MWPRI PROGRAMS

ORGANIZING

1. Organizing/consolidation of women homeworkers at the local, provincial and national level.
2. Strengthening and maintaining the member organizations.
3. Organizing as well as actively participating in the international/ regional/national meetings/conferences /consultation/workshop for exchange of information and collective efforts
4. Planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programs and activities to facilitate the organizing and consolidation of grassroot organizations in different parts of Indonesia, homeworkers’ policies/laws, and social protection for women homeworkers.

ADVOCACY

1. Promoting and advocating the rights of women homeworkers
2. Advocating action programs with respect to national and international issues that affect the informal sector workers in general and women homeworkers in particular
3. Lobbying and campaigning for policies and laws for the social protection and welfare of women homeworkers at the regional and national level.

C. RESEARCH

Conducting conventional research as well as community based action research related to issues of women homeworkers in particular and women in the informal sector in general. HomeNet Indonesia focused its UNIFEM-supported mapping exercise on women homeworkers in the putting out system in Surabaya and Bali. The project, envisioned to form part of its membership expansion efforts in the target research areas, commenced with a planning meeting in September 2001 and ended March 2002 with the finalization of the report. (A summary of the report can be found in the section on MAPPING HBWS IN BALI AND SURABAYA)