ISSDP-PPSP-USDP Indonesia
IRC cooperates with DHV/MLD to provide technical assistance to the Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP) focusing on 330 cities in Indonesia. Financial support comes from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. USDP started in 2010 and will last for five years. Information on this programme and some outputs are provided here.
USDP factsheets on sanitation
10 Dec 12
Factsheets produced for the Urban Sanitation Development Program in Indonesia. They are also available in Bahasa on the Indonesian Sanitation Portal.
Cities in Indonesia accelerate sanitation development with technical assistance from DHV/MLD and IRC
20 Mar 12
Indonesia’s commitment to the MDGs and a World Bank report on the negative economic impacts of poor sanitation placed urban sanitation firmly on the Indonesian government agenda from 2006 onwards.
Gender and poor inclusive approaches to urban sanitation planning and development
08 Aug 11
This the full report on Gender Perspectives in Sanitation and Hygiene, a review of the current Indonesia Sanitation Sector Development Program (ISSDP) activities. It is background report III in Capacity Building for Urban Sanitation Development.
Making sanitation and hygiene services more gender equitable and fairer to the poor
04 Jun 09
City sanitation strategy planning in Indonesia focuses on equal involvement of women and men in all sanitation services. In the six cities taking part in an ISSDP programme poor women, men and children work in the informal sector for solid waste collection, segregation and recycling, as labourer and some as entrepreneurs. The work is an important source of income for poor families and helps reduce poverty.
Read more or download ISSDP Factsheet 7 Gender and Poverty Inclusive CSS.pdf (441.4 kB)
Photo story: Promoting sanitation with women and men, girls and boys in Banjarmasin, Indonesia
27 May 09
As part of her advisory work for the Indonesian Sanitation Sector Development Program (ISSDP) in 14 towns of Indonesia IRC’s Christine Sijbesma is assisting the programme on gender and participation. In April 2009 she and the local team faciltated a rapid and participatory assessment in two high-priority communities in Banjarmasin on sanitation needs by women and men. These assessments allow women and usually “forgotten” men to formulate demands for sanitation improvements. It gives pointers on their willingness and capacity to contribute in better-off, worse-off and in-between groups. It also provides insights in the degree of organization and influence of women and men and local cadres. The resulting scores give a ranking of the high-priority communities in terms of conditions, demand and organizational capacity, which helps high risk communities and the city sanitation working group to select the first community/ies for rapid action and a more likely quick success.
