Liz Allen, a W+ auditor from the Social Auditor Network of the U.K., shared her experience of verifying the application of the W+ Time method to the Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme (IDPB) implemented by HIVOS during her visit to the site with WOCAN Core Associate Abidah Setyowati in the Lombok Tengah District .
“For three of the women to whom we spoke, the low-tech biogas units had been life changing, as the time it freed up was spent setting up their own micro-enterprises selling food. They talked to me about the fact that they hoped for a different life for their children and how they wanted their children’s aspirations to be higher. And with their grass roots businesses – selling cassava chips and oranges – they were creating the foundations for this to happen. (…) It’s what WOCAN continuously strives for. It aims to build the leadership of women in agriculture and natural resource management through an innovative approach to partnering with motivated, professional rural women.”