Empowering Women in Independent Household Waste Management towards Smart Environment in Magelang City Joko Tri Nugraha 1 , Retno Sunu Astuti 2 {jokotrinugraha@students.undip.ac.id 1 } Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia 1, 2 Abstract. The increasing number of household waste, without proper mitigation, is able to trigger global warming. One of the efforts to mitigate threats to people’s welfare from numerous disease factors is the management of household waste into beneficial and environment-friendly material. Legok Makmur is the first organic village in Magelang City. It began by participating in the socialization and mentoring from Non-Government Organizations engaged in the field of environmental health, the household waste and management organic village movement, involved only 20 households. The purpose this study are to analyze the empowerment activities of household waste management by the women in Legok Makmur Village; to analyze the factors that promoted the awareness of the women to participate in the program’s to manage household and waste and; to formulate policy recommendations so that the women are able to improve their living environment’s quality. The applied approach is qualitative descriptive with flow model analysis technique. Research site was in Legok Makmur Village, Magelang City. Data collection technique used interview, documentation, and observation. This research possesses a significant importance for it contributes to the discovery of the source of the issue of women empowerment program in Indonesia’s urban area is not yet optimal. Keywords: Empowerment, Organic Village, Smart Environment. 1 Introduction The word “development” has been a frequent discussion among many communities: the bureaucrats, politicians, academicians, and practitioners, and groups of people who are concerned about and have interest in the efforts to improve the society’s life and their own family. However, a development focalized to its growth attainment would cause disasters for most of the aforementioned society’s life [1]. The benchmark of a successful development is regarded from two instances: first, high economic growth, and second, it is conducted continuously (without any occurrence of neither social nor natural damages). A growth-oriented development may also neglect environment issues threatening collective life. In fact, national and international media publicized the rise of air temperature leads to global warming. One of its causes is the rise of CO2 in the air as the result of industrialization and transportation sector. In addition to the two cases above, global warming could also be triggered by the plethora of improperly processed household waste. One of the means to mitigating threats to mankind’s ICIPSE 2019, October 21-22, Semarang, Indonesia Copyright © 2020 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.21-10-2019.2294384