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ASIA PACIFIC FEMINIST FORUM -
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline for Applications - November
4, 2011
Asia Pacific Feminist Forum
This is what Feminism Looks Like!
12-14
December, 2011
APWLD
will celebrate women and feminism this December!
APWLD
will hold the first ever Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) on 12-14 December
2011 in
APFF
will focus on movement and skills building and provide space for sharing of
issues, struggles and strategies. The forum will be participatory and workshop
based, so plenary sessions will be limited – as will powerpoint! It will be a
great networking opportunity for our members and partners, a venue to exchange
ideas, to learn about different advocacy strategies and to hopefully encourage
more collaboration within the region.
This
forum and celebration of women in the Asia Pacific region aims to give due
recognition to and re-energize and strengthen the movement in the region. We
hope participants will go back to their countries and communities filled with
greater hope, a strong sense of belonging, increased skills, and renewed and
stronger determination.
There
will also be the display and sale of crafts and native food, a mini-concert and
a solidarity night of songs and dances. A wifi-enabled cyber room, or IT hub,
will allow participants to immediately share photographs and videos and be able
to report on the different activities and their experiences using blogs and/or
tweets and uploads on websites. The IT hub will also enable prompt
postings on the web of papers and presentations.
APWLD
will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2011, as will a number of our members. It is also the
Centennial Year of International Women’s Day. Our opening evening will
include a birthday party for APWLD.
APFF Objectives
• To
build knowledge and practical skills of women in the Asia Pacific region that
advance women’s rights;
• To
strengthen and encourage more collaboration between women’s organisations in
the Asia Pacific region;
• To map
out what different organisations in the Asia Pacific region are doing, to see
where overlaps happen and where collaboration can start;
• To
energize the women’s movement in the Asia Pacific region (with a particular
focus on bringing in young women, women with disabilities and women who are new
to the movement);
• To
deepen feminist knowledge and analysis.
Profile of Participants:
•
100-150 women from the Asia-Pacific Region
•
Participants to be a mix of lawyers, activists and academics
• 5 sub
regions will be included (Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia
and the Pacific
•
Grassroots women will be prioritized for funding support
• 30% of
the participants will be young women under 35 and members who have never
attended an APWLD training or conference
• Women
with Disabilities (WWD) are also invited– APWLD has earmarked specific funding
to support the participation of WWD
•
Self-funded participants are also welcome- we have allotted slots for those
would like to self-fund.
Workshops:
Workshops
will be divided into four categories:
1.
Knowledge building: to share new scholarship, analysis, and understandings in
key areas of challenges confronting the women’s movement in the region
2.
Skills building: to share successful strategies and skills in advocacy for
reform
3.
Movement building: to share successful efforts at building our movement across
nations or regions. Discussions on what has worked for the movement.
4. Our
well-being: Massage, dance, songwriting workshops, and other creative workshops
for our well-being
WORKSHOPS- Would you like to run a workshop? Initial Deadline: Friday 28 October - Contact APWLD.
For questions or more information, please contact: june@apwld.org