Preliminary Gender Assessment and Action Plan

The report analyzes gender inequalities in Indonesia across education, health, politics, and labor, specifically examining how these dynamics affect forest management and REDD+ initiatives. It finds that while legal frameworks for gender equality exist, women remain underrepresented in forest-related decision-making and face barriers to land and financial resources. The document recommends implementing a Gender Action Plan, hiring gender consultants, and ensuring the collection of sex-disaggregated data to improve the inclusivity of REDD+ implementation.

• Indonesia exhibits significant gender inequality across multiple indices: it ranked 104 out of 160 countries in the 2017 Gender Inequality Index (GII) with a value of 0.453, and the 2019 Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) value of 0.401 suggests that "discrimination against women is high".
• Women face systemic barriers in political participation and decision-making; despite Law No. 10/2008 requiring a minimum of 30 percent women candidates for political parties, the 30 percent quota for women representatives in parliament has not been reached in national or regional parliaments.
• Gender gaps persist in the labor market and earnings; in 2010, 79.6 percent of working-age men were employed compared to 45.1 percent of women, and women's average wages were generally lower, with those without schooling earning only 56.9 percent of what men earned.
• Women have limited access to land and financial resources due to cultural practices and legal barriers; for example, only 36.2% of married women aged 15 to 49 own land individually or jointly, compared to 54.1% of men, and marital property is rarely registered in joint names.
• In the forestry sector, women are heavily involved in subsistence activities like collecting firewood and harvesting non-timber forest products but are largely excluded from decision-making and leadership in forest farmer groups, which are typically headed by men.
• Previous REDD+ readiness efforts in Indonesia showed a lack of gender integration; design consultations often left out gender elements, and only 12 percent of participants in the National REDD+ Strategy (STRANAS) public consultation meetings were women.
• The official REDD+ safeguards system, SIS-REDD+, currently lacks gender-specific references in its principles, criteria, indicators, or the Safeguards Implementation Assessment Tool (APPS).

APA

Green Climate Fund (2020). Preliminary Gender Assessment and Action Plan. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp130-gender-assessment.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Preliminary Gender Assessment and Action Plan. 2020. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp130-gender-assessment.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2020preliminary, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Preliminary Gender Assessment and Action Plan}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2020}, month = sep, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp130-gender-assessment.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }