Realizing Social Justice and Peace for Women and Children

Yayasan Perempuan dan Anak Negeri Banda Aceh (YPANBA) is a civil society organization established in 2007, dedicated to advocating for social justice, equality, and peace, with a primary focus on vulnerable groups, particularly women and children.

Drawing on its long experience working at the community level, YPANBA is committed to fighting against various forms of inequality, violence, intolerance, conflict, and discrimination, and encourage policy changes that support a just, inclusive, and diverse society.

Work Focus of YPANBA

Based on the vision of promoting social change and a just and inclusive government system, The Banda Aceh State Foundation for Women and Children (YPANBA) focusing his work on protection, empowerment, and advancement of women's and children's rights, as well as strengthening family and community well-being.

YPANBA runs programs that are oriented towards justice and gender equality, The improvement of inclusive service quality, as well as the empowerment of women and children as subjects of social change. In the context of a diverse society, YPANBA actively fights against gender-based violence, intolerance, and structural injustice by opening up spaces that are equal, safe, and participatory.

In addition, YPANBA encourages critical awareness of women and children against practices and systems that harm environmental sustainability and threaten their safe spaces. Through the strengthening of cross-community and cross-diversity movements, YPANBA strives to build social harmony, restore nature, and encourage policy advocacy which favors vulnerable groups.

The YPANBA programs are also aimed at building critical awareness among women and children about environmental sustainability, as well as strengthening cross-community movements within a diverse society.

Transparency and Accountability

YPANBA periodically documents activities and field learning through the page. Updates & News as a form of information disclosure to the public, partners, and stakeholders.

Real Work at the Community Level

The programs and activities of YPANBA are carried out in various regions in Aceh, among others: Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, Pidie Jaya, Bireuen, Aceh Utara, Bener Meriah and Aceh Tengah by adapting to the social context, culture, and needs of each community.

In every intervention, YPANBA upholds the values equality, integrity, inclusivity, and anti-violence as the basic principle of the organization's work.

VISION

The realization of social change and governance systems that protect and empower women and children, in order to advance inclusive gender justice, ecological resilience, and community resilience for the creation of quality holistic well-being for women, children, and families.

MISSION

Yayasan Perempuan dan Anak Negeri Banda Aceh (YPANBA) advances its mission through four strategic pillars:

Protection, Fulfillment and Promotion of the Rights of Women and Children, and Policy Advocacy

Undertake strategic initiatives to protect and advance the rights of women and children across all spheres of life

Advocate for reforms to systems and policies that perpetuate injustice or fail to uphold the rights of women, children, and other vulnerable groups.

Advocating for systems and policies that are not equitable and do not accommodate the rights of women and children, as well as other vulnerable groups.

Mental Health Protection and Family Resilience

Promote inclusive health services and approaches that strengthen the mental health and overall well-being of women and children.

Empower women and children while strengthening family resilience and the capacity of families to cope with and overcome challenges.

Ecology, Safe Spaces, and Women's and Children's Leadership

Cultivate critical awareness among women and children about activities and systems that undermine environmental sustainability and threaten their safe spaces.

Empower women and children while strengthening family resilience and the capacity of families to cope with and overcome challenges.

Humanitarian Response and Disaster Preparedness

Support disaster-affected communities through the provision of basic needs, psychosocial recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.

Support disaster response efforts and strengthen community preparedness for future disasters.

Conduct mapping, research, and assessments to identify community capacities and potential in disaster response, risk reduction, mitigation, and adaptation.