Deadline: May 31, 2024
Applications for the ARROW Advocacy Institute (AAI) Cohort 2 are now open. 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 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.
The objectives of the ARROW Advocacy Institute Cohort 2 are:
- 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.
Topics Covered
- 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.
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.
Application
The application deadline is 23:59 PM, 31 May 2024, Malaysian Standard Time (MST) or GMT +08:00.
For more information, visit ARROW Advocacy Institute.