2006

Making Change Happen: Power The latest in our Making Change Happen series tackles the complexities and opportunities for understanding, constructing and transforming power.

Forging A Global Movement: New Education Strategies for the United States and the World by Molly Reilly of Just Associates and Akanksha Marphatia of ActionAid International, 2006.

Citizen Engagement and Global Economic Power
In the last decade, increased openings for civil society participation in economic policy processes have presented opportunities for economic justice advocates to make their case in a wide array of spaces. Campaigners and researchers share their experiences and questions on what campaign experiences tell us for connecting local realities and citizens to global economic decision-making processes.

Revisioning and Using Popular Education by Lisa VeneKlasen, 2006.

WHERE IS THE MONEY FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS? Assessing Resources and the Role of Donors in the Promotion of Women's Rights and the Support of Women's Rights Organizations by Cindy Clark, Ellen Sprenger and Lisa VeneKlasen of Just Associates in collaboration with Lydia Alpízar and Joanna Kerr of AWID, 2006.

Women are Africa's Political Hope, an op-ed written by Lisa VeneKlasen and JASS board member, Emira Woods, on the election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as President of Liberia.

Just Associates on rights-based approaches to development ...

The Institute of Development Studies' January 2005 Bulletin Developing Rights? includes three articles by Just Associates:

Rights-based Development: Linking Rights and Participation -- Challenges in Thinking and Action and

Rights-based Approaches: Recovering Past Innovations. These two articles are based on a longer paper.

Living Rights: Reflections from Women's Movements about Gender and Rights in Practice (with Joanna Wheeler)

2005 and Before

SEEING EYE TO EYE? InterAction Member Agencies and World Bank Staff Assess their Operational Collaboration and Policy Engagement for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development by Darcy Ashman, 2003

JASS co-edited the February 2002 edition of PLA-Notes (IIED, UK) on advocacy and citizen participation with the Institute for Development Studies (IDS). To order a copy of PLA Notes 43: Advocacy and Citizen Participation for USD$ 18, please visit Earthprint. If you are interested in bulk copies and rates, please contact The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

Grassroots Movements as Transnational Actors: Implications for Global Civil Society by Srilatha Batliwala, 2002.

ADDRESSING FINANCIAL STABILITY: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Transational Women's Rights Organizations by Cindy Clark, 2002.

NGO AND GRASSROOTS POLICY INFLUENCE: WHAT IS SUCCESS? by Valerie Miller, 1994.

STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY OR BLACK HOLE?: Assessing Policy Spaces to Advance Women's Rights Just Associates session at the 2005 AWID Forum.

YOUR NET MY WORK: Pitfalls and Lessons Learned from Coalitions, Alliances and Networks at Regional, National and International Levels. Just Associates session at the 2005 AWID Forum.

DEMYSTIFYING ECONOMICS: A Scoping of Economic Education Resources. By Just Associates and the Institute of Development Studies, Participation Group.

OLD LESSONS, FRESH INSIGHTS, NEW STRATEGIES: Notes on Mapping Gender Equality and Economic Justice Strategies by Lisa VeneKlasen for AWID's Gender Justice & Globalization Strategy Meeting.

POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: A PERPETUAL QUEST  by Valerie Miller, 2002.

THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRACY-BUILDING: Practical Lessons on NGO Advocacy and Political Change  by Lisa VeneKlasen, 1996 (introduction only).

WOMEN'S LEGAL RIGHTS ORGANIZING AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN AFRICA  by Lisa VeneKlasen, 1992 (introduction only).

WHAT IS SUCCESS? Measuring and Evaluating the Impact of Social Justice Advocacy and Citizen Organizing Strategies by Valerie Miller and Lisa VeneKlasen, 2002.

Presentations

HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN? Reflections about power, movement-building and feminist futures drawn from conversations among 1700 women's rights advocates over four days and nights. Lisa VeneKlasen's presentation in the final plenary of the 2005 AWID Forum.

BUILDING AND TRANSFORMING ECONOMIC POWER FOR WOMEN. Plenary speech by Lisa VeneKlasen to the 2005 Annual Conference of the Women's Funding Network.

 

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