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Call for Applications: FPAR 2020-2022 “Amplifying Marginalised Women’s Voices and Strengthening Movements for Women’s Right to Peace and Democratic Participation

Call for Applications: FPAR 2020-2022 “Amplifying Marginalised Women’s Voices and Strengthening Movements for Women’s Right to Peace and Democratic Participation

Deadline: 07-Sep-20

APWLD is currently inviting grassroots women’s organizations and movements in Asia and the Pacific to take part in this exciting Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) programme that aims to develop tools and resources that support rural, indigenous, migrant and urban poor women (RIMUP) to monitor, engage and influence development policies that impacting them.

Objectives

To support RIMUP women to become powerful advocates and build their movements to assert their rights to peace and democratic participation in pursuit of development justice.

Focus Areas of the FPAR

For 2020-2022, the FPAR will focus on the impacts of militarism and the suppression of democratic spaces on women’s right to peace and democratic participation, as well as the actions and strategies that women are taking to defend and advance their rights. The FPAR notes that, per the UN General Assembly Resolution on the “Declaration on the Right to Peace, “everyone has the right to enjoy peace such that all human rights are promoted and protected and development is fully realised,” and that the “cause of peace require(s) the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields.”

Participants

Funding Information

Selection Criteria of the Research Partners: 

APWLD will select 8-10 women’s organizations to lead the FPAR on women’s rights to peace and democratic participation. They are seeking non-governmental, non-profit, grassroots-based organizations. APWLD will consider the following when selecting the organizations for this process:

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