Call for Registration: AWID E-learning Session – Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women’s Movements
Please note that due to limited capacity, registration is now closed. However, please feel free to sign up and we will place your name on a waiting list. If we have many cancellations or if we find that we have extra room on the day of the session, we will email you to let you know. We apologize for any inconvenience and will be doing our best to accommodate every one either through a recorded podcast and/or a second session.
Please stay tuned for subsequent sessions that are being planned on related themes to celebrate the launch of the second edition of Changing Their World. Thank you for your interest and please do not hesitate to contact us at bfemo@awid.org if you have any questions.
Join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
08:00 – 10:00 EST Live (time subject to change)
in an e-learning session
Presented by the editor of the publication, Srilatha Batliwala long time grassroots activist, renowned gender equality advocate, and women’s studies teacher and researcher in India and internationally.
The first in a series of sessions, based on Changing Their World 2nd edition, designed with the following objectives:
- Familiarize participants with the basic definitions and concepts of social movements, women’s movements, and the relationship of movements and organizations; and
- Enable participants to apply the concepts to analyze their own / their organization’s work in the context of movement-building approaches, in order to strengthen them
The focus of the session is to clarify and strengthen their understanding of what distinguishes movement-building approaches from the short-term projects, policy-advocacy, campaigns and other types of activities that are often conflated with movements. We believe the sessions will benefit almost anyone active in building women’s collective power, but unclear about what a movement is or how to build one, because of the widespread NGO-ization and “projectization” that has affected women’s rights organizations and gender equality work worldwide.
The sessions will follow an interactive format, with some “homework” as pre-preparation, and use a conference/e-learning technology. A short presentation, followed by Q&A and debate, will be used.
Please join us and interact with activists and organizations from around the world, and learn concepts and ideas to strengthen movements!
This e-learning session is based on the just published Changing Their World 2nd edition, updated with four new case studies, a new Introduction and Lessons Learned. To order a free hard copy in English please contact us at bfemo@awid.org
Language: The session will be run in English only.
Please email bfemo@awid.org for more information.
You can find the online version on the AWID website
Tagged with: AWID • BFEMO • changing their world • movement building
I am regularly following your updates but im feeling very sorry when i have seen that there is no news from Bangladesh. You know Bangladesh is a country where local, national and international organization are working for development but still women are facing the same problem to move forward. In here women are moving but they are facing challenges, domination and torture. We have seen that in other countries women’s sufferings, in Bangladesh if you research you will be shocked and panic- this is the movement which for we are working??? please keep in mind and think about it.
I was encouraged when I discovered that there exists an Organization known as AWID, that encourages women, as well as provide them the means to get to know and fight for their rights. Most importantly, AWID has focused a lot on North Africa, while neglecting Central Africa and sub-saharan Africa in general. They should employ consultants who should carry out credible research on women issues in these region. My advice is that they should employ mostly consultants who do master the terrain and culture in order to be able to ellicit correct and braod spectrum information that represent at least 85 percent of the women affected by these abuses. Language of communication is also an issue.
Best Regards.
Mukete.
would like to be a part of direct interactions with world leaders in women movement.
In Africa in general and particularly in Benin it is very hard to convince women to involve in women’s movements for they dont know and cannot mesure the benefits from those movements specifically in rural areas.Women are afraid and frightened by retaliations from husbands or political groups or leaders unless they are bribed to take actions for political elections. More associations should be trained and engage themselves in expanding the concepts and pratices of women’s movements. Much more activism should be carried out in order to reach the well known goals wich are still far from attending
there is really so much to learn as to how to educate the young women of their rights especially here in the Philippines.
Wonderful idea and offering to AWID members! Thank you. Will be passing this on. Depending on who is signing up for this, and where they’re joining from, it would be lovely to start this just a tad later than 5 am North America pacific time, however. ; )