APWLD Feminist Participatory Action Research on Women Migrants in Central Asia

Deadline: 22-Aug-22

APWLD invites women’s rights and feminist organisations based in Central Asia, to apply for the Feminist Participatory Action Research on Women Migrants in Central Asia 2022-2024 (CA FPAR on Migration).

The aim of the CA FPAR on Migration is to advance the human rights of women migrants and strengthen the migrant movements in Central Asia by increasing women migrants’ capacity to author evidence-based community research and be vocal and effective policy advocates for women’s human rights and Development Justice.

In this programme, APWLD will partner with and support six to eight organisations to increase evidence-based advocacy, amplify voices of women migrants of Central Asia and build their capacity to be effective organisers, advocates, and campaigners for women’s human rights at local, national and sub-regional levels. The focus of the FPAR includes but not limited to the issues of intersecting systemic challenges, discrimination and violence against women in internal and cross-border migration within the broader context of Central Asia, struggles of women in accessing their rights to decent work, including rights at work and living wage, the right to full employment, social protection and social dialogue. The FPAR shall also highlight how migrant women take leadership roles in defending and asserting their rights in the migration processes.

APWLD will also support the assigned young woman researcher and mentor to participate in sub-regional capacity-building workshops and provide advocacy or network opportunities. They will access training in International Human Rights standards and rights-based approaches in their area of research. Through a combination of face-to-face and online modules, they will share the frameworks within their communities, learn practical research skills, and develop a community-based research plan. In addition, they will access trainings and skill shares in media advocacy, data gathering and analysis, research methods, gender assessments, participatory baseline setting and other necessary skills for the CA FPAR on Migration.

Objectives

• Develop the capacity of women migrants and their organisations to research and document evidence and thereby, engage in decision-making processes on women migrants’ human rights at local, national, regional and international levels;
• Foster knowledge and resources on human rights of women migrants, FPAR framework, methodlogy and feminist community organising tools;
• Establish strategic advocacy plans and opportunities to share evidence-based results and support women’s own positions and solutions for policy change; and
• Strengthen institutional development of sub-grant partner organisations through leadership development and movement building.

Funding Information

• APWLD will provide each partner organisation with a sub-grant amount with a maximum of 14 000 USD throughout the FPAR cycle. This small grant will cover salary costs (of a dedicated young researcher), contribute to building capacities of communities of women involved in the FPAR process, and women-led organisations to carry out quality research and analysis aimed to ensure that national policies and agenda on the women rights are informed and shaped by the needs of women and their communities.
• In addition, another small sub-grants will be provided to the women organisations to conduct national advocacy activities based on the results of implemented FPARs.

Programme Activities

• First Regional Feminist Participatory Action Research Training on Central Asian Women Mirgrants’ Rights: Methodology and Approach (November 2022)
  • Expected Outputs
    • Participants understand about the objectives, framework, approach, and time frame of the Feminist Participatory Action Research.
    • Participants gain skills and capacity on the key concepts and framework on feminist participatory approach, human rights-based approach, and international human rights framework – particularly in relation to human rights of women migrants.
    • Participating organisations developed detailed research plans in their respective communities.
    • Participants gain skills and capacity on the tools of Theory of Change, Power Mapping and Critical Pathway to be used together with the community to plan the research and the impact objectives.
• Pre-Research Consultation to the constituency
  • The objectives of pre-research community consultations should include:
    • Gain the support, collaboration and ownership of the community and stakeholders;
    • Form a research team with researchers from the constituency;
    • Identify the focused problems or issues of the project;
    • Design methods for the research, questions and objectives;
    • Develop advocacy plans for long term and structural change throughout the research process.
• Second Regional Training on Feminist Participatory Action Research on Central Asian Women Mirgrants’ Rights: Research Design and Analysis (February 2023)
  • Expected outputs
    • Participants gain their capacity on feminism and feminist framework – as a core concept to practise and analyse the research in their respective community;
    • Participants gain skills and capacity on the framework and methodology on feminist participatory action research – including research designs, methods and feminist analysis;
• Third Regional Training on Feminist Participatory Action Research on Human Rights of Central Asian Women Mirgrants: Reflections and Ways Forward for Advocacy (October 2023)
  • Expected outputs
    • Participants gain their capacity and skills on data analysis, particularly qualitative data analysis and able to share their experience on analysing the data, identifying the challenges and ways to address the challenges;
    • Participants are able to identify the gaps in their research report and gain concrete recommendations for the improvement of their research report;
    • Participants are able to refine their evidence-based advocacy plans and strategy, in particular to work with the workers to advocate their human rights in the local and national level; and also have a concrete plan with APWLD for advocacy in the regional and international level.
• Fourth Regional Reflection Meeting on CA FPAR on Migration: From Personal to Structural Change (End of September 2024)
  • Expected Outputs
    • Participants are able to self-reflect on the impact of the FPAR, from the personal to organisational and community levels.
    • Participants are able to share their progress of implementing their evidence-based advocacy plans and strategies in the local, regional and international levels.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants should be non-governmental and non-profit, a feminist, women’s rights and/or women-led organisations from countries in Central Asia sub-region that demonstrate the following:
  • Able to demonstrate experience in working with grassroots communities;
  • Familiar with the challenges and issues of migrant women and migration-related policies at the national and local level;
  • Able to provide a dedicated mentor and young researcher from the community of migrant women to work on the CA FPAR, including report writing;
  • Commitment to the enjoyment and realisation of the human rights of women in Central Asia, particularly of the migrant women;
  • Commitment to conduct the two years Feminist Participatory Action Research process;
  • Committed to feminist participatory methodologies that increase democratic participation and leadership of marginalised women in the research;
  • Commitment to the feminist Development Justice framework;
  • Able to communicate in English or to have a dedicated translator/interpreter.
• APWLD will consider the following when selecting the partner organisations:
  • Country representation in Central Asia;
  • Recommendations/ references by APWLD members;
  • Diverse human rights and development concerns of migrant women in Central Asia;
  • Experience in advocacy work related to women’s human rights;
  • Ability to produce and submit reports and various programme-related documents in English;

For more information, visit https://apwld.org/ca-fpar-2022/