RING FOR CHANGE

Channelling women’s voices to be heard by

media and decision makers via mobile phones

ALOYSIUS SURATIN

DEPUTY COUNTRY DIRECTOR-OXFAM

Indonesia has

development planning

mechanism, known as

MUSRENBANG, which

requires inputs from the

community levels.

WOMEN SUB-VILLAGE VILLAGE SUB-DISTRICT DISTRICT

COMMON WAY TO ANALYSE THE PROBLEM

ANOTHER WAY

Bureaucracy seems

difficult to implement the

MUSRENBANG to

accommodate community

voices, especially the one

from women.

Limitations of

development

planner

Journalists has limited

capacity to highlight

issues facing by village

women

Court, political party’s

office, government offices,

religious leaders,

parliament office, internet

• Common solution offering by government and civil-society to this problem are inadequate to address the problem comprehensively.

INFLUENCE VILLAGE LEADERS CAPACITY BUILDING

RAISE WOMEN AWARENESS

WOMEN CONFIDENCE

INFLUENCE POLICY

MULTI-STAKEHOLDERS WORKSHOP

CREATE NEW POLICY

CHANGING TRADITION

WOMEN PRIORITIES

TO BE SELECTED AS

ONE OF THE

VILLAGE PRIORITIES

WOMEN PRIORITIES

TO BE SELECTED AS

ONE OF THE

DISTRICT PRIORITIES

X 50% 14%

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

REDUCE BUREAUCRACY

CREATE UNDOMINATED VIRTUAL SPACE

…

JOURNALIST

INFORMAL LEADERS

BAPPEDA

VILLAGE OFFICIALS

VILLAGE COUNCIL

WOMEN

ASMARA DIGITAL

LOCAL GOVERNM

ENT

LAUNCHING OF ASMARA DIGITAL

results Road and

school building

We need seeds and fertilizers

Health services

We need clean water

Village fund for women

Hand-tractor

Capital for cooperative

and salt production

LEARNING 1

• In 1 hour, 92 messages from women received by the District Chief Secretary by using ASMARA DIGITAL

92 in 1

LEARNING 2

• See more at: http://www.oxfamblogs.org/asia/asmara-digital-creating-spaces-for-womens-voices/#sthash.MTWV7XH5.dpuf

GENRELIA NDOKI, RAKNAMO VILLAGE

I walked 2-3 kilometres to meet other women to attend the meeting. By having this, I just called them…”

LEARNING 3

• See more at: http://www.oxfamblogs.org/asia/asmara-digital-creating-spaces-for-womens-voices/#sthash.MTWV7XH5.dpuf

HENDRIK FAUT, KUPANG DISTRICT SECRETARY

I will respond to all the 92 messages. Not only respond but follow it up. We will use inputs from this process to compare them to the aspirations collected by local parliamentarians

Facilitating interaction

among community

members from one village

to another

What topics were discussed

among the network members

on January 2013

Pupuk is fertilizers

What topics were discussed

among the network members

on August 2013

Perempuan is women

What topics were discussed

among the network members

on September 2013

Pupuk is fertilizers

My mother is disappeared

road in Olio broken

No fertilizers

Strong wind affect crops

Suggest organic fertilizers Fertilizers price

in TTS

Concern on corn production

Inform shops that sell fertilizers

We want produce Urea

Promote their organic fertilizers

Grasshoppers attacks crops

Bokashi

ADD for fertilizers

How to influence PLN

Women initiative in tanah merah

Rice field flooded

LEARNING 3

• Fertilizers became the concern for the network members, following by flood, strong-winds; and grasshoppers attacks

Dislaimer: By showing this chemical fertilizer brand does not mean Oxfam supports the

use of chemical fertilizer in farming. Oxfam is always supporting the sustainable practice

in farming and natural resources management.

LEARNING 4

• Network has high potential to distribute environmentally-practices in farming techniques

LEARNING 5

• There is a high potential for the network to be developed as the EWS tools, campaign, public service advocacy, promoting access to market, and research

Strong wind affect crops

Grasshoppers attacks crops

Rice field flooded

road in Olio broken

How to influence PLN Promote their

organic fertilizers

Suggest organic fertilizers

Promote their organic fertilizers

Bokashi

ADD for fertilizers

THANK YOU