Violence is preventable
UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV
regional joint programme for the prevention of violence against women and girls in Asia and the Pacific
Social movement research and national consultation meeting of the New Men's Alliance
The 2 day National Consultation Meeting: “Strengthening dialogues toward a more concrete participation of men/boys in gender equality”, organized by The New Men’s Alliance, was divided into a one-day interaction with 80-100 representatives of the women's movement of Indonesia and the second day was a strategy development meeting of the New Men's Alliance members plus some close allies.
During the first day interaction it became clear that the women's movement is nowadays more open to men's involvement to gender equality and VAW prevention under the condition that the New Men's Alliance clarifies its standpoint more concretely and aligns with the feminist principles (which it already does). This was received as a breakthrough development by the New Men's Alliance in their endeavour to be part of the women's movement and fight for the same goals together.
The next day was a strategy development meeting on how to integrate the feedback from the national consultation meeting and how to continue with the alliance.
The sessions were audio-recorded and will be transcribed and translated into English for the social movement research.
The national UN Volunteer, supported by P4P and working with UN Women Aceh was present too, and it was a good opportunity for a face-to-face introduction. One of the discussed tasks of the volunteer is the documentation of volunteering contributions towards GBV/VAW prevention. Furthermore, he informed about his involvement in a documentation exercise of the qualitative research in Aceh by interviewing the research partner and the interviewers.
Five key informants from women's organizations that are or are not member of the New Men's Alliance were interviewed for the social movement research; three in English and two in Bahasa Indonesia. The English interviews will be transcribed and the Bahasa Indonesia interviews will be transcribed and translated into English to enable analysis. More interviews are planned for early May.