The Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), a network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development is offering a training programme for building capacities and sustaining movements of young feminists in the economic south.
The DAWN Training Institute will be held from 10 October to 28 October 2011 in Southeast Asia. This is its fourth training institute and it was first launched in 2002. This programme “draws on both DAWN’s feminist analysis which interlinks issues under the themes of Political Economy of Globalisation including Gender and Trade, Political Ecology and Sustainability, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and Political Restructuring and Social Transformation; and the network’s considerable experience in UN conference processes and other sites of struggle, including the global civil society movement against neoliberal economic globalisation, as well as regional, sub-regional and national processes.” The objectives of the programme are:
1)To build capacity of young feminist activists from Southern countries, especially in understanding linkages betweendifferent issues and advocacy agendas, particularly those concerned with gender justice in its multiple and inter-linkeddimensions – economic, political, ecological, social and personal.
2)To strengthen feminist advocacy work at global and regional level; and to deepen analysis in some complex areas
3)To prepare young feminists for the challenges entailed in working for gender justice in the present global geopolitical and economic context.
Only applications from the economic south will be accepted and preference will be given to young women participants who are/will be working with civil society organizations promoting gender justice. The programme will take place in English language and participants should be able to understand and communicate in it. The deadline to submit applications is 15 September 2010. For more information, visit this link.
