Good practices for Social inclusion - Case studies and summary

esearch and participatory pre-planning and design (special interest of
Denpasar city).
Enhancing gender equity in-house
Although the ISSDP programme management understood gender as a concept and
practiced gender and gender equity informally, it was agreed that improvements were
possible. These comprise:
- Formulating an explicit in-house policy for gender equity;
- Always reporting programme statistics separated by sex and nationality;
- Maintain a rolling overview table on project staff and city participants in
training and sector events by sex, expertise (technical/social) and level
(lower/middle/upper);
- Include gender and poverty aspects in city sanitation whitebooks and
plans;
- Meet the demand for gender training in the sanitasi pokjas (= sanitation
committees) and from the local governments;
- Present gender equity and pro-poor approaches and results to the outer
world;
- Help the cities showcase cases in the media, at sanitation events and on the
web;
- Integrate capacity building on gender attitudes, knowledge and skills in the
city human resource development strategies and plans.
Conclusions
Social Inclusion
Over a third of all poor people in Indonesia live in cities, a share likely to grow when
in 2025 the urban population may count 167 million people. Urban sanitation greatly
lags behind other urban infrastructure services and is worst for the poor. To improve
access to urban sanitation ISSPD launched a combination of national level advocacy
campaigns and city-level strategies and action plans.
ISSDP found that in some places socially inclusive approaches were already in
practice. However, in other cases social inclusion was hampered by the following
practices:
- Data and data analysis are not disaggregated for sex and economic class and
consequently there was no clear picture of the kinds of roles that men and
women in the lower and lowest income sections already play in urban
sanitation and the social and economic value of these roles. Consequently, city
sanitation and hygiene strategies were not gender sensitive or specific.
- Equating of gender equity approaches with ‗project for women‘ by local
government officials rather than involving both sexes in a more equitably in
programmes e.g. more – and especially poor – women in local planning,
decision-making.
- Limited recognition on how a gender equity focus could strengthen urban
poverty reduction.
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