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Development Action for Women Network, Inc.

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Business and Industry
  • Children
  • Citizenship and Governance
  • Development
  • Economics and Finance
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Human Rights
  • Micro-Credit
  • Migration
  • Social Development
  • Sustainable Development
  • United Nations Funding
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Information and communication technologies
  • Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • Service provision
  • The girl child
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Violence against women
  • Women and HIV/AIDS
  • Women and health
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the media
  • Women and the media
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Population:
  • International migration

    • Social Development:
  • Employment
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Capacity-building
  • Gender equality
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • Partnerships
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
    • Geographic scope: Regional
  • Asia
    • Country of activity:
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Japan
  • Bahrain
  • Burundi
  • Philippines
  • Qatar
  • China
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Republic of Korea
  • Malaysia
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1996
    Organizational structure: The organization has a 7 board of directors who meet quarterly and conduct annual planning. It also has a 7 member advisory council from different parts of the world but mostly Japan who are consulted on a regular basis. The organization has a 5 core staff and numerous volunteers from Philippines and Japan.
    Number and type of members: The organization runs a women cooperative with more than 30 members and 12 of them handles sewing, weaving, wellness services and home-based livelihood projects. It also maintains a Japanese-Filipino Children group who are given workshop for theater arts, Japanese language -culture and scholarship.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: CARAM-Asia, PMRW, Vital Voices Global Partnership, CATW-AP, RIACAT-VAW
    Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fees for education and training services
  • Fees for providing consulting or research services
  • Product sales and business services
  • Fundraising campaigns
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
    • Funding structure other: grants through submission of proposal
     
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