HANDS!

PROJECT
2014/2015 AND 2015/2016
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
AND OUR FUTURE

May 19, 2015

HANDs! Regional Meeting in Kuala Lumpur
Ai Goto, Assistant Director & Purwoko Adhi Nugroho, Program Associate
The Japan Foundation, Jakarta

HANDs! Project

HANDs! Project 2014-2020

Hope and Dreams (HANDs!) Project is an annual youth

exchange program for 7 years aiming to foster capacity

building among youth (18 to 35 years old) for learning and
later creating actual projects using creative methods
for supporting communities in making disaster
education.
Offices involved: JF Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala

Lumpur, New Delhi, Tokyo

Target: Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, India,

Japan (more to be added)

Project Development
Previous program

Indonesia Youth Competition

for Disaster Education
(YCDE) in 2012 to 2013

- 2012: 139 groups (536 participants) for 24 seats to Japan

(Kizuna)
- 2013: 319 groups (1276 participants) for 24 seats to
Japan (JENESYS 2.0)
- Received more than 3,800 likes on FB in a week!

Disaster

Disaster
Education
+Creativity
Creativity

About HANDs
Expected Outcome from Year 1:
Engages and develops a total of 24 motivated youths from Japan and
ASEAN countries
Engages a minimum of 10,000 people digitally
Initiating a network of youths
Creating and realizing new ideas or solutions =>> ACCOMPLISHED
Expected Outcome after 7 Years:
Engages and develops a minimum of 200 motivated youths from
Japan and ASEAN countries
Engages a minimum of 100,000 people digitally
An active self-initiated network
Able to involve the Local and National Government of participating
countries
Able to affect on national educational system in participating countries
=>> DISCUSS MORE LATER TODAY

Program Outline
Indonesia
Sept 26-30, 2014

Day 1
Half-day
Orientation
Half-day
workshop and
group discussion

Philippines
Oct 01-05,
2014

Day 2
Half-day
Workshop and
group discussion
Half-day site visit

Day 3
Site visits and
other activities

Thailand
Feb 15-21,
2015

Day 4
Activities with the
locals

Japan
Feb 21-27,
2015

Day 5
Making action
plan

HANDs! Time Frame for 2014-2015

Date

Action

April - June 2014

Program Planning

Early July 2014

Approve Project & Budget

July 21 Aug 15, 2014

Call for Application for Participants

Aug 18 29, 2014

Selection of Participants

Sept 1 25, 2014

Administration & Phase 1 Preparation

Sept 26 Oct 5, 2014

HANDs Phase 1: Indonesia & Philippines

Oct - Nov 2015

Phase 1 Evaluation
Administration Process & Phase 2 Preparation

Feb 21-27 2015

HANDs Phase 2: Thailand & Japan

March 2015

HANDs 1st Year Evaluation

Program in Indonesia

Program in Philippines

Program in Thailand

Program in Japan

Learning community

development project in
Fukushima

Meeting with key persons in

Tokyo

HANDs! Project 1st Year Outcome

Trained the 24 participants from the 6 countries.
Developed 8 action plans to be implemented in 2015.
Outreached to 6.3 million audience via ARENA123 on

TVRI. (January and February, 2015) [Indonesia]

Outreached audience through Thai PBS TV [Thailand]
Outreached audience through TBS TV Jonetsu Tairiku
and magazine Axis through Nagata san [Japan].

HANDs! Project 1st Year Outcome

--Indonesia [outreach event]
Talk-show for UN4U event on

October 17, 2014

Collaboration with UNIC, UNOCHA,
UNESCO, and others.
At Bina Nusantara University
(BINUS)

HANDs! Project 1st Year Outcome

--Indonesia [outreach + OJT]
Evacuation and Three activities at EPA

language training center at Depok.

Target: 267 nurse and caregivers
Objective:
To introduce ways to take care of people in

case of emergency.
To provide opportunity for HANDs!
Members to practice their learning.

QUESTIONNAIRE
RESULTS
Japan Trip

Overall experience with HANDs Japan

Trip
Excellent

Good

Somewhat good

Not good

Life-changing experience with HANDs!

Japan Trip
Very life-changing

Life-changing

Somewhat life-changing

not life-changing

The most significant 2 things participants

gained/learned during Japan Trip
1: Visiting the disaster areas in Tohoku area in Japan,

especially schools are highly valued.

2: Meeting with key persons and learned case study

analysis from various on-going projects.

For whom do you think the HANDs Project is

suitable? Who should join in the HANDs!
Project 2015-2016? (1st year participants voice)

University students
Young Professionals
People from different field with passion about disaster education
People who can stand out and share comment with others
Various expertise with same level and better English
Emerging leaders
Fresh grads
Design & Creative area people
Policy Makers
Social Activist
Youth
Different backgrounds (country, religion, etc)
Students 18-24 years
Strong will and personal capacity
Artist and non-artist, so action plan can more practical
Media People

YEAR 1 REVIEW

1st Year in Short

Program development: Trial and error

phase
Created basic framework
Wind, Water & Soil type
Started to set up project standards

What to improve?
No Project Scenario
Indonesia:
-Program A
-Program B
-Program C

Philippines:
-Program C
-Program D
-Program E

Thailand:
-Program B
-Program C
-Program F

Japan:
-Program C
-Program D
-Program G

HANDs! Project

What to improve?
No Project Scenario Create Projet Scenario
Action
Plan A

Set up
goal and
specific
expected
outome

Indonesia
Program A
Program B
Program C

Action
Plan B

Philippines
Program D
Program E
Program F

Action
Plan C

Thailand
Program G
Program H
Program I

Japan
Program J
Program K
Program L

HANDs! Project

Key: Balance of universalism and localism

Goal
Achieved!!

What to Keep?
Disaster

Disaster
Education
+Creativity
Creativity

What to Keep?
Other Unique Selling Points (USP)
Multicultural & Diversity
Multilateral Approach Multi-way of learning process

Focus on Human Capacity Development

Community Based
Project Outcome Oriented

Multicutural Approach
(Country Office Initiated)

Small Local Projects

HANDs! Project

(Bilateral)

(Multilateral)

Japanese Language Fellows

Young Muslim Intellectual (YMI)

KIZUNA, JENESYS

(Head Office Initiated)

Human Capacity Development

(Human Capacity Development)

JF Fellows
JENESYS

(Learning from Japan)

HANDs! Project

(Mutual Learning)

(Non Human Capacity Development)

Impact to Community
(Impact to Community)

HANDs! Project 2nd Year

(Action Plans)

(General)

(Community Based)

Intellectual Conferences

HANDs! Project 1st Year

(Learning Stays in Participants)

Project Outcome Oriented

(Focus on Follow Up Activities)

Japanese Studies Fellows

(No Specific Issue)

HANDs! Project
Young Muslim Intellectual (YMI)

(Issue Oriented)
KIZUNA, JENESYS

(Broadly disseminating outcomes)

HANDS! IN 2020
Our Future, Our Long-term Goal

HANDs! in 2020
200+ ALUMNI MEMBERS
Actively communicating with each other
Passionate about disaster education (and
other community issues)
Continue to collaborate & create projects

HANDS! OUR WAY

What do we value?

HANDs! values:
1
You are our Hope and Dreams
We are professionals developing human capacity. Any of our
decision making should provide value to the participants.
Questions to ask:
Will this increase the learning of the participants?
What can they get?

HANDs! values:
2
We are professionals,
serving professionals.
Question to ask:
How can we provide value to the participants,
the organizers, and the program?

HANDs! values:
3
We are creatives, serving creatives.
Question to ask:
How about, What if?
Not We cannot, because

Think big & long term.

2020 and beyond.

PROGRAM 2015/2016

HANDs! 2nd year

2014/2015 : Trial & Error / Starting Up Phase

2015/2016 : Develop & Standardize

Purposes
To do human capacity development in the area of disaster

education + creativity.
To provide opportunities for participants to have creative

mindset, so that they can continuously change the community.

To create the pool of active alumni who continuously

communicate and create activities.

Q: How much do we want to stick with Disaster Education?

Outcome?
Expected Outcome from Year 2:
Engage and develop additional 24+ motivated youths from Japan and
ASEAN countries
Engage a minimum of 10,000 people digitally
Initiate a network of youths
Create and realize new ideas and solutions
Continued involving the 1st year HANDs! members
Realize Action Plans from the 1st year
Seek involvement of Nepal (JFND) and Myanmar (JFBKK)
Expected Outcome after 7 Years:
Engages and develops a minimum of 200+ motivated youths from
Japan and ASEAN countries
Engages a minimum of 100,000 people digitally
An active self-initiated network
Able to involve the Local and National Government of participating
countries
Able to affect on national educational system in participating countries

Who are Our Participants?

GOOD PARTICIPANTS
Wind Type (artists/coordinator etc.)
: Having good artistic/creative skills
Water Type (organizers etc.): Having good coordination skills
In common:
Determined/serious about the issues
Eager to learn and collaborate with others locally & internationally
Good communication skills (including English)
25 35 year-old midcareer professionals. + Outstanding university
students.
BAD PARTICIPANTS
come and go, just to add to resume, not putting HANDs as 1st
priority (disappear in the middle of program)

Selection Process
Open competition
Individual competition

4 ways

Open competition
Group competition
Nomination
Individually
Nomination
By group

Selection Process
[2014]
Only sending CV/Bio [Malaysia] nomination
CV + Project experiences + Rough proposal (idea)
[Indonesia] Open call
CV + Idea [Philippines] nomination

[2015] OPEN CALL

Paper / Proposal + Interview or Roundtable Presentation
+ Discussion

What to learn?
Knowledge

Attitude
HANDs!
2014
focus

Skills

Learning outcome

Methodology
Two International Group Trips + Some Domestic

Activities
Domestic activities can be organized BEFORE, BETWEEN,

or/and AFTER the group trips.

Our program will offer:
Life-changing experiences. Not just eye-opening.
Inspire to foster creative mindset & design thinking.

Thank you very much!

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
--Helen Keller