APWLD Call for Proposals: Supporting Grassroots Women Organisations for Land Rights and Development Justice

Deadline: 15 July 2018

Asia Pacific Forum on Women, law and Development (APWLD) is currently inviting grassroots women’s rights organisations and movements to take part in this exciting Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) programme with an aim to develop capacity, tools and resources that support rural, indigenous, migrant and urban poor women (RIMUP) to demand their rights on land, water, soils, biodiversity, and other natural resources.

Grant Information

APWLD will provide eight to ten organisations with a small grant to employ a young woman researcher and carry out the research including salary and on-costs with the approximate amount of USD 12,000.

Join their feminist participatory action research for change

Eight to ten partner organisations will be selected to work with APWLD for 1.5 year (July 2018 – December 2019) to document:
The impact of human rights violations on rural, indigenous, fisher, and urban poor women at the local or country level. Three focus areas of the research that’s illustrative of the systemic barriers to women’s land rights are:
- Land, water and resource grabbing – includes land and water acquisitions by foreign, domestic investors and state for extractive industries and development projects and its’ impact to environment and livelihood, including false solutions of climate change
- Trade and investment agreement – includes the impact of land, crop, seed and water monopoly by big agribusiness; unsustainable agriculture with the use of GMO and pesticide and privatisation of public services in relation with natural resources, and
- Patriarchal discriminatory land ownership laws and practices – inheritance, succession, customary, and/or family laws and marriage related practices which deny women for property, land ownership and decision-making over natural resources management.
Community-owned solutions and demand for land rights, sustainable livelihood and development justice.

Selection Criteria

APWLD will select rural, indigenous, fishers, urban poor women organisations who will lead the FPAR on human rights for women in 8-10 countries in Asia-Pacific. They are seeking non-governmental, non-profit, grassroots based organisation that are:
- Committed towards the enjoyment and realisation of the human rights of women at community level in Asia-Pacific, particularly of the most marginalised (young, rural, indigenous, migrant, Dalit women and/or women in other minority groups)
- Committed to conducting the 1.5 years Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) process;
- Committed to using feminist participatory methodologies that increase democratic participation and leadership of marginalised women in the research;
- Committed to appointing a young woman researcher and mentor, it is preferable to have at least one (either mentor or young women researchers) from the community where the FPAR will be conducted.
- Able to provide internet and computer access for regular online communication with APWLD secretariat and online training
APWLD will consider the following when selecting 8-10 organisations for this project:
- Sub-regional representation;
- Recommendations/ references by APWLD members;
- Diverse human rights and development concerns of rural, indigenous, fisher, urban poor women and other marginalised women in Asia-Pacific.