Project overview

There are still very few IW leaders who had access to decision making spaces in the Philippines. This is a gap that must be solved: opening spaces for more women to participate but also equipping more IW to take those spaces. This project would like to address these gaps and offer a program that can build their capacity and at the same time support interventions that can provide an opening from LGUs and IP political leaders to IW as part of the decision making. Capacitating indigenous women in feminist transformative leadership and good governance can empower them to better assert their rights in the decision-making spaces and processes across indigenous political structures and local governments. The project will entail working hand in hand with the council of elders, tribal leaders, LGU officials to ensure that the indigenous women are consulted and heard, that democratic and participatory spaces are strengthen so that policy and other interventions addresses their needs, interests and priorities, and that they are able to participate in making of decisions that affect their lives.

OBJECTIVES

General Objective: Indigenous women in communities have access to gender responsible policies and/or programs and services brought about by IW leaders.

Specific Objective: Increased the number of indigenous women participating in decision making processes in both the indigenous political structure and local government in the targeted areas.

OUTPUTS

• Indigenous women capacitated on leadership and governance skills as key actors in the decision-making processes.
• Indigenous women are capacitates to assert their rights in different political spaces and structures (local government and tribal).
• Indigenous women are able to influence political spaces towards gender transformative, rights-based and culturally sensitive policies.

COUNTERPART

Sulong Peace Inc. (SPI) is a nonstock and nonprofit organization who has been working in the promotion of human rights, international humanitarian law, governance, gender and development in the context of the promotion of peace in the Philippines. It has 147 network partners nationwide, 30% of which are indigenous communities/organizations.