2021 Annual Report
Reflections from the Executive Director
"2021 was harsh. We at ARROW, along with the rest of the world, enter 2022 hoping for a better year."
Generating Evidence, Creating Change
"No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body"
Monitoring is key to accountability. The monitoring framework pertains to the rights, health, sexuality and reproductive rights and health of women and girls in all their diversity. Furthermore, evidence generation through rigorous monitoring and research strengthens evidence-based advocacy.
Strengthening Community Participation, Empowering People
"From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status."
Globally, the Asia Pacific region is home to more than half of the young people in the world today— about 750 million—who face a broad range of intersecting challenges. It is a diverse region that is facing the burdens of rising lack of access to education and decent work, extreme poverty, and the most disastrous effects of climate change
Forging New Alliances
If we aren't intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks."
2021 has been another remarkable year in terms of outputs and approaches. Our virtual modality of operation in capacity strengthening and our strategic advocacy continued on from 2020.
SEXUALITY EDUCATION AND INTERSECTIONALITY
This year, our capacity strengthening activities took large strides with the launch of the ARROW Advocacy Institute (AAI) and the integration of our Intersectionality trainings into ARROW’s Asia Youth Changemakers Programme
CLIMATE CHANGE
Building on our workin the previous years, the major focus remained on the intersections between climate change and SRHR.
CONFLICT AND PEACE BUILDING
In 2021, ARROW was invited to speak at the Karama and the Arab Regional Network for Women, Peace and Security WPS Week High-Level Discussion.
Opening Minds and Shaping Views
To be engaged in the economic sphere, to create income, to contribute to family health and well-being and the country's development, we must have family planning services."
ARROW translates publications as part of our commitment to make information more accessible to non-English-speaking readers and thus, increases our reach and impact. Through the translations, ARROW hopes to inform and connect local and national audiences with what is happening in other countries in the region and at the regional and the international levels.
Advocating for Change, One Year at a Time
When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognising them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous indviduals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives.
Due to the ARROW team’s resilience, teamwork and adaptability for quick planning and actions, we were able to optimally achieve results in organising all our advocacy work in a virtual format as COVID-19 continued to sweep in waves across the region.
Governance and Financial Management
My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements."
In 2021, we further invested in technology tools to enhance the organisation’s virtual deliverables due to COVID-19. The team continued to focus on the non-programmatic aspects of operations and enhance our organisational development in the upskilling and upgrading of our communications and digitalisation modes of working.
2021 Milestones
