Project Updates

See our 2020 year in review!

1. New study on Peace Villages in Indonesia

For this study we will be working with villages that have committed to promoting social cohension and tolerance at the community level in order to assess the progress and challenges of this initiative going forward.  We are planning to do phased fieldwork in a number of current and potential 'peace villages' and will analyse the insights with the aim to provide reflective lesson learning and forward looking implications related to the possibility of scaling up the program.

2. New Study on Malaria in Eastern Indonesia

This study focused on the social factors that influence how people access malaria prevention and treatment services. The research included adapted immersions along with follow-up community-level people-driven design workshops to brainstorm, develop, and begin to test potential solutions for some of the challenges or opportunities in communities related to malaria prevention and treatment.

See this post on our blog for some more initial details.

3. New study on Pathways to Adolescent Pregnancy in Indonesia

This study aims to improve understanding of the drivers and pathways to adolescent pregnancy in Indonesia and develop recommendations to inform policy and programming responses that can better support adolescent girls and young women. This research is a collaboration with the Burnet Institute in Australia and the study is being concurrently conducted by other local partners in Malaysia, Cambodia, and Laos. The study is being conducted using timeline interviews, where participants develop a hand-drawn timeline-like diagram as part of the interview process. These informal timeline interviews will be followed up with field workshops later in the year with a select number of the study participants to share some of the initial insights from our perspective, to get their thoughts and input, and to explore what kinds of support and policies would better support them and other adolescents and young women. For Indonesia our team has completed the initial interviews, which included 40 interviews with adolescent girls and young women in West Java and 39 interviews with adolescent girls and young women in Central Sulawesi. The field workshops are currently planned for sometime in August.

4. Remote Insights Gathering study on Family's Perspectives of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Our researchers have finished the final round of working with 'their' families as part of this longitudinal remote study. The last round focused on livelihoods and social assistance.

This remote qualitative study used a flexible mix of participatory remote research tools in order to gather insights on the COVID-19 situation in Indonesia from people’s perspectives over a six-month period. Study participants are some of the families that Empatika researchers have stayed with during previous research studies (currently over 40 families across 24 districts of Indonesia).

See our blog for more details!

See our 2019 year in review!