All Blog Newsletter February 2025
Strategic Design - Promoting Gender Equity in Public Transportation
Women make up just 17% of those working in transport globally—and only 12% in Asia and the Pacific. Furthermore, women and men have different mobility patterns and experience different risks when using public transport.
Saraswati is assessing and enhancing gender equity practices within PT MRT Jakarta (the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit company), as well as helping to integrate diversity considerations into both the internal operations and public transport services of the company. This includes identifying barriers, gaps, and opportunities related to gender equity and inclusivity within the organization and its operational activities. The results will inform the development of a Gender Action Plan with concrete, actionable targets. This plan will address gender disparities, enhance inclusivity, and ensure that PT MRT Jakarta becomes a model for gender-sensitive public transport, benefiting both employees and passengers, especially women and marginalized populations such as persons with disabilities.
Contact rara@saraswati.global if you would like to learn more about our work promoting gender equity in the workplace.
Climate Action - Supporting sustainable social impact
The GoTo Impact Foundation (GIF)’s Catalyst Changemakers Ecosystem (CCE) initiative, launched in 2021, mobilises people, knowledge, capital and expertise to tackle specific, complex challenges in different areas through community-led innovation and co-creation. In 2024, the CCE initiative entered its third cohort (CCE 3.0), focusing on consortia in Belitung, Magelang, Malang and Lombok Tengah that aim to improve local livelihoods through approaches ranging from regenerative agriculture, waste management to ecotourism.
Saraswati is supporting the CCE 3.0 consortiums, monitoring the progress of solutions implementation projects and evaluating outcomes against predetermined impact targets. We are also supporting GIF to develop and implement an Impact Measurement Framework and Strategy for the CCE.
Click here for more information on CCE 3.0
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Research & Analysis - Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TF-GBV)
Research evidence about the extent, forms, impacts of, and responses to TF GBV suggests that it is common and harmful, and that there is an urgent need to improve prevention and response efforts. At present, there is little research evidence about TF GBV in Asia upon which to base national and regional policy and practice, or to inform the development of robust regionally comparable and locally relevant approaches to the measurement of TF GBV.
Saraswati is collaborating with the University of Melbourne and UNFPA to conduct research that aims to generate information on TF GBV in Indonesia, including information on participants’ experiences of TF GBV; experiences of seeking or providing help for TF GBV; how TF GBV is understood and measured in Indonesia; what strategies are currently being used to prevent and respond to TF GBV in Indonesia; and what participants’ priorities are in relation to TF GBV in Indonesia.
If you need assistance or want information related to TF GBV in Indonesia, please contact:
Sahabat Perempuan dan Anak (SAPA) 129 08-111-129-129
