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2016 SEMI ANNUAL REPORT Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta

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2016 YTS Semi-Annual Report | 1

Table of Contents

Contents

Table Of Contents ......................................................................................... 1

Words From The Executive Director ........................................................3

Highlights Of 2016 ........................................................................................4

Activities .........................................................................................................10

Kahayan Project ......................................................................................12

Governance Project ..............................................................................16

Bukit Batu Project .................................................................................. 22

ASGM Project .......................................................................................... 28

Kalimantan Kids Club ............................................................................ 32

Networking Events & Partnerships .................................................... 36

YTS Support Units .......................................................................................40

Training & Capacity Building Unit ...................................................... 42

Information And Communication Unit ............................................ 48

Financial Statements .................................................................................. 54



Words from the Executive Director

2016 is continuing to be a time of transition for YTS. We have programs closing and other ones starting up. Most importantly we are undergoing a process of re-organisation and renewal, as we need to formalize and normalize legal and administrative aspects, as well as restructure the formal organisation to be more functional and responsive to the new reality of funding and working in the social sector.

This process started last year and reached an important moment during our annual review last December, with a call to focus more on Central Kalimantan and specifically on indigenous issues and concerns in the province. Our activities in Gunung Mas Regency will continue to be the centerpiece for this focus, but gradually with the expansion of our involvement in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector we are starting to work with Dayak communities that are deeply involved in this activity.

The political landscape is also changing, with election of a new governor and the clawing back of authority and responsibility from the districts to the province for greater control over resource management and key administrative functions, such as issuing mining licenses.

YTS no longer is a mainly privately-supported entity – a much larger proportion of our financial support comes from the public sector. This brings with it much more rigorous requirements for reporting, accountability and program design, as well as organizational structure and legal compliance.

This is all in line with the ‘normalization’ process referred to above. YTS now has to swim in the same waters as most other social organisations in Indonesia. This has not been an easy process, and we have lost several excellent people in the process.

I want to express my sincere gratitude to all YTS staff who have remained committed to our values, goals and objectives, and express my commitment to continue to support their efforts to the best of my abilities.

Special thanks to our funders: Global Affairs Canada, Ford Foundation, the Blacksmith Institute, the various Susila Dharma nationals – USA, Canada, Britain and the Netherlands, and PT Kalimantan Surya Kencana.

And finally my thanks to our working partners in many communities, as well as those in local government. May you all prosper and benefit from our efforts.

Bardolf PaulExecutive DirectorYayasan Tambuhak Sinta

HIGHLIGHTS of 2016



HIGHLIGHTS

Over the six month period, small but meaningful achievements have been very encouraging for YTS. Some new initiatives resulted in some positive progress, such as participatory mapping of village boundaries and facilitation of a fish training center in Palangka Raya. In retrospect, this is in line with our discussions in last year’s annual review and planning, which was to promote indigenous rights more and strengthen local capacity to take control of development.

Despite the changes in personnel, financial constraints and our continuing need to learn, this semester’s activities have turned out well. Here are some of the highlights:

a. Kahayan Project

While keeping the same overall goal, the nature of the work in this project has shifted from a focus on economic livelihoods to strengthening the capacity of village government. The new Village Law No. 6/2014 has currently become a trending topic, upon which the design of all development activities in the Kahayan villages is now based. At all levels of government, our technical assistance revolves around the application this law, ensuring that we identify the needs and level of skills required, and further strengthen the capacity of office holders to meet the Law’s requirements.


On the other hand, we are continuing to monitor livelihood activities, and the data we have collected on current livelihoods suggests surprisingly that artisanal mining activities have increased rapidly in the past year. While field-cultivation is still the main livelihood, ASGM is now considered one of the major types of livelihoods.

We now have started to take a serious step in our intention to promote indigenous rights by conducting the first stage of participatory village boundary mapping in Kahayan Hulu Utara subdistrict. More mapping is expected in the future, in the hope that it will give villagers greater control of their assets once they have better knowledge of their land area.

b. Governance Project

Ending over four years of working with the Gunung Mas Government, the Governance Project closed in April having established a strong position of trust and credibility with government leaders and staff in Gunung Mas. As the result of our work in supporting and improving the Musrenbang planning process, a total of 51 development proposals have been approved and funded from the government budget, covering a wide range of development categories, from infrastructure, health, education, empowerment, fishery and animal husbandry, to social, agriculture and plantation sectors.

An impact evaluation study showed that all YTS 22 partner villages received more projects in health, energy, livelihoods and forestry. This is an outcome from the project’s assistance for district planning and budgeting. The Project also contributed to behaviour change through the practice of improved governance, such as openness on information, active learning and more training.

This year the project also successfully assisted implementation of Perda No.10/2015, concerning the planning and budgeting system in Gunung Mas; and provided a policy brief to Gunung Mas for the revision of Perda No. 11/2012 concerning Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSR) in Gunung Mas.

c. Bukit Batu Project

Our KUBs (local work units) in Bukit Batu are taking the fish business to the next level. As planned in the beginning of the year, YTS has been working on improving the KUBs’ technical capacity to start independent small businesses in catfish breeding and rearing.

From onsite trainings, technical advice and training, to market access, we have been working closely with the KUBs to make sure that they are progressing towards sustainable fish farming. Around 3,200 kg of fish - patin, gurame and nila species - were produced within the fish farming scheme that we assisted over the course of six month. One member has successfully bred his fish and was able to sell fingerlings to his neighbours.

Furthermore, efforts to support the Fish Cultivation Training Center have been progressing ahead positively. The owner of the center and YTS technical expert, Pak Eko, is ready to support more fish farmers in the vicinity and from other places through direct practical training in his newly-registered facility.

In collaboration with the Kahayan team, we mapped all of the fish ponds in six villages in this project. A total of 151 fish ponds were documented, 119 of which are actively managed by the KUBs.


d. Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining Project

In order to plan the five-year implementation process properly for the Canada-funded AGC-YTS Artisanal Gold Mining Project, the first semester of the year was mainly focused on developing the Project Implementation Plan and Annual Work Plan. During the first six months, we conducted a total of 10 field visits in six provinces where 44 ASGM locations were identified. We interacted with miners, government officials, and other CSOs, as well as building relationship with many stakeholders, including the top level of government in Indonesia, as well as other institutions and mining companies.

Through this process, we are strengthening our coordination with the Government of Indonesia, particularly the Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources, Ministry of Environment & Forestry, Ministry of Health, and the Coordinating Ministry of the Economy. We have been involved in constructive dialogues and discussions about the current issues, and have exchanged information about ASGM with government officials at national, provincial, and district levels. All of this effort is aimed at paving a smooth way for project implementation that is planned to take off in the second half of the year.

The team also paid some visits to West and Central Kalimantan for a project funded by the Blacksmith Institute aimed at mitigating the impacts of mercury use in the ASGM sector. At the same time we collaborated with the University of Edinburgh, supported by CIRDI (Canadian International Resources and Development Institute) to do research in ecological economics in the ASGM sector.

The need to keep up with current development trends makes capacity building an essential element in our work. Our Training Unit has been facilitating training, sharing, and shared learning sessions to this end. Staff who attend external events are encouraged to share their knowledge and experience with others. We have been creating a ‘sharing environment’ that helps staff gain knowledge. It has become a culture in YTS to discuss particular CSO-related issues within the organisation.

The Kalimantan Kids Club scholarship program is proud to have two of its beneficiaries successfully graduated in the beginning of this year. Support to the remaining beneficiaries continues, while selection of future beneficiaries is underway.


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ACTIVITIES



KAHAYAN PROJECT

Strengthening Capacity of Village Government

As decided in the YTS Annual Review conducted at the end of last year, the focus for the Kahayan Project for this year is to strengthen the capacity of village government, particularly in relation to the application of Law No. 6/2014 concerning the responsibility of the village authority to manage its own funds. Each subdistrict, even each village has different needs and various levels of skills. Therefore, the Kahayan team has to adjust and be flexible in providing technical assistance to not only the village government staff, but also the government-appointed village facilitators who provide help to the villagers. The capacity-building topics vary from basic to more advanced, such as: teaching operating a computer and its applications; disseminating information about the village regulations and the requirements for complying with them; reviewing RPJMDes (Mid-term Strategic Plan) and RKP (Annual Work Plan); developing APBDes (village budget) and proposals, as well as preparing administration reports. We also had several discussions and coordination sessions with the village facilitators, who are appointed by government and started working from the beginning of the year. We try to fill the gaps in the working areas that are not covered by the village facilitators. This way we can work side-by-side, and complement each other while working to achieve the same objective.


YTS Involvement in Strengthening Capacity of Village Government


Other Activities

In addition to the main work above, the Kahayan team continues to monitor the livelihood activities and the use of the information kiosks. We collected data on the current types of livelihoods performed by the villagers; which result shows that field-cultivation is still the main livelihood activity. It is interesting to know that gold mining is one of the major types of livelihoods in the three subdistricts. As the areas are furthest upstream, the environmental and health impact of this activity to the wider areas down river is quite worrisome. One of the Kahayan team joined the ASGM team in the preliminary investigation trips to South Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, and West Java, to learn about the issues related to artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). As Gunung Mas is obviously affected by ASGM activities, we expect more involvement from the Kahayan team in this sector.

Furthermore, the team initiated the first stage of participatory mapping on village boundaries in Kahayan Hulu Utara subdistrict, marking all the village concrete posts and roads. They also assisted the Bukit Batu Project in tracking each pond belonging to the Village Business Group (KUB = Kelompok Usaha Bersama) in six Kelurahan, namely Marang, Tahai, Banturung, Habaring Hurung, Sei Gohong, and Tangkiling. Spatial planning has been an everlasting and unresolved issue in Central Kalimantan, with the situation in the villages getting worse by the occupation of village lands by private companies from the palm oil, timber and mining sectors. The recent map of Gunung Mas1 shows the critical areas that are a threat to conservation.

Regular coordination with the government at subdistrict and district levels still continues despite the completion of the YTS Governance Project at the end of April. The Kahayan team supported the project in monitoring the Musrenbang in the twelve sub-districts, and was involved in the impact evaluation of the project.

Livelihood Identification

Figure 1: Key livelihood activities in subdistricts

Subdistrict / Village

Livelihood

Gold mining

Rubber tapping

Trading Farming Employee Livestock Hunting Logging LabourCivil

Servant

Kahayan Hulu Utara

522 141 55 599 6 0 5 10 12 45

Miri Manasa 265 5 27 198 0 4 0 0 25 47

Damang Batu 200 0 12 335 0 0 0 0 0 10

Internal Capacity-Building

The nature of the work for the Kahayan Project has shifted from charity base to more educative development work. Hence, the scope of work is relatively wider and requires more knowledge. In order to accommodate this need, YTS provides internal capacity-building for staff, particularly for the Kahayan Project Program Officers, to enable them to perform well in helping the villagers. Two examples are: a shared learning session on the current and the latest village regulations, and on the Minamata Convention and ASGM issues. Details of team participation in these activities are elaborated in the Training & Capacity Building Unit section.

1 USAID-Lestari, Katingan-Kahayan Landscape Central Kalimantan map, 2016


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GOVERNANCE PROJECT

Introduction

YTS has been working for more than four years now with the Gunung Mas Government to improve governance in the Regency, and has built up a strong position of trust and credibility with government leaders and staff in Gunung Mas.

This project is complementary to other YTS activities with village governance, livelihoods and health, and therefore has contributed to realizing better outcomes for poor people in terms of natural resources management, livelihoods and health.

The Project has shown that the level and scope of intervention has to change all the time, based on the needs and trust of the government. It is essential to be responsive and adaptive to changing circumstances. But it also is necessary to be pro-active in demanding access and space to engage with the government, and together with other stakeholders, to make sure that mechanisms for engagement exist and are inclusive. There must be a clear platform for all stakeholders to channel their aspirations and share their experiences.


Project Achievements in 2016

Results of 2016 Musrenbang Monitoring & Evaluation

As a result of the Musrenbang process, 23 village priorities are funded by the SIBC and 28 by the Aspiration Fund. The total value of projects is more than Rp. 18.75 billion. Any funding gaps will be covered by the Sectoral (SKPD) Indicative Budget. This contribution is mostly for detailed project planning, procurement, taxes, and delivery.

All proposals to the SIBC are fully funded, while 28 out of 30 proposals (93%) to the Aspiration Fund are funded. Proposals fall into the following categories: Infrastructure for Public Works (13), Health (7), Education (11), Community & Village Empowerment (1), Fishery & Animal Husbandry (13), Agriculture & Plantations (5), and Social (1).

Figure 2: Types of proposals to the SIBC and Aspiration funds

Public Works

Education

Health

Community & Village Empowerment

Fishery & Animal Husbandry

Social

Agriculture & Plantations

22%

25%

14%

2%

2%

25%

5%


Figure 3: Participation Levels in 2016 Musrenbang from 12 Subdistricts

No Date Location

Number of Participants

TotalVillage Delegation Government Guests

Women Men Women Men Women Men

1 22 February Rungan 22 31 3 18 3 3 80

2 22 February Damang Batu 0 21 10 34 2 4 71

3 23 February Rungan Hulu 8 38 11 18 3 2 80

4 23 February Tewah 3 20 10 33 2 5 73

5 25 February Kahayan Hulu Utara 3 15 5 25 3 4 55

6 25 February Rungan Barat 9 27 7 30 4 8 85

7 26 February Miri Manasa 11 23 8 26 8 19 95

8 26 February Manuhing Raya 9 29 4 29 3 6 80

9 27 February Manuhing 11 32 8 19 3 7 80

10 29 February Sepang 10 12 15 25 6 6 74

11 1 March Mihing Raya 8 25 15 21 7 2 78

12 2 March Kurun 15 35 9 11 4 6 80

Based on Data from District Development Planning Board Gunung Mas

Based on the results of the recent project impact evaluation study, YTS’s 22 partner villages received more projects in health, energy, livelihoods and forestry. This is an outcome from the project’s assistance for district planning and budgeting.

Project Impacts

The Project also contributed to behavior change through the practice of improved governance:

1. Openness from government staff/SKPD to share information and data to the community, especially regarding programs and activities;

2. More government staff are pro-actively seeking further advice and assistance from YTS and its technical experts; and

3. More government staff have voluntarily supported activities such as the Musrenbang trainings. For example, in the subdistrict Musrenbang, they helped one another in group discussions, setting up group discussions, and helping Bappeda as the organizer. These practices that initially had to be encouraged, have now become natural.


Capacity Building

This year, the governance project has conducted five capacity building activities.

Figure 4: List of 2016 capacity building activities

No Date Activity Participants/Beneficiaries

1 6 – 8 January Study visit to Pattiro, Indonesia Business Links (IBL), and ASEAN CSR Network (ACN)

District Development Planning Board, District Asset Management Agency, Health Agency, District Employment Board, and Fishery & Animal Husbandry Agency, YTS

2 10 -11 February Technical Assistance for LAKIP Review 17 SKPDs

3 22 February – 3 March

Technical Assistance for 2016 Subdistrict Musrenbang

12 Subdistricts, Bappeda, SKPDs that provides public services

4 23 March Technical Assistance for 2016 Combined SKPD Forum

17 SKPDs and 12 Subdistricts

5 24 March Technical Assistance for 2016 District Musrenbang

17 SKPDs and 12 Subdistricts

Policy Advocacy

The project has successfully assisted the implementation of the Perda No.10/2015 concerning the planning and budgeting system in Gunung Mas by assisting the 2016 Musrenbang process. We provided a policy brief to Gunung Mas government for the revision of Perda No. 11/2012 concerning Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSR) in Gunung Mas, based on the results of a CSR study in partnership with the ASEAN CSR Network (ACN).

Impact Evaluation

A Project Impact Evaluation was conducted by an external evaluator with 26 project beneficiaries from six villages and various government agencies. The method used was Outcome Harvesting with Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and interviews (face-to-face and by phone). The results of the impact evaluation are described below:

1. Governance Project intervention in Gunung Mas District for four years is now strongly rooted there and is considered a relevant intervention to improve governance from village up to district level.

2. The governance project assistance has stimulated villagers to be more open to voice traditional and crucial issues they faced in managing governance and ask for support to find solutions.

3. Project assistance has stimulated the growth of critical behaviour in management level - in the village, for technical staff, up to middle managers in the Gumas government. They can identify failures and problems, as well as solutions.

4. The communication gap and transportation have become the main problems for bureaucracy harmony from the village up to district level.

5. The computer training, which is purely a Project Officer initiative that improves the quality of human resources within village government, is very impressive.

Lessons Learned

Improving the capabilities of government staff has brought about significant changes in performance and in understanding about what job responsibilities are and how to actually do whatever is necessary to achieve specific objectives. There was a natural desire to do better and the project responded to those desires with the right kind of advice and support.


One major lesson from this project is that capacity development is the essential foundation for making changes in governance issues. After that, the improved capacity of government should be supported by proper policies to enable government staff to improve the performance of their institutions (SKPDs), which in turn will contribute to achieving overall benefits for the district. Therefore, both capacity building and policy advocacy are the main ingredients for having a successful outcome in a governance project.

The impact evaluation report mentioned that more effort will be required to keep top management and senior leaders committed to continuing the momentum that the project initiated. Changing leadership in the next years is a potential threat to the gains achieved in the project. Our strategy has been to make sure that the process and results are championed by as many committed parties as possible from all sectors - government, community, civil society and the private sector. This has helped to ensure continuation and continuity despite staff reassignments.

Conclusions and Recommendations

1. The Governance Project will face some new challenges if it continues to work in Gunung Mas; it will have to foster as many champions as possible in government and communities to be agents of change.

2. Gunung Mas should continue its open networking initiatives for good governance, in order to increase knowledge and inspire implementation of new initiatives in the Gunung Mas context.

3. A new phase of the Project will make sure that all positive initiatives from previous phases will continue. Therefore, the focus will be on developing multi-stakeholder forums for development engagement, advocating an improved process in the SKPD accountability reporting, improving tools to analyze uptake of the APBD in respect to Musrenbang proposals, and reviewing the RPJMD with the SKPD strategic plans and annual plans.

Future Strategies

The workshop identified these main strategies:

1. Improving public policies and consistency in implementing those policies: Develop District Regulation (Perda) on Child Protection for early age marriage, District Regulation on 12 Years Mandatory Schooling Program, Perda on Fishery Management and Protection, and Perda on Public Service.

2. Continue current achievements: consistency with Perda No.10/2015 on the Planning and Budgeting System; harmony between planning documents - District Strategic Plan (RPJMD), SKPD Strategic Plan (Renstra), and Annual Plan (Renja); strengthening capacity of government staff in new budgeting techniques; capacity building for DPRD members regarding planning and budgeting; advocacy for better commitment of DPRD to implement good governance; establish a CSR Forum; access for public and communities in decision-making processes; more training for village governance; and strengthening the quality of village facilitators.

3. Improving public services: strengthening capacity to develop better performance indicators; developing innovation in public services; creating standard services; increasing people’s participation in public services; and external evaluator on public services delivery.

4. Building networks through shared learning of good practices and new information on good governance initiatives: study visits nationally and abroad; working visits to successful districts and cities in Indonesia; inviting credible motivators and resource persons to Gumas for a series of seminars, workshops, and trainings; develop partnerships with ambassadors from various countries to support promotion of Gumas; develop partnerships with successful districts and cities on good governance issues; and develop a multi-stakeholder forum for the development agenda in the district.

Besides the above strategies, the workshop also identified some additional strategies based on inputs from participants: drug testing for government staff; establish a District Research Centre and recruit professionals to run it; and increase the number of credible consultants as working partners.


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BUKIT BATU PROJECT

Summary

Up to the end of June 2016, as already planned, YTS focused on improving the technical capacity of our village group members (Kelompok Usaha Bersama or KUB) in the six villages (kelurahan) in Bukit Batu so they will be able to start an independent small business in catfish breeding and rearing. After providing trainings in catfish breeding and rearing to KUB members in December 2015, we continued to monitor the results of the trainings and provided technical assistance, ensuring that they practiced the knowledge gained from the trainings. The training and technical assistance activities were conducted by a local fish expert from Palangka Raya, Bapak Muhamad Muhyi, usually called Pak Eko. The monitoring and technical assistance were conducted every month by YTS’s Program Support Officer and Pak Eko.

Furthermore, YTS also continued assisting the KUBs to legally register their groups, and link them to the available programs from local government, such as the Fishery Agency of Palangka Raya, the Marine and Fishery Agency of Central Kalimantan, the legislative body (DPRD), and the Food Security Body. This is in line with our mission to create an economic cycle for the local people; starting from preparing the community to be able to produce fish and linking them to access the market, finances and available resources. It took time and persistence until we finally saw some result of the process. Following are program achievements during the 1st semester of 2016:


YTS Involvement in assisting communities in Bukit Batu to develop self-sufficient local micro-entrepreneurship


Musrenbang monitoring;

In January and February 2016, YTS participated in all the Musrenbang events in six villages, the Musrenbang for Bukit Batu Subdistrict, the SKPD forum for the subdistrict technical agencies, and the Musrenbang for the City of Palangka Raya.

On-site training on pond preparation, maintaining fingerlings, and in-depth technical advice on catfish breeding and rearing:

Pak Ramin from Habaring Hurung was able to breed catfish and produced 12,000 fingerlings in the beginning of June; 10,000 were sold to a catfish cultivation farmer in Bukit Batu. So far he is the only one from the six selected participants who received training on fish breeding from Pak Eko that successfully applied the skills and knowledge gained from the training. The other participants still have difficulty in maintaining the larvae, and need some support in improving their ponds and infrastructure.

Technical skills for developing organic feed for fingerlings:

We have not yet conducted training in silk warm cultivation, which is the preferred food for larvae. But using the feed machine from YTS, Pak Abdul Muis from Marang was able to produce 1,200 kg of fish food to feed his fish.

Technical skills in maintaining fish growth and maintaining high quality breeding pairs:

Every month YTS visited KUBs to monitor the condition of the fish, the ponds and the infrastructure, as well as the progress of the villagers’ ability to maintain the growth and development of their fish. With the help of Pak Eko, we provided technical assistance for any problem villagers were experiencing. Fish production during the first six-months was as follows:

Habaring Hurung: Pak Ramin and Pak Rizal

Banturung: 2,640 kg, mostly catfish, but there are also patin, gurame and nila

Marang: 252 kg catfish, and 1,200 kg of fish food.,

Tangkiling: 58 kg catfish

Sei Gohong – Trans 38: 80 kg catfish

Sei Gohong – Lewu: 100 kg catfish

Unfortunately, Tumbang Tahai has not yet produced because of lack of larvae maintenance, poor ponds, and lack of water source preservation.

Facilitating access to the market:

One member from Habaring Hurung (Pak Ramin) has successfully bred his fish and was able to sell fingerlings to his neighbours. YTS started to promote the fish pond production of KUB members on the YTS Facebook page.


Creating access to resources for micro-enterprise development:

YTS introduced and promoted the village groups to several local government agencies, such as:

a. Marine and Fishery Agency of Central Kalimantan,

b. Fishery and Husbandry Agency of Palangka Raya,

c. BPPPK Bukit Batu,

d. PPL Palangka Raya,

e. Food Security Body of Central Kalimantan,

f. Legislative body of Palangka Raya (DPRD) Commission B and C,

g. National Unity and Politics (Kesbangpol) Palangka Raya,

h. Social Affairs Agency of Palangka Raya and the Ministry of Social Affairs Jakarta,

i. Manpower Agency of Palangka Raya

We also assisted KUBs in developing a village profile in order for them to be eligible to receive support in group management and facilitation provided by the Food Security Body of Central Kalimantan. Furthermore, two KUBs from Habaring Hurung and Tangkiling have become legally registered and now have notary deeds. Just recently the Fishery and Animal Husbandry Agency of Palangka Raya has approved the proposal submitted by these groups, and agreed to provide material support. Each of the groups in Habaring Hurung and Tangkiling will receive 17,000 catfish fingerlings.

In addition, YTS also assisted with establishing a Community Breeding Unit (UPR = Unit Pembenihan Rakyat) named ‘Kancra Sejati’ in Banturung, to enable them to tap into support from local government.

Support establishing and registering Pak Eko’s Training Center:

YTS introduced Pak Eko to several local government institutions and promoted his mission to establish a training center for fish breeding and rearing. YTS facilitated some visits to the training center from the Marine and Fishery Agency of Central Kalimantan and the Social Affairs Agency and the Manpower Agency of Palangka Raya, as well as staff from the Ministry of Social Affairs, Jakarta.

We also facilitated a link between the training center with the Credit Union Betang Asi Palangka Raya, which as a result organized a 3-day training for a total 27 persons: CU members and CU management on 29 - 31 March. This training was conducted by Pak Eko himself and his assistant, Pak Supriyadi.

As more capital is needed to improve the infrastructure of the training center, and to cover the initial operation costs, YTS included this project in a crowd-funding initiative of SDIA (Susila Dharma International) called ‘Make It Happen’. We also put Pak Eko’s profile in our Facebook to promote his business and training center.

Moreover, we provide assistance to Pak Eko and Pak Budi, KUB members from Banturung, in developing a proposal to the Fishery and Animal Husbandry Agency of Palangka Raya for providing parent fish of catfish and nila. They currently have approved a request from Pak Eko’s group (Kelompok Usaha Bersama) for working capital amounting to Rp.57,500,000, to buy frys, fish food, and supporting vitamins (pro-biotic).


Other activities:

Together with the Kahayan team, we mapped all of the fish ponds in six villages. In total there are 151 fish ponds, 119 are active with different types of fish, such as catfish, gabus, baung, nila, betok, kapar, koi, gurame and patin. It took almost one week to go to each pond in the kelurahan of Marang, Sei Gohong, Banturung, Habaring Hurung, Tahai, and Tangkiling. The data was inputted into the Google Earth

application and laid onto a virtual map (picture below).

For the second semester, we will continue supporting current activities with the village group members in establishing small businesses for fish breeding and cultivation. We will continue to work together with Pak Eko as a YTS Technical Expert, monitoring and providing technical assistance needed by the villagers. We will also pursue collaboration with the Credit Union in building capacity and developing training modules, to support the operations of Pak Eko’s training center. This training center will play a crucial role in sharing and spreading knowledge and, hence, increasing supply to the local market. Moreover, when funding is available, we are planning to have an evaluation of the Bukit Batu Project after five years of activities since 2009. We expect to obtain feedback from the external evaluator on how we can improve our work in the Bukit Batu project.

Starting in July, there will be a change of personnel in the project. Our Program Support Officer, Frind Imanuel, ended his contract on 30 June, and decided to take an opportunity as a Technical Expert for Local Government in the Public Works Department. He will continue to support the Bukit Batu Project voluntarily, and together with YTS will look for opportunities for collaborating with the department, particularly in working on the slum area management project in Central Kalimantan. We will start recruiting internally and externally for this position, and also will provide an internship to a former or current KKC student to learn about the project so s/he can be a local champion in helping to develop the villages.


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ASGM PROJECT

Summary

Following the signing of the contract agreement between YTS and AGC (Artisanal Gold Council) in December last year, the ASGM team spent the first semester mainly focused on making preparations for AGC-YTS Project implementation. This five year project, titled ‘Sustainable Development for ASGM in Indonesia’ is funded by GAC (Global Affairs Canada), and comprises three pillars involving miners, government, and companies. It aims to promote responsible ASGM practices in Indonesia, piloting in four provinces - Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Java.

In addition, we also conducted field visits to West and Central Kalimantan for a project funded by Blacksmith aiming to mitigate the impacts of mercury use in the ASGM sector. In the meantime, we have been pursuing collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, supported by CIRDI (Canadian International Resources and Development Institute) to do research in ecological economics in the ASGM sector. Furthermore, we are strengthening our coordination with the government of Indonesia, particularly the Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources, Ministry of Environment & Forestry, Ministry of Health, and the Coordinating Ministry of the Economy. We have been involved in constructive dialogues and discussion about the current issues, and have exchanged information about ASGM with government officials at national, provincial, and district levels.

The fact is that ASGM is a sensitive issue, due to its nature. ASGM influences many sectors, namely social, economic, environment, health, legal, and also gender issues; and involves many stakeholders - miners and their communities, government, and also companies. This makes problems complex, as well as project implementation on the ground. Nevertheless, we expect that the abovementioned projects will complement each other and provide a comprehensive overview of the ASGM situation in Indonesia.


During the first six months of 2016, we conducted a total of 10 field visits in six provinces - Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, West Java, Central Java - where 44 ASGM locations were identified. We interacted with 84 persons - miners, government officials, and other CSOs, to get facts and stories from different perspectives. We also attended at least 10 trainings and meetings with many stakeholders, namely the Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources, Ministry of Environment & Forestry, Ministry of Health, Coordinating Ministry of Economy, National Unity & Political Body, Blacksmith Institute, ASPERA, APRI, PT. ANTAM, and PT. KBK.


Summary of ASGM activities & results


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KALIMANTAN KIDS CLUB

Summary

Since the scholarship disbursement period was changed in mid-2015, payments are now only once a year, which is in November. Kalimantan Kids Club supported 60 students for the 2015-2016 academic year, with seven students successfully finishing their studies in the first semester of this year. The numbers of students has increased from last year (55 students), as we decided to prioritize more students in junior/senior high school than college students. This way we could use the grant funds more effectively and support Indonesia’s campaign for 12 years mandatory schooling. We supported 40 junior/senior high school students and 20 college students; 31 children were from the Kahayan area and 19 from Bukit Batu. We also tried to improve gender equality in this project, supporting 36 girls and 24 boys. We are now making preparations for the next round of scholarship admission.

Activities

Our main activities involved collecting data and stories from the current batch of beneficiaries and reviewing the selection of future beneficiaries for the 2016-17 academic year. For the school period from July 2016 to June 2017, we have openings for 61 beneficiaries: 43 junior or senior high school students, and 18 college students. There will be 37 girls and 24 boys from both Kahayan and Bukit Batu areas. Most of the students are beneficiaries from the previous period; and six new students will be selected.


This year we will provide Rp.1,100,000 per year for junior/senior high school students and Rp.1,380,000 per year for college students; with a 3-year term for high school and 4-years for college . This is approximately a 15% increase compared to last year, as we estimated that the previous unit support fund only covered approximately 20% of the total tuition and living costs. We will still be targeting high school students over college students: this way we hope we will be able to support more beneficiaries.

Payment of scholarships has changed: we now make payments only once a year, at the end of the year. This will eliminate the need for students who live in remote villages to have to come to the YTS office every month. In some cases, we get our Program Officers to deliver the scholarship payment.

As part of the selection criteria, we give priority to children coming from poor families in remote areas to have an opportunity to pursue their study. Thus, 45 students will come from the Kahayan area, while 16 are from the Bukit Batu area, close to Palangka Raya. Furthermore, this year we are planning to add a requirement for students who have graduated from senior high school and college to provide a three-month service in their home-village, sharing the knowledge they got at school while helping build up their community. It could be in various forms, such as providing computer training, assisting the village government in preparing administration reports, other technical assistance, etc. Moreover, as villages now have their own development fund, we will approach the village government to set aside a small budget for these students’ internship/service period as a reward. We would monitor how the students learn from this process and would give a certificate of achievement at the end of their service period. We also hope that this would be a mind-opening experience for the students that would encourage them to be more involved in developing their villages. The following is the profile of students for the school year 2016-2017.


Figure 5: Kalimantan Kids Club Semester I & II Period 2016

InstitutionsUniversity 18High School 43---------------------------------- 61

GenderMale 24Female 37---------------------------------- 61

Home LocationKahayan 45Bukit Batu 16---------------------------------- 61

18

43

24

45

37

16


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NETWORKING EVENTS & PARTNERSHIPS

Networking has become more important in our effort to stay updated with current development issues in the province and globally, and to build collaboration and partnerships with different stakeholders.

We also maintain communications and relationships with all stakeholders - NGOs, donors and communities - that we have been working with until now.

In fact, there are a number of current possible of projects and collaborations that YTS is looking into resulting from our investment in building networks and partnerships.

These are some events that we attended in the first six months:

USAID’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum, Rungan Sari, January 5-6

In the beginning of the year, we started building relationships with various NGOs working on similar issues as YTS in Central Kalimantan. This meeting actually followed the initiative from the former USAID IFACS project, discussing strategic measures that NGOs in Palangka Raya can work together with in addressing climate change, land grabbing, forest management, forest fires, community development, livelihood development and many others.


Study Visit to Indonesia Business Link, Pattiro Foundation & ASEAN CSR Network, Jakarta-Singapore, January 6 – 8

YTS and six delegates from the government of Gunung Mas paid a series of study visits in early January to three institutions following our ACN-funded CSR research in Gunung Mas.

At IBL (Indonesia Business Links), we learned how to organize a CSR stakeholder forum. They provided us with some books about CSR management, coordination forum, and sustainable business. With the Pattiro foundation, which focuses on CSO and Government relationships, we discussed the relevant issues around transparent governance systems in Indonesia and what is possibly applicable in Gumas. Finally, at the ACN office in Singapore, the delegates learned about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), partnerships between government and NGOs, and identified possible collaboration with NGOs in creating good governance.

Canada’s Development Partnership with Indonesia, Jakarta, February 3

The Executive Director represented YTS at a meeting that brought together all organizations receiving funding from the Canadian Government. Participants in the meeting discussed collaboration with the World Bank and the Canadian Government’s new development agenda. In the process, we met various large and small organizations, and shared our program with them.

ASGM IT Training: Mapping Community Mining, Bogor, February 15-18

Asosiasi Penambang Rakyat Indonesia or the Indonesian Community Mining Association (APRI) hosted a three-day training on the use of Information Technology, especially for android phones, to support community mining mapping activities. YTS participated in the event and brought home useful information that helped us prepare for the national-scale ASGM project.

Two staff from YTS joined the practical learning on the use of PDFMaps and FLSMS software to map and record ASGM activities and progress in remote areas. Results from this training were further shared in the YTS office, with some staff from the Provincial Mining and Health Departments, as well as a local representative from APRI.

Ministry of Health’s NAP Finalization Meeting, Jakarta 17 February

YTS was one among very few NGOs invited to the event alongside the Blacksmith Institute and Balifocus. The topic discussed in the meeting was the National Action Plan, NAP, on mercury mitigation, elimination of mercury use in the health industry and other environmental health-related issues concerning mercury use in ASGM.

Executive Program for Sustainable Partnerships Program, Jakarta

In concert with participants from business, government, and CSO backgrounds, YTS gratefully received a scholarship for the Executive Program for Sustainable Partnerships (EPSP), a collaboration program between the Community-Company Partnerships for Health in Indonesia (CCPHI) and the University of Paramadina, funded by Ford Foundation. The resource persons for this program ranged from inspirational figures, academicians, and practitioners from different sectors.

Using the themes of Good Governance, Shared Value and Sustainability as its platforms, the program aims to produce executives who are able to build trust between sectors for effective partnerships; to facilitate the needs of partnership in social, economy, and cultural contexts; and to develop, implement, and evaluate sustainable partnerships through lessons learned and an evidence-based approach.


Global Affairs Canada Environmental Policy Session, Jakarta, March 7th

In a half-day event hosted by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), members of the YTS management team attended a fruitful discussion about environment and climate change- related activities and projects in Indonesia. Inputs from this meeting, including some special advice on the GAC environmental policies, were used as references to complete the AGC-YTS Project Implementation Plan.

PACT Field Visit, March 9-11

PACT is a global organization, largely focused on health that also works in the Artisanal Small-scale Mining (ASM) sector. We hosted a visit by this organization to Bukit Harapan in Parenggean and shared our experience working with ASM. The visit was useful for PACT to see if there was a program there that they can help with, around women, social and child issues.

USAID Events, April 22

In April, we took part in two USAID LESTARI events in Palangka Raya. One was capacity building for the Multi-Stakeholder Forum (MSF) Palangka Raya to develop the vision and mission of the forum to perform better in the future; and the second was the PRA-RFA USAID LESTARI that was conducted on April 22nd, with the objective of providing information on upcoming grants from this project for Aceh, Central Kalimantan, and Papua.

Isen Mulang Cultural Festival, Palangka Raya, May 18-21

This festival is part of a one-week of celebration of the 69th Anniversary of Central Kalimantan province, and it was a great occasion to promote local culture to the younger generation of Dayaks, as well as to visitors. A series of Dayak practices and games were organised into a competition that everyone could enjoy. These included: traditional dancing, decorated boats in the Kahayan River, fire soccer, cooking traditional foods, preparing firewood using the Dayak axe, and many other attractions. YTS also took part in an exhibition booth with the provincial Planning and Environment Agencies: we displayed information about our work with local people and government. This annual event is always a good place to promote any effort aimed at developing Central Kalimantan and is open for participation from almost every sector in the province. It not only is a traditional festival, but also encourages development in the province.

In addition to attending events and meetings, we also strengthen our network through knowledge sharing and small meetings where YTS’s program and approach are presented. Network growth in this period has been very positive, enabling us to access several donor funding opportunities.

YUM Vocational School Opening, Bukit Batu, May 31

YTS attended the launching of the YUM training facility on May 31st at Cilik Riwut Km 37, where YUM has established a Vocational Training Center. The new facility was completed with funding support from Barkley Capital and has programs for English, cooking, computers, beauty salon and sewing classes in Sukamulya and Km37.

Environmental Day, June 5

YTS took part in the celebration of Environmental Day by the Environment Department of Palangka Raya on Sunday, June 5, at the Bundaran Besar, Palangka Raya. Together with other fellow NGOs and government agencies, we promote environmental protection in various ways that are doable by the community on a daily basis, such as to stop littering and planting trees at home.


Ministry of Social Affairs Visit, June 15

We sometimes host visits from various government ministries that are interested in our projects. On June 15th the Ministry of Social Affairs came to our office and to several partner villages to see directly how our community programs and activities are implemented.

That visit was then followed by another one by the Provincial Social Agency, which was part of an assessment to nominate YTS in the Agency’s Award Program as the best social organization in Central Kalimantan.

KLHK-BPPT Workshop, Pacitan 20-22 July

The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan – KLHK) conducted a three-day workshop in Pacitan in Central Java. YTS attended] as the only Civil Society Organization amongst a wide range of government institutional participants. The invitation indicated the government’s appreciation of our work in this sector.

This workshop demonstrated how the government is approaching the ASGM sector and its perspective. YTS has a good opportunity to help government realize and implement a benefit sharing system with miners, via effective community engagement.

CIRDI/University of Edinburgh and ESCR Project: a research project about ASGM that is being implemented in collaboration with YTS in Central Kalimantan.

Ford Foundation: although funding for the Governance Project finished in the beginning of the year, we still maintain a good relationship and are hoping to get funding for the next phase of the project in Gumas.

Rimba Raya, BNI, and KBK: are three companies we approached this year for various kinds of collaboration in community and livelihood development.

We also have established positive relationships with many other organizations and projects, such as ANTAM, ASPERA, Blacksmith-Flinders University, Blacksmith-US Embassy, BPPT and USAID Lestari.

Last but not least, we maintain a close and strong relationship with our longest-standing partner contributing to the development of Central Kalimantan: the Susila Dharma Network, including SD Canada, SD Britain, SD USA, SD Netherlands, SD Australia, and the Susila Dharma International Association.

YTS SUPPORT UNITS



Training & Capacity Building Unit

Summary

The Training & CB Unit continues various capacity building activities aimed at improving YTS human resources. We focused on staff’ knowledge development on the topics that are relevant to their needs to achieve the tasks given to them. We have successfully increased our staff capacity through various shared learning, training, and sharing events.

We provided a variety of support to projects in YTS, based on the needs. In this half year, we invested more time to support the AGC-YTS project on Sustainable Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Indonesia. We supported the Governance Project on strengthening governance capacity in Gunung Mas, and its final, sustainability workshop in April. This Unit also provided support to Bukit Batu in developing technical assistance handouts and giving inputs to the program and proposals. We provided only minimum support to the Kahayan Project.

This Unit responded to specific requests and needs from YTS management, and other units and projects. We wrote articles and newsflash for our quarterly bulletin, took part in proposal writing to various donor organizations, provided translation services as necessary, assisted guest field trips, and attended specific Civil Society Organisation (CSO)-related events.


Training and Capacity Building

Up to June, the capacity building activities consisted of 37% training, 36% sharing, and 27% shared learning. Staff who attend external events are encouraged to share knowledge and experience to others. We have been creating a “sharing environment” that helps staff gain knowledge. It has become a culture in YTS to discuss particular CSO-related issues within the organisation.

Figure 6: Distribution of activities

Training

Sharing

Shared Learning

36%

37%

27%


Support for Projects


Other Support & Activities


Issues

YTS is a unique organization and runs multiple projects. Scheduling capacity building activities is quite tricky and challenging. We always make sure those activities are conducted when every team member is in the office in order to promote improved friendship and solidarity. In reality, some people could not join the learning sessions as they were sometimes on their leave or still assisting in partner villages. Also, each project has its own project timing cycle and different travelling schedules. It therefore requires great flexibility to schedule capacity building events in YTS.

Conclusions

In the first six months of 2016, the Training & CB Unit has organized a range of HRD activities, such as shared learning, training, and sharing. Those activities were based on the need to improve YTS staff capacity to perform the tasks they have been given.

The Training & CB Unit supported various projects in YTS such as Governance, AGC-YTS, Bukit Batu, and the Kahayan. We tried to provide maximum support for project activities based on requests and needs. This Unit maintains intensive communication with the projects in order to help each project succeed in achieving its goals. We also responded to Management requests to get involved in strategic issues for organizational development.

Recommendations

This Unit needs more personnel when bigger projects start up. At that time we should expand considering the workloads and numbers of projects that need to be supported. In addition, to measure to what extend does the capacity building activities influence individual YTS staff and the whole organisation, it would be useful to receive capacity building on training impact evaluation.


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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION UNIT

Due to financial constraints and to improve efficiency, at the end of this semester the Information & Communication team had to go through a major change in team members: the Media Development Officer chose to resign while the Information and Communication Assistant took a new role as the YTS Administrator. This left only two members in the Unit, one from each team. This should not create any major issues for the team, as the amount of work has decreased significantly.

Although there is only small element of support from the team to the GAC funded ASGM Project, the first three months was dedicated to support the finalization of the Project Implementation Plan. In March, we received approval from the Hesperian Foundation to translate the ‘Workers Guide for Health and Safety’, which added a major activity to our agenda. We also provided support to a project proposal to USAID Lestari, which was then approved in May.

Finally, we have been working regularly and on-request to support the units and projects in YTS over the course of the past six months.


Activities

Editorial Group

Kabar Itah

Two editions of Kabar Itah were released this semester, with the first covering activities from last year.

We are making an effort to improve our ability to produce interesting stories in a timely manner for the newsletter. By following the changes in activities and focus in some projects, and promoting more indigenous issues, Kabar Itah should produce more interesting stories from the field. We have started submitting articles on a regular basis each month to avoid deadline issue by the end of each quarter. This proved successful with the last edition, and thus we will continue with this strategy.

Reporting

In between our regular monthly reporting to the Executive Director, we also help occasionally with writing the Kahayan Project report whenever requested. We also helped with preparing special reports, such as the ACN report in February and the YTS Annual Report for the Annual Board Meeting in March.

These reports are produced both in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

Documentation, Translation, Transcription

Meeting notes have become an important part of our documentation work as it has proven useful to keep track of what is discussed in each meeting. We regularly take notes in weekly and monthly staff and project meetings, as well as special meetings, both external and internal. With the recent change in personnel, the Administrator will now be responsible for the note-taking function. We also decided that everyone in the office needs to sharpen their skills in this matter, and we have organized note-taking learning sessions with the Training Unit to help with this.

We have a regular stream of translation work in YTS, and try to make all documents available in both languages. All outstanding meeting notes and translations were completed by the end of this semester, and all translated notes and documents are available on the YTS server.

Website & Social Media

We appreciate feedback from everyone who visited the YTS website. Most viewers commented on issues related to navigation and the media library, and some reported difficulties loading flash-based website like ours, as not all browsers support flash.

At the end of last year, we started discussing how to adapt the website into a user-friendly and all browser-compatible interface. At the same time, we started to look into current trends on the use of social media and felt it was best to use Facebook as a means for spreading information about our work.

As a result of our discussions, we began in March to develop the new website structure and interface, targeting completion for the end of July, while the YTS Facebook page was officially launched in May.

Capacity Building and Networking

To improve our knowledge and understanding of YTS’s work, we attended a number of meetings, training sessions and workshops for capacity building. Almost every month we participated in internal YTS CSO sharing sessions, which in addition to special events held by other organizations or government agencies, helped broaden our horizon in development work.

We also extended our network with other CSOs, local government and donors by attending events, meetings and discussions that they hosted. Networking is a significant part of our work, enabling us to expand our coverage and collaborate more with other organizations with similar issues. Through such networking we can get updated information about development trends, issues, and possibly new projects to work on.

Complete details on networking by all units and projects in YTS are available in the Partnership and Networking session of this report.


Media Development Group

Introduction

Visualization is a necessary trend to facilitate the delivery of a purely written message or report. We, therefore, keep broadening our ability to translate words through visualization. We continue to develop infographics from data extracted from internal reports, and produce illustrations and update handout materials. Through this process we have enriched our sketching techniques, added color, played with various elements, and incorporated other techniques to improve our skills.

To visualize an idea into a picture, or working on a report’s layout is not a quick and easy game, because it requires thorough thinking to decide the size of text space, proportional picture size or the proper image position. In many cases, we lacked quality control, as the time allowed to execute all the abovementioned was limited, and so was the production time. However, we managed to put optimum effort in each request and produce the result timely.

Achievement

In this semester, we provided a series of design options for the visual identity of the AGC-YTS ASGM Project, in order for the project to have its own distinct identity and give some sense of what the project was all about. We still are waiting final selection from our project partner before we can implement this.

Over the first six months, we worked on and completed a number of tasks, such as documenting important events held by YTS and local government, and various visits from AGC, PACT, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Manpower, and provincial and district government. In addition to documenting events, we documented the progress of project activities in Bukit Batu, the closure event of the Governance Project, the Environmental Campaign with the provincial Environmental Agency, and other internal events.

Following documentation, we also selected the best quality pictures that YTS can to give to donors, governments, or for use in publications and social media.

Publication

The only publication we produced this year was the 2015 Annual Report, which always involves a significant amount of effort.

Training Material

This year we produced only one livelihood training module for our partner KUBs in Bukit Batu. It was on catfish farming. We worked together with the technical expert, the Training and CB unit, and the editorial team to finish this module.

Documentation

Our documentation activities throughout the first half of the year revolved around documenting events that YTS held with its partners, as well as various visits from the government, AGC, PACT, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Manpower, and others. In addition to documenting events, we also followed on a regular basis the progress of project activities in Bukit Batu, as well as other activities mentioned above. The following is the list of documentation activity completed from January to June:


Project Name Activity

Bukit Batu

Visit from the Head of Marine and Fishery Agency to Pak Eko’s pond

Monitoring fish ponds in Tangkiling

Demonstration of SOC (Suplemen Organik Cair-Liquid Organic Supplement) application

Subdistrict Musrenbang in Tangkiling

Subdistrict Musrenbang in Kanarakan

Monitoring fish ponds in Pak Karmin’s place, Habaring Hurung

Subdistrict Musrenbang in Habaring Hurung

Consultation session for Module Development with the catfish farming expert

Coordination Meeting with the Head of Provincial Marine and Fishery Agency regarding the community’s proposal for fingerling support

Monitoring the breeding pond in Pak Ramin’s place in Habaring Hurung

Subdistrict Musrenbang in Tumbang Tahai

District Musrenbang in Bukit Batu

Monitoring group fish ponds in Banturung, Tangkiling, and Tahai, together with the Fishery & Animal Husbandry Agency

Harvesting catfish in Banturung

Catfish farming training by Credit Union & Pak Eko

Visit from the Provincial Social Agency and the Ministry of Social Affairs

Governance Governance Project Closure part 3

ASGM

Assist development of 2016 Annual Work Plan for AGC-YTS

Baseline definition for AGC-YTS

Global Affairs Canada visit to Bukit Harapan, Parenggean

Training & HR

Integrating perspective on Gender Equity in Sustainable Forest Resource Management

English Class (Advanced)

English Class (Intermediate) (1)

PDF Map & Frontline SMS Training

CSO Sharing on YTS Values

Others

YTS Board Meeting

Visit by Christina from PACT to WPRs in Parenggean

YTS Weekender

2016 Isen Mulang Decorative Boat Festival

Bue Sumbin’s Funeral

Media Storage and Archiving

By the end of this semester we have collected 8008 photos, selected 1153 photos, and edited 113 images. All of these photos are available on the YTS server and on the Media Unit hard disk. We also regularly back up YTS staff computer data.

Hardware Maintenance

During the course of the last six months, the Media Development Unit has twice completed data backup for all staff computers. We also helped with re-accessing the network printer due to the change of internet IP in the office.

Figure 7: Documentation activities January-June 2016


Media Production

The Media Development Unit is responsible for all aspects of visual identity, starting from the concept to the production stage. This year, we produced a number of media items to support activities and units in YTS:

Figure 8: Media produced January-June 2016

1 Artwork and Illustration

Illustration package for handout material on Catfish Breeding

2016 Lebaran Card

YTS sign board

Visual identity for AGC-YTS:

2 Layout (handout materials, modules, and reports)

Handout materials for KUB

YTS Annual Report

Bukit Batu Annual Report

Kalimantan Kids Club Annual Report

Information Kiosk

Every month, with the help from all POs, we provide updated and relevant information that are considered necessary for the villagers for posting on the kiosks in all partner villages. In addition to displaying information from YTS, the kiosks have been used as means of information by the village and district government, when they think there is important message that the villagers need to know.


Figure 9: Media Development activities & produced January-June 2016


Financial Statements

Introduction

In the first six months of this year we continue to face the challenges of intermittent revenue flows, as contributions from our major projects have been uneven and several projects ended part way through this period. The challenge still remains to balance revenues and expenditures. We hope the remaining six months will provide us with a more stable situation.

The audit report from 2015 reported nothing unusual in our financial accounting and reporting mechanisms.

Income

Our total income so far this year is $182,223, with 92% of this coming from only two sources – 18% from PT Kalimantan Surya Kencana and 74% from the Canada-funded ASGM Project. The remainder came from Susila Dharma organisations and the Hesperian Foundation.

We only found out in June that we would not receive continuation of funding from the Ford Foundation for our Governance Project in Gunung Mas. We were lead to believe it would resume mid-year.

We still need to diversify our income base to avoid dominance of a few projects.


Figure 10: Summary Income January - June 2016 (USD)

Project Kahayan Project

Bukit Batu Project

Governance Project

AGC Project

ASGM Project

KKC Total

Revenue

Revenue 2016

Kalimantan Surya Kencana 31,800 - - - - - 31,800

Hesperian Donation - - - - 4,000 - 4,000

Blacksmith Donation - - - - 478 - 478

Susila Dharma USA - 5,000 - - - - 5,000

Susila Dharma Netherlands - 2,500 - - - - 2,500

Susila Dharma Britain - 3,958 - - - - 3,958

AGC (incl. receivables) - - - 134,487 - - 134,487

Total 31,800 11,458 - 134,487 4,478 - 182,223

Grand Total Revenue USD 182,223

Kalimantan Surya Kencana

Susila Dharma USA

AGC

Hesperian Donation

Susila Dharma Netherlands

Blacksmith Donation

Susila Dharma Britain

18%

2%

3%

2%1%

74%

0%


Expenditures

We’ve spent a total of $174,334 in the first six months of 2016, with is 93% of our total income in the same period. Of this 70% is for salaries. We still have $30,326 in unallocated costs, mainly salaries that we cannot allocate to projects.

Figure 11: Summary of Expenditures January - June 2016 (USD)

Project Kahayan Project

Bukit Batu Project

Governance Project

AGC-YTSASGM Project

KKCUnallocated

CostTotal

Expenditures

Activities

General Overhead

7 6 154 2,178 26 - 2,371

Employment Cost

11,044 2,733 4,857 72,925 27 29,627 121,214

Program Overhead

14,952 541 - 18,029 388 628 34,537

Program Cost 7,765 28 7,281 339 0 728 72 16,213

Total 33,768 3,309 12,292 93,471 441 728 30,326 174,334

Grand Total Expenditures USD 174,334

General Overhead

Employment Cost

Program Overhead

Program Cost

1%

20%

9%

70%


Program Cost

Program Costs are part of the costs for our field activities, and includes all of our training and technical support to build capacity and improve institutions and economic livelihoods. In the first six months of 2016, this amounted to $16,213.

Figure 12: Summary of Program Costs January - June 2016 (USD)

Kahayan Project 7,765 44%

Bukit Batu Project 28 0%

Governance Project 7,281 48%

AGC - YTS 339 2%

Kalimantan Kids Club 728 4%

Unallocated 72 1%

16,213 100%

Kahayan Project

Bukit Batu Project

Governance Project

AGC - YTS

Kalimantan Kids Club

Unallocated

2%4%

44%

1%

48%

0%


Program Overhead

Program Overhead covers the actual cost of running our field activities, and includes transport, accommodation, meals and other working expenses. Fuel for transport is a major component in these costs. So far we spent $34,537 on these expenses in 2016. We continue to operate only one boat in one subdistrict in the Kahayan and use motorcycles for the other two subdistricts, but we intend to get at least one more boat, as the use of motorcycles is very risky in the rainy season.

Figure 13: Summary of Program Overhead January - June 2016 (USD)


Bukit Batu Project 541 2%

AGC - YTS 18,029 52%

ASGM - Project 388 1%

Unallocated 628 2%

34,537 100%

Kahayan Project

Bukit Batu Project

AGC - YTS

ASGM - Project

Unallocated

1%

2%

43%

2%

52%


Employment Cost

Our Employment Costs amounted to $121,214 so far in 2016, which is 50% higher than the same period last year. The AGC-YTS ASGM project accounts for the largest share – 60% of total employment costs.

Figure 14: Summary of Employment Costs January - June 2016 (USD)


Bukit Batu Project 2,733 2%

Governance Project 4,857 4%

AGC - YTS 72,925 60%


Unallocated 29,627 25%

121,214 100%

Kahayan Project

Bukit Batu Project

Governance Project

AGC - YTS

ASGM - Project

Unallocated Cost

9%

2%

60%

25% 4%

0%


General Overhead

General Overhead covers our office expenses and totaled $2,371 in the first six months of 2016. This figure is less than 10% of the same amount last year, because we have moved office salary expenses to projects.

Figure 15: Summary of General Overhead January - June 2016

Kahayan Project 7 0.5%

Bukit Batu Project 6 0.5%

Governance Project 154 6%

AGC - YTS 2,178 92%


2,371 100%

Kahayan Project

Bukit Batu Project

Governance Project

AGC - YTS

ASGM - Project

6%

0.5%

0.5%

92%

1%


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Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta

Jl. Rajawali VII, Srikandi III, No. 100, Bukit Tunggal, Palangka Raya 73112Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia

Documents

SEMI ANNUAL REPORT - Susila Dharma International · 2016 YTS Semi-Annual Report | 3 Words from the Executive Director 2016 is continuing to be a time of transition for YTS. We have