Project Stories

Project: Women Resilience and Palm Oil Plantation.

This project is supported by Resilience Fund and GI TOC.

Location : Riau Province, Indonesia.

Project is to capture the resilience of the women who are living nearby the palm oil plantation, their challenges and resilience. Project runs from January 2021 -December 2022.

The output is the documentation of the life of the women and enhance the knowledge and skills of women

Project: Strengthening Women Fisherfolk in times of Pandemic COVID 19 and Climate Changes.

This project is supported by AGS -Australia from 2021-2022.

The location is in Cirebon.

Program summary: the Women Fisherfolk have been the most disadvantaged because of the pandemic and in times of climate change.They have dual roles and still facing patriachal culture and also in poor condition.

This project is to provide them with the skills to proceed sea products and market it towards market app. The output is to increase the wellbeing of women fisherfolk .

Project : Mainstreaming Gender in the Legislation (2018) and Attending GPDRRR (Global Platform for Disaster Risky Reduction) in Bali , May 2022

Since 2016, WWG has conducted some activities as follows:

*  advocacy on anti sexual harassment

*   Empowerment of women in agriculture and small and medium enterprises

•Expertise on legislation sensitive to gender

•Capacity building on social and cultural rights of indigenous peoples particularly to women and youth