GenCap Highlights - IndonesiaPresentation - Inter Agency Standing Committee

Linda PennellsIASC GenCap Gender AdvisorOffice of the UN Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator – OCHAAssignment: 06.08.08 – 06.01.09Presentation Date: 21.01.09

Indonesia – The Context

Ring of Fire: earthquake centre - 129 active volcanoes

Annual flashfloods, mudslides, droughts

Highest # human deaths – bird flu Pockets of insurgency UN-GoI partnership in DRR &

emergency response

Strategy

Support: Clusters / UNCT –contingency plans, rapid needs assessment (RNA)

Engage: build credibility via evidence-based field findings

Aceh tsunami – insights on each sectorYogyakarta/Central Java earthquake – shelter Papua – community engagement dynamics

Advocate/build capacity: use findings to anchor training, facilitation, presentation

Keep door open: be there

Major Outcomes

More gender-responsive cluster response: CP, RNA, shelter ‘demonstrator’, OCHA checklist

Gender Theme Group operating at a more strategic level: Gender Strategy for Inter-Agency Collaboration, Aceh Gender Joint Programme

Increased collaboration with donors on gender agenda: donor request training & UN GE ‘value added’

Need registers for SEA Network

Major Outcomes

More gender-responsive cluster response: CP, RNA, shelter ‘demonstrator’, OCHA checklist

Gender Theme Group operating at a more strategic level: Gender Strategy for Inter-Agency Collaboration, Aceh Gender Joint Programme

Increased collaboration with donors on gender agenda: donor request training & UN GE ‘value added’

Need registers for SEA Network

Enabling Factors

Champions – Head of OCHA, Head of UNFPA, RC and teams

Working in collaboration – gender focal points, partners (IFRC)

Packaging: cluster-specific findings & briefings

Linking humanitarian action to development

Plugging in donors & implementers

Cameo Moments

Gender Theme Group bonds and ‘comes back for more’

RC/HC facilitates gender session with Gender Theme Group

Head of OCHA creates GM facilitation art

Challenges

Lack of GE mechanisms for inter-agency work

Preparedness/CP dilemma: ‘no-crisis’ complacency

Gender Theme Group: no PAF – no legitimacy

Fragmentation between emergency-recovery-development frustrates GE

STRATEGY

SEA

Joint Programmes

Other ‘One UN’ Initiatives

IASC Clusters

Recommendations / Insights

Socialize the Cluster Approach Strengthen IASC TOR - GE Agree multi-cluster key

performance indicators & gender analysis

Ensure gender competency is strategically located

Recommendations / Insights

Require HQ of each cluster lead agency to commit to ensuring senior gender TA is on site for the 3-month emergency period

Get R&R mechanisms right – GE Do econometrics study of data sex

disaggregation