7th GPDRR in Indonesia, Human Initiative: Community Assistance is a Key

Bali – For the first time in history, Indonesia hosted the 7th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) Forum. The theme for the 2022 GPDRR is From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in a COVID-19 Transformed World. This forum took place in Bali, Indonesia, on 23-28 May 2022. This is an official UN event that takes place every 2 years. However, due to the pandemic, the event did not take place for 3 years.

Human Initiative and other NGOs also attended the event. Not only GPDRR, Human Initiative also participated in the Indonesian Resilience House which was also part of the implementation of GPDRR.

Human Initiative participated in the Resilience Stage, Talkshow and Exhibition Panel, where Tomy Hendrajati as President of Human Initiative and Andjar Radite as Vice President of Operations became resource persons in Resilience Stage and Talkshow. Meanwhile, in the exhibition panel, Human Initiative had the opportunity to share experiences in disaster response which was also broadcast live on the YouTube channel through the BNPB (National Disaster Management Agency) Youtube channel.

President of Human Initiative, Tomy Hendrajati conveyed the importance of providing assistance to the community to help them grow their self-confidence.

“The challenge in strengthening local leadership is the confidence of the community itself. And assistance to the community is one of the important keys, so that when one day there is a disaster, they as a community already have the initial capabilities needed to respond to disasters,” he said.

Initiator Friends, hopefully the GPDRR forum this year will be a momentum for the growth of preparedness for Indonesia and the world in dealing with various kinds of disasters that are currently and will occur in the future.