Call For Applications: ARROW Advocacy Institute (AAI) Cohort 2

The Institute will find its niche in the region with its focus on SRHR and its interlinkages with other axes of poverty, conflict and wars, climate change, food security and sovereignty, religious fundamentalism, and disability.

ARROW recognizes that the current world is marked by increasing inequality where SRHR is sidelined, and the integral rights to bodily integrity and bodily autonomy are affected.

AAI Cohort 2 intends to welcome a cohort of 150 women and young people in all their diversity from the Asia-Pacific region.

Objectives

• 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 capacities of participants to leverage potential regional and global advocacy engagements with a focus on gender equality and SRHR.

Focus Areas

• 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

Benefits

• AAI Cohort 2 is a platform that will help women and young people in their diversity to unlearn, learn, design and implement programs and advocacy initiatives in their region.
• The Cohort 2 will have further advocacy opportunities to participate in regional and global advocacy spaces.

Duration and Format

• 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.

Eligibility Criteria

• Call for applications is 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.

For more information, visit ARROW.