The Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute--South Asia will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 28 January-1 February 2013. She is known and appreciated around the world as an inspiring resource person on feminist leadership, and peace and development, and has extensive experience in building links among community, non-governmental, governmental, and academic institutions. Para todas las consultas de contactos: connect@iknowpolitics.org. If you experience difficulty with the online method, download the application from CREA's website (www.creaworld.org) and e-mail the completed form to Sushma Luthra at sluthra@creaworld.org or to CREA at crea@creaworld.org. From this, they will critically assess the pre-existing resources of the women's movement in the South Asia region. Application received after the due date will not be considered. Her most recent publications are Feminist Leadership for Social Transformation (for CREA); Capturing Change in Women's Realities: A Critical Overview of Current Monitoring and Evaluation, and Changing Their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements (both for AWID); and an edited volume, Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction (Kumarian Press, August 2006). Over the past four decades, Astraea has devoted over $31,000,000 to grassroots activists in nearly half the world. We need your help! CREAs policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. Able to demonstrate how you will use what you learn at the Institute in your work and how you will continue to participate in follow-up activities. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. She has a Masters degree in South Asian Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies, UK, and a Bachelors degree in Philosophy from Yale University, US. Achieving Transformative Feminist Leadership: A Toolkit for Organisations and Movements. These amazing grantee partners depend on your generous support. This year, the Institute in anew form and design, looks at engaging feminists from across the region to build a substantive understanding of our present - a time that is witness to the emergence of majoritarian right wing ideologies with a shrinking space for dissent and dialogue; neoliberalism with new forms of economic injustices; and a growing regime of surveillance and censorship. Travel, tuition, accommodation and meals for the duration of the Institute will be covered by CREA. CREA currently plans to pursue targeted public education activities to reduce stigma and discrimination against LGBTI people over the next three years. Participants must cover their own travel expenses. Both feminism and Transformative Feminist Leadership are de ned and explained in more detail in the following section (Module 1). Women working in NGOs in South Asia, in mid-level leadership positions, and committed to human rights work are eligible. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. Applications are due on or before 10 December 2012. 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A woman or a trans person, with a minimum experience of 3 years working on gender issues, womens rights, development and/or youth activism (voluntary or paid). Send any queries to Ms Luthra as well. Astraea Foundation, Inc. - EIN #13-2992977. CREA's Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute South Asia. She has extensive experience in qualitative research design. She, then, moved on to work in several premier international institutions, including the Ford Foundation, New York, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University, and since 2007, AWID. A limited number of travel scholarships from CREA are available on a need basis. To learn more about the passionate activists behind these movements for gender, racial, economic, and social justice, take our interactive globe for a spin! I wish to part and parcel of this program.Thanks. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= Participants are required to stay for the duration of the course. It is based on the assumption that such processes require a di erent type of leadership, what we may term Transformative Feminist Leadership (TFL). Srilatha has written extensively on women's issues, especially publications that bridge the worlds of theory and practice. The possibilities and challenges of digital and social media on the one hand, and the emergence of new modes of popular protest, and contestations around heteronormativity and able-bodied-ness on the other, are some of the realities that define the current context. Position: Director, Programs and Innovation, Strategic Objective 1. This toolkit was developed to help individuals and organisations dedicated to advancing a feminist social change agendaan agenda that believes that all development and social justice must be rooted in gender and social equality. Currently, she is studying the effects of paid work on women's empowerment in Pakistan, as part of a multi-country consortium, Pathways to Women's Empowerment. Interrogate concepts such as nation, identity and development that affect our struggles and strategies by reshaping the discourse and practices of patriarchy and gender. Twenty-five participants will be selected based on their application form. CREA promotes pluralism and equal opportunity and is committed to diversity in its staffing and to the maintenance of an environment free of discriminatory employment practices. Learn how your comment data is processed. The Director, Programs and Innovation (SO1), will lead, oversee, develop, and strengthen programs and partnerships under this strategic objective. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview. Very few foundations are supporting the crucial work of LGBTI activists in the U.S. and around the globein fact, 0.2% of all foundation dollars nationally support these issues. Donate to Astraea today and help us Fuel the Frontlines. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity. Ayesha Khan* is a Senior Researcher at the Collective for Social Science Research in Karachi, Pakistan. She has published non-fiction writing about gender, women's rights, pulp magazines, sexuality, the Internet, and mobile phones. We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. Build new and collaborative modes of resistance in the face of emerging configurations of power. The Fashion Lab Namibia Incubation Programme 2022 for Namibian-founded startups, The Whitebox Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2022 for young Kenyan Entrepreneurs, Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) Scholarships 2023/2024 for Study in the University of Oxford, UK (Fully Funded). j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? Proficient in English language, as the Institute is conducted in English and all the training and reference materials used will be in English. The Institute is supported by the Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women (FLOW) Fund, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, allowing CREA to cover tuition, boarding, and lodging costs for all participants. No individual shall be discriminated against because of his or her actual or perceived age, caste, class, disability, marital status, religion, or sexual orientation. For brochure with complete information on resource persons, visit www.creaworld.org. It aims to build the conceptual clarity of participants on gender, feminism, feminist leadership, and movement building, and their links to human rights in the South Asian context. The Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute--South Asia is an annual five-day residential training programme designed by CREA. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. She is the Program Director of the Evidence and Action Program at Tactical Tech and lives in Bengaluru, India. A team of feminist activists, who have done trailblazing work in the field of women's human rights, teach at this Institute, using classroom instruction, group work, case studies, simulation exercises, and films. Interested candidates who meet the required educational and experience requirements should send theirCV along with a cover letter, current and expected salary tojobs@creaworld.orgby6 February 2022. Accommodation will be on twin-sharing basis. The course will seek to encourage and enable participants to: For more information, visit:http://www.creaworld.org/events/applications-open-flmbari-east-africa. CREA's mission is to build feminist leadership, advance women's human rights, and expand sexual and reproductive freedoms. She is a member of Naripokkho, a Bangladeshi women's activist organisation, and a Board member of Caritas Bangladesh and Utsho Bangladesh. Under this strategic objective,CREA envisions that feminist leadership and movements are strong, intersectional, inclusive, and aims to amplify the voices of structurally excluded people. Maya Ganesh has Masters degrees in Psychology from Delhi University, India, and in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex, UK. * Strategic skills by looking at and analysing some social movements and successful advocacy campaigns in South Asia. CREA's eighth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building, and Rights Institute in East Africa is a residential programme, designed to strengthen feminist solidarity, leadership advocacy, and strategies for building collective power for social transformation. Additionally, participants will identify the different intersections, interactions, common spaces, and challenges that social movements encounter when collaborating on issues of women's human rights. Using a movement-building lens, the Institute will allow participants to build their knowledge on the theoretical underpinnings of movement building, synthesised from analyses of global movements. Considerations have been made to ensure reasonable accommodation and accessibility for participants. Formerly known as the South Asia Movement Building and Human Rights Institute, this Institute is designed for women working in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in South Asia in mid-level leadership positions. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings. Together with partners from a diverse range of human rights movements and networks, CREA works to advance the rights of women and girls, and the sexual and reproductive freedoms of all people. It also aims to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies, and collective power of young women for their voices and demands to be heard-at the level of the community to the highest levels of decision-making. This Institute offers mid-level women leaders in NGOs an opportunity to enhance their conceptual understanding as well as build their skills to do effective activism and advocacy on human rights. She is a development practitioner with over 25 years of experience in working for NGOs, donors, the UN, Grameen Bank, and the Bangladeshi government in a range of capacities, from direct programme management to policy formulation. A generous benefits package is included. Reservados todos los derechos. CREA is a Global-South-based international feminist human rights organization formed in 1999 by a group of development professionals working in the fields of reproductive rights, sexuality, violence against women, media and womens human rights. 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The venue is wheelchair accessible. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Since the 1970s, Srilatha has worked for gender equality and women's empowerment through grassroots activism, advocacy, teaching, research, training, grant-making, organisational development, and popular education. To apply online, click here. })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KNS5GKH'); THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. 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Build new and collaborative modes of resistance in the face of emerging configurations of power. Please include in the subject line the name of the position you are applying for. Maheen Sultan is one of the Founders of the Centre for Gender and Social Transformation at the BRAC Development Institute, BRAC University, a regional centre on research, teaching, and policy related to gender and social transformation based in Bangladesh. CREA also organized debates in colleges on issues of gender and sexuality, and ran an online campaign with Youth Ki Awaaz, which reached over a half a million people. Rita is an Ashoka fellow and one of the 1000 peace women around the globe.

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