From 3rd to 5th August 2016, Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, the winner of the 2016 ACCCRN Blog Competition, and Srishti Singh, the People’s Choice Winner, visited Chiang Rai, Thailand, to attend the workshop on Building Urban Agriculture Collaboration between Chiang Rai and Hat Yai.
Being held right after we celebrated the Eid-ul Fitr, this event was the first offline networking meeting of our Indonesian members and we also took the opportunity to carry out the Halalbihalal1 ritual. Having worked closely with the Indonesia Climate Alliance (ICA), we also took this opportunity to introduce the ICA as a national network platform for low-carbon and climate-resilience Indonesia.
At the end of the day, the participants of ACCCRN Learning Forum joined the site visit to the Semarang ACCCRN Programs. One group went to visit the Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) project in Wonosari Sub-district. The other group went to the program called Actions Changing The Incidence Vector Borne Endemic Disease (ACTIVE) for dengue fever prevention.
During this third and final day of the forum both speakers and participants focused on prospective thinking. On one hand the forum looked at how ACCCRN as a network will develop, as well as how it might shape or influence other Rockefeller Foundation work; on the other, representatives of younger Rockefeller Foundation efforts shared updates and emerging insights.
Being a member of staff at the Semarang Health Agency does not make Dani Miarso resistant to dengue fever. In the past, his son contracted severe Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and he experienced a great loss of time and money taking care of his son in the hospital.
