In 2019, JASS and Hivos SEA along with our partner organizations (Fahmina, Famm, Mahardhika, Rahima, Rumahkitab), supported by Global Affairs Canada, initiated a transformative journey as the We Lead consortium, dedicated to strengthening the voice and leadership of women in Indonesia.
Despite a very challenging context of political polarization, rising religious extremism, increasing reality of the climate crisis and the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the consortium exceeded the anticipated targets by profoundly impacting women’s lives and leadership in areas such as gender-based violence, sexuality, democracy and the shrinking space for women’s freedom of expression, Islam and feminism, defense of land and territory in the face of extractivism.
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