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MERCY CORPS SAVES AND IMPROVES LIVES IN THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST PLACES.
Poverty. Conflict.
Disaster. These are the global challenges that we’ve been responding to since
1979, helping more than 170 million people survive emergencies and build back
better. When a natural disaster strikes,
an economy collapses, or conflict erupts, Mercy Corps is there. We respond
immediately to meet urgent needs for food, water and shelter, and stay beyond
the emergency to partner with communities for their long-term recovery.
Our network of
experienced professionals in more than 40 countries literally speaks the
language — 93 percent of our field staff are from the country where they work —
giving them unique insight into what will move communities from relief to
recovery and ultimately toward resilience. We believe even in the world’s most challenging
places, people have the power to transform their own lives when they have the
right resources. Growing more food, earning higher incomes, advocating for
their needs — we leverage their local logic to pioneer innovative, sustainable
solutions that build stronger communities. Now, and for the future.
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Mercycorps in
Indonesia has strategies, which to improve community infrastructure, health,
resiliency and economic opportunities in Indonesia’s most challenging urban and
coastal areas. About half of all Indonesians live on less than a dollar a day.
Employment growth has been slower than population growth. Public services
remain inadequate by middle-income standards, and health indicators are poor. Our
work, in economic opportunity, we provide technical assistance, training and
financial services to microfinance institutions throughout the country. In health
sector, Mercycorps Indonesia raising awareness and supporting mothers to
practice and promote exclusive breastfeeding, addressing childhood malnutrition
through healthy, affordable food carts in every kind of place and improving
sanitation and hygiene in crowded urban areas with a mobile sludge removal
service. We also work in disaster preparedness, which is identifying and
mapping areas at risk and helping those communities plan, train and practice
how to respond when disasters occur, and maintaining a response team ready to
quickly deploy and provide immediate relief to survivors during the critical
first months after a disaster strikes.
Since 2009, exclusive
breastfeeding is an acknowledged and protected right of every mother and baby
in Indonesia, but today still about 4 out of every 10 children under five years
old are stunted, according to Basic Health Survey in 2013. In Jakarta Province
(DKI Jakarta), which has 5 municipal city and 1 region, 1 of 3 in the same age
group have grown up shorter than their peers. Despite the growing awareness
that exclusive breastfeeding for six months continued with breastfeeding and
adequate source food through the first two years of life would optimize growth
and development of children to their full potential, based on Lancet 2006, the
practice of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) are shadowed by significant raise in
infant formula milk factory marketing and bottle feeding over the years.
According to national
surveys in 2007, 28.6% mothers exclusive breastfeed. In 2010, that number fell
to 15.3%, a record low. This worrisome trend was especially pronounced in west
Jakarta, where only 27% on newborns were breastfeed within the first hour after
birth, also depending on how exclusive breastfeeding was defined, the ratio
fell as low as 12.4% based on Mercycorps Survey in 2010.
Significant result of
Hati Kami, which the program I was joining at Mercycorps, at least four years
work were captured in a mid-term and final term survey demonstrating threefold
improvement in key indicators on infant and maternal nutrition. Hati Kami is
“Kesehatan Ibu dan Keselamatan Bayi”, Maternal and Child Health focusing on
continuum of care engages community to plan, organize and promote health
service seeking that meet the specific needs of people who are most exposed to health
and nutrition risk, in example, women and children.
Working in partnership
with stakeholders and duty bearers in 97 of 108 communities and in west
Jakarta, hati kami includes creating linkage between organization and fostering
access to services so promotion, support and protection for a healthy start for
mother and children among Jakarta’s less fortunate residents can be realized.
To date, the project has benefit more than 75,000 people who mostly belong to
infant and women of reproductive age groups.
With the help of
established Mercycorps mother support groups and other networks, Hati Kami also
improves maternal child care and educates soon to be mothers on proper
nutrition during pregnancy and 6 months after birth. Increased acce4ss to
social support promotes improved maternal and newborns care and encourages
exclusives breastfeeding. In conjunction with this community led approach, Mercycorps
work with private and public health care institution, the ministry of health,
and other care providers to increase access to preventive care, prenatal
services and create an easy to navigate referral network so mothers and
children can access the right type of services at the right time.
Hati Kami also applies
mobile health, as known as mHealth, to show partners how to accurate and
traceable data of mother and children health on coverage of maternal child health
services can drive better community action planning. A lot of communities in
Jakarta lack the infrastructure to effectively monitor, track and report health
trends, which means public health planning does not always address a
community’s greatest needs. While forming critical linkages between public
health actors and patients, Hati Kami is promoting more informed decision
making by extending an existing health surveillance system to participating health
care center. Hati Kami encourages and trains public health officials in health
monitoring with the ultimate goal of improving public health spending in some
of Jakarta’s most vulnerable community.
So, Since I was
joining at Hati Kami Mercycorps Indonesia for the first time until today,
through capacity building and facilitative approaches, I do intervention
include (please click the link for detail information):
2.
Improvement of quality and baby friendliness of
maternity and child care services, including:
3.
Strengthen bottom up development planning for health
supportive Government’s resources, including:
4.
Test and document the use of mHealth for
reliable and timely data to strengthen public health system, starting from:
5.
Engagement to national eHealth development and
advocacy for accountable public health, including:
b. etc
6.
And other supporting activities, including:
d. etc
8.
Training and supporting for donor visitation,
include:
c. mHealth
Workshop from TechChange
d. eHealth
Workshop from USAID
f.
Gender Workshop
g. Negotiation
Workshop
Hati Kami, in
partnership with:
And supported by:
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