Stories of Impact A series highlighting achievements in disaster risk management Building Resilient Communities across Indonesia REGION: EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC Indonesia is among the top 35 countries with high FOCUS: RISK IDENTIFICATION, mortality risks due to several natural hazards. RISK REDUCTION 40% of the population is at risk, representing COUNTRY: INDONESIA *more than 90 million lives. The government of Indonesia, with support from the Global Facilitr for Disaster Reduction and Recoverm (GFDRR) and the World Bank, has made considerable progress in empowering vulnerable communities RESULTS: and strengthening urban resilience against a wide range of risks triggered ba natural disasters and GFDRR has provided $2.8 million in grants climate change. and technical assistance support for raising community-level risk awareness and Given the scale and geographic complexit of the streamlining disaster preventive measures. This support has also served as building blocks countr, enhancing communit resilience in urban for World Bank-fnanced community driven settings is an important priorit for Indonesia. The development projects of $1.2 billion which cover more than 100 million urban dwellers spread gvrmn a enclaoaigwt omnt across 33 provinces, leaders to increase awareness of disaster risk GFDRR assistance contributed to leveraging mitigation and scale up preventive measures $217 million in investments for strengthening including eco-resilient settlements, safer evacuation local community infrastructures from the World routes, and landslide mitigation techniques. Bank and the government of Indonesia. *The GIFIDIRR-supported InaSAFE tool is facilitating community-based risk mapping, helping local decision-makers better understand hazard impacts, and integrating disaster risk mitigation in local infrastructure projects. The InaSAFE tool has been downloaded more than 20,000 times across Indneia.Glba Failtyfor Disaster Reduction and Recovery(GD R A food-prone waterway in Jakarta CONTEXT: With an average annual urbanization rate estimated at 4.1% between 2000 and 2010. Indonesia has become one of the most urbanized countries in Asia. Its urban population share, 54% in 2010, is projected to quickly reach 68% by 2025. Rapid urbanization results in dense settlements and a concentration of critical infrastructure, which means that 110 million people in 60 Indonesian cities are regularly exposed to natural hazards. including tsunamis, earthquakes. floods, and other climate change impacts. Yet, when a disaster hits. urban environments can support vulnerable households when damages and losses are minimized, as well as make communities feel safer and recover faster. GFDRR, the World Bank, and the government of Indonesia are working together to empower vulnerable communities in disaster risk mitigation and mainstream preventive measures to reduce multi-hazard impacts. APPROACH: The National Program for Community Empowerment in Urban Areas has been implemented across 10,922 urban wards reaching more than 100 million urban dwellers, including 20% of urban poor. This nationwide program already employs more than 6.000 facilitators and 1.850 city coordinators and technical assistants who contribute to mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) measures by providing advisory assistance to communities in urban management and local infrastructure development. and workshops ore provided to strengthen GFDRR's support is helping the programs delivery of training activities community awareness and improve local for facilitators and provides block grants for communities to undertake capacity in disaster risk management. We urgent disaster resilient measures to reduce the impacts of natural ore very pleased with the results of this pilot hazards. This technical assistance has already leveraged $217 million in program, and hope to replicate this unique investments from the World Bank and the government of Indonesia to approach in other disaster-prone locations.' fund additional Community Driven Development (CDD) projects, nearly 80% of which is to be invested in resilient community infrastructure. The - Saulos Klaus Chilima, Vice President. Malawi training of facilitators has contributed to the dissemination of disaster risk reduction best practices. It has also encouraged communities to integrate resilience-enhancing measures into neighborhood infrastructure upgrades in urban areas, including evacuation routes, water retention drainage, landslide mitigation methods, and eco-resilient settlements. Bottom up risk awareness needs to be built through participative planning processes. The Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Mandiri (PNPM, or National Program NEXT STEPS: for Community Empowerment] and Community Driven The government of Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious plan Development (CDD) programs in more than 200 uran to replicate this CDD approach to scale up strengthening local localodecisn ake to c ndt t e commuity infrastructure and invest in the upgrading of urban neighborhoods risk mappinAakrsut o thi ir aproach. in a sustainable manner. Based on the best practices provided by community leaders were able to identif recurring natural the World Bank and GFORR, Indonesia is seeking to replicate these hazards, enabling them to measure exposure to disester risks resilience-enhancing measures, empowering at-risk communities, before planning quick-impact mitigation activities, such as and strengthening disaster resilience across urban areas prone to evacuation routes or water retention drainage facilities. natural disasters. The government will also make further efforts to Resilience-enhancing measures need to be incorporated facilitate partnerships with the private sector, universities, and research directly into regular urban infrastructure investment nows. institutions. This will allow better dissemination of knowledge related Successful integration of infrastructure and community to community-based DRM, including local flood zoning, high impact measures are crucial before triggering systematic urban infrastructure upgrades, and community risk reduction planning. upgrading. Pilot grants for undertaking resilence-enhancing measures have provided communities with a realistic showcase to persuasively demonstrate how infrastructure investments can be resilient to the most common hazards facing Indonesia. These pilots demonstrate that densely populated settlements prone to landslides stand to benefi Contact from being provided with preventive structural measures that Shaela Rahman are built with eogrie dranage systems. a robust design. srahman@worldbank.org and a connectivity function to provide safe evacuation www.gfdrr.org options for the community durng flood or earthquake- trCggered events.