Health Rights Advocacy Training 2013

 

Program Description

Asia Catalyst is a nonprofit organization that provides training in organizational management and advocacy to grassroots groups in Asia working to promote the right to health. This year we are launching a new program that provides coaching and mentoring to East and Southeast Asian NGOs and community organizations in human rights documentation and advocacy planning.

 

Asia Catalyst will offer up to 20 health rights advocates from organizations working with communities directly affected by HIV/AIDS the opportunity to participate in a rights training program, which includes support in gathering documentation and planning advocacy strategies, monthly coaching, and opportunities to collaborate with peer organizations.

 

Participants will convene in May in Thailand for an intensive weeklong retreat where they will receive training on creating advocacy plans that will further their organization’s goals. Starting in June, our team of experts will conduct individualized monthly coaching via Skype for all participants, and make several site visits. Participants will reconvene for one day in November around the International Congress on HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) to report back to one another about their work and develop a plan to continue collaborating with one another at ICAAP and when other regional opportunities arise.

 

Eligibility Requirements

Individuals must be affiliated with a health rights groups or organization and demonstrate the following criteria:

 

•    Currently using advocacy strategies in their work;

•    Applicant has done advocacy work for at least one year;

•    Community-based organizations in which directors or staff are either living with or directly affected by HIV/AIDS;

•    Ability to participate from May to December 2013;

•    Ability to read and speak English (all sessions will be held in English).

 

Please note that for this program Asia Catalyst will only provide travel, accommodation, per diems and training materials for each participant to attend all in-person sessions. This program does not provide any other grant funds or compensation.

 

How to Apply

To apply, please fill out the application form below and return it to Shalena Krumm at rightstraining@asiacatalyst.org by Monday, February 11, 2013. After we have reviewed all applications we will only contact applicants we wish to interview. Our final selection will be informed in March 2013.

 

 

Health Rights Advocacy Training 2013 Application

 

The application form and all personal data and information provided during the interview will be kept confidential.

 

 

 

 

Question 1：Please state your organization’s mission.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 2：Please describe your organization’s main program activities, and which goals you aim to achieve through these activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 3：Please describe an advocacy success that you have been involved in. What did you achieve?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 4：Please describe the advocacy goals you would like to work on during this rights training program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 5：Please provide contact information (i.e., emails and telephone numbers) for at least two references.

 

 

 

 

 

Question 6 : Please describe your organization’s structure, key staff members and their responsibilities, and note the number of full time staff, part time staff and volunteers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 7 : If your organization has an advocacy planning process, please describe how you conduct advocacy planning and attach a copy of your current plan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 8 : How did you learn about Asia Catalyst’s rights training program?