Outcome IDN_D_4.2

People living in Indonesia, especially those at risk of being left furthest behind, are empowered to fulfil their human development potential as members of a pluralistic, tolerant, inclusive, and just society, free of gender and all other forms of discrimination

A total of 4,295 (3,435 F, 860 M) Indonesians at risk of being left furthest behind due to risks of disaster, social conflict, and threats of violent extremism have enhanced leadership capacity, agency, and opportunities to exercise their rights to participate in community decision making. Having increased awareness of human rights, gender equality, and inclusion values, strengthened through facilitated training and campaigns at national and local levels, has contributed to greater social and political engagement among women and youth. This positive change has particularly evident in the last year process of village development planning and budgeting in 39 villages where UN Women’s Women Peace and Security (WPS) and Humanitarian-Peace nexus projects are implemented. Empowered women for sustainable peace have been demonstrated through several initiatives in which highly motivated women, given support and opportunities, have implemented innovative solutions to address social challenges in their community. For example, a woman champion in Bima took the initiative to prevent social conflict by creating a peace narrative video that went viral, sparking widespread discussion on the importance of peace within her community. Resources made available through KOICA-funded WE NEXUS Project and the government of Netherlands funded project have enabled interventions and technical support provided to village communities, women, youth, and government officials at national levels to village levels. Interventions, such as capacity building for villages to be able to develop its own are designed in ways that contribute to increased resilience, at individual levels, especially targeting women and young people, and institutional level to ensure government policies and programmes are enabling vulnerable groups and their communities to withstand disasters and other shocks. The link for NL-funded project PMF tracker is here: 5. NL Project_Outcome & Output_Indicator Tracking.xlsx , and WE NEXUS reflection on 2024's achievement is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FBy_3v3ezkgieWsUhiIE878W-UKStf72/edit#slide=id.p5

People living in Indonesia, especially those at risk of being left furthest behind, are empowered to fulfil their human development potential as members of a pluralistic, tolerant, inclusive, and just society, free of gender and all other forms of discrimination

In 2021, UN Women collaborated with both Wahid Foundation and AMAN Indonesia to implement two types of initiatives to promote peaceful communities and women's participation in community leadership. First, i n 2021 Wahid Foundation and UN Women collaborated again to proceed with the WISE phase III program. The program, later called WISE Pro, targets the institutionalization of Peace Villages, which have been in process in the previous WISE program. Therefore, in this context, the project focuses on strengthening and expanding this initiative to promote gender justice and the role of women in peaceful societies. WISE Pro aimed to improve and utilize a mutual reinforcing result with the previous Peace Village programs. This program takes a more substantial commitment to values that undermine the message of violent extremism and some activities under Indonesia SN-AWP 2020. On the one hand, this project aims to strengthen the grassroots women's movement in promoting gender justice that is affected negatively by COVID-19. This project was implemented in the existing 10 Peace Villages and six other additional villages. In the current 10 Peace Villages, the project consolidated, sustained, and deepened the prevention and response mechanisms to advance gender equality and maintain peace in the communities. To develop the Peace Village action plan, Wahid Foundation established support from the Ministry of Village, the provincial and local governments, and key stakeholders at the local level, including village heads, local religious leaders, and faith-based organizations. At the community level, WF and Justice Working Groups (Pokja) from the existing 10 Peace Villages established mentoring and technical assistance to implement a Peace Village plan for the six new villages. The six additional villages are the villages that the Wahid Foundation assisted in 2017 - 2018 in the WISE I program, but they have not yet been declared as Peace Villages. This project continued in 2022 with the more robust engagement of leadership, women's groups, and Government. In the second portion of the project, UN Women partnered with AMAN Indonesia to support the localization and implementation of the National Action Plan on Privation of Violent Extremism (NAP on PVE) and the National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security (NAP on WPS). Since the engagement, AMAN has coordinated with the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, Ministry on Home Affairs, appropriate provincial governance structure. The project engaged these partners to support gender-sensitive interventions to implement and domesticate the NAPs on PVE at the national and regional levels . Also, in collaboration with WGWC's partners, AMAN Indonesia is strengthening a civic space in implementing PVE NAP, ensuring gender mainstreaming in PVE related policy and intervention. However, d ue to delays in engagement with government offices and the multiple COVID-19 l ockdowns, some planned activities will continue in 2022. Moreover, in 2021, UN Women and Wahid Foundation implemented activities leading to better coordination between the formal and informal justice provided in the Peace Villages. The A2J project focused on straightening community-based justice actors' capacity (Justice Working Groups- Pokjas) and supporting the development of community-based guidelines on women's access to justice. Wahid Foundation designed two training modules with different sections contextualized based on the target audience's needs in collaboration with the UN Women and target communities. The first module targets village apparatus and official covers the prevention of Violent Extremism, gender equality, and justice. And the second module outlines international women's human rights standards and Indonesia's legislative framework on women's rights, used to train Pokja members, community leaders, and women's groups. In addition, this training was delivered in collaboration with law enforcement agencies and other service providers in the community, with over 100 participates across the three regions of Java Island. For future use, the training materials have been converted into an e-module to be accessed and used by the community as needed. Furthermore, to bridge the formal and informal service gap, this project developed two types of community-based guidelines. A Guide of Community-Based Approaches and Protection Mechanisms for Women and Children in Accessing Justice (Formal and Informal) and Guidelin e Community-Based Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism. Both these guidelines were developed with the community's participation and feedback. The local governing structure has also adopted these guidelines, enabling it to function within the communities. In addition to capacity building the community justice providers, this project developed the tools to guide M&E and put together a much-needed coordination mechanism between justices’ providers at the community level.

People living in Indonesia, especially those at risk of being left furthest behind, are empowered to fulfil their human development potential as members of a pluralistic, tolerant, inclusive, and just society, free of gender and all other forms of discrimination

Implementation of Women Access to Justice (WA2J) program in Indonesia has achieved great strides of achievement during project period, including efforts to bridge informal to formal justice systems that facilitates increased women’s’ access to justice. Among significant changes that the project had impacted women empowerment and cultural shifts that challenge predominant norms of men and women power relations in several project locations. These changes have evidently led to increased access to justice for women and children. While the project has successfully created functional quasi-institution to put forward, it could consider moving towards building or creating linkages with strong institution and financial support to ensure sustainability of impact. UN Women collaborated with Wahid Foundation in building peace through the Women Participation for Inclusive Society (WISE) – GUYUB program (Phase II) with targets in 3 provinces including West Java (Bogor and Depok), Central Java (Solo Raya) and East Java (Malang Raya and Sumenep). UN Women provided technical assistance in introducing the Human Security Approach and technical support on communication and media.

People living in Indonesia, especially those at risk of being left furthest behind, are empowered to fulfil their human development potential as members of a pluralistic, tolerant, inclusive, and just society, free of gender and all other forms of discrimination

In 2025, Indonesia’s National Action Plans on the Protection and Empowerment of Women in Social Conflict (NAP-WPS) 2025–2029 and on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (NAP-PCVE) 2025–2029 were strengthened in their gender responsiveness with technical support from UN Women. This support institutionalized civil society engagement, particularly women-led and rights-based organizations, through Thematic Working Groups and the National Partnership Forum, advancing a localized, whole-of-society approach and formally recognizing women’s leadership in peace and prevention. As a result, civil society participation expanded to 36 organizations across 17 provinces, and a national hybrid consultation with over 100 CSO representatives generated concrete recommendations to strengthen coordination, transparency, and gender-responsive monitoring. These inputs were informed by the UN Women-supported evaluation of NAP-PCVE 2020–2024, ensuring lessons learned and community experience were integrated into the new NAPs. The strengthened frameworks improved accountability and responsiveness to gendered risks at national and subnational levels, with the new NAP-PCVE explicitly recognizing the distinct roles and vulnerabilities of women, men, girls, and boys. At the community level, women-led early warning and prevention mechanisms were embedded in local governance, increasing women’s participation in decision-making on safety, planning, and crisis response. Collectively, these advances have strengthened women’s voice, protection, and access to services, contributing to more inclusive and resilient communities.

People living in Indonesia, especially those at risk of being left furthest behind, are empowered to fulfil their human development potential as members of a pluralistic, tolerant, inclusive, and just society, free of gender and all other forms of discrimination

Togetherness among local communities in the villages is improved. The living environment has become more harmonious. Women and youth are now being involved in the open dialogues between the locals, particularly to discuss the community insecurity in the villages, which has shown that the living environment in th evillages is more democratic. These resulted in decreasing political insecurity between the locals. Through Peace Village Project, local communities in Central Java, West Java, East Java, and South Borneo have raised their awareness and increased their knowledge of social cohesion, pluralism, tolerance, and inclusiveness. Village Action Plans have been designed in 20 Peace Villages through GUYUB Project, showing the empowerment of the local communities to improve their human development encompassing gender equality, women's empowerment, and human rights values. This awareness raising, which include capacity building through 'know your rights' trainings, and trainings including on PVE, social cohesion, GBV, and most importantly on misinformation and disinformation. This awareness raising also allows the community, and specially women to use that knowledge to contribute to community development and alleviate the issues social conflict. In the peace villages, this also works to encourage active citizenship to engage in provided effective protection/services for women victims of VAW.