Building Papua Partners Ability to Writes down Their Knowledge

As part of Samdhana Institute Papua Program concern in developing partners capacity to documenting their lesson learn, process and results in a form of any related publication the writing workshop is organized. This 2016 workshop is focusing on helping 14 partners whose activities in 2014 - 2015 were funded by the Samdhana institute to writes down their knowledge and ideas includes lesson learn that they felt important to share to the targeted audiences. 17 peoples are involved and be facilitate by Fajar and Ridzky from Mongabay, Jalu from gerakan desa membangun and Martua from Samdhana.

The workshop will be conducted in 4 days, stated Marc 2nd until 5th. 3 main outputs are putting as the targeted are (1) each partner paper/publication material, (2) common recommendation on how to optimizing the information technology communication in the works of networking and (3) having a draft of policy brief in related to customary rights, land uses and forestry development in Papua. Grand Abe Hotel in Jayapura is selected as the venue to host this workshop. Combination between those whose part of the project designer, implementer with young new capacity are enriching the workhsops.

In 2014 and 2015 Samdhana institute had funded 14 institution in both Papua and West Papua Provinces on working on the issues of customary rights recognition, community organizing, community based forests management and consolidation among CSO/NGO. They are spread from Sorong and Tambrauw in the bird head of Papua, Wamena in the highland, Biak with the island landscape until Merauke in the south with swamp and low land landscape.

Samdhana is expects that each participant could taking home the ability in developing the papers and knowledge in public media communication so the could then start to develop they on portal on sharing information from their works. Some of them who has developed their website could then found a national networking to connects the message they could convey about Papua and its complexity of issues, problems and also any success story from the community that inspiring to be shared.