Our Programmes
Feminist Law & Practice (FLP)
FLP focuses on building the capacity of women’s rights activists, legal advocates, and decision-makers to employ a feminist framework to advance women’s human rights in law and practice, advancing women’s access to justice and extending solidarity and support to Women Human Rights Defenders including in crisis periods.
Women in Power (WiP)
WiP works towards women’s transformative leadership such that it generates systemic change and increased democratic participation of women in decision making at all levels to achieve women’s human rights and Development Justice. It does this through grassroot-driven campaigns and tools to amplify women’s voices and political demands in spaces of influence.
Breaking Out of Marginalisation (BOOM)
BOOM works to build the movements of grassroots rural, indigenous, urban poor and differently-abled women, allowing them to influence policies and practices relevant to their human rights, fundamental freedoms and Development Justice.
Climate Justice (CJ)
CJ works to ensure that climate policies at local, national, regional and international levels incorporate the voices, experiences and demands of Asia-Pacific women’s climate justice movements. It recognises that feminist solutions for climate justice are key in dismantling structural inequalities between countries, between rich and poor and between men, women and other genders.
Labour (Women Organising Workers – WOW)
WOW advances women workers’ rights to decent work, labour rights and participatory democracy by shaping and organising labour movements. It strengthens the leadership and organising power of women workers, and builds solidarity between labour rights defenders and union movements regionally and globally.
Migration (Migrants United and Act for Human Rights – MUAH)
MUAH aims to ensure that women migrants enjoy their human rights and can make informed and free choices about migration. It seeks to do this by elevating the voices of women migrants through capacity building, engaging in evidence-based advocacy, participating in decision-making and fostering solidarity among women migrants and their communities.
Grounding the Global (GG)
GG monitors and ensures that international and regional laws, norms, standards, and procedures are informed by feminist agendas and women’s lived realities in Asia and the Pacific. It identifies strategic advocacy opportunities to democratise multilateral spaces and advance women’s human rights and accountability.
Feminist Development Justice (FDJ)
FDJ aims to transform development policies and practices at the international, regional, national, and local levels to position women’s human rights at the centre. It institutes processes for feminist and women’s movements to inform decision-making, implementation, and monitoring of development policies and fosters peoples’ movements for Development Justice.
Women Interrogating Trade and Corporate Hegemony (WITCH)
Feminist Voice (InfoComms)
InfoComms strengthens the use of accessible, secure and strategic communications tools and digital technologies to amplify the voices, analyses, vision and aspirations of feminist and women’s movements in the region and advance feminist digital rights and justice. It also oversees the digital security of the organisation.
Feminist Knowledge, Learning and Publication (FKLP)
FKLP ensures that feminist stories, data and analysis influence the discourse and narratives of policymakers, diverse movements, academia and the public to advance women’s human rights and Development Justice. It leads in producing inclusive and accessible knowledge materials and tools and strengthening research and knowledge management capacities of the organisation.
Cross-Cutting Initiatives
Crises & Women’s Human Rights
The programme documents the consequences of multiple and interdependent crises, fueled by COVID-19, on women’s human rights and monitors regional and global policy responses. It utilises this analysis to advance feminist responses and organising to advocate for measures and policies that dismantle broader structural inequalities, discrimination and violence against women and their movements.
Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF)
APFF creates space to bring dynamic feminist and women’s movements across the region together, build capacity, share new analysis and tactics to build stronger alliances. It offers a space to collectively map out movement challenges, undertake collective reflection and nurture solidarity movements. APFF will be held in 2024 and in 2027.
Funding Advocacy for Asia Pacific feminist movements
This initiative aims to intentionally co-create an environment and architecture of funding, including climate funds to be more accessible for grassroots movements as well as to be informed by the realities, needs and visions of the global south feminist movements, especially of Asia Pacific women.