Festival Forum KTI - Kaya Tangguh Inspiratif
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
Founding Story
Caroline
Tupamahu
, Makassar
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Through the wide network of BaKTI – development actors and media on local, regional, and national level; BaKTI media channel (magazine like BaKTI News) and social media like facebook, twitter, and youtube; and forums/ meetings on local, regional, and national level.
BaKTI also facilitates Forum Kepala Bappeda Provinsi Se-KTI (Eastern Indonesia Forum of Head of Local Development Planning Agency) and Jaringan Peneliti KTI (JiKTI – Network of Eastern Indonesia Researcher) to strengthen partnership with local government, NGO, and university.
Limitation of area where we can explore best practices, we haven’t been able to cover all provinces in Eastern Indonesia.
Limitation of funding from BaKTI working partners
We build partnership with local government, NGO, university, international development agency, media, and other development actors.
BaKTI also facilitates Forum Kepala Bappeda Provinsi Se-KTI (Eastern Indonesia Forum of Head of Local Development Planning Agency) and Jaringan Peneliti KTI (JiKTI – Network of Eastern Indonesia Researcher) to strengthen partnership with local government, NGO, and university.
Create an environment where people give feedback freely.
Eastern Indonesia Forum Festival provides a space for development actors to present and share their smart solutions already proven to solve education, health, environment, gender, governance, youth, and economic issue in their areas. This allow other development actors such as local government, international development partners, and other organizations to listen and learn from these solutions.
In the Festival, we create space where the participants can discuss their thoughts and feedback about the smart practices and the results of the discussions will enrich the smart practices.
English.
We provide space where people can share their development smart practices and the participants can learn and adopt/replicate the smart practices. In this Festival, we are trying to get input for the presented smart practices and also to grab new smart practices from development stakeholders who are the participants of the Festival. We believe that a lot of smart initiatives have been done in Eastern Indonesia but sometimes development stakeholders do not realize that their initiatives are worth to be documented and shared. This is to bring change to the development in Eastern Indonesia, more effective development. People can learn from what have succeeded rather than create something new.
Improve quality of programs
SMS, Phone or voice, Physical gathering.
We collect the feedback in the Festival by creating an informal and creative space where people can share their initiative or input freely. Besides that after the Festival we asked the participants about any input for increasing the quality of the Festival and also to encourage replication of the presented smart practices. In addition, we also asked whether the participants have initiatives that can be categorized as smart practices or lesson learned through direct interview, sms, phone calls, meeting.
Secured protection on information
Confirmation of use of feedback
Specific targeted outreach efforts
They understand that feedback is necessary
Meetings discussing results with providers
Written report
1. After getting the information and learned about the smart practices in the Festival, some development stakeholders who attended the Festival replicated and adopted the initiatives in their area. Then the replicated initiatives have brought changes in the new area.
2. Some other development stakeholders who attended the Festival did not realize that the initiatives they have done are smart, in fact the initiatives have brought changes into community lives. After attending the Festival, the presented smart practices have opened their eye. They started documenting their initiatives in the form of feature/article, picture gallery and they gave us to be published in our media and to be included in the selection process for the next Festival.
To support development stakeholders to replicate and implement the smart practices. The support covers funding, the implementation process, and monitoring the results. At this moment, the smart practices are replicated by those who have the resources to replicate. It is hoped that we can support the replication by stakeholders who do not have resources.
Lack of funding for feedback data collection
No, but I would like to be on it
To increase the quality of the program
Clearer information about the competition
Providing responses to the received feedback
Comments
I really like this initiative. If i may suggest, have you consider any strategy to ensure replication of so called "best practices".
In many cases, we might also learn from "failed practices" for backstopping or rethinking critically. Have this also taken into consideration?
Thank you for the comment. For replications, we consider many ways such as promoting through various media (newspaper, electronic, social media - facebook, twitter, you tube); lobbying to decision makers.
Regarding "failed practices", we considered it as lesson learned. But at this time, we only promote smart practices to really encourage positive and appreciative environment.
Dear Caroline,
This is an imaginative project – sharing best development practices among NGOs in a forum that includes creativity, culture and camaraderie. Three thoughts:
• What I did not find on your posting and would like to understand better is what you would do with the next increment of funding. Expand into new geographically? Explore variations on the existing model? Form stronger partnerships with other government and private agencies? As it is, I find it difficult to evaluate your proposal because it’s not clear to me what Festival Forum KTI wants to do next.
• How much documentation of impact do you do? The posting mentions an example of adoption of better practices that resulted in reductions of maternal and infant mortality. Have you been able to quantify this impact? I realize that your budget may not permit rigorous evaluation of impact for all of the best practices adopted as a result of Festival Forum KTI, but doing so for a selected few would increase your profile with donors. It might also sharpen your ability to identify strong programs and practices.
• A related question is “Who decides what constitutes ‘best practices’? What distinguishes demonstrably sound activities from just someone’s ‘good idea’? If Festival Forum KTI uses explicit criteria for identification of best practices, consider sharing them in the project description.
I hope this is helpful and wish you every success!
Elliot Marseille
[email protected]
Thank you for your valuable comments.
* The next things after the Festival is to encourage the replications by promoting and disseminating the smart practices that have been presented in the Festival. This is done through various media (newspaper, electronic, social media - facebook, twitter, you tube); lobbying to decision makers.
* We do monitor the impact-the replications of the smart practices by communicating closely with the initiator of the smart practices and also development stakeholders in that area.
* We have panel who work on the selection of the initiatives. Several criteria have been set to be called "smart practices" which are Innovative, Participative, Pro poor and gender, Accountable, Having impact on community's lives, Sustainable.
Best regards