data quality; to build their capacities in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data for more effective implementation (cost and reporting) including the use of mobile-phone technology; to conduct periodic qualitative studies to them (by focus group discussions, for example) from key populations whose task was to identify barriers to service utilization; provide assistance in good data management for them including in reports; to assist and ensure the implementation of the 2013 Semi-Annual Survey carried out by CSOs.

The scope of activities carried out by SurveyMETER leads to developing a work plan for CSOs, especially monitoring and evaluation related to knowledge and skills; developing CSO capabilities, especially in monitoring and evaluation; developing tools for the implementation of monitoring and evaluation; developing web-based CSPro data; developing mobile phone technology for CSO outreach; assisting and developing the 2013 Semi-Annual Survey and Qualitative Studies for CSOs; and developing technical assistance to CSOs in conducting monitoring and evaluation. A concrete impression of SurveyMETER's efforts in this mentoring program was to assign 4 mentors: 2 in DKI Jakarta and 2 in East Java, namely Henry Setyo Nugroho, Oki Petrus Laoh, Rangga Fauzian Andika, and Angky Bayu Putrantyo, while the program coordinator is Dani Alfah MPA who is also the Coordinator of the Assistance and Development Section for the SurveyMETER Region. [DA/JF]

Untuk mematangkan program Pendampingan Desa khususnya dalam penyusunan profil desa, pada tanggal 25/02 lalu tim pendamping dari SurveyMETER mengadakan kegiatan “Diskusi Penyusunan Profil Desa” dengan narasumber Bapak Agus Akhmadi dari Kantor Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Desa Kabupaten Bantul. 

Menurut koordinator program, Setyo Pujiastuti, diskusi ini adalah persiapan sebelum terjun langsung ke lapangan untuk mendampingi Desa Jatimulyo Kecamatan Dlingo dan Desa Guwosari Kecamatan Pajangan dalam proses pembuatan profil desa.