Simeulue Community Development Project

One of the objective of Cordaid project in Simeulue is to have schools in the scope of the project have the capacity to recognize, assess and take action to mitigates against potential local risk and hazard that could affect the safety of the school and its constituents. This is why community development becomes inseparable part of the reconstruction project. There are three components under Community Development, they are: 

  1. Operation and Maintenance

To ensure the schools remain safe, healthy and comfortable Cordaid produces Manual of School Operation and Maintenance which provides the school community with information of how to keep the school in a good maintenance with easy, economical, and practical way. Only reconstructed the school is not enough without building up sense of ownership from school community. 

  1. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Cordaid is running DRR pilot project within 10 reconstructed schools. The general outline is to work with the teachers and students to assist them in identifying risks, through a hazard, vulnerability and capacity assessment in the school community. Teachers, with the support from Cordaid, will then lead the students through the development of an action plan, which can be implemented by the students, teachers and community and supported by Cordaid. Without conditioned them into one particular major disaster.

  1. Hygiene Promotion

Cordaid has been implementing a hygiene promotion (HP) program using the participatory PHAST (Participatory Hygiene And Sanitation Transformation) methodology in 22 primary schools in Simeulue since July 2006. In the first phase, the HP team ran a two day workshop using PHAST methodology with teachers, headmasters, head of villages, and representatives from the education department. This was followed by a Funday in each school, which gave the teachers the opportunity to practice the PHAST tools with students in an interactive learning environment. The last phase is the implementation of permanent materials where, with the assistance of a manual and materials developed by Cordaid, hygiene promotion will be integrated into the school curriculum on a weekly basis. This includes a clean class competition where the cleanest class after every week is awarded with the school globe, which is rotated on a weekly basis.