Governance Approach: Gender Equality in Community Empowerment at Maju Lestari Waste Bank

Abstract

Governance values serve as an important foundation in the community empowerment process within the Maju Lestari Waste Bank. These values include participation, responsiveness, and gender equality. The empowerment process is carried out by increasing women’s participation on the household, group, and institutional levels. There has been a significant increase in women’s participation at the household, group, and institutional levels of the waste bank. Women’s participation at the household level involves collecting, cleaning, and sorting inorganic waste by type. Women’s participation at the group level includes informal socialization, promotion, and motivation. Socialization, promotion, and motivation activities are carried out spontaneously but intensively, thereby effectively influencing neighbors, relatives, and friends in the surrounding area. Meanwhile, participation at the institutional level involves administrative management and moral and material support, especially during waste weighing. The second value, responsiveness, refers to the quick attitude and response of women in receiving information. When given information about waste management, they show a high level of curiosity and interest. This is manifested in responses in the form of questions, both conceptual and technical in nature, about waste management