WORKSHOP PENGELOLAAN POOL OF FACILITATOR
BPBD Provinsi Sumatera Barat bekerjasama dengan Yayasan Mercy Cops Indonesia melalui Program TATTs menyelenggarakan kefiatan Workshop Penyusunan Mekanisme Pengelolaan Pool of Facilitator di Hotel Grand Zurry Padang pada tanggal 28 Mei 2018.
Sebagaimana diketahui sebelumnya bahwa PoF ini dibentuk oleh Yayasan MercyCops Indonesia pada tanggal 15 Maret 2017 yang diinisiasi melalui Pelatihan Teknik Fasilitasi pada tanggal 24-28 Agustus 2017 di Bukittinggi.
Bapak Maldo Ferro selaku Senior Program Officer TATTs mengungkapkan tujuan pembentukan Pool of Facilitator (PoF) adalah untuk memberikan pelayqnan dan asistensi kepada Kabuapten/Kota termasuk Provinsi termasuk pihak Swasta di dalam Penanggulangan Bencana. Melalui kegiatan ini diharapkan PoF dapat dikelola ileh BPBD Provinsi Sumatera Barat dengan mekanisme pengelolaan yang disepakati bersama. Hingga saat ini sudah terdata sebanyak 44 orang terlatih sebagai anggota PoF.
melalui paparannya Khalid Sifullah (Koordinator Forum Pengurangan Risiko Bencana Provinsi Sumatera Barat) anggota PoF dapat dimanfaatkan oleh BPBD dalam membantu Program Kerjanya.
Sementara itu Kepala Pelaksana BPBD Provinsi Sunatera Barat, H. Erman Rahman, SE., MSi. mengharapkan Pengelolan PoF perlu disepakati bersama oleh BPBD Provinsi dan anggota PoF sehingga dapat dikelola dengam baik dan sistematis agar dapat mempercepat prosea distribusi pengetahuan sekaligus memberikan pelayanan BPBD Provinsi kepada Kabupaten/Kota dan Stakeholder lainnya. (ysr)
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POOL OF FACILITATOR MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP: A MECHANISM FOR A BETTER COLLABORATION
West Sumatra Disaster Management Agency in alliance with Mercy-Corp Indonesia Foundation under the program of Technical Assistance and Training Teams (TATTs) held a workshop on management mechanism of Pool of Facilitator in Grand Zuri Hotel Padangn on Mei 28th.
Pool of Facilitator (PoF) is a group of facilitators or community educators who have concerns to disaster issues from various backgrounds. This group was first initiated by Mercy-Corp Indonesia under TATTs program to bridge between these talented people and West Sumatra Management Agency (BPBD) especially to establish a mutual collaboration to build community capacity in any phases in a disaster management cycle; before, during, and after disaster.
TATTs is a program of Mercy Corp Indonesia funded by USAID which objective is to ‘Institutionalizing Disaster Preparedness and Management Capacity of Local Disaster Management Agencies (BPBDs) in Indonesia.
As stated by TATTS’ Senior Program Officer Maldo Ferro that this workshop was intended to formulate an official and effective collaboration mechanism between the facilitators and BPBD. Therefore, in the future more and more people can contribute positively in an orderly manner to support disaster management efforts leaded by BPBD.
In the line with this statement, H. Erman Rahman, the recently-inaugurated Head of BPBD emphasized that the existence of s PoF is essential on the way to assist the provincial government to spread the knowledge and awareness of disaster in grassroots level both in municipals and regencies in West Sumatera Province. (fvt)
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