A paradigm of fear often calls us to close ranks and huddle together. A paradigm of love calls us to reach out and embrace those yearning to breathe free and to live with our constituencies, to listen quietly, and to learn tenaciously. We are living at a time when technology is swiftly altering humanity: who we are, what role we play, what meaning we forge - values and priorities are changing rapidly. We have to continuously bring in our values, our perspectives into all situations as it is said: Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."
ARROW’s Domain 1 works towards generating evidence and monitoring to ensure governments adopt, implement, fulfil and account for laws, policies and programmes, that uphold gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights.
In keeping with ARROW’s aims to monitor international commitments and mechanisms through a collectively developed indicator framework that reflects the issues and lived experiences of women and girls in all their diversity from the Global South, we continued to work along with our partners to develop national level policy briefs to hold governments accountable to their commitments, uphold gender justice and sexual and reproductive rights and fulfil women and young people’s sexual and reproductive rights outcomes.
ARROW Domain 2 ensures that the civic space is protected, expanded and thriving where women, non-binary people, and young people in all their diversities organise, dialogue, participate, advocate and communicate without hindrance, and in doing so, influence the SRHR political and social structures and discourses around them at national, regional and global levels.
In 2024, ARROW and its partners, young feminist fellows and scholars maintained a strong presence and continued engagements in key regional and global spaces. These included the APFSD, Beijing+30 Regional Review Process, Asia-Pacific Regional Convening ahead of the Summit of the Future, Human Rights Council sessions, Universal Periodic Review, CSW68, CPD57, HLPF and COP29. ARROW also seized opportunities to expand its advocacy into new spaces and processes like the Summit of the Future.
ARROW’s Domain 3 works towards mobilising communities to reinforce positive norms and values around women, non-binary people, and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and recognise SRHR as a basic human right.
Through our efforts to ensure that young people are leading change from the forefront within their communities, ARROW’s Right Here Right Now 2 (RHRN2) has been one of the key highlight initiatives over the past few years, through which ARROW has made consistent efforts around the capacity strengthening of young people to become effective advocates for SRHR social change.
ARROW’s Domain 4 work focuses on building feminist movements, SRHR alliances and other social movements to uphold women, young and gender non-binary people’s sexual and reproductive rights through building and strengthening perspectives among CSOs, activists and advocates around the issues of gender, feminism and SRR, and its intersections with other issues that impact universal access to SRR
Domain 4 has been contributing to building perspectives and capacitating partners and building alliances with the national and regional partners to build on the feminist movement and intersectional issues including climate justice and disability rights.
In 2024, the HR, operations, and finance team continued to focus on enhancing our organisational development through the reviewing of practices on programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, accountable and transparent decision-making, and governance mechanisms.
In 2022, our work was guided by our strategic plan for 2022-2026
We believe that together, we must take concerted, collective, and progressive step to achieve our vision
Ultimately, we want to see significant and sustained improvements in SRHR of women, non-binary people, and young people across Asia and the Pacific, and globally
A paradigm of fear often calls us to close ranks and huddle together. A paradigm of love calls us to reach out and embrace those yearning to breathe free and to live with our constituencies, to listen quietly, and to learn tenaciously. We are living at a time when technology is swiftly altering humanity: who we are, what role we play, what meaning we forge - values and priorities are changing rapidly. We have to continuously bring in our values, our perspectives into all situations as it is said: Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."
ARROW’s Domain 1 works towards generating evidence and monitoring to ensure governments adopt, implement, fulfil and account for laws, policies and programmes, that uphold gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights.
In keeping with ARROW’s aims to monitor international commitments and mechanisms through a collectively developed indicator framework that reflects the issues and lived experiences of women and girls in all their diversity from the Global South, we continued to work along with our partners to develop national level policy briefs to hold governments accountable to their commitments, uphold gender justice and sexual and reproductive rights and fulfil women and young people’s sexual and reproductive rights outcomes.
ARROW Domain 2 ensures that the civic space is protected, expanded and thriving where women, non-binary people, and young people in all their diversities organise, dialogue, participate, advocate and communicate without hindrance, and in doing so, influence the SRHR political and social structures and discourses around them at national, regional and global levels.
In 2024, ARROW and its partners, young feminist fellows and scholars maintained a strong presence and continued engagements in key regional and global spaces. These included the APFSD, Beijing+30 Regional Review Process, Asia-Pacific Regional Convening ahead of the Summit of the Future, Human Rights Council sessions, Universal Periodic Review, CSW68, CPD57, HLPF and COP29. ARROW also seized opportunities to expand its advocacy into new spaces and processes like the Summit of the Future.
ARROW’s Domain 3 works towards mobilising communities to reinforce positive norms and values around women, non-binary people, and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and recognise SRHR as a basic human right.
Through our efforts to ensure that young people are leading change from the forefront within their communities, ARROW’s Right Here Right Now 2 (RHRN2) has been one of the key highlight initiatives over the past few years, through which ARROW has made consistent efforts around the capacity strengthening of young people to become effective advocates for SRHR social change.
ARROW’s Domain 4 work focuses on building feminist movements, SRHR alliances and other social movements to uphold women, young and gender non-binary people’s sexual and reproductive rights through building and strengthening perspectives among CSOs, activists and advocates around the issues of gender, feminism and SRR, and its intersections with other issues that impact universal access to SRR
Domain 4 has been contributing to building perspectives and capacitating partners and building alliances with the national and regional partners to build on the feminist movement and intersectional issues including climate justice and disability rights.
In 2024, the HR, operations, and finance team continued to focus on enhancing our organisational development through the reviewing of practices on programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, accountable and transparent decision-making, and governance mechanisms.
In 2022, our work was guided by our strategic plan for 2022-2026
We believe that together, we must take concerted, collective, and progressive step to achieve our vision
Ultimately, we want to see significant and sustained improvements in SRHR of women, non-binary people, and young people across Asia and the Pacific, and globally
