| 1 | Empowering the impecunious and marginal community (peasant, labor, small trader, cloistered countryside community, People with Aids and families, etc) through the social transformation, critical resuscitation, and build democratic social institution processes. |
| 2 | Conduct public policy advocacy partying to the impecunious and marginal community, which conducted with the organization, critical education, and, campaign, mediation, study of policy, compiling rules plan, strategic alliance and demonstrate method. |
Empowerment and Advocacy for marginal and poor community
The main point of empowerment and advocacy as a strategy is in how social transformation can happen amongst civil society. Therefore all approach and program should direct to strengthen capacity, to build critical awareness of the people and should be contextual. This strategy should encourage community to become self-reliant, which means has ability to explore their capacity and local resources (such as human resources, natural resources, local wisdom and social capital) to overcome poverty and vulnerability in their community.
Beside strengthening people and empowering marginalized community to overcome social, economic, political and cultural problems, there still a need to conduct advocacy on public policy. This advocacy can be conducted through several media, such as public dialogue, audience and lobbying decision makers, demonstration, etc. This advocacy aims at changing or influencing public policy to be more pro-poor.
Targets:
Community Based Organization in YSI’s area of works, including farmer groups and villagers as wel as provincial government of Central Java, waste management community in Jogjakarta, survivor of earthquake in Jogjakarta, People with HIV/AIDS in Pati, Blora and Jepara, village community and local government of East Aceh.
