Closing up of Apprenticeship Program

(Baca Versi Bahasa Indonesia)

Launching
Selected Participants

Scheduled Activities
The participants are scheduled to join series of in office and field activities
Week 1
The activity consist of introduction, pre test, field activity in 3 kelurahan (mediation meeting in Santa Maria Kampung Melayu, drainage work follow up on Penjaringan and field visit in Cipinang Besar Utara.
Week 2
Technical trainings (SAR, First Aid, and Public Kitchen) were conducted on January 22nd – 26th 2008. Apprentices involve in all activities on the training.
Week 3
Preparation of Simulation/drill on flood disaster response and execution of Simulation/drill conducted on Thursday, January 31st 2008.
Week 4
In office session about participatory rural appraisal, database management, CBDRM concept, and reporting theory followed by workshop on SOP for EWS for 3 kelurahan (3 days)

Follow up plan
Each participants comes from different background and motive to join the program. Therefore, they have a various follow up plan when back to their organizations. Ghufron from AMAN Indonesia is planning to build database system in his office to document all activities and report that has been produced. He also plans to include training for community in AMAN’s program. Milka plans to include simulation in Lendola’s CBDRM project in Alor. The project is currently focusing more on socialization. “Community need to do something instead of just sit and listen”, she said. While Sukirno from TRUST also plan to develop database.

Conclusion and recommendation
All participants admit that the apprenticeship program has been useful to gain information in a comprehensive way. They were also plan to replicate several component of the program. Some recommendations for the future apprenticeship program are:

• To clearly define the main focus from each particpant in the beginning
• To differentiate the activity conducted based on participants preference and needs
• To give a precise schedule of daily activities
• To consider conducting the apprenticeship program in the beginning of the program in order to give participants larger view on design of the program implementation.
• To extend the time frame of apprenticeship program to be more than 1 month