Asia Pacific External Representation Assistant 2017/2018 - Candidature Package

Hi, I’m Indira!

I’M CANDIDATING FOR ASIA PACIFIC EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION ASSISTANT 2017/2018

MOTIVATION LETTER Dear Asia Pacific Family, It is an honor and great pleasure for me to present my candidature for the position of Asia Pacific External Representation Assistant for the term 2017/2018.

As a medical student, I could not rely on just doing clinical work within cubicle space; I want to learn how an individual could make such great impact. I want to do more in global health scope, to prove that medical students have the capacity to work side by side with big organizations such as UN Agencies, international NGOs, and many more, which we already done it now, but it could be improved so much more. I believe that our beloved region also has that capacity to grow.

My name is Indira L Mulyowahyudi, a 23 years old medical student from Indonesia. I am currently on my 5th year at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I was highly involved in many external work within my NMO as the Liaison Officer to United Nations’ Agencies or formerly known as Liaison Officer to World Health Organization, thus allowed me to have a collaborative work with UN Agencies, especially WHO, UNAIDS, and UNICEF whom I closely worked with for the past year.

I also appointed as team working group by Melinda and Gates Foundation and John Hopkins University to construct Indonesia’s biggest youth gathering in March 2017 and got the chance to be the moderator of the panel discussion with the one and only, Mrs. Melinda Gates. In IFMSA, I also worked as the general member of United Nations Task Force and honored to be facilitators during Pre-GA March Meeting 2017 workshop under the SDGs theme.

I am highly passionate to work with new people, in this case external parties; presenting IFMSA and emphasize the value of our core activities which made them even more impressed with our work, therefore, many collaborative work in form of campaigns, projects, and side events can be established.

Looking back from what I have done within NMO, I really wanted to bring to the next level, and through IFMSA Asia Pacific, I want everyone within our region to get equal opportunities attending external meetings, to get learning framework from experts through workshops and webinars, and more external parties would recognize our region.

I am proud to say that I will always be passionate when it comes to what I love. I’m very excited to work to serve our beloved region, to maximize its potential and aid our members with meaningful youth participations. It would be an honor for me if I could get this position for the term 2017/2018. I have the willingness and motivation to change our region, to reinforce our strategy on its implementation, and to bring more opportunities to our region.

Thank you so much for reading this candidature plan! Should you have more questions, do not hesitate to reach me anytime!

Warmest regards, Indira

PLAN OF ACTION “Asia Pacific is a vast growing region but we haven’t fully maximize our potential when it comes to external representation.”

My main priority during this term is to ensure that everyone has the same opportunity to attend external meetings, to give learning platform understanding global health field and our region’s current health issues, and to strengthen our presence as a qualified medical student organization proven by many external partnership opportunities. Those can be done by the following plan of action I would like to uphold:

INITIATION •

Strategize Contact with external partners related to Standing Committees During my term as CIMSA Team of Officials, I have met numerous important representative from different stakeholder which one of them was Asia Pacific UN Offices’ representative. For example, UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office in Bangkok has been actively engaged to advocate and promote sexual and reproductive health rights among youth which this can be a promising partnership towards SCORA in Asia Pacific Region.

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Strategize MoU making with external partners along with RD and relevant IFMSA Team of Officials Seek for possible grants from NGOs/Foundation These grants can be utilized in form of workshop that will increase AP members’ capacity.

Taking the example from IPAS in South America which gives grant to create workshop about safe access to Abortion. This can be the example on how we seek for grants.

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Initiation of finding media partners which provide a room for medical student in Asia Pacific to submit any health-related issues in form of articles.

PARTNERSHIP •

Along with Standing Committee Regional Assistant, I would actively seek for joint campaign and projects with United Nations’ Agencies/NGOs/Students Organization.

Since IFMSA has its big days such as World AIDS Day, World Health Day, Antibiotic Awareness Week, World Refugee Day, and so on. I would like to discuss initiation of partnership that can be done between our regions with the external partners in the more concrete activities such as submission related articles to their website, create a webinar along with the representative of the external partners, and many more.

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Along with IFMSA Liaison Officer to World Health Organization and Asia Pacific Regional Director, I would strengthen our partnership with SEARO and WPRO WHO Office to discuss about internship opportunities within our region.

For the past year, there has been an opportunity to be an intern at regional office. Therefore, an audience with the WHO Representative is mandatory to ensure mutual understanding of the benefit of doing internship in regional offices. In addition, regional office will deal with issues that most AP NMO countries’ also dealing with, so it would be easier for our members to understand how the regional office work to monitor, give technical advice, and trainings for their country members’ health issues.

CAPACITY BUILDING AND NMO INVOLVEMENT •

Create a calendar of possible external meetings that will be disseminated to our members.

Along with the coordination with IFMSA Vice President for External Affairs, Liaison Officers, and United Nations Task Force, I would create external meeting calendar that will call for delegation, along with RD to select promising members and monitor online meeting and preparations. I also would like to create an NMO input form or online meeting to discuss further step for our region to create position papers to be read during the external forum.

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Facilitate NMOs who want to hold WHO Simulation Since WHO simulation is now enrolled into IFMSA Sub Regional Training, there are chances that NMO want to initiate their first WHO simulation which our LWHO has released a manual to conduct it within NMOs. Along with the LWHO and RD, I would monitor the theme, OC progress, and output of the simulation.

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Create webinar topics which is related to our current health issues within our region One of the topic that I want to focus on besides Sustainable Development Goals is global health.

Potential speakers mapping can be from SEARO/WPRO WHO Offices, IFMSA Alumni, or experts.

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Along with RD, coordinate Pre-APRM workshop which focuses more on NMO development in terms of engaging UN Offices/NGOs within their NMO

STRATEGY AND POLICY STATEMENTS •

Create small working group which aims to develop policy statements related to the issues that we want to represent and later to be adopted during GA I would monitor the progress of this SWG and give as many input as possible to ensure the content is representative of what we acknowledge within this region. I would also evaluate the implementation of this policy and measure its effectiveness.

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Facilitate NMOs to make their own national advocacy From my experience as general member of United Nations Task Force, having a statement regarding Sustainable Development Goals would give NMO the chance to be recognized by many external partners and even governments within their country. Therefore, along with the UN Task Force, I would give recommendation and advice on what are the most important things to initiate on developing national advocacy.

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INDIRA LAKSMITHA MULYOWAHYUDI CANDIDATING FOR ASIA PACIFIC EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION ASSISTANT 2017/18

PERSONAL INFO

POSITIONS HELD

DOB June 27th 1994 ADDRESS Jalan Pogung Raya 272 Sinduadi, Sleman 55284 Yogyakarta

UNITED NATIONS TASK FORCE, GENERAL MEMBER • IFMSA • 2016/2017 LIAISON OFFICER TO UNITED NATIONS AGENCY • CIMSA-ISMKI INDONESIA • 2016/2017 MARKETING, CAMPAIGN, AND ADVOCACY TEAM • CIMSA-ISMKI INDONESIA • 2015/2016 SCORA EXTERNAL TEAM • CIMSA-ISMKI INDONESIA • 2015/2016

EDUCATION Universitas Gadjah Mada (2013-2019) Doctor of Medicine Candidate Marengo Community High (2011 – 2012) High School Diploma/ Exchange Student Scholar SMA Negeri 1 Kota Serang (2009-2011) (2012 – 2013) High School Diploma

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION INDONESIAN YOUTH GATHERING ORGANIZED BY BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION, UNICEF, UNFPA, AND RUTGERS INDONESIA • 2017 • YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA YOUNG PEOPLE FOR SDGS CONSULTATION MEETING HOSTED BY UNICEF COUNTRY OFFICE INDONESIA • 2017 • JAKARTA, INDONESIA DEVELOPING VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEW FOR HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL FORUM 2017 WORKSHOP, HOSTED BY UNICEF COUNTRY OFFICE INDONESIA • 2017 • JAKARTA, INDONESIA WORLD AIDS DAY COLLABORATION MEETING HOSTED BY UNAIDS COUNTRY OFFICE INDONESIA • 2016 • JAKARTA, INDONESIA IFMSA DELEGATION TO XXI WORLD CONGRESS FIGO IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY • 2015 • VANCOUVER, CANADA

Bahasa Indonesia - Native English - Fluent Dutch - Beginner

INDIRA LAKSMITHA MULYOWAHYUDI

INDIRAMWAHYUDI@GMAIL.COM

+6281381363113

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MEETINGS a. b. c. d. e. f.

66th General Assembly March Meeting 2017 – Budva, Montenegro (Head of Delegation) Indonesian Youth Gathering 2017 (Facilitator and Moderator) Theme Event at CIMSA NGA – May Meeting (2017) Theme Event at CIMSA NGA – National Leadership Summit (2017) Head of Theme Event at CIMSA NGA – October Meeting (2016) CIMSA Team of Officials Meetings (2016 – 2017)

CAPACITY BUILDING PRE-GA WORKSHOP BUDVA, MONTENEGRO. TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD BY 2030: ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS • TRAINER • 2017 CIMSA NGA – NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT. EXPLORING THE TOPIC OF CIMSA PROGRAM • TRAINER • 2017 CIMSA NGA – NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT• TRAINER • 2017 SRT INDONESIA • TRAINEE • 2015 NATIONAL PEER EDUCATION WORKSHOP • TRAINEE • 2015

EXCHANGES GENERAL SURGERY EXCHANGE IN LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, LUND, SWEDEN • JULY – AUGUST 2016 AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE (AFS) SCHOLAR TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA • AUGUST 2011 – JULY 2012

OTHER EXPERIENCES Research Intern at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sardjito General Hospital (2016 – Present) Yogyakarta, Indonesia Organizer for Family Planning Workshop hosted by Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sardjito General Hospital and UNFPA Country Office of Indonesia (2016) Yogyakarta, Indonesia Trainee at Obstetrics Emergency Workshop of Clinical Updates Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada (2016) Yogyakarta, Indonesia

INDIRA LAKSMITHA MULYOWAHYUDI

INDIRAMWAHYUDI@GMAIL.COM

+6281381363113

MITHAYASMINE