The Indonesian Higher Education sector is facing significant change as it moves from a phase of expansion with increased access to higher education, to one where the focus is on enhancing the quality of that education. The reform and restructuring of the higher education (HE) system in Indonesia needed to deliver on these objectives is being slowed by a lack of leadership and management capacity in the HE sector. Universities in Indonesia need to build the capacity of their leaders for governance, strategic planning and management in order to deliver these reforms. The project addresses the need for development for university leaders and managers in Indonesia through the creation and implementation of a structured leadership and management development network (LMDN) and an associated programme (LMDP). When creating the network and programme for higher education institutions in Indonesia, it will create the constitution and operating procedures for the network; structures and materials to support the programme; and identify and equip dedicated facilitates where the development activities will take place. Learning will take place through networking meetings, lectures from visiting speakers, action learning sets, national management research projects, and exercises to strengthen professional networks. The project will ensure staff training workshops are developed and executed for the Indonesian university staff responsible for implementing the new network and programme. During the life of the project, 500 Indonesian leaders and managers will engage with the LMDN, and 208 will be developed through the LMDP with a demonstrable impact on their capacity to operate the governance, strategic plans and management of HEIs. In the year following the project, it is expected that a minimum of 192 additional leaders will benefit from taking the LMDP and that at least 14 additional Indonesian universities will have adopted it, enhancing the capacity for reform nationally.

BUiLD stands for “Building Universities in Leading Disaster Resilience”.Opportunities for HEIs to promote disaster resilience are multi-layered and range from awareness raising within individuals, curriculum development, building institutional disaster resilience and contributing to community resilience to supporting regional, national and international disaster resilience strategies. Comprehensive endeavours within HEIs to build disaster resilience must be strategic as well as operationally and academically embedded, and must be built on a proactive engagement with external stakeholder groups The BUiLD project is designed to contribute to the modernisation of HEI governance across Indonesia, the improvement of the management and functioning of HEIs, the strengthening of relations between HEIs and the wider social and economic environment, as well as curriculum development. It does so through the creation of a comprehensive disaster resilience framework for HEIs in Indonesia with six associated primary outputs, which areBUiLD Best Practice Model for HEI GovernanceBUiLD Disaster Response and Recovery BlueprintBUiLD Curriculum Benchmarks for Disaster ManagementBUiLD Disaster Awareness Campaign and Training MethodologyBUiLD Disaster Resilience Centres of ExcellenceBUiLD Disaster Resilience NetworkThe project will create a Centre of Excellence in Disaster Resilience in each participating Indonesian HEI. These centres will oversee the implementation of a comprehensive Disaster Resilience Framework within the respective HEIs. This framework integrates resilience capacity building at multiple levels of HEIs, including the individual, programme, institutional and network level. It addresses several aspect of resilience capacity building, including HEI governance, disaster response and recovery capability, disaster awareness education, curriculum development, internal and external information exchange and knowledge transfer. Through this, the project aims to inc