Building women's resilience through urban climate policies: An example from Indonesia

This is a background paper which formed part of the 66th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) Expert Meeting on Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes, prepared by Christina Suprapti (Titi) Soentoro, Executive Director of Aksi! for gender, social and ecological justice, Indonesia.

This paper showcases the experiences of women in four cities in Indonesia, i.e., Jakarta, Makassar, Yogyakarta, and Jember, encountering national and urban climate mitigation and adaptation policies and measures developed at the national and cities level. Some recommendations are tabled for achieving gender-transformative national and urban policies that increase resilience and at the same time reduce emissions. The lessons learned from Indonesia would provide a picture of the complexity of aspects for consideration in building women's resilience through urban climate change policies.