Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) 2023-2024:
Feminists and Grassroots Women Challenging False Solutions in the Common Struggles for Climate Justice

 

APWLD invites feminists and women’s rights organisations across Asia and the Pacific region to apply for the Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research (CJ FPAR) on False Solutions, 2023-2024. The aim of this FPAR is to increase the capacity of feminists and grassroots women in Asia and the Pacific to document their lived realities and expose the impacts of false solutions on women’s human rights to further influence climate policies and discussions from local to global level.

This FPAR will support six to eight national and/or grassroots organisations led by women across Asia and the Pacific region with experience in working in challenging false solutions. APWLD will provide each partner organisation with a sub-grant not more than 14,000 USD throughout the FPAR journey. The small sub-grant should cover salary costs of a dedicated young woman researcher and activities to strengthen the capacity of women and their communities involved in the FPAR. Another flow of sub-grant, following the completion of the FPAR, will be provided to the partner organisations to conduct advocacy activities at local and national levels to support their FPAR journey.

Throughout this FPAR, the assigned mentors and young women researchers will be provided with opportunities to access high level capacity building programmes, climate related advocacy spaces particularly at regional and global levels, and networking with wider movements working on climate crises. FPAR modules will also be provided to the mentors and young women researchers to learn research skills including data gathering that are participatory with feminist lens of analysis.

The main language used during the FPAR journey will be English.

Selection Criteria

Applicants must be non-governmental, non-profit, feminists and women’s human rights and/or women-led organisations in Asia and the Pacific that demonstrate the following:

  • Experience in working with grassroots women and their communities;
  • Familiarity with the context and reality of climate crises including the impact of false solutions facing women at local and national levels;
  • Provide a dedicated mentor and young woman researcher throughout the entire FPAR period;
  • Capacity to conduct participatory research methodologies that contribute to strengthen democratic leadership of feminists and grassroots women in Asia and the Pacific;
  • Able to communicate in English or to provide a dedicated translator/interpreter to support the research team throughout the FPAR journey;

Highly desirable partner organisations:

  • Organisations from Central Asia, East Asia and the Pacific sub-regions;
  • Recommended through a letter of endorsement from APWLD members;
  • Direct experience in conducting participatory research methods;
  • Direct experience in advocacy and campaign work related to climate crisis and women’s human rights, particularly in challenging false solutions;
  • Ability to produce and submit reports and various FPAR related documents in English;

Submit your application:

Please send completed application form by Sunday, 9 April 2023 to Patricia Wattimena, Climate Justice Programme Officer at patricia@apwld.org cc Sagarika Bhatta, Climate Justice Programme Associate at sagarika@apwld.org (Please use the subject line: Application form_CJ FPAR_2023-2024_(name of your organisation). 

Please download the application form here.

For more details, please refer to the concept note.