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JASS’ Movement-Building Initiative (MBI) The MBI emerged in response to widely expressed frustrations with the limited impact of policy and technical solutions on inequality in the face of growing conservative backlash. In the first phase, 4-day movement-building institutes bring together a diverse, cross-generational range of women leaders and activists – from the community to policy levels – to analyze, reflect and strategize. From there, we work in partnership with a variety of women’s groups to carry out long term learning and action strategies to strengthen women’s collective impact on public opinion and decision-making from the household to the global level. (more)
Regional Movement Building Institutes:
Meso-America Main Page  Feminist Transformation Watch / Women Crossing the Line: The Watch spotlights and reinforces women’s local actions during political crises or around key regional issues, by mobilizing regional solidarity and media attention. Sea Change Feminist Leadership School: Sea Change is about strengthening women’s political skills and strategies through individual and collective learning and action grounded in feminist theory, human rights, and basic economic and budget skills. Drawing on popular education methodologies, the school also aims to inspire hope and energy. Petatera: Radio and Communications Strategy: “Radio Petatera” was created in collaboration with Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) and kicked off with a 10 hour webcast of local and international commentary during the Nicaraguan elections. Hear FIRE's broadcasts from the Feminist Transformation Watch. Read The Petatera Bulletin: Petatera #3 Petatera #2 Petatera #1 Who are the Petateras? Feminist Transformation Watch II / Women Crossing the Line in Oaxaca |
Southeast Asia Main Page 
JASS-Southeast Asia works to revitalise movements of women, especially young feminists. This initiative aims to: - strengthen and diversify women’s leadership for movement-building through political education and strategizing, skill-building, reflection and visioning, and cross-border action;
- bridge gaps between generations, between rural and urban areas, between activists from grassroots and professional levels, and between women’s and other movements;
- connect and exchange with JASS initiatives in other regions.
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Southern Africa Main Page 
In Southern Africa, JASS works with diverse women activists who are living with and active on HIV/AIDS, one-half of them young women, many from mixed PLWHA groups (people living with HIV/AIDS). This initiative aims to: - strengthen and nurture new forms of activist leadership, organizing strategies, and alliances;
- shape – from the ground up – an integrated rights agenda to address HIV/AIDS;
- make women’s demands visible and influential at all levels of decision-making;
- develop women’s communications skills, channels and political voice; and generate practical, usable knowledge about movement-building in a rapidly changing world.
. (more) | Global Learning and Communications Agenda JASS uses a structured process for reflecting on, documenting and communicating insights within and across the regional efforts to maximize learning and impact of the movement-building initiative. With the aim of generating new knowledge from practice, the process involves applying analytical tools, sharing perspectives, and drawing on individual creativity. This strategy is carried out in collaboration with diverse media and communications initiatives, currently including FIRE and Pemba Productions, and through broadening alliances with other regionally-based women’s communication initiatives. Tying this multi-regional initiative together is a common learning agenda that includes questions such as: What do “women’s movements” look like in this NGO-dominated moment? How do women build collective power that responds to and addresses our diversity and challenges privilege among us– how do we apply an intersectional analysis to our alliances, strategic choices, agendas, resource distribution, etc? How to build movements agile enough to respond to women’s pressing needs and diverse realities but also guided by a long-term strategy to advance women’s rights? How to build more effective cross-movement alliances? For more information on the MBI methodology, click here. | Just Associates
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