In December 2012 staff members from UNICEF Supply Division conducted a mission in Banda Aceh, Indonesia with the goal of learning about school furniture and gather further information for the project.
As part of the post-tsunami rehabilitation programme in Indonesia, UNICEF provided temporary school tents, transitional schools, and rebuilt permanent schools to replace destroyed and heavily damaged school buildings within the Aceh region.
All transitional and permanent schools were entirely equipped with classroom furniture including: chairs, desks, blackboards, cupboards etc. It was a large scale procurement and logistic effort which took place between the years of 2005 and 2010.
The main purpose of this mission was to gather and record experiences, results and lessons learned under the post-tsunami furniture intervention. Now that the school furniture had been in continuous use for the past 2-3 years, it was a perfect opportunity for us to visit schools in urban and rural settings. We then were able to conduct a post-occupancy assessment of the quality and appropriateness of the furniture, by observing its flexibility and durability in use.
The complete travel report including classroom furniture evaluation can be found under Resources in the main menu.
