WHO WE ARE

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DEVELOPMENT FOR WHOM?
The global, neoliberal model
of development is not working
for the rural, indigenous,
migrant, and urban poor
women of the Asia Pacific.
GLOBAL CRISES
This growth-focused
global economy has
caused two global
crises: a crisis of
deepening
inequalities and a
global climate crisis,
which have become
threats to the very
existence of Women of the Asia Pacific
civilization. region are amongst the
most affected by these
two crises.
APWLDS THEORY OF CHANGE
FPAR FEMINIST PARTICIPATORY
ACTION RESEARCH
FOR WOMENS EMPOWERMENT
A democratic, non-
hierarchical mutual learning
process and part of our struggle
for social transformation. Looks
at local knowledge and not that
of outside experts. Challenges
the idea that communities do not
have enough understanding of
their own issues and that they
dont have enough knowledge
fro critical analysis. They do.
FPAR FOR WOMENS EMPOWERMENT
Since 2012 APWLD has
supported 27 grassroots
communities from 13
countries to build their
capacity for advocating for
change using FPAR.
FPAR MODEL
Call for applications and
selection for subgrats
APWLD supports to employ one
young researcher, preferably
from the community, for the
FPAR period (1 year).
Organisation assigns a mentor
to oversee the FPAR project
and guide the young
researcher
Three regional FPAR trainings
by APWLD to increase capacity
of organisations as they carry
out the research
CASE STORY EMPOWERMENT
OF THE YOUNG RESEARCHER

Alina Saba, FPAR We are challenging the governments to be

bold and step up for addressing the climate
researcher from Nepal was crisis which is destroying the lives of rural
selected out of hundreds of indigenous poor women. While we are battling
for gender equality, we are also calling for
applicants as a panel change in this dysfunctional system, the only
member for Voices from way we can tackle the climate crisis at the
Climate Frontlines at the verge of our extinction. We are demanding
climate justice and development justice.
UN Climate Summit in New
- COP20 for Gender Day in Lima, Alina
York in September 2014. Saba, FPAR researcher 2014-2015,
MIWUI, Nepal
CASE STORY - INDIGENOUS WOMEN OF
WESTERN UMA IN KALINGA, PHILIPPINES
They used their evidence for two
petitions to the local government
and jointly wrote a position paper
against profit driven energy
projects.
Earlier in 2012 they created a
barricade, blocking a
multinational geothermal
company from entering the
community to conduct testing on
their ancestral land.
The company (Chevron)
eventually removed their
equipment and has not
returned to their lands yet.
CONCLUSION
Using FPAR, APWLD is building an
organized collective of committed
women who are questioning and
challenging development policies
and practices, and advocating for
their rights.
Through building trust, women
conducting FPAR often find that they
are able to present more factual
information that would have come
out in a traditional survey.
communities is bringing about
structural change and
build/strength movements.
 DEVELOPMENT
JUSTICE MODEL

a transformative and redistributive framework that aims to

reduce inequalities of wealth, power and resources between
countries, between rich and poor and between men and women
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