Asia Pacific Womens Watch

APWW’s work  provides valuable spaces for women’s  Civil Society Organizations (WCSOs) to gather, share their analyses, formulate common positions, and strategize linked activities and actions on common issues.

As a network that continues to learn and evolve, APWW has raised the level of its involvement through the years, from providing researches and analyses to participation and achieving high visibility inside official meetings. As APWW engages on  UN Sustainable Development agenda it enables the network to carry forward the marginalized women’s voices inside official meetings.

Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) is a large voluntary activism network based in the Asia and Pacific Region who work on  Women’s Rights and the Advancement of Women. APWW is Non-Governmental Organization in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (since September 2007).

The Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) is a regional network of women’s groups which monitors and collaborates with the United Nations, national governments and non-government organizations (NGOs) in empowering women and advancing their human rights.

APWW is represented by five (5) sub-regions – Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific, South Asia and South-East Asia and is also joined by representatives of each of three major international women’s networks in the region:  Asia Pacific Women Law and Development  (APWLD);  ARROW Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW),  and Global Women’s Peace Network (GWPN).

APWW also hosts  and leads the Asia Pacific Regional NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW – AP)  (a regional committee of NGO CSW in New York) working to support  regional engagement at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) each year with NGO CSW in New York.

With the mission of achieving Gender Equality,  Women’s Human Rights, Sustainable Development and Peace, APWW aims to:

• Monitor and lobby for Asia Pacific women’s perspectives to be included in international documents and processes;
• Promote gender mainstreaming in all decision-making structures;
  Disseminate information on good practices and lessons learned in advancing the status of women;
• Build capacity in communication technologies, media strategies and lobbying;
• Enhance women’s leadership in peace-making;
  Advocate to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women;
• Advocate for mainstreaming gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in SDGs;
• Encourage sustainable rights-based development; and Strive for economic justice for women.

APWW Strategic Direction 2022 – 2026

APWW’s work provides valuable spaces for women’s Civil Society Organisations (WCSOs) to gather, share their analyses, formulate common positions, and strategise linked activities and actions on common issues.

As a network that continues to learn and evolve, APWW has raised the level of its involvement through the years, from providing research and analyses to participation and achieving high visibility inside official meetings. As APWW engages in both the Monitoring and Evaluation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) and in the UN Sustainable Development agenda it enables the network to carry forward the marginalised women’s voices inside official meetings.

Since the onset of COVID 19 in 2019 our way of working has changed in a new direction.  We host our meetings virtually, with a face to face once a year.  This will be reviewed during the 2022 – 2026 strategic direction and a hybrid model of working will be investigated.

APWW has 5 priority thematic areas for 2022-2026

1. Promoting integration and mainstreaming of women’s rights and gender equality standalone goal of the Global Agenda 2030 into national and regional sustainable development strategies and sustainable development action plans,
2. Building  capacity to join and engage in effective development cooperation from a women’s rights and gender equality perspective
3. Advocating for gender equality and empowerment of women in all their diversity into all goals national, regional sustainable development strategies and action-plan,
4. Monitoring of implementation of BPFA commitments through SDG processes throughout in the Asia-Pacific region,
5. Pushing back on the Global Push Back on women’s rights and support ing CSOs effective engagement at all levels and all mechanisms/processes to achieve gender equality

Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) presents its  APWWmeet Series 

Building on the momentum of the Beijing +25 process, over the next 12 months APWW will be working collaboratively to build a number of regional conversations about Gender Equality and  Women’s Rights.  These will take the form of webinars and interactive conversations.

We will contextualise discussions into the current pandemic crisis and investigate what strategies are effective to mobilise, impact decision-makers and policy discussions.

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APWWmeet news update September, 2020

APWWmeet news update October, 2020

APWWmeet Regional Discussions & Webinars

APWWmeet Series 2020 – 2

APWWmeet Series 2020 Session 2 Speakers information here ..

Across the Pacific and Asia, women and girls in all their diversity are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Existing gender inequalities are exacerbated during a crisis, with the result that women and girls are not only undertaking more unpaid domestic work, are less able to access essential health services, are more vulnerable to economic hardships, are experiencing ever-rising rates of violence, sexual abuse and control from their husbands, partners and families/kinship groups, and they are not at the table in designing the national pandemic strategies.  Women in all their diversity are losing ground to previous gains and are experiencing shrinking democratic spaces.

The impacts of COVID-19 restrictions are creating a disproportionate impact on members of our society due to our delay in creating equitable societies.

To view Beijing +25 in the Time of COVID-19  click here

Powerpoint presentations:  

APWW  East Asia (Yukiko Oda)

APWW South East Asia (Aurora De Dios)

APWW South Asia (Farida Shaheed)

If you wish to know more about the APWW COVID-19 research please contact us via the APWW contacts page.

APWWmeet Series 2020 – 1

Working for the creation of UN Women : The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign

Speakers information here ..

This first session of APWWmeet SERIES 2020 focuses on the important (but perhaps little remembered) campaign for the creation of UN Women carried out by women NGOs over a period of five years. Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) involved global and regional NGOs in an intense and passionate lobby for reform in the UN “gender architecture” from several small and relatively weak structures to one dynamic, high-level, well-funded UN entity focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Full description of session here …

To join this webinar please register in advance  here 

To view Working for the creation of UN Women : The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign click here

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