Promoting Inclusion, Making Use of Advisory (PRIMA)

Project | April 8, 2026

People with disabilities in Indonesia are increasingly called upon to contribute to policy, program, and system reforms. These opportunities require practical advisory skills, confidence, and an enabling ecosystem. Building upon lessons from the Advisory Capacity development and Exchange (ACE), CBM Global’s Inclusion Advisory Group (IAG) is working to strengthen early to mid career individuals from Indonesia’s disability movement to take on advisory roles through Promoting Inclusion, Making Use of Advisory (PRIMA) project.  Through this foundational programme, PRIMA supports the growth of a locally led advisory cohort that can influence government, development, and humanitarian actors.  

PRIMA brings together a set of interconnected initiatives: 

1. Foundational and thematic training
2. Practical, on-the-job advisory experience
3. Growing the disability inclusion advisory network
4. Expanding engagement with national systems 

In October 2025, we conducted Indonesia’s first Disability Inclusion Facilitators Training. The first cohort includes fifteen OPD members, selected from more than 170 applicants, reflected a wide range of experience, regions, and disability identities—including participants from eastern Indonesia and climate-vulnerable areas. The five-day foundational workshop was facilitated by advisors with lived experience of disability and explored rights-based approaches, advisory essentials, inclusive communication, and practical skills for facilitation and engagement. 

For many participants, the training complemented their long-standing advocacy work by introducing advisory as an additional pathway for influence. 

“Advisory was a new concept for me, but after five days I understood it much better. CRPD is a powerful tool to make disability inclusion real. This training was not just about learning—it was about thinking, feeling, and putting it into action.” – Participant with psychosocial disability 

In 2026, the cohort progresses to the next stage, with supervised advisory placements that seek to deepen their skills and networks in thematic areas such as disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction and social protection.   

The advisory network will ideally grow into a platform for collective advisory learning, collaboration, and sharing of tools, resources and opportunities.  

If you would like to know more about our PRIMA project, and other plans to support the disability movement to influence through technical advice, please reach out to Ms Cucu Saidah. 

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