East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) is among Indonesia's most disaster-prone regions, facing a wide range of hazards, both hydrometeorological as well as geological. The Flores region of NTT has been facing increasing frequency of volcano eruption in the last few years, with the most severe was Lewotobi Laki-Laki. It caused more than 7,000 people displaced, negatively impacted their livelihood and other aspects of their daily live. Moreover, since its major eruption in November 2024, the volcano continues to erupt and it creates even more uncertainty. Hence, a solid and elaborate strategy toward resilience and adaptive capacities is significantly required.

SIAP SIAGA, a partnership between the Governments of Australia and Indonesia, has long supported the strengthening of disaster management systems at the national and subnational levels. Central to this effort is empowering communities to enhance resilience through the Disaster Resilience Village (DRV) framework that integrating community-based disaster risk management with climate change adaptation, and promoting and incorporating the Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) principles. 

In NTT, SIAP SIAGA has worked closely with provincial and district governments, civil society organizations, and local communities to foster inclusive and adaptive disaster risk management strategies. By leveraging multi-stakeholder collaboration, the program seeks to enhance institutional capacities, promote evidence-based policy development, and ensure that disaster preparedness measures are responsive to the needs of vulnerable groups, including women, people with disabilities, and marginalized communities.

This RFP seeks to support two key initiatives— Building Community Resilience to Volcano Eruption through partnerships with local civil society organizations (CSO) in NTT Province.

The DRV component aims to enhance community resilience through inclusive planning, technical assistance, policy development, capacity building, and mobilizing local resources to create sustainable and adaptive community-based solutions. This initiative emphasize collaboration with CSOs, local governments, and customary institutions to ensure sustainability and long-term impact by leveraging local capacities and aligning with broader policy frameworks.

All interventions under this TOR will apply a Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) lens and adopt adaptive learning and communication approaches. This includes generating evidence from community-level implementation, facilitating continuous learning with stakeholders, and communicating inclusive disaster resilience practices and lessons to inform policy, replication, and scale-ups.

Purpose

To strengthen inclusive community resilience, especially those who are prone to volcano eruption in NTT Province, through Disaster Resilience Villages (DRV), by embedding GEDSI-responsive planning, continuous learning, and effective communications of local knowledge and lessons.

Specific Objectives:

• Risk Understanding: Conduct participatory disaster-climate risk and vulnerability assessment. This to point out climate-hazards profile, vulnerability circumstances, exposure, and risks to inform following disaster-climate actions activities; 

• Inclusive Planning: Develop and implement disaster-climate resilience strategies that take into account the underlying causes of marginalization of groups, such as women, persons with disabilities, and indigenous communities;

• Local Knowledge: Explore and enhance local knowledge on disaster mitigation, adaptation, and climate-smart practices to advance future resilience include the inclusive approach;

• Learning and Communication: Generate, document, and communicate inclusive learning from DRV   lessons on GEDSI, local knowledge, and adaptive practices to inform policy engagement, replication, and program improvement at village, district, and provincial levels.

• Capacity Building: Strengthen the knowledge and skills of local governments, CSOs, and communities to develop and execute effective DRV frameworks.

• Policy and System Integration: Facilitate the integration of DRV principles into local governance and planning mechanisms, through coordination with district BPBD and village government.

• Resource Mobilization: Build partnerships with local governments, civil society organizations, and customary institutions to secure both financial and non-financial resources for the sustainability of community resilience. And if necessary to assess the potential funding resources from private sectors for strengthening the sustainability resilience.

• Scaling Up: Institutionalized Disaster-Climate Resilience Village into regulation framework or governance system and replication through landscape-based context.