TRANSFORMATIONAL
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
PROJECT IN INDONESIA
Search for Common Ground Indonesia
(September 2011)
The GOAL:
To empower elite and emerging
women politicians in Indonesia
as agents of social change
OBJECTIVES:
1. Newly elected women legislators are better
equipped with leadership skills and advanced
knowledge of issues affecting women to help
them govern
2. Trainers/facilitators from local women’s
organizations continue in their role as agents of
reform and social change providing state-of-art
leadership training to women at both the
community and national levels
3. Aspiring and elected/appointed female
politicians are empowered as decision-makers
and leaders
4. The population’s awareness of women’s role as
agents of social change through civic and
political participation, representation and
gender justice is increased
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE:

1.
2.
3.
4.
National & provincial training workshop:
West Java workshop first event which gathered
parliamentarians from municipality and
national level in cross political party spaces.
Skill levels of parliamentarians increased based
on pre/post-test results
Topic of conflict management was very useful
for parliamentarians at local level - helps with
their tasks as parliamentarians; and to
maintain relationships with voters.
Most parliamentarians do not have media skills,
public speaking skills, or drafting legislation SFCG training addressed these areas.
PARTICIPANT’S TESTIMONIAL:
“The workshop is really needed for the parliamentarian
member, because I think there are many practical
things that we did not receive when we entered this
system. From this workshop we can optimize or improve
the effectiveness of women leadership in the
Parliament.” – Parliamentarian Theresia Pardede
“Through this workshop, I learned how leadership
should be and the true functions of members of
parliament, as community representatives. Over the
past three days, we tried to map areas that we should
focus on finding solutions on, and as leaders we must
make decisions, with the mindset that we are truthful
leaders who work for aspirations that are in favour of
the people. My hope for the future is on how to motivate
other colleagues to participate in this kind of
workshop.” – Parliamentarian Sumintarsih
Muntoro
CHALLENGES:
Programme level:
1.
Absence of prior needs assessment with women parliamentarians
2.
Some difficulty working with a partner organisation implementing the
training – not aligned on vision and activities
3.
Parliamentarians have limited time and very busy, it was hard to arrange
schedules
4.
There are plenty of male politicians who do not support women
5.
Linkage between elements of the project were not maximised (training,
media, NGO capacity building)
6.
Communication with donor only with quaterly report
M&E
1.
ToC and associated assumptions led to partial approach to addressing the
problem
2.
Elaborate M&E Plan devised at outset, but has not been followed due to
limitations of budget – baseline not conducted as planned and some ongoing
monitoring data not being collected due to tensions with one partner
organisation
3.
Too many indicators of dubious value were included in the log frame
4.
No approach built in to capture evidenced changes as they occurred (other
than through quarterly reporting to donors)
THE END