JASS Knowledge

JASS publications and materials are the product of lively collective analysis, action research, and reflection and learning in the thick of social justice work around the world. By sharing fresh insights, tools and concepts, JASS builds bridges between theory and practice, researchers and practitioners, to sharpen knowledge and action.

Violence Against Women Human Rights Defenders in Mesoamerica

2010/2011 Update

Building on 2009-2010 assessments done of the violence that women human rights defenders (WHRDs) face in Mesoamerica, the 2011 update includes new cases and fresh analysis from national WHRD processes and networks across the region.

Updated: English & Spanish

Original: English (Executive Summary) & Spanish (Full report)

New Weave of Power, People & Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation

Takes a holistic, innovative approach to citizen participation, rights and advocacy. Provides tools, analytical frameworks, concepts, workshop and planning designs to help think and act strategically in contexts of shifting power dynamics. (more)

Order through Stylus Publishing (USA) or Practical Action Publishing (UK).

Translations available

Women Navigate Power: Stories about Claiming our Rights

Released in August 2007, this collection of stories about how women navigate, resist, and transform power is the product of a unique writeshop process organized by Just Associates for ActionAid international, engaging long-time women's rights activists in reflection, creative writing and sharing stories.

To order a copy, please send us an email!

Making Change Happen Series

Practical tools & concepts for strategic action.

The latest in our Making Change Happen series tackles the complexities and opportunities for understanding, constructing and transforming power. (See the Making Change Happen 3 or view more information on the series.)

Where is the Money for Women's Rights

An action research project by JASS in collaboration with the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).

This report is the result of an ongoing action research initiative launched by the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) to explore these questions and to draw insights into possible strategies for changing the existing funding landscape so that more resources are made available to women’s rights organizations.

Translations available at AWID's website.

Forging A Global Movement: New Education Strategies for the U.S. & the World

JASS and ActionAid International USA's research, networking, and advocacy planning process, Forging a Global Movement: New Education Rights Strategies for the US & the World, brought 25 education advocates, analysts and activist scholars together for a Roundtable Discussion in Washington, DC in July 2005, as a first step in building internatonal solidarity for an education rights agenda.

Assessing Social Change

JASS' critiques and alternatives to depoliticized and linear approaches to social change continue in our extensive work on evaluation. As a “learning organization”, JASS practices what we preach by integrating reflection and assessment in an ongoing way into our programs. We bring this experience to other organizations to help them integrate reflection and analysis more systematically so that evaluation isn’t something that happens at the end of a project by an outside expert. JASS has also carried out evaluations for a variety of organizations. (more)