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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
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
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South-East Asia
A June 2007 workshop brought together young women from Indonesia and East Timor to strengthen and diversify the leadership of women’s movements through intergenerational political education, skills-building activities and trans-border learning.
In early 2008, JASS will convene a larger regional institute for women of all ages working to address the combined challenges of poverty, labor exploitation, migration and trafficking facing women. |
Southern Africa
Building on the 2006 recommendations from the African Feminist Forum and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa’s project to “Renovate Women’s Movements in Southern Africa,” this institute is the first phase of a long-term process that aims to strengthen the leadership, strategies and collective power of African women living with and working on HIV/AIDS in order for their voices and demands to be visible and influential at all levels of decision-making. This effort began with an institute in November and a followup training in Februaury and over time, aims to make African women living with HIV visible, influential and at the top of the agenda for the next Global AIDS conference in Mexico in 2008. (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. |
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