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

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.

ARROW Advocacy Institute Cohort 2’s 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.
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*Application Deadline: 23:59 PM, 31 May 2024, Malaysian Standard Time (MST) or GMT +08:00*

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 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.

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.

About the ARROW Advocacy Institute Cohort 2⤵️

Based on our experiences of working in the SRHR field for more than two decades, we now feel the need to provide not only our partners but our larger constituencies with the physical and safe space to exchange knowledge and develop strategies. AAI is our commitment to movement building in the region,  as we believe a strong movement is fundamental to creating necessary political and social change.

ARROW’s Advocacy 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.

Have questions regarding the application?

For technical issues, contact Anuj Bhandari at anuj@arrow.org.my or DM us on our social media platforms. For questions related to the application, contact Tanyaa Sharma at tanyaa@arrow.org.my.

Read More: ARROW Advocacy Institute Cohort 2 Concept Note