*Annissa Valentina adalah dosen tetap di Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Lampung Corresponding Author: nisavalen26@gmail.com ANALISIS PENGARUSUTAMAAN GENDER (PUG) DAN PERLINDUNGAN ANAK Studi di Kabupaten Lampung Tengah Annissa Valentina* ABSTRACT This study aim to map the gender gap and children protection problems in community local area considerated for Local Government create gender equality and children protection strategy and policy. The study was conducted in Central Lampung Region, Lampung, Southest Sumatera. Local Government should be sensitive of gender and children with take many efforts to contend those problem as Indonesian Government programme (PUG) and Children Protection to guarantee practical and strategical need for every people. The methodology used were surveys and document study. The results showed that women weren`t understand fully yet about violent mentally, many parents didn`t have any knowledge about child bring up model, and less of the public services and policy with good service standard. Besides, in government part, Lampung Tengah Government haven`t implement PUG and Children Protection yet into a legal act as political commitment, especially for Education and Health Sector. It just word or maybe hope. keywords: Central Lampung, Gender, Children, PUG, Protection