The global humanitarian reform agenda has continually evolved over the last 15 years, yet has thus far fallen short of ambitions for transformative, systemic change. This stream seeks to contextualise global models to fit national priorities and achieve meaningful impact for affected populations.
The research seeks to build the evidence base to progress systemic humanitarian reform at the country level. While there is global agreement on the need to change, reform efforts are too complex and dispersed.
Tailoring efforts to the country level has allowed this research to identify key change priorities and understand how they interact in an Indonesian context.
Humanitarian Advisory Group and Pujiono Centre are now undertaking research to understand how to progress this change in a way that is contextually appropriate, sustainable and nationally led.
Humanitarian Advisory Group has established a long-term partnership with the Pujiono Centre, and all aspects of the Blueprint research design, methodology and outputs have been co-created through this partnership.
The first phase of the research mapped the humanitarian system in Indonesia and local priorities for reform. We held 3 stakeholder workshops in Jakarta, attended by representatives across the local, national and international humanitarian system, using a systems thinking methodology.
This process identified 4 key priority areas for change in Indonesia:
Findings from Phase 1 are detailed in the report, Building a Blueprint for Change: Laying the Foundations.
Phase 2 of the research has been adapted to help meet challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. The stream temporarily pivoted to support the Pujiono Centre in the establishment of the Sekretariat Jaringan-Antar-jaringan (literally translated as Network-of-Networks of Civil Society Organisations and abbreviated as SEJAJAR, which also means ‘equal’ in Bahasa Indonesia).
SEJAJAR is a coordination and knowledge management platform to support national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) in the COVID-19 response. Its objectives link closely with the priorities identified in Blueprint Phase 1 and through monitoring and evaluation, allowed the research team to capture evidence and learning to interrogate in the next stage of the research.
The research is now seeking to investigate opportunities for reform within each of the 4 priority areas considering the context and implications of COVID-19 and learnings from the SEJAJAR initiative.
This will identify the barriers and enablers of change and feasible entry points and actions to progress systemic reform in Indonesia.
