Institutional
Strengthening & Reform, Social Development
Danker Schaareman
Dr.
Danker
Schaaremanis a Dutch social anthropologist who has worked and lived in
Indonesia since early 1972. He is fluent in both the Indonesian and Balinese
languages, and has acquired a profound knowledge of Indonesian culture and
society. During his career in Indonesia he has between 1972 and 1992 carried out
a number of long-term Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI) and Universitas
Udayana sponsored multidisciplinary (action) research projects as team leader.
His own research included:
Studies of the structure and
organization of different types of rural and urban communities including
irrigation societies / water user groups, using various standard rapid
appraisal techniques, and political, social and cultural implications of
irrigation systems
Extensive investigations of
rules for irrigation of clusters of fields, cropping systems, traditional
agricultural systems, and recent developments
Detailed
study of a single rural community in eastern Bali in respect to its
traditional socio-religious and socio-economic life
Assessing constraints on
resolving conflicts between traditional local (adat) law and national law
Traditional irrigation
networks and their intersection with modern water supply systems; market
systems
Assessment of poverty among
fisherman and salt-making communities
Mitigation and resolution of
conflicts
The use of marine resources,
trade and trade networks
Designing strategies for
improvement of livelihood of low-income communities
As team leader of these projects he was responsible for the overall project
management, coordination of activities of individual participants, all project
progress, interim and final reporting, communication with national and regional
government officials.
From 1992 until 2002, Mr. Schaareman has been
employed as a consultant for a number of technical assistance/infrastructure
projects in various positions such as legal/institutional and human resources
development/capacity building, participatory community development,
socialization, conflict resolution and consensus-building, agricultural
(research) communication and extension specialist. During these projects, funded
by multilateral donor agencies, he has, among others, established linkages
between, and communicated extensively with, key stakeholders (such as local
NGOs), and government officials and agencies at all levels of governance, and
developed a variety of (participatory) training, extension and motivational
materials, using his fluency in Bahasa Indonesia as well as his computer, visual
and audio aids capabilities.
From 2002 to 2009, he was employed by the South-East Consortium for International
Development as Indonesia country representative and program manager.
Mr. Schaareman was
responsible for developing strategies and opportunities for projects
in Mainland and Insular South-East Asia (in particular Indonesia,
Viet Nam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Lao PDR, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
etc.), and for developing a business base in multilateral
agency-financed technical assistance projects. Efforts focus on
multi-lateral and bilateral development agencies, Government of
Indonesia Ministries at the national, provincial and district levels
(such as Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Home Affairs,
Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of
Agriculture, Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Religious Affairs,
Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, and others, Indonesian
institutions of higher education such as a series of State (Islamic)
Universities (the former IKIP), Bogor University of Agriculture,
Bandung Institute of Technology, Udayana University Denpasar,
University of North Sumatra Medan, Syiah Kuala University Banda
Aceh, Padjadjaran University Bandung, and prospects for partnering
with local agencies and organizations. He has gained insight into
the projects by, among other means, meeting with GOI project
personnel to help ensure that SECID is fairly introduced and
presented to as an appropriate firm for implementing projects.
Mr.
Schaareman was also responsible for submitting concept papers,
expressions of interest, proposals, identification, selection and
recruitment of required experts, liaison, and coordination, and
insuring effective implementation of those projects.
Currently, he is Associate Director of PT. Pugajinou (International
Consultants), and heads the Institutional Strengthening and Social Development
Sector.
Technical Expertise
Project development, management, liaison, and coordination
(Social) impact studies,
analysis and research, and needs assessment
Sector experience: participatory community development; public-private
partnerships; education and training; human resources development;
institutional and regulatory reform and development; tertiary education
policies; agriculture
Translating and interpreting: to/from Indonesian, English, German, Dutch
Computer skills including Microsoft Office applications, database design
and management; accounting software
Teaching: Indonesian for English and German speakers; English for
Indonesian speakers
Excellent communication skills, team worker, good management
capabilities
Socialization, Consensus-Building and Institutional
Specialist for
Urban Public Transport Policies (UPTP); Japanese Grant TF–25207
and IBRD Loan No. 4054-IND,
World Bank, Indonesia
Mr.
Steven Schmidt, MBA, has had over 25 years of working experience in a
broad range of positions against a varied range of backgrounds. Working
experiences include a variety of international development projects,
research and practical development activities in both the private and
public sectors related to education and community organization.
In the past 15 years or so, major experience and career direction has
been increasingly specialized with a community focus including
development and empowerment, community awareness raising and outreach,
government capacity building for community inclusion, livelihoods
development, community capacity building, self reliance and small scale
infrastructure development within the scope of decentralized development
planning in Indonesia. Prior to working in the community development
sector, Mr. Schmidt’s experiences in Indonesia included work on
decentralized education/school based management. He also translated the
Minister of Education and Culture’s “50 Years Development of Indonesian
Education” commemorative publication from Bahasa Indonesia to English.
Mr. Schmidt has been employed on large and small village level
development projects for international development agencies and donor
institutions. His most recent assignment being in South Nias as a part
of the 2005 earthquake response (AusAID NRP), an employment intensive
crisis response to reconstruct community infrastructure. He has worked
for a number of agencies including the International Labor Organization,
The World Bank, The Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Japan
Bank for International Cooperation, the Asian Development Bank and
AusAID.
Skills in the area of participatory community based training and
community mobilization, employment intensive programming, indigenous
initiatives, working with community organizations, local government and
NGOs have been a regular component of the activities experienced.
Preparation of program implementation training programs, routine
monitoring and evaluation, MIS development for routine program/project
monitoring and reporting, program/project office establishment and
general project implementation preparations have also been built up over
a number of years of field experience.
Consistent exposure to the development environment and regular reporting
duties has led to the development of good oral and written English
communications skills, while the broad range of experience, built up
over many years of working with and generally mixing with people from
varied backgrounds and local cultures, has consolidated formal studies
of Indonesian language and culture and led to fluency in Bahasa
Indonesia. Several years of work experience in the Indonesian public
service/development environment and constant contact with government
officials and private sector contractors has resulted in the further
enhancement of region specific communications and management skills.
Also during this time, he has written and co-written several research
articles and reports on a contract basis, for private firms and
development agencies. Major focus of field research has been vocational
training and education.
Having lived in Indonesia for 30 years, Dr. Laine Berman brings an insightful
knowledge of the local context as well as the vast networks that she has
established over the years. Dr Berman has extensive experience working
with and assisting both local government and communities to build local
capacity, ownership and involvement in a wide variety of development
programs. She has existing relationships with universities, donors,
agencies, local governments, local and international NGOs, CSOs as well
as grass-roots organizations and is acutely aware of the capabilities
and gaps that exist throughout the region. She is well known as a public
speaker, advocate, lecturer, street trainer, writer, researcher and
artist. As a committed capacity development expert that is also a member
of this community with a strong sense of cultural identity, Dr Berman
will be a vital member to any team.
Community engagement: multi-media outreach and socialization; highly
participatory approaches; training local staff to increase community
ownership; community-based monitoring; participatory program design
and implementation
Community-based research: focus groups, survey, stake-holder and key
informant interviews; household/network/community-based information
collection; narrative analysis; life stories
Monitoring and evaluation: needs assessment; social impact;
evaluation plan development; training local staff in participatory
M&E strategies, approaches; training community members to actively
participate in M&E
Emergency mitigation: participatory disaster identification;
community mobilizing for disaster risk reduction; peace and
sustainable livelihoods development; child protection and guidelines
of the Inter-Agency Standing
Committee (IASC)
Training / Facilitation: capacity-building local staff;
participatory training modules; training of trainers; life skills;
low-literacy
Women’s participation: gender-based violence/domestic violence
prevention; reproductive health; family health & welfare,
environmental safety/recycling/composting; trafficking, gender
training & mainstreaming
Community health & safety: reproductive health; disaster analysis
and prevention; water & sanitation / hygiene; avian influenza
HIV/AIDS: participatory research; behavior change and prevention
training; life skills training; prevention counseling; promotion of
HIV / sex education for children
Children and youth: homelessness; reproductive health; life skills &
HIV / AIDS; substance abuse; violence; livelihoods
Management style aimed at flexibility, participation, empowerment of
local staff
Report-writing; multi-media presentations; Public Service
Announcements
(PSA)
Mrs. Hikmah is a well-versed social and
community participation professional, and brings with her many years of
hands-on experience. On several occasions she was involved as Social &
Community Participation Specialist on foreign donor funded
rehabilitation projects in post-tsunami Aceh province. Her
responsibilities included assessing the impact of the tsunami on
livelihoods and social infrastructure, determining the implications for
shifts in population, conducting rapid social needs assessments, impact
studies and analyses, and carrying out consultations with local
government and community stakeholders. During her career as social and
community participation expert, she worked both with provincial and
local government staff, NGO’s, and community leaders, and carried out
training programs in social safeguards and public consultation
techniques. With her background in Economics, she also worked with
government agencies and government-owned enterprises in relation to
privatization efforts in the public infrastructure sector (e.g. water
supply, waste).
Dr. Piet van Eeuwijk holds a PhD in Social
Anthropology, and a MA in Medieval/Modern History, both from the
University of Basel, Switzerland. Furthermore, he has obtained a
Postgraduate Diploma in Development Cooperation from the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. He has lived for more than
10 years in Indonesia where he acted as field researcher, university
teacher, project officer and consultant. Since the early 1980s Dr. van Eeuwijk has gained a deep insight into local conditions and household
dynamics in relation to culture, health and illness through extensive
fieldwork in mostly remote areas in Eastern Indonesia (with a special
focus on island and coastal communities) such as Sulawesi, NTT,
Moluccas, and Papua.
As medical anthropologist he was head of several
international and interdisciplinary research projects under
supervision of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Lembaga Ilmu
Pengetahuan Indonesia, LIPI) and various Indonesian universities,
financed by Swiss government funds. His major research topics (in
Indonesia) are inter alia:
Indonesian traditional medicine in local,
national and global context
Local health care systems and its adaptation to
newly emerging challenges (such as HIV/AIDS, avian flu, dengue
fever)
Quality of care in the Indonesian health system
from a user’s perspective
Remote communities and their health-seeking
behaviour regarding malaria and diarrhoeal illnesses (with a special
focus on the use of free-over-the-counter drugs)
Health transition in Indonesia (e.g. demographic
and epidemiological transition, change of lifestyle and
urbanisation) and its effects on communities and households
Emerging chronic diseases in urban areas of
Indonesia (such as diabetes, hypertension, rheumatism, cancer)
Ageing and health: the rapidly increasing number
of elderly Indonesians and their old-age vulnerability and
resilience
Long-term care support and social security of
elderly urban Indonesians
The burden of Indonesian lay caregivers and
potential improvements of care schemes
Besides his scientific research activities, Dr. van
Eeuwijk has a long-standing record of teaching, lecturing and tutoring
at Indonesian public and private universities, including scientific
consultancy in research projects. In Indonesia, he teaches semester
courses in Social Anthropology (e.g. on medical anthropology, urban
anthropology, current theories and concepts) and Public Health (e.g. on
urban health, ageing and health, illness behaviour); a major lecture
topic is qualitative research methods and data analysis including
guiding students’ fieldwork. He is tutoring and supervising several MA
(S2) and PhD (S3) students at various Indonesian universities where he
also acts as academic examiner. Dr. van Eeuwijk has developed a wide
network consisting of different academic institutions and scientists all
over Indonesia (particularly in Java and Eastern Indonesia), which has
produced joint research projects, staff exchange programs and scientific
cooperation agreements. He regularly teaches courses in medical
anthropology, urban anthropology, ecological anthropology, and
anthropology and politics of Southeast Asia ―
besides his second anthropological regional field, namely East Africa
―
at three universities in Switzerland and Germany. Moreover, he
supervises several MA and PhD students from these two countries who
carry out their fieldwork in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia.
From 1992 to 2002, Mr. van Eeuwijk held the position
of project officer and head of Indonesia Desk in Swiss faith-based NGOs.
Based in Switzerland (1992-1999). he was responsible for several
development projects in Indonesia which were supported and co-financed
by these Swiss NGOs. These projects comprised health and water projects
(North Sulawesi), informal/informal craftsman education (Jakarta, West
Java, Central Kalimantan), agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries
(North Sulawesi, Papua), income generation activities (North Sulawesi,
West Java, Papua), women’s empowerment activities (Papua, North
Sulawesi) and community development programmes (Papua). Dr. van Eeuwijk
is a member of the Swiss national commission for faith-based NGO
programs and projects which are funded by the Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation (SDC). From 2000 to 2002 and based in
Indonesia, he acted as project officer and NGO representative for
Indonesia; during the unrests in the Northern Moluccas, Ambon and Poso,
he became also liaison officer for refugee camp programs (in North
Sulawesi and Gorontalo), reconciliation projects (in Poso and the
Northern Moluccas) and reconstruction/repatriation activities. Starting
from 2003, he functions as consultant for Swiss NGOs in different
cooperation projects in Indonesia relating to health improvement, social
security strengthening and community development.
Technical Expertise
Qualitative methods in community-driven planning
and evaluation
Training skills in project development: PIME
(planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation)
PRA/Participatory rapid assessment methods and
procedure
Skills in (pre-)feasibility studies in health
sector
Experience in curriculum development for training
centres in health sector including TOT (training for trainers)
Applied research: process from scientific study
to project activity
Fund raising and budgeting particularly of health
and education projects
Research skills as to household production of
health
Development of informal social security
programmes
Income generation activities for small and
medium-sized enterprises
Training and supervision of institution building
and strengthening by/for elderly people
Human resources management and supervision in
cooperation projects
Linguistic capabilities and verbal skills in Indonesian development
and academic context
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