The Program Nasional PemberdayaanMasyarakat (PNPM) or National Community Empowerment Programis the world’s largest program of its kind with long termgoals to reduce poverty by making development planning moreinclusive, accountable, and reflective of local needs. PNPMcurrently covers about 70,000 rural and urban communitiesacross Indonesia. PNPM works by giving communities blockgrants to spend on projects developed through aparticipatory, bottom-up planning process, facilitated bysocial and technical specialists who provide advice tocommunities without controlling funds. PNPM is supported bya multi-donor trust fund called the PNPM Support Facility(PSF). Part of PSF’s role is to provide more effectivestrategic support to the government’s objectives, especiallyby improving the effectiveness of PNPM’s gender action plan.Increasing women’s voice in community planning anddecision-making has been an explicit goal of PNPM since itsfounding, and since 2007 PNPM Rural has had an overarchinggender action plan to guide actions to involve women in allprocedures. A maximum of 25 per cent of all PNPM funds arereserved to support proposals from village women’s groupsfor RLF groups referred to in this report as SPP. Women playincreasingly central roles in PNPM’s kecamatan and villageadministration. The PSF engaged a gender specialist withexpertise in working in challenging rural contexts to reviewthe system and provide a short critical report and practicalrecommendation on gender sensitive approaches in the overallimplementation of PNPM Rural. A PSF operational analyst within depth knowledge of PNPM accompanied the specialist to thefield. Objectives and outputs are laid out in full indescribed in Appendix 6. The report below lays out thefindings and recommendations of the mission.
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