Planning and Paying for Local Action Plans to Prevent GBV
Background
As part of a decentralization process in 2014, 74,000 villages in Indonesia were granted the power to manage and develop their own plans and budgets based on local needs and priorities. In Papua province, this pilot project has been working to establish gender-based violence (GBV), which was previously treated as a private matter, as a priority for village planning and budgeting. The Planning and Paying for Local Action Plans to Address GBV Project began in Jayapura District in late 2018 with two pilot projects in two villages in Nimbongkrang sub-district, namely Nimbongkrangsari and Bunyom, and then replicated in Wahab and Hamograng.
As part of this work, the project created village think tanks, community-based multi-sectoral mechanisms that provide women with a forum to strengthen their leadership skills and develop a common platform, a Local Action Plan to End GBV. Previously women were not meaningfully engaged in public decision making and leaders were very reluctant to discuss GBV, but through the pilot project women are participating not only in village planning and budgeting, but also COVID-19 response efforts. One of the village think tanks also received IDR 5 million from its village fund to implement a GBV local action plan, including an initiative that promotes women’s empowerment and establishes a support group for survivors of violence. The approach will be replicated by 139 villages in Jayapura District, impacting 134,153 people (63,947 females and 70,206 males).
Knowledge Products:
- UNDP Blog: “Dear Tree, thank you” – A survivor’s tale to end Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Indonesia’s Papua
- UNDP Blog: UNDP launches anti-gender violence initiative in Indonesia’s Papua province