Second feminist advocacy training programme

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is pleased to announce its second feminist advocacy training programme, to take place this year in Montevideo, Uruguay, from November 7-29 2005.

DAWN is a network of feminist scholars and activists from the economic South working for economic justice, gender justice and sustainable and democratic development. The DAWN Training Institute, inaugurated in Bangalore, India, in 2003 and held every second year, is designed for young feminist activists (aged over 25) from the economic South who are already engaged, or have a strong interest, in global advocacy work for gender justice, and who wish to sharpen their analytical capabilities and advocacy skills.

The training programme will draw on both DAWN’s feminist analysis, which inter-links issues under the four themes of Political Economy of Globalisation, Sustainable Livelihoods, Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights and Political Restructuring & Social Transformation, and the network’s considerable experience in UN Conference processes and other sites of struggle, including the global civil society movement against economic globalization.

The DAWN Training Institute is not an academic course, but applicants should have (or be close to completing) a first degree. As the course will be conducted in English, applicants must be proficient in English - they must be able to read/speak/write English. Up to 30 participants will be admitted to the programme in 2005. Full funding is being sought for at least 20 participants.

Application Forms are available on the DAWN web-site at www.dawn.org.fj Applications close on March 31 2005.