Guyub Project: Strengthen and utilize a gender-responsive community- based mechanism to promote peaceful communities and gender equality in Java, Indonesia

The Guyub Project is being implemented in partnership with Wahid Foundation (WF), in the selected villages from the initial list based on the assessment conducted in 2018. Guyub consists of two outputs and eleven activates to reach its target of four villages/communities with village action plans, and implementation of those plans, and three capacity building, training packages, and guidelines developed by grassroots women’s organizations and/or community-based organizations. The activities encourage full participation of beneficiary communities to execute FGDs, coordination mechanisms, and community outreach, especially in the time of COVID-19. These activities are planned based on assessments conducted after the initial phase of the “Peace Villages” project in early 2019. To monitor the effectiveness, WF conducts pre and post-surveys of participates in FGDs, action plan drafting sessions, and training. Moreover, WF conducts quarterly and annual monitoring activities via the Monitoring Evaluation Learning (MEL) system in conjunction with UN Women. Each activity has been integrated into the MEL system and measured in terms of progress towards the end of the program indicator. One MEL Lead has been assigned to oversee the MEL system as it is important to measure the benefits and impacts from the results produced by the outcomes. Guyub is funded by two UN projects, 240,000USD by the United Nations Human Security Trust Fund (UNHSTF) and 150,000USD by the regional Access to Justices (A2J) project for two years. These finical resources cover the direct programmable cost, DPMC, and support cost. Some of the support cost from UN Women’s side has been cost-shared with other programs. Subsequently, WF charged 20% of the direct program cost for managerial and support costs.