MWRP Foreign Assistance Reporting (Gender Indicator Report)

The program aimed to promote women's empowerment in waste management and plastics recycling in four countries: the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The MWRP implemented three women empowerment monitoring and evaluation factors (MEFs) to track progress and report on relevant activities. The first MEF tracked the number of individuals who completed training events as a result of the program. However, grantees often targeted women for training on household waste segregation, which may have entrench stereotypes and expectations that women exclusively manage waste management. To address this challenge, DIG recommended providing gender orientation training to grantees and asking them to report on the content and intention of trainings. The second MEF monitored the number of female beneficiaries who obtained a traditionally male-dominated activity/job in the waste management and plastics recycling sector as a result of the program. Challenges included assessing whether a role was in fact traditionally male-dominated and taking into account women-on-women competition. DIG recommended orienting grantees on gender roles and realities of women in the waste sector, adopting an approach to ensure marginalized women are not harmed, and tracking male beneficiaries who take on female-dominated roles. The third MEF tracked the number of women participating in decision-making processes relating to solid waste management and plastics recycling as a result of the program. Challenges included assessing the significance of MEF results without understanding how many men are participating in decision-making processes. DIG recommended collecting comparative data on men involved in decision-making processes and orienting grantees on assessing women's needs and decision-making power. The MWRP implemented the three MEFs from April 2019 to August 2021, with a focus on promoting women's empowerment in waste management and plastics recycling. The program aimed to address the challenges and opportunities for improvement identified through the MEFs, with a focus on ensuring that women's empowerment is a key component of the program's implementation. The MWRP's geographic coverage included four countries: the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The program's reporting period was from April 2019 to August 2021. The MWRP's contract number was AID-OAA-I-14-00066/AID-OAA-TO-16-00026, and the activity start date and end date were October 1, 2016, to September 24, 2021. The MWRP's implementation was led by the Development Innovations Group (DIG), with subcontractors including Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). The program's prime implementing partner was DIG, and the subcontractors were DAI Global, LLC, The QED Group, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and The Earth Institute. The program's geographic coverage included four countries: the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The MWRP's reporting period was from April 2019 to August 2021. The program's contract number was AID-OAA-I-14-00066/AID-OAA-TO-16-00026, and the activity start date and end date were October 1, 2016, to September 24, 2021. The program's prime implementing partner was DIG, and the subcontractors were DAI Global, LLC, The QED Group, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and The Earth Institute. The MWRP's implementation was led by the Development Innovations Group (DIG), with subcontractors including Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). The program's prime implementing partner was DIG, and the subcontract