Poverty is a challenge and become responsibility of public administration, especially for the agenda of public management to give service delivery for citizens. Pro poor governance and eight measure for public service management solution is an alternative soultion for making service work for poor people. This framework based on three chain relations are between citizens and politicians, partnership between politicians and public service provider and partnership between public service provider and citizens through empowering voice of the poor.Kata kunci: Pro Poor Governance, Pelayanan Publik, MDGs
The developmental policy implemented currently, through Indonesia was prior to facing with economic crisis, indicated economically good performances. The economy growth achieved 7% per year, inflation was below two-digits level, and per capita income was us$ 1200 in 1996. It was an excellent achievement in economy development, compared to the condition of Indonesia several decades previously, at which Indonesia had been o poor country with per capita income not more than US$ 250. However, it has been realized completely that such ideal condition could, in fact, not be enjoyed by the whole community evenly. This can bee seen clearlyfrom the percentage of population living in poverty. Entering long-term development (PJP) II, there was 25,9 milliaon or 13,7 percent of Indonesian people still living in poverty (Sumodiningrat, 2001, p.31). This condition was get suffered by the occurrence of monetary crisis that grew then become multidimensional crisis that carried implications of the increase of the poor number. In addition, the crisis had increased number of the unemployed and poor people. Accourding to The Employment Departement estimation (in Sumodiningrat, 2001, p. 38), the amount of unemployment was predicted approximately 13,4 milion. BPS estimated the number of the poor increased to be 79,4 million or 39,1 precent. In view of this phenomena, and according to the mandate of Constitution of 1945, that is, development is conducted to improve all Indonesian people welfare, any efforts of formulating and implementing poverty reduction is very urgent to execute, mainly those living in proverty.
This research aims to examine various local government capability for mainstreaming gender into disaster risk reduction in Bantul Indonesia. A mixed method study combining qualitative and quantitative methods was applied to explore key local government capability for effective mainstreaming gender into disaster risk reduction. The findings show various benefits of mainstreaming gender for enhancing disaster risk reduction. Women leadership, local government financial resources, availability of local institutional framework, women full participation, financial resources and effective collaboration with non-government organisations are key capabilities that lead to effective mainstreaming gender into sustainable reconstruction.
Abstract. This research aims to examine various local government capabilities for mainstreaming gender into disaster risk reduction in Bantul, Indonesia. Mixed methods, comprising qualitative and quantitative methods, were applied to explore key local government capability for effective mainstreaming gender into disaster risk reduction. There are various benefits of mainstreaming gender for enhancing disaster risk reduction. Women leadership, local government financial resources, availability of the local institutional framework, full participation of women, financial resources and effective collaboration with Non-Governmental Organizations are key capabilities that lead to effective gender mainstreaming. Keywords. Local government capability, gender mainstreaming, disaster risk reduction.Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menilai kemampuan pemerintah daerah dalam mengarusutamakan gender ke dalam pengurangan risiko bencana di Bantul, Indonesia. Metode campuran, yang terdiri dari metode kualitatif dan kuantitatif, diterapkan untuk mengeksplorasi kemampuan pemerintah daerah yang menjadi kunci untuk mengarusutamakan isu gender secara efektif ke dalam pengurangan risiko bencana. Terdapat berbagai manfaat dari pengarusutamaan gender untuk meningkatkan pengurangan risiko bencana. Kepemimpinan perempuan, sumber pendanaan dari pemerintah daerah, tersedianya kerangka kelembagaan lokal, partisipasi penuh perempuan, sumber pendanaan dan kolaborasi dengan Organisasi Non-Pemerintah yang efektif adalah kemampuan kunci yang dapat menghasilkan pengarusutamaan gender yang efektif.Kata kunci. Kemampuan pemerintah daerah, pengarusutamaan gender, pengurangan risiko bencana.
