Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Agriculture
Citizenship and Governance
Climate Change
Coorporate Accountability
Criminal Justice
Culture
De-mining
Development
Disabled Persons
Energy
Environment
Extreme poverty
Financing for Development
Food
Governance
HIV/AIDS
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Information
International Law
Justice
Labour
Least Developed Countries
Migration
Minority Rights
Peace and Security
Population
Private Sector
Refugees
Religion
Social Development
Statistics
Sustainable Development
Torture
Trade and Development
Violence
Water
Women
Women/gender Equality
Financing for Development:
Addressing systemic issues
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Indigenous women
Information and communication technologies
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Policy advice
Research
Violence against women
Women and armed conflict
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Women and the environment
Women in power and decision-making
Social Development:
Conflict
Disabled persons
Employment
Indigenous issues
Poverty
Social policy
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Capacity-building
Climate change
Disaster management and vulnerability
Energy
Finance
Gender equality
Indicators
Information for decision-making and participation
International cooperation for an enabling environment
International law
Major Groups
Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
Mining
Partnerships
Poverty
Protecting and managing the natural resources
Rural Development
Trade and environment
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Geographic scope: |
Regional
Asia
Oceania
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Country of activity: |
Cambodia
Tonga
Viet Nam
Myanmar
Papua New Guinea
Vanuatu
Samoa
India
Pakistan
Japan
China
Timor-Leste
Kyrgyzstan
Malaysia
Mongolia
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Singapore
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Kazakhstan
Indonesia
Fiji
Bangladesh
Thailand
Republic of Korea
Philippines
Nepal
Sri Lanka
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Millennium Development Goals: |
Promote gender equality and empower women
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop global partnership for development
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Mission statement: |
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Year established: |
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Year of registration: |
1986 |
Organizational structure: |
Our diverse membership provides the strength and expertise that both drives and executes our programme activities. APWLD is governed by a Programme and Management Committee comprised from a larger Regional Council of active members. Our Secretariat in Chiangmai carries out day to day operations and provides for programme implementation as well as financial and technical support. |
Number and type of members: |
We have 200 organisational and individual members across 26 countries in Asia-Pacific. Approximately 60% of our members are organisational and 40% individual. Member organisations represent a diverse segment of women across legal, activist and academic arenas. This includes, but is not limited to; LGBTI women, indigenous women, migrant women, rural women, refugee women, women with disabilities, domestic workers, young women, past, present and aspiring parliamentarians, and CEDAW Committee members. Affiliations: APWLD is affiliated with several international and regional NGO networks. We co-convene the Southeast Asia Women’s Caucus on ASEAN (Regional); sit on the executive of the Women Human Rights Defender’s Coalition (International); and co-facilitate the United for Foreign Domestic Workers Rights Coalition (Regional). We are on several steering bodies which include the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition and Asian Consortium. APWLD is a member of the Global Facilitation Group of Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness and a member of the Better Aid Coordinating Group. We have numerous other regional and international affiliations which include International Migrants Association, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML), ISIS Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (ISIS-WICCE), Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Front Line and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). |
Affiliation with NGO networks: |
see above |
Funding structure: |
Foreign and international grants
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