About the AAI
The ARROW Advocacy Institute (AAI) Cohort 2 aims to provide an opportunity for women and young people in their diversity to focus deeply on their choices by unpacking the SRHR, and its intersection to be relatable to the specific context of their lives, work, or lived realities. The Institute will find its niche in the region, focusing on SRHR and its interlinkages with other axes of poverty, conflict and wars, climate change, food security and sovereignty, religious fundamentalism, and disability.
Objective
- Create an innovative space where SRHR concepts can be discussed, and connected to realities.
- Strengthen the capacity of participants from the Asia-Pacific region, especially in understanding the intersections of SRHR with other development issues.
- Reach a common understanding of significant issues of SRHR that pertain to participants in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Identify and set common priorities for national-level advocacy plans.
- Strengthen the capacities of participants to leverage potential regional and global advocacy engagements with a focus on gender equality and SRHR.
Topics
- Intersectional Lens: Issues in Asia-Pacific, Movements and Geopolitics in Advocacy
- Gender, disability and social inclusion
- Trade, security and Economic Policies
- Human Rights and Gender Wars – Local, National, Global
- Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Food Security
- Fundamentalisms, Peace, Conflict, Rising Intolerance
Eligibility
- Open to women and young people in their diversity from the Asia-Pacific region.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience working in the area of human rights and gender equality at a community, national or regional level.
- Be between the ages of 18 to 35 years.
How to Apply?
Application Deadline
31st May, 2024
Duration
The institute will span over six weeks, with a session each week. It will be conducted virtually. Sessions will run for approximately 3-4 hours and consist of two parts: a lecture by the lead facilitator and their team on the relevant topic, followed by a tutorial session. During tutorials, participants will be divided into groups/rooms for weekly assignments focusing on regional or country-specific contexts.
Contact
Contact Anuj Bhandari at [email protected] or DM us on our social media platforms for technical issues. For questions related to the application, contact Tanyaa Sharma at [email protected].
