"Bridging Leadership is a type of leadership suitable in multi-stakeholder promotion to handle the social injustice issue," Head of BKKBN Hasto Wardoyo noted through a statement on Saturday.
"This is about leading collaborative action to realize social change which, in this context, means the family planning issue, including stunting," he stated.
The hybrid event is held on October 13-14, 2022, in the eight regions of West Aceh, Lahat, Malang, Jember, Brebes, Serang, East Lombok, and Garut.
Bridging Leadership itself has three stages. The first stage is called ownership stage that embraces a person's responsibility over social issues, including understanding and accepting their role in the problem.
Through an understanding of the problem's complexity, participants can become leaders capable of involving stakeholders in a relevant manner in finding solutions, he explained.
Bridging Leadership's second stage involves co-ownership wherein participants will always conduct dialogue with the people to be able to align differences in belief, value, perspective, and insight toward problems.
The expected results come in the form of common vision and collective action between leaders and the people.
"In the second stage, they should be able to disseminate information on innovation to become a collaborative innovation by sharing it with stakeholders and should be able to implement it and ensure its continuity," Wardoyo remarked.
Meanwhile, Bridging Leadership's third stage concerns co-creation. In this stage, participants should learn about harmonization involving all stakeholders effectively, so that they can implement collaborative innovation.
If all parties already fulfilled their respective duties and it impacts the people, then collaborative innovation would change to social innovation, he noted.
The event is a follow up from the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed within the South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) framework.
It states that the two countries are committed to exchanging experiences in family planning and reproductive health education.
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"I expect that training participants can remove negative attitudes they have to become a better professional," Wardoyo remarked.
Family, Women, Child, Youth, and Sport Director at the National Development Planning Ministry Woro Srihatuti Sulistyaningrum expects that the activity can improve the leaders' capability in developing and implementing various program activities.
She expects that participants can formulate solutions and lead evaluation to measure effectiveness and relevancy in program achievement.
This includes integration between budget planning and model in expediting the reduction of maternal mortality rate and improving regional leaders' commitment in planning and budgeting to support the Mid-Term National Development Program (RPJMN) target achievement.
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Translator: Hreeloita D S, Fadhli Ruhman
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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