Young Women’s Institute on Money & Movements – AWID
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: June 19, 2006
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The Association for
Women’s Rights in
Development (AWID)
presents a
Young Women’s Institute on Money
and Movements
5 – 7 November,
2006
Oaxaca, Mexico
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Are you a young feminist with a commitment to strengthen
your organization or movement? If so, we welcome your application to
participate in a Young Women’s Institute on Money and Movements, 5 – 7 November,
2006, Oaxaca, Mexico. AWID is bringing together 35 young feminist activists,
primarily from the Global South and Eastern Europe who have experience with
either youth organizations or women’s rights organizations.
This meeting is a key follow-up to AWID’s action-research initiative,
“Where’s the money for women’s rights? has found that funding has shrunk in the
past 10 years for women’s rights. As such women’s and feminists movements need
to reenergize their collective strategies to increase the amount and quality of
funding. At this meeting, AWID will engage young feminists around their
strategies for movement-building, organizational strengthening and resource
mobilization.
This institute will provide a unique opportunity for participants to:
- Explore key challenges in relation to organizational strengthening and
movement building; - Explore effective strategies for addressing some of the current challenges
to the advancement of women’s rights world-wide; - Gain new skills in the areas of organisational strengthening and resource
mobilisation; - To brainstorm with young feminists how they can be involved in the
longer-term roll-out of AWID’s ‘Where’s the Money?’ Strategic Initiative;
This Institute will allow participants to explore these issues in depth
whilst at the same time allowing participants to hone their skills, articulate
their own visions for funding a women’s rights agenda, and work collaboratively
to launch strategic and cutting-edge campaigns to implement this agenda.
In addition to this Institute, participants will stay on to attend the
International Money and Movements Meeting hosted by AWID and Semillas from
November 9-11, 2006 in Oaxaca, Mexico. The insights, strategies and skills
developed at the pre-Institute will feed into the International meeting where
participants will have the opportunity to participate in the program and have
plenty of opportunity for informal networking and alliance-building with about
300 other participants from feminist and progressive women’s organizations
globally.
The Institute will be conducted in English, Spanish and French.
To be eligible to attend this institute you must be:
- Between the ages of 18-29 year old;
- Active within youth and/or feminist organisations and movements for the
last 2-3 years - Willing to work with AWID before the institute and make a commitment to
participate in any follow-up activities of the group.
Preference will be given to young women from organizations working for
women’s rights in the Global South and Eastern and Central Europe.
Cost: Participants will be required to pay a
registration fee of US$85 or MXN 900 (Mexico pesos). This fee will be paid by
cash onsite, and will cover the registration fees of BOTH the Institute and the
Money & Movements meeting.
Scholarships: A limited number of scholarships are
available. These scholarships will cover the travel costs of participants who
are unable to raise sufficient funds on their own. All participants however will
be expected to fundraise for the registration fee, which will NOT be waived.
This will help to ensure that those who most need and want to be at the meeting
will be there. Applicants who need assistance can apply for a scholarship at the
same time they apply to participate.
A web-based application form is available at www.awid.org/moneyandmovements/application_form_ywi_1.php.
The deadline for applications is 30 June 2006. Because the application
form is web-based, we encourage all interested candidates to APPLY EARLY,
to avoid server crashes brought on by a huge volume of last-minute applications.
Applicants who do not have Web access may contact AWID at the address below for
a hard copy.
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
ATT: Young Women’s
Institute on Money and Movements
2nd Floor, Community House, 41 Salt River
Rd, Salt River, 7925
Cape Town, South Africa
Contact Rushana Du Toit, rdutoit@awid.org
Fax in South Africa: 27
21 447 9617
Website: www.awid.org
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development
(AWID)
AWID is an international membership organization working to
strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women’s rights advocates,
organizations and movements internationally. This initiative forms a key part of
AWID’s commitment to integrate the specific priorities of young women through
all of its initiatives by facilitating human rights information through e-lists
and other publications, and by capacity building through multi-generational and
issue-related institutes and meetings.
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