Table I

Interview findings of key gender mainstreaming strategies to address gender vulnerabilities in Bantul and Sleman regencies

Dimension of gender vulnerabilitiesType of gender vulnerabilitiesMain factors of gender vulnerabilitiesGM strategies to address gender vulnerabilities
Economic dimensionWomen’s lack of productive assetsLack of legal right of women to productive assetsProtecting women’s right to productive assets by implementing productive assets rights (i.e. home and land) for women during reconstruction
 Women’s high domestic burdenTraditional culture that puts women in domestic rolesProtecting women with high domestic burdens by empowering women’s groups and providing gender training programs for men
 Women’s lack of access to jobs and marketsUnequal job opportunities between women and menExpanding job opportunities for women by providing equitable policies in job recruitment within reconstruction projects
 Women’s lack of access to financial creditLack of access of women to productive assetsProviding an inexpensive financial credit scheme and establishing the BKM (a village Grameen bank)
 Low wages among womenUnequal job opportunities between women and menProtecting unpaid women through an equal payment policy within reconstruction projects
 Women’s and men’s high debt burdensEconomic losses due to earthquakeProtecting women and men from indebtedness by providing an inexpensive financial credit scheme and establishing the BKM
Social dimensionWidows with many dependentsLimited social servicesProviding social benefits for widows in poverty
 Women heading householdsLimited social servicesProviding social benefits for women in poverty who head households
 Women living aloneLimited social servicesProviding social benefits for women in poverty who live alone
 Women with lack of access to educationTraditional culture that puts women in domestic rolesProviding alternative education for women through implementing Kejar Paket A, B and C (informal education institutions for those who are unable to attend primary, junior secondary and high school)
 Violence against womenInsecure and unsafe placesProviding secure and safe places for women and girls by empowering men’s and women’s groups in community policing programs during reconstruction
 Women’s illiteracyTraditional culture that put women in domestic rolesProviding alternative education for women through implementing Kejar Paket A, B and C
 Homeless women and menHousing losses from earthquakeProviding shelters and centers for homeless women and men during 6- to 12-month reconstruction programs
Physical dimensionPregnant womenLack of public health servicesProviding health insurance schemes and empowering village health posts or Posyandu for women and babies
 Older women and menLimited social servicesProviding social benefits for older women and men
 Malnourishment among women, girls and boysLack of food and public health servicesProviding health insurance schemes and empowering village health posts or Posyandu for women and babies
 Women and men with disabilitiesLimited social servicesProviding social benefits for women and men with disabilities
Political dimensionWomen’s lack of access to decision makingTraditional culture that puts women in domestic rolesInvolving women in planning, design, and reconstruction both in the housing reconstruction and the livelihood recovery program
 Limited voices and participation among womenTraditional culture that puts women in domestic rolesInvolving women in planning, design, and reconstruction both in the housing reconstruction and the livelihood recovery program
 Women’s lack of leadershipTraditional culture that puts women in domestic rolesInvolving women in planning, design, and reconstruction both in the housing reconstruction and the livelihood recovery program
Cultural dimensionWomen’s lack of social tiesGeographical remotenessEmpowering women’s groups to provide social assistance for women with inadequate social ties
 Culturally isolated womenTraditional culture that put women in domestic rolesInvolving women in planning, design, and reconstruction both in the housing reconstruction and the livelihood recovery program
 Religiously isolated womenReligious culture that subordinates women to menProviding gender training to both male and female religious and community leaders
 Sexual abuse of womenUnsecure and unsafe placesProtecting women from sexual abuse and violence by empowering men’s and women’s groups in community policing programs during reconstruction

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