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KEY RESULTS AREA {Global Feminist Research and Analyses}1.1 Global Feminist Research and Analyses1.2 ICAE VIII World Assembly, Malmo1.3 International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Annual Conference & Presentation1.4 Asia Pacific Capacity Development on Gender & Macroeconomics Short Course & Public Forum1.5 International Association for Feminist Economics1.6 South Centre Board Symposium, Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippine Government1.7 Public Seminar on Social Inequalities and Democratization, Co-sponsored by DAWN1.8 International Conference on MDG Related to Reproductive Health: Status, Challenges and Future Directions1.9 IPPF/AFPPD Workshop on Engaging Parliamentariansin Developing SRHR Platforms in South Asia1.10 Euro NGOs Annual Conference on SRHR inDevelopment Cooperation, Warsaw1.11 KIGEPE & UNDP Symposium “Promoting Gender Equality, Aid Effectiveness & Sustainable Development”1.12 A Bottom-Up Approach to Financial Regulation1.13 Open Society Institute Partners’ Meeting1.14 Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF) Gender Equity and Sustainable Development1.15 Thematic Social Forum on Rio+201.16 ARC Int’l Dialogue and Training on LGBT Human Rights1.17 Gorkana Dialogue on Women in Peace-building, Asia Pacific1.18 International Conference on MDG Related to Reproductive Health: Status, Challenges and Future Directions1.19 DAWN E-Monograph on Conflict - Women Transforming Peace Activism in the Fierce New World

KEY RESULTS AREA {Global Feminist Advocacy}2.1 CEDAW Committee Day of General Discussion2.2 UN Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meet for UNCSD2.3 Commonwealth People’s Forum2.4 Indian National Consultation on Rio+202.5 UN-NGLS Consultation for UN SG’s Global Sustainability Panel2.6 Vanuatu ‘No to WTO’ campaign, Pacific2.7 Youth Gender Climate Group Statement for COP 172.8 Pacific Campaign on Seabed Mining2.9 UNFPA ICPD Beyond 20142.10 Rio+20 Second Inter-Sessional Meeting2.11 UN Women Regional Core Group Consultation on Women, Peace and Security

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2.12 Human Rights Council Seminar on Climate Change2.13 UN CSW 56th Session2.14 Rio+20 1st Informal Informals2.15 Rio+20 3rd Inter-Sessional Meeting2.16 South, South East, East Asia and Pacific Regional Consultation

KEY RESULTS AREA {Remobilizing Feminist Activism}3.1 Launch of RESURJ at CPD 443.2 DAWN Training Institute3.3 DAWN/WHC/ RESURJ Cairo@20 Feminist Strategy Meeting3.4 DAWN SRHR Beyond 2015: Political Strategy and Planning Meeting for ICPD+20 and Beyond

KEY RESULTS AREA {Remobilizing Feminist Activism}4.1 Board and Executive Member4.2 Secretariat4.3 Info-com

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{VISION STATEMENT}

“We want a world where inequalities and discrimination based on gender and all other identities are eliminated across countries and amongst peoples; where development processes are founded on the principles of social solidarity and economic, political, ecological, social, and personal justice; where poverty and violence are eradicated; where human rights in their fullest and most expansive sense evolve as the foundation of laws, public policies, and private actions. We want a world where massive resources now used to produce the means of destruction are diverted to building ethically and socially responsive development alternatives — alternatives that promote lasting peace, and justice within and outside the home — establishing a world where people interact with ecological systems in humane and sustainable ways. Such a world would ensure bodily integrity and security of personhood in every dimension of our lives, promote inclusiveness and respect for diversities, and facilitate the realization of sexual and reproductive rights for all. Such a world would be home to women who are considered equal partners in determining priorities and making decisions at all levels and in every location and where inclusive, participatory and democratic processes serve as the basis for governance. In such a world, the human rights of all peoples form as the gravitational center for action, therefore affirming the ethical basis for a just and humane world.”

DAWN ACTIVITIES REPORT1

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and gender justice, and sustainable and democratic development. Founded in 1984, DAWN provides a forum for feminist research, analyses and advocacy on global issues (economic, social and political) that affect the livelihoods, living standards, rights and development of women, most especially poor and marginalized women in regions of the South. Through research, analyses, advocacy and training, DAWN advances feminist alternatives and mobilizes women in civil society towards challenging inequitable social, economic and political relations (and structures) at global, regional and national levels. DAWN counters the material bases of social, economic and political inequalities, injustices and exclusions and envisions processes of economic and social development geared towards enabling human rights and freedoms, DAWN draws strength from and is committed to further empowering the women’s movements in the economic South. Twenty years after DAWN was founded, its work entails:

• Developinganddisseminatinganalysesofeconomic, social, cultural and political processes, which cause and perpetuate inequalities of gender, class, race and other forms of unjust social ordering and discrimination;

• Engaging in global and regional inter-governmentalandnon-governmentalforumsandprocesses to challenge and change mainstream thinking, policy and practice which hurt poor women in the South;

• Co-sponsoring global civil societyinitiatives aimed at achieving sustainable, equitable and gender-just social economic andpolitical development;

• Contributingtoselectedreforminitiativesinstituted in response to feminist or civil society demands for global institutional or policy changes; and

• Providing training that strengthenanalytical and advocacy skills amongst young feminist from the South who are engaged (or interested) in working on global issues covered by DAWN’s four core themes.

The period of this report was a very intense one for DAWN, full of activities and engagement, dominated by preparation for the 20 year review processes of the UN Conference on Environment and Development and the UN International Conference on Population and Development (Rio + 20 and ICPD @ 20), and the debates around the Post 2015 Development Agenda. While engaging intensively in analysis, advocacy and mobilization, DAWN also expanded its outreachtoyoungfeministactiviststhroughtime-tested and new capacity building initiatives, and strengthened its networking with new and older partner organizations.

During the previous year (see Activities Report SY2010-2011),DAWNvigorouslypromoteditsanalysis of the “fierce new world” that was first advanced during the DAWN Development Debates in January 2010, through analytical pieces and advocacy interventions made by DAWN members in different platforms of engagement. Moreover, DAWN’s analysis of a “fierce new world” now underpins the papers produced for the regional consolidation work around Gender, Ecology and Economic Justice (GEEJ) in three regions of the economic south – Pacific, Africa and Latin America.

Thisyear’sactivitiessawtheDAWNinter-linkagesanalysis being applied to examining specific policy issues and engaging in debates around alternative development, such as, macroeconomics, financial regulation, social protection, population and development, adult education, social inequalities and democratization, sexual rights advocacy and peace-building.DAWNmembersusedvariousCSOspaces inpromoting their inter-linkagesperspective to respond to the “fierce new world”, challenging activists and advocates of the need tomovebeyondsingleissue-orientedanalysis.

1.1 Workshop on Advancing a Progressive Agenda for Women, Bangkok,June 11-13, 2011

DAWN convened for the Ford Foundation a meeting to provide conceptual framing to the

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Foundation’s efforts at exploring the contours of a renewed development agenda for women in Asia. In attendance were a total of 26 participants (including DAWN) from various countries in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, together with nine men and women from the Foundation. The meeting strongly called to make women’s human rights, equity, sustainability and justice as a key pillar for policy analysis; to reframe and challenge the MDGs, Rio+20, and other spaces, and move forward with alternatives; to improve capacity for critical engagement, foster Asian women’s movements, and broaden solidarity in Asia and the South; and to acknowledge the diversity of Asia (and the South) with emerging poles of accumulation and rising inequities, and enlarge opportunities and capacities to advance progressive agendas for women. Involved were: Gita Sen, Anita Nayar, Noelene Nabulivou, Kumi Samuel, Cai Yiping, and Gigi Francisco, with DAWN Associate Joel Lasam.

1.2 ICAE VIII World Assembly, Malmo, June 14-17, 2011

DAWN has had a long engagement with progressive adult educators through links with the International Council on Adult Education (ICAE). This has included support for ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy (IALLA) and the Gender Education Office (GEO), and during the ICAE World Assemblies. Gita Sen was a keynote speaker in the ICAE World Assembly entitled A World worth Living In. Her speech “Intellectuals and Intellect Workers: The Role of the Educator in Today’s Fierce World” was positively received by 700 participants from 82 countr ies. Gita challenged people to be genuine intellectuals willing to take on

the fierce new world that is emerging, rather than merely intellect workers unable to see the wood for the trees or to take on the inequity and injustice of the world we are living in. As well, Gigi Francisco spoke at the GEO cluster meeting and also moderated a GEO panel. In November 2011, Gita followed this up through support for the virtual exchange that ICAE organized to spark a debate, preparatory to the Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre on: “Capitalist Crisis, Social and Environmental Justice”

1.3 International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Annual Conference & Presentation at Women’s Colleges, Hangzhou & Beijing, June 24-30, 2011

Marina Durano read the speech of Gigi Francisco in the Opening Plenary while Gita Sen spoke at the Closing Plenary on future directions for social protection in Asia, organized by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). This was later published by FES as part of their policy analysis series on social protection (“Engendering Social Security and Protection: The Case of Asia” Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, International Policy Analysis, August 2011).DAWN, at the request of IAFFE

also organized a panel entitled “Activist Scholarship and its Contributions to Deliberative Democracy in Global Economic Governance.” Speakers were Zo Randriamaro (DAWN), Aldo Caliari (Center of Concern) and Chee Yoke Ling (Third World Network). The intention was to demonstrate the analysis and activism of DAWN and its allies, around the Asian economic governance both on gender equality and also on the road to Rio+20. Marina also moderated an IAFFE Luncheon Panel organized by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. In addition, Marina spoke to the staff at the Women’s Studies Institute of China and China Women’s University Library in Beijing. She presented her analysis of the global crisis, the responses and some policy proposals to move forward. The academe-based eventwas organized by Executive Committee member, Cai Yping.

1.4 Asia Pacific Capacity Development on Gender & Macroeconomics Short Course & Public Forum, Tokyo, July 5 – 14, 2011

Executive Committee member, Marina Durano, act ively participated as a resource person who supported the training team


and was a speaker at a public forum entitled Gender Issues in Macroeconomics, which took place at the National Women’s Education Center, Saitama & Ochinomizu University.

1.5 South Centre Board Symposium, Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippine Government, Manila, August 2, 2011

Marina Durano was speaker on gender and sustainable development: challenges faced by Asian economic growth and urbanization. Gigi Francisco, DAWN’s General Coordinator, attended the symposium. DAWN has had strategic collaboration with the South Centre for some time now and this is envisioned to be sustained.

1.6 Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) Research Workshop, 5-7 August 2011, Colombo

Kumudini Samuel was a resource person at this workshop. The APWW research project sought to explore and investigate common perceptions and understanding around the linkages between selected Human Rights Instruments and Social Development Indicators in the context of women’s economic empowerment in

conflictaffectedandpost-conflictcontexts in the Asia Pacific Region. Helping to frame the research Ms. Samuel showed the linkages between UNSCR 1325, CEDAW and economic security for women living in conflict and post conflict contexts.

1.7 Public Seminar on Social Inequalities and D e m o c r a t i z a t i o n , C o -sponsored by DAWN, Kanita Centre & University Sains Malaysia, Penang, August 23, 2011

Executive Committee members Gita Sen, Zo Randriamaro and Marina Durano were speakers at the public seminar. In attendance were members of the academic and NGO communities in Penang. They were joined by other DAWN members, Noelene Nabulivou, Cai Yiping and Gigi Francisco. Participation in this public seminar entailed ongoing networking with an important base for feminist and social research in Malaysia with the possibility of continued co l laborat ion in future.

1.8 CSO Reflection Group on Global Development Meeting,Uppsala, September 23-24, 2011

Gigi Francisco, representing DAWN, participated in the drafting of the Reflection

Group’s input to the Rio+20 Zero Draft which was a collaborative effort among several groups; namely, Global Policy Forum, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Social Watch, Third World Network, Terre de Somme, and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.

1.9 IPPF/AFPPD Workshop on Engaging Parliamentarians in Developing SRHR Platforms in South Asia, Phuket, September 24-25, 2011

Gita Sen delivered the keynote address on “Advancing SRHR in Difficult Times” at the South Asian Parliamentarians’ Workshop on Engaging Parliamentarians in Developing Reproductive Health and Rights Platforms in the South Asia Region, organized by the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) held in Phuket on September 24-25, 2011. Thiswas an important event to inform and sensitize parliamentarians from the region in preparation for the ICPD @ 20 processes.

1.10 Euro NGOs Annual Conference on SRHR in Development Cooperation, Warsaw, October 13-14, 2011

Gita Sen spoke at the Opening Plenary panel on “Future Perspectives on SRHR in Development Cooperation” at the Euro NGOs 2011 Conference, Warsaw, October 13, 2011. This annual event is an impor tant meeting ground for European NGOs working on SRHR that shapes networking and advocacy both regionally and globally.

1.11 KIGEPE & UNDP Symposium “Promoting Gender Equality, Aid Effectiveness & Sustainable Development”, Seoul, October 24, 2011


Marina Durano was a speaker on “ Im prove d Gend er Responsive Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators for More Ef fect ive Accountabi l i ty.”

1.12 A Bottom-Up Approach to Financial Regulation, Manila, December 5-6 2011

Together with the Center of Concern, Agribusiness Action Initiatives-Asia,andESCR-Net,DAWN, through Gigi Francisco, organized a capacity building workshop for CSOs especially those in the Mekong Sub-region and Myanmar. Fifteen representatives from 6 Asian countries (Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines) attended.

1.13 Open Society Institute Partners’ Meeting, Bangkok, Dec 12-14, 2011

Gita Sen spoke on the “Need for Economics Research in Access to Medicines Advocacy” at OSF Public Health Program Seminar Series, Civil Society Strategy Meeting on the Future of Access to Medicines, held in Bangkok. While DAWN has not been previously involved in advocacy on access to medicines, this engagement was meant to explore the possibility of linking DAWN’s SRHR and PEG analyses through a focus on IPRs and Access to Medicines.

1.14 Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF) Gender Equity and

Sustainable Development, Washington D.C., January 19, 2012

Anita Nayar was speaker on ‘Global Governance: Shifts and Turn’ and liaised with the South Centre’s Mariama Williams for collaboration for Rio+20.

1.15 Thematic Social Forum on Rio+20, Porto Alegre, January 24-29, 2012

Gigi Francisco was speaker at the Reflection Group event and also at the World Education Forum plenary on ‘Capitalist Crisis, Causes, Impact and Consequences for the World of Education’. Together with Nicole Bidegain, she participated in the Education Forum and ICAE AcademyofLife-LongLearningAdvocacy (IALLA), as well as in the Women’s Strategy Meeting, all taking place within the space of the Thematic Social Forum.

1.16 ARC International Dialogue and Training on LGBT Human Rights, St. Lucia, Feb 3-5 2012

Noelene Nabulivou attended the meeting which was mostly made up of participants from the Caribbean. She actively pursued the formation of a women’s caucus, highlighting the need for further dialogue.

1.17 Gorkana Dialogue on Women in Peace-building, Asia Pacific organized by the Centre for Humanitarian D i a l o g u e , Ka t m a n d u , March 13 to 15, 2012

Kumudini Samuel participated at the second Gorkana Dialogue on Women in Peacebuilding in Asia Pacific. The Dialogue built on the first dialogue by moving the discussion from women’s participation in peace building and peace-making


to look at the substance of peace processes encompassing power sharing, resource sharing, transitionaljusticemechanisms,post-agreementsecurity arrangements and the monitoring of implementationpost-agreement.Thedialoguealso enabled experience and learning exchange across the region, and allowed for constructive networking between women/feminist activists working in conflict and post conflict settings. Kumudini was able to introduce DAWN analysis on political restructuring and social transformation into the dialogue as a special invitee of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.

1.18 International Conference on MDG Related to Reproductive Health: Status, Challenges and Future Directions, Mumbai, March 18-21, 2012

Gita Sen was speaker at this conference that was convened by the National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (Indian Council of Medical Research) and UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/WB)

1.19 DAWN E-Monograph on Conflict - Women Transforming Peace Activism in the Fierce New World

In the period under review Kumudini Samuel, Coordinator of the thematic track on Political Restructuring and Social Transformation, completedathree-countryMonographcomprisingof nine detailed case studies, three country specific analytical pieces and an editorial. This Monographbroughttogetherinter-generationalexperiences of activism in conflict, transition and post war/post conflict situations in Indonesia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The work was coordinated in collaboration with Kamala Chandrakirana, Andi Yaniyantri and Komnas Perempuan in Indonesia;


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The systemization of the network’s engagement in advocacy to enlarge its impact and position as a key civil society actor in global inter-governmental and multilateral policy and development agenda setting, is a goal that DAWN identified for its current strategic plan.

For this fiscal year, DAWN increasingly consolidated its advocacy efforts around regional and global inter-governmental negotiationson Rio+20 but also began to be visible in the early stages of global consultations around Cairo+20. Either by itself or together with like-minded organizations, DAWN started avigorous circulation of speeches, statements that it produced, or declarations that it signed on. Moreover, DAWN sustained its engagement with the Human Rights Council (HRC) working on advocacy around the need for a new CEDAW General Recommendation

2.1 CEDAW Committee Day of General Discussion, NY, July 18, 2011

Kumudini Samuel engaged with the advocacy and made substantive contributions to the CEDAW Committee during its elaboration of a General Recommendation on Protection of Women’s Human Right in Conflict and Post-ConflictContexts. DAWN took forward its collaborative work, begun in 2010, with International Women’s RightsActionWatch-AsiaPacific (IWRAW-AP),theGlobal Network ofWomen Peace-builders,Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the Women and Media Collective and WILD for Human Rights with the University of California at Berkeley Law School to provide a platform for women’s groups to strategize and mobilize support for the CEDAW Committee’s proposed General Recommendation. Kumi, on behalf of DAWN, made a critical submission to the CEDAW Committee during its Day of General Discussion on 18 July, at the UN in New York. The DAWN intervention dealt with defining the obligations of States for the conduct and policies effecting rights extraterritorially. DAWN and Amnesty International were the

Renu Adhikari, Jyotsna Maskay and Women’s Rehabilitation Center (WOREC) in Nepal; and Ambika Satkunanathan and the Women and Media Collective in Sri Lanka. The Monograph waspublishedasane-bookandcirculatedviathe internet.


only organizations to highlight concerns of extraterritoriality questions around the impact of loan, trade and aid frameworks on rights, with a particular focus on gender analysis and conflict.

2.2 UN Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meet for UNCSD, Seoul, October 16-20, 2011

Anita Nayar participated in the Asia Pacific major group training and was speaker at the UNEP major group and stakeholder meet “Access to Information, Participation and Justice” panel. She was chair of the green economy drafting group and together with Gigi Francisco and Noelene Nabulivou (online), drafted the Asia Pacific Women’s Major Group statement and gathered endorsements.

2.3 Commonwealth People’s Forum, Perth, Oct 27 2011

Noelene Nabulivou was a speaker on the panel “Failure of Current Trade and Financial Models – Alternatives for Development”.

2.4 Indian National Consultation on Rio+20, New Delhi, Nov 3, 2011

Anita Nayar was speaker on “Perspectives of Major Stakeholders-Women.” Shewas invited as advisor to Alliance India for Rio.

2.5 UN-NGLS Consultation for UN SG’s Global Sustainability Panel, November 13, 2011

Marina Durano was interviewed by UN-NGLS on her thoughtsof the SG’s initiative. This was followed by the submission of her written inputs.

2.6 Vanuatu ‘No to WTO’ campaign, Pacific, Nov 22-25, 2011

Noelene Nabulivou co-wrote a sign-on letter “FreeSpeech Instead of Free Trade – Vanuatu,” with Vanuatu Association of Non-Government Organizations (VANGO) and Pacific Network on Globalization (PANG) that was used to express concern over Vanuatu’s accession to the WTO. The sign-on letterwas released to the media and Pacific governments in the lead up to International Human Rights Day on December 10, 2011

2.7 Youth Gender Climate Group Statement for COP 17, Nov. 27-29, 2011

Noelene Nabulivou and Anita Nayar influenced the Youth Gender Climate group statement for COP 17 held in Durban.

2.8 Pacific Campaign on Seabed Mining, Fiji, Nov 28, 2011

Noelene Nabulivou co-wrotea sign-on petition ‘PacificCivilSociety Says: Slow Down Experimental Seabed Mining is Not a Sustainable Development Option’withPANGand3non-governmental from Papua New Guinea.Shealsoco-developeda regional campaign strategy on this issue.

2.9 UNFPA ICPD Beyond 2014, Istanbul, Dec 9-10, 2011

Gita Sen spoke on “The UN Development Agenda Beyond 2015 / ICPD Beyond 2014 – the Global Context” at the Opening Plenary of the UNFPA Civil Society Stakeholder Group Consultations, in Istanbul, on 9-10 December 2011. Thiswas the first such consultation

Source: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/cop17durban/2011/12/women-and-gender-constituencies-at-cop17/


in preparation for ICPD@20 where over 100 members of civil society were present.

2.10 Rio+20 Second Inter-Sessional Meeting, New York, December 15-16, 2011

Anita Nayar was both a plenary speaker and a speaker at the side event convened by UN Women. In her speech, Anita highlighted five calls to action imperative for the re-design and implementation of an engendered sustainable development model for the world’s future.

2.11 UN Women Regional Core Group Consultation on Women, Peace and Security, New Delhi January 9 - 11, 2012

UN Women South Asia launched a regional programme on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in 2011. Following Kumudini Samuel’s participation in the UN Women Regional Open Day event on Peace and Security entitled Partnerships for Peace in September 2011, and according to its recommendations, the January meeting in New Delhi constituted an expert group of South Asian feminists and peace activists to advise and provide substantive inputs into UN Women’s work on WPS in the region. Kumi was appointed a member to this ‘Expert Group on Women, Peace and Security to UN Women South

Asia Regional Office’ (EG). The EG was appointed for a period of 4 years. The Expert Group will provide advice, guide and support advocacy by UN Women SASRO on issues pertaining to women, peace and security in the South Asia region. This was the first CSO mechanism created to engage with UN Women at a Regional level and offers a good prototype and precedent of CSO engagement with UN Women.

2.12 Human Rights Council Seminar on Climate Change, Geneva, Feb 23-24, 2012

Anita Nayar had a presentation entitled “Adverse Impact of Climate Change on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights”

2.13 UN CSW 56th Session, New York, February 2-March 9, 2012

Marina Durano convened and moderated an NGO panel entitled “Economics, Migration & Demographics in a Fierce New World: Implications on Rural Women’s Struggles.” DTI alumnae and GEEJ regional participants comprised the panel of speakers: Tarusla Bradburgh (Fiji), Masaya Llanavares (Venezuela), Avanti Mukherjee (India) and Mbathio Samb (Senegal). Marina also spoke in a side event ‘Right to Participate in CSW: The Case of Iran’ as well as in the WUNRN panel on ‘Rural Women-Poverty-Crises-Rights’.

2.14 Rio+20 1st Informal Informals, New York, March 19-23, 2012

Nicole Bidegain and Anita Nayar participated in the daily strategy meeting of the Women’s Major Group (WMG), spoke at different side and NGOs events, and were involved in the Women’s Caucus

2.15 Rio+20 3rd Inter-Sessional Meeting, New York, March 26-27, 2012

Nicole Bidegain and Anita Nayar were joined by Noelene Nabulivou, and continued their participation in the Women’s Major Group and the Women’s Caucus

2.16 South, South East, East Asia and Pacific Regional Consultation hosted by the CEDAW Working Group, UN Women and UNHRC in Bangkok March, 25 to 29, 2012

DAWN assisted IWRAW-APwith the co-ordination of thisconsultation held in March 2012. The main consultation had approximately 75 delegates, some of whom were nominated by DAWN and were from among DTI/RTI and other work related contacts in the region.

Building from our presentations at the Day of Open Discussion in New York the year before, this engagement was much more active and focused.


The General Recommendation concept note which was quite limited then was much more nuanced and inclusive. Of note was that the issue raised almost solely by DAWN in 2011 of extra territoriality and the role of external states, IFIs and international humanitarian agencies in conflict and post conflict development was very well highlighted in many presentations and picked up strongly by the drafting team. The space for engagement with CSOs was significantly expanded with regional consultations held in Africa, Central American and Latin America. The Committee hopes to discuss a first draft of the GR in 2013 with states parties and will have a finalized GR for adoption in July 2014.

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Activism}DAWN has committed its efforts to revitalizing women’s movements and feminist political actions across the economic south. In the previous year, DAWN had gone to the regions to organize venues for south-south feminist debates andinter-linkages analyses. These were called theGender, Ecology and Economic Justice (GEEJ) regional consultations. This year DAWN held the much awaited 4th DAWN Training Institute, a three-week intensive DAWN activist school.DAWN also partnered with Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ), a newly formed network of young feminists (RESURJ) and the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) for joint strategizing on how to secure, if not expand, SRHR guarantees and programs in the current global review and negotiation processes.

3.1 Launch of RESURJ at CPD 44, April 9, 2011

DAWN Executive Committee member, Anita Nayar, was at the launching of RESURJ, the global network of young women advocating for reproductive and sexual rights. Anita was one of the key advisors to the formation of this new network that will become a critical ally of DAWN inthelead-uptoICPD+20.

3.2 DAWN Training Institute, Siem Reap, Oct 9 – 27, 2011

The 4th edition of DAWN’s global intensive capacity training program for young women activists and feminists took place in Cambodia. Thirty young women from Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific – had been

selected from a pool of over 190 applicants. The fourth global DTI follows three previous DAWN Training Institutes held in Bangalore (2003), Montevideo (2005) and Cape Town (2007). The DAWN Analysis team was led by DTI Training Coordinator and EC member Zo Randriamaro.

3.3 DAWN/WHC/ RESURJ Cairo@20 Feminist Strategy Meeting, Mexico City, December 4-6, 2011

DAWN’s representatives to the conveners were Anita Nayar and Erika Troncoso. DAWN invitees to the meeting include Tonya Haynes (Barbaods), Shuchi Karim (Bangladesh), Nani Samuela (Cook Islands) and Jayanthi Kuru Utumpala (Sri Lanka).


In addition to Anita and Erika, the DAWN women included Gita Sen, Nicole Bidegain and Cai Yiping.

DAWN, RESURJ and IWHC held this joint strategy meeting in Mexico City to share perspectives and perceptions, and to develop a common agenda and strategies. Themeeting brought together amulti-generational group of over 30 feminists and resulted in the launching of a rallying call: “Our Rights, Our Lives:Women’sCall toActiontowardthe20-yearreviewof theCairoconference in2014”.Animportantoutcome of the meeting was an agreement that the three organizations will work closely together during the upcoming period, and will reach out to the large numbers of national, regional and global organizations and networks that share similar perspectives and goals, as well as to potential allies and partners.

3.4 DAWN SRHR Beyond 2015: Political Strategy and Planning Meeting for ICPD+20 and Beyond, Bangkok, February. 25-27, 2012

This is a follow up to the strategy meeting held by DAWN, RESURJ and IWHC in Mexico City in early December 2011. In this meeting, twenty one SRHR advocates joined seven DAWN members for a strategy meeting in Bangkok in February 2012, building on the outcomes of the Mexico City meeting, to develop a common strategy and specific actions that DAWN and our network partners will carry out for Cairo + 20, withinter-linkagestoRio+20andthePost2015DevelopmentAgenda.

KEY RESULTS AREA {Organizational Development}

DAWN is committed to sustaining the network’s leadership in the global women’s movement for the next20-25years.Inordertofacilitatethis,DAWNrecognizes the need to continue strengthening its organizational leadership, capacities and strategies especially for communications.

4.1 Board and Executive Members

The annual Board-Executive Committee JointmeetingwasheldinBalionMay29-June3,2011.Thiswas followedupbyamid-termmeetingofthe Executive Committee in Siem Reap that was held immediately after the global DAWN Training Institute. At the EC meeting, Marina Durano from the Philippines formally stepped down from DAWN after serving ten years with the organization. We thank Marina for having led the research theme of Political Economy of Globalization for several years. She was later replaced by Nicole Bidegain fromUruguaywhowas co-opted to theDAWNExecutive Committee in January 2012.

4.2 Secretariat

The secretariat continues to be based at the Women and Gender Institute of Miriam College in the Philippines. A Memorandum of Agreement renewing for another three years the hosting by Miriam College of the DAWN secretariat was signed between the school president and DAWN. Some staff movements during this period included the following: Program and Administrative Officer, Erika Sales, was approved for an academic scholarship at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and had to leave in the middle of the fiscal year. A month before she left, a new Program and Administrative Officer in the person of Erika Rosario was hired in July 2011. As well, Archie Buenaventura, Administrative Assistant, left the office in February 2012 and emigrated. Moreover, due to the increasing importance of DAWN’s information and communication outreach, an Info-Com Assistant was hired inSeptember 2011, in the person of Keow Abanto.

4.3 Info-comDAWN has taken advantage of the widespread use


of the internet and social media and has reached several stakeholders and feminist audiences by increasing awareness for its advocacy and outputs through several mediums of media used to disseminate these various bits of information. The Information and communications (InfoCom) support seeks to keep up with the vast changes of technology in order to continue promoting DAWN’s mission and vision throughout the entire world.

The presence of DAWN’s website and Facebook had made it easier for people to keep posted and get interested on DAWN’s various activities and advocacies. The number of subscriptions and likes has proved that these platforms do indeed play a vital role in reaching various audiences across the globe through cyberspace. The website serves as the main component of posting DAWN’s advocacies and activities while the Facebook page serves as the “push” to keep audiences who often use the social media website informed of the new contents of the website. The use of cyberspace to reach a widespread audience is indeed effective as several people had given feedbacks, inquiries, requests for interviews and subscriptions. Among the feedbacks are:

“Dear Madam, I wish to find out when the next DTI will be held? I wish to apply for the next DTI. I went through DAWN website and I am so inspired by the work you do on feminism. Kind regards” (from Cameroon)

“Very good! Thanks for sharing this; this would help an advocacy process that two organizations from Caribbean are holding i just forwarded the info” (from Dominican Republic)

“I am working in public health with a focus on women (I am currently an intern in the WHO) and would like to join your listserv if possible.” (from Norway)

“Thanks for letting us know about this DAWN! Just sent the event to our staff who will be at CSW ~ Michele” (Global Fund for Women)

Measuring ImpactInfoCom’s regular operations include the


monitoring of web statistics on both the website and Facebook page. The monitoring of web statistics enables DAWN to gauge its visibility in cyberspace and identify what needs to be improved in order to better advocate DAWN’s activities and objectives.

Compared to thepreviousfiscalyearof2010-2011, therewasadrop invisitors registered in thewebsite’s statistics with an average of 1,700 visitors per month and the highest peak of unique visitors was on the month of February 2012 with 2,228 visitors. The highest page traffic was during themonthsofMay-July2011andFebruary-March2012;thehighestnumberofpagehitswasonMay2011 with 4,293 visits. In those months, notable DAWN announcements and posts such as Combined Statements by Young Women Activists from the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean on Gender, Economic and Ecological Justice and the DAWN Participation at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) were able to attract visitors to the website.

To further DAWN’s impact in cyberspace, DAWN has launched a facebook page on October 9, 2011. The facebook page serves as a push notification for those who are constantly using the social network to gather information and stay updated with current events. Currently, the DAWN facebook page has 425 likes since its creation, with 84% comprised of females and 9.2% comprised of males .The highest traffic generated was in the month of October, when the facebook page was launched alongside the updates on the DTI in Cambodia. The page garnered 195 “likes” and 144 comments throughout the entire month of October. The term “like” in facebook pertains to subscribing to a fanpage for updates or to show support for the page.

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Each post in the facebook page updates users who have liked the page and each post can be further shared by the user to create a wider range of audiences. The “talking about this” records how many usershavebeentalkingaboutthefanpage.Sofar,thehighestactivitieshavebeenonOctober10-16with 169 people talking about the DAWN Facebook page. While the Viral Reach shows the number of people who have not subscirbed to the Facebook page, but have seen an article shared by their friend who has liked the page. The viral reach had reached it’s highest peak so far during the first week of DAWN’s Facebook launch with 2,551 people. The DTI 2011 photo album garnered the most impressions and feedbacks on DAWN’s facebook page.

This implies that people’s interest was on what was happening during the DTI through the photos and videos and interviews being posted on DAWN’s page. The posting of photos and videos of onsite events have caught the attention of many and is an effective tool for spreading DAWN activities.

Since the end of the DTI, the facebook page has only been used as a push notification when new articles have been posted in the main website. The users however, are still commenting and liking certain articles despite the decrease of activity on the facebook page.

The top countries who are subscribing to DAWN’s Facebook page are coming from the Philippines, United States of America, Fiji, India and Peru. Other countries subscribing to the page are from the South such us Uruguay, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil and the likes. Currently, 41% of the 425 users wholikedthepagearewomenundertheagegroupof25-34.

Ongoing Info-com Projects

Website-ThenewDAWNwebsiteiscurrentlybeingdevelopedandisscheduledtoreleasethebetaversion within the last week of May 2012. The website’s development in terms of planning and design is being taken care of by Marx Melencio and Ryan Crisostomo; while the website’s development and testing will be taken care of by Elmer Valdez.

ContactManagementProgram-The project is basically developing a contact management system that is highly customized with the requirements of DAWN and will give its users a faster monitoring and updating of its contact in veryinformativereports.Theprogramisnotaweb-basedapplicationandonlyworksforcomputersrunning on Microsoft Windows. This project is also currently going through development as the current database is still being integrated into the program. The contact management program is being done by Erwin Lualhati.

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