Popular Report 2012 VECO Indonesia
Table of Contents 3. Foreword 5. About us 6. Where do we work 9. Summary 11. Sustainable agriculture chain development 13. Advocacy 15. Consumer awareness 17. Learning organization 18. Finance 20. Facts and figures 22. Key activities
Foreword
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he year 2012 has been another dynamic year for VECO Indonesia, partners and networks. A growing recognition of our expertise in Sustainable Agriculture Value Chain development and development of business farmer organizations (BFO) has led to new opportunities for working with private sector, government and international development organizations. We have now a well-established Value Chain Development Programme and made some interesting progress towards our programme goals: All farmer organizations partners are now well established and organized. Most of them have established business links with companies to sell high quality products (e.g. certified Cocoa in West Sulawesi from BFO Amanah and certified Rice in Central Java from BFO Appoli). The advocacy efforts of National Farmer Organization API and its supporters to influence Rice policies in Indonesia have led to a well-documented proposal for policy changes on National Rice pricing policies. There is a clear recognition of API’s important role by all stakeholders including national government, banks and other national farmer organizations. The Healthy Food, Healthy Living Consumer programme targeting youngsters has accelerated its development during 2012 with several youth groups working independently and organizing a large variety of consumer awareness activities. Concrete collaboration was built with educational institutions
and activities are well-received by local government authorities in the project locations Bali and Solo city. There is a clear tendency that VECO Indonesia develops more strategic collaborations with other development institutions, local government and private sector companies now, especially noticeable during the last year (collaboration with AusAid, PT Mars Symbioscience and Boyolali government). It is recognized that important opportunities for synergy and up-scaling within the programme are present through these new partnerships and will play an even more important role in the coming years. The ultimate result of our programme continues to be the improved livelihoods of small-holder farmers in Indonesia. We believe this can be achieved through the development of professional farmer business enterprises, commercial links with the private sector, high quality service providers and promoting sustainable agriculture products/production with consumers and government. In this annual report we present concise information and some highlights of the programme in 2012. This will serve you to have a quick overview of what happened in our programme. For more details you should go to the new VECO Indonesia website www.veco-ngo.org/vecoindonesia where you can find up to date information of activities, newsletter LONTAR, publications and other information. I hope you enjoy reading our annual report. Let us know if you have any comments or questions.
Best regards, Rogier Eijkens Regional Representative
About Us Who are we?
A non-profit organisation that for more than 30 years has been promoting sustainable agriculture to get a better deal for farmers. We are a part of Vredeseilanden, an international NGO headquartered in Belgium with programmes in West Africa, East Africa, South America, Central America, and South East Asia.
What are our aims?
1. Improve the lives of rural family farmers, 2. Strengthen the position of farmers to enable them to influence policy, 3. Raise the awareness of consumers about consuming sustainable agriculture products, 4. Be a learning organisation.
Who do we work with?
Farmers, farmer organisations, NGOs, private companies, and government at the local, national and international levels.
Where do we work?
As of 2012, VECO Indonesia was running programs in eight program areas: Jakarta, Central Java and Bali, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) 1, NTT 2, West Sulawesi and South Sulawesi. Five field antennas work in these eight program locations.
Programs: Advocacy related to the government procurement price of rice (HPP) and food sovereignty, Consumer awareness about healthy food
Programs: Consumer awareness about healthy rice, Healthy rice chain development, Healthy Food Healthy Living
Program: Coffee and cocoa chain development
Program: Coffee and healthy rice chain development
Program: Cocoa and peanut chain development
DKI Jakarta
NTT 2 (Ende, Sikka, Flotim dan TTU)
Parters:
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Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) Koalisi Rakyat untuk Kedaulatan Pangan (KRKP) Yayasan Lembaga Konsumen Indonesia (YLKI) Perhimpunan Indonesia Berseru (PIB)
Jawa Tengah dan Bali
Asosiasi Petani Bituna Jaringan Petani Wulang Gitang (JANTAN) Yayasan An Feot Ana (YAFA) Asosiasi Petani Kakao Nangapenda (SIKAP) Yayasan Ayu Tani (YAT) Yayasan Mitra Tani Mandiri TTU (YMTM)
Parters:
Sulawesi Barat & Sulawesi Selatan
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Lembaga Studi Kemasyarakatan dan Bina Bakat (LSKBB) Aliansi Petani Padi Organik Boyolali (APPOLI) Jaringan Kerja Pertanian Organik (JAKER PO) Lembaga Gita Pertiwi (GP) Asosiasi Petani Organik Boyolali (APOB) Konsorsium Solo Raya (KSR) Bali Organic Association (BOA) Pusat Pendidikan Lingkungan Hidup (PPLH) IDEP Private Sector : • PT Bloom Agro
NTT 1 (Manggarai, Manggarai Timur, Ngada dan Nagekeo) Parters: • • • • • •
Delsos Ruteng Lembaga Advokasi dan Penguatan Masyarakat Sipil (LAPMAS) Ngada Asosiasi Petani Kopi Manggarai (ASNIKOM) Perhimpunan Petani Watuata (PERMATA) Yayasan Mitra Tani Mandiri Mbay (YMTM) Aliansi Petani Organik Mbay (ATOM)
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Perhimpunan Petani Kopi Toraja (PPKT) Yayasan Jaya Lestari (JALESA) Koperasi Tani Amanah Wahana Sosial Petani Terpandang (WASIAT) Koperasi Tani Masagena Private Sectors: • PT Armajaro Indonesia • PT Mars Symbioscience Indonesia
Summary A
s of the end of 2012, VECO Indonesia was still running Sustainable Agriculture Chain Development, Advocacy and Consumer Awareness programs. These three programs, along with Developing a Learning Organisation, make up the four areas in which VECO Indonesia continues to work. The focus throughout 2012 was on strengthening farmer organisations (FOs) through training, facilitation, and support to enable FOs to develop their businesses. The aim was to build the capacity of farmers in running their farming businesses. As well as providing funding and capacity building support, VECO Indonesia also linked farmers with others, including NGOs, consultants, government and other development organisations. The aim was to enable farmers to develop themselves and play a key role in agriculture value chains. In the interests of efficiency, in 2012 VECO Indonesia focused only on prime commodities in each of the program locations: cocoa, coffee, rice and peanuts. All activities in 2012 focused on these four commodities, in particular on improving their quality and production volume. These activities included farmer field schools, internships, study visits and so on. VECO Indonesia also continued to support advocacy related to the government purchase price of rice, sustainable food stock systems, and healthy food consumer awareness campaigns, which involved consumers in urban areas and young people.
Sustainable Agriculture Chain Development
Improve the socio-economic life of family farmers, both men and women, through sustainable agriculture chain development, from production to marketing.
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xpansion of Program Locations. In early 2012, VECO Indonesia expanded its cocoa chain development program location in Sulawesi. In addition to Polewali Mandar (Polman) District in West Sulawesi, VECO Indonesia now also supports the Masagena farmer organisation in North Luwu District, South Sulawesi. In this area, VECO Indonesia is also still supporting coffee farmers in Toraja, South Sulawesi. Increasing Coffee Farmer Incomes. Asnikom’s collective marketing with IDR 30 million support from Kopkardios has done much to help farmers in Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara, avoid having to use moneylenders. This has led to an increase in incomes has also come with an improvement in the quality and production volume of coffee after adopting knowledge from field schools. In Ngada, farmers are able to improve their production after implementing knowledge from farmers field schools (FFS). ICS to Guarantee Product Quality. In 2012, APPOLI received organic certification from the Institute of Marketology (IMO) Switzerland, a certification agency headquartered in Switzerland. IMO issued the certificate on 13 December 2012, for EU, NOP, JAS and air trade (fair for life) specification. This certificate has helped enable farmer members of APPOLI to export organic rice overseas. The ICS is key to maintaining the quality of farmers’ products and helps consumers to source healthy food.
Advocacy
Strengthen farmer organisations to strengthen their negotiating position in influencing policy, including rice price and food sovereignty policies.
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ulti-stakeholder Dialogue. One of our advocacy initiatives is holding multistakeholder dialogues with key actors from the Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Agriculture, Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, National Logistics Agency, local and national farmer organisations, and national NGOs. API and KRKP research findings were used as input for drafting rice price policy in 2012. Key actors are becoming increasingly aware that API is a farmer organisation that is serious about performing rice policy advocacy. Community Food Stocks. The Melati women’s farmer group in Femnasi village, in the East Miomaffo subdistrict of North Central Timor in East Nusa Tenggara manages a food stock of 2 tons of rice acquired for its members, with funding support of IDR 15,000,000. This has generated profits of IDR 2,000,000. In another village, Wure, funding support has been used to procure 15 tons of rice for the food stock. In this village, the food stock is managed by Tunggal Jaya farmer group, under the supervision of the farmer group association and the Village Food Team. Research on Rice Reserves. API completed its Study of Alternative Rice Institutions to Strengthen Local and National Rice Reserves in collaboration with Pusat Studi Ekonomi dan Kebijakan Pertanian as a follow up to its proposed change in rice price policy. The alternative rice price policy and proposed institutional reforms have been communicated to government through the multi-stakeholder dialogues and to Parliamentary Commission IV. These two proposals have received a variety of responses, both positive and negative. Bank Indonesia has expressed its appreciation, in particular of the proposed multi-location rice price policy.
Consumer Awareness
Raise consumer awareness about consuming healthy sustainable agriculture products.
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nformation Reaching More People. Through interesting and informative activities in 2012, such as the local food parade organised by HFHL Solo and the celebration of World Food Day organised by PIB, information about healthy food reached more consumers. This was thanks to national media coverage of these events. Mass media campaigns via radio and magazines, for example, continued.
Healthy Food Education for Consumers. YLKI ran a variety of consumer education activities on healthy food. Healthy food campaigning is a national agenda for YLKI. As part of this campaign, YLKI organises face-to-face meetings between producers and consumers, linking them together in the healthy food campaign. YLKI also organised a national movement to influence the government to adopt the Consumer Protection Law and Food Law. Organic Food Market in Bali. Together with eco communities and young people in Bali, the HFHL team organises a regular organic product market in Sanur, Denpasar, Bali. This event was launched in 2012 in response to the lack of organic produce for consumers in Bali, despite growing demand for these products. Participating in the Sanur Community Market are farmer groups, NGOs, consumer groups and organic food outlets. Alongside the trading, young people run a healthy food campaign.
Learning Organisation
Develop the organisational management of VECO Indonesia to become a learning organisation.
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our Key Factors. In building VECO Indonesia as a learning organisation, there are four key factors: (1) creating spaces where the staff and divisions can share and learn together, (2) adopting human resource development policy, (3) providing the infrastructure and facilities for learning together (budget, activities, etc.), and (4) having an adequate database that staff can access easily. Variety of Learning Activities. In 2012, these activities included five homeweeks in the year (where staff share program experiences and lessons learned), B3 learning forums (all staff sharing information about the organisation and teambuilding), gender workshops in the value chains, the Country Forum Workshop, Regional Learning Initiative (RELI) in Vietnam, and staff capacity building. Two Country LONTAR. For the first time ever, VECO Indonesia and VECO Vietnam, two of the VECO regional offices in South East Asia, published a collaborative edition of LONTAR quarterly. This 28-page magazine discussed the organic rice program in Indonesia and the safe vegetable program in Vietnam. Published in November 2012, this edition of LONTAR was a part of the effort of these two regional offices to publicise success stories in their countries, as well as being learning material.
Finance 69,7%
In 2012, VECO Indonesia managed program funding of EUR 1,148,722 or around IDR 13.85 billion. These funds were used to (i) support the programs run by 31 partners and networks in 16 districts, including 15 NGOs, 3 networks, and 13 farmer organisations, (ii) operations and staff, (iii) training and meetings to support commodity chain development, and (iv) program monitoring and evaluation.
EURO cent
13,1% EURO cent
6,6%
6,5% EURO cent
EURO cent
2,1% EURO cent
0,6% EURO cent
DGD
MISEREOR
CORDAID
NOVIB
TRDS
GILLES
IDR 9,689,633,735 € 800,452
IDR 872,025,000 € 75,000
IDR 1,837,350,000 € 150,000
IDR 885,592,611 € 76,344
IDR 285,839,241 € 23,615
IDR 82,510,000 € 7,105
Sources of Funds, VECO Indonesia 2012
Use of Funds, VECO Indonesia 2012
1,1% EURO cent
0,3%
OMMERSTEIN
WCF
IDR 157,171,949 € 12,989
IDR 39,548,600 € 3,267
VECO Indonesia
Local parters
IDR 7,519,956,296 € 623,749
IDR 6,329,714,840 € 525,023
54%
46%
Facts and Figures IDR 70,950,000 support from the East Nusa Tenggara Provincial Agriculture Agency to Asosiasi Petani Kopi Manggarai in 2012. This support was the result of VECO Indonesia partners lobbying the government.
3,310 farmers are members of the Amanah ICS
60%
40%
33,821 farmers were program beneficiaries in 2012, comprising 20,303 (60%) men and 13,518 (40%) women.
2,763 (83,5%) men 547 (16,5%) women
939 members of Amanah farmer organisation regularly paid subscriptions to the cooperative throughout 2012.
= 100 people
59 hectares of land belonging to 260 farmers who are members of APPOLI received organic certification from IMO
2012
2011
113.9 tons of dried peanuts were sold by Bituna farmer association in 2012. This compares with just 6 tons in 2011.
21 VECO Indonesia staff as of December 2012
15 men
6 women
Key Activities V
ECO Indonesia National Forum. On May 28-29 2012, VECO Indonesia held its national forum in Tanjung Benoa, Bali. The aim of the workshop was to formulate what the position of Indonesian farmers would be in be during the period 2014-2020. The participants at this workshop were from partners and networks contacts, including farmer organisations, government, NGOs and research institutes. Each stakeholder also discussed their roles in these changes. A similar workshop was held with selected partners prior to the national forum. National Partners’ Meeting. On 11-14 September 2012, VECO Indonesia held the annual partners’ meeting in Batu, East Java. Partners and networks across all program areas attended this meeting on the topic of “Agriculture as a Business”. The focus of discussion at this meeting was how to make farmer organisations more business oriented. As well as discussion, the participants also went on learning visits to farmer cooperatives in Malang District, including Koperasi Agro Niaga Jabung and Koperasi Unit Desa Kepanjen. ICS Training in Vietnam. To foster a closer relationship, VECO Indonesia and VECO Vietnam organised Internal Control System (ICS) training on 9-15 October 2012, in Hanoi, Vietnam. The training was attended by 15 participants from VECO Vietnam, NGOs, and the private sector. The lead facilitator for the training was Imam Suharto, VECO Indonesia Program Manager and independent inspector for the Institute of Marketology (IMO), Switzerland. Joining Imam were two presenters from the certification agencies UTZ and Rainforest Alliance Vietnam.
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