Gender Mainstreaming is known as a systematic development strategy to integrate the needs and interests of women and men in development planning and policy. The Indonesian Government also recognized the importance of integrating a gender perspective in development planning, however the concept of gender mainstreaming and the means to implement this strategy are not yet widely known.

As a women’s organization, WRI has an interest in strengthening the capacity of the executive, legislative and civil society in the matter of understanding gender sensitivity, gender analysis in issues of poverty reduction as well as the means to apply gender mainstreaming strategies to government and non-government organizations. In the context of capacity building for local stakeholders, WRI also facilitates monitoring and evaluation of gender mainstreaming programs, gender budgeting as well as poverty for national and international institutions.

Objectives

• To enhance the awareness and critical understanding of gender relationships that have to be formulated in policies at the local level that are based on the interests of marginal groups, especially women, in the context of regional autonomy.
• To enhance the advocacy capability of multistakeholders on participatory planning systems and gender budget allocations.
• To strengthen the capacity of women’s organizations at the local level through training, discussions and workshops to be able to give voice to their own needs and interests.
• To enhance the capacity of the executive and legislature at the local level through skills formation in order to be able to implement a participatory planning system by inputting the voice and interests of women to produce a budget allocation process that enhances the quality of life of the community, including women.
• To develop study groups and a study center to formulate a good governance system by promoting participatory planning systems and the implementation of gender budgeting in the context of strengthening local governance.