Domains of Change
Domain of Change 1
Governments adopt, implement, fulfil and account for laws, policies and programmes, that uphold gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights.
In Domain 1, key outcomes expected include for governments to give centrality to SRHR in their policies and programmes and put in place mechanisms to ensure accountability to the commitments they have made; for decision makers and key stakeholders to be aware of gaps and challenges and use/cite evidence generated through ARROW’s monitoring work; maintaining and strengthening regional and International agreements on gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through enhanced participation and accountability at all levels as well as ensuring decision makers have the political will and capacities to enact, implement and monitor progressive SRHR laws and policies.
ARROW also hopes to influence women’s rights NGOs, youth-led and youth-serving organisations to demand accountability from duty bearers, holding them accountable to the highest standards as espoused by ICPD, Beijing, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and subsequent resolutions and human rights treaty bodies such as the CEDAW and ICESCR.
ARROW develops tools and frameworks which will enable monitoring the commitments to SRHR of women and young people in Asia and the Pacific. Its partner organisations and SRHR allies are better enabled, through strategic indicators and identification of key gaps, to monitor the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the ICPD PoA using an indicator framework that takes into account inequalities, and is premised on a justice framework.
The main strategies and implementation mechanisms for this include the development of a monitoring framework to capture the intersectional and lived experience of women and girls from the region; monitoring SDG+10, ICPD 30, Beijing +30 through the indicator framework to reflect issues and lived experiences of women and girls from the Global South; capacity building of and with partners on monitoring, research and use of international frameworks to hold governments accountable; facilitating cross regional exchanges between Global South regions to strengthen knowledge exchange on universal access to SRHR and safe abortion related issues, and ensuring strengthened and collaborative organising of the Global South groups to articulate demands that ensure that developmental agendas of the governments, inter-governmental organisations and donors are in tandem with needs, realities and experiences of the Global South on safe abortion and UHC.
Key interventions include monitoring and implementation of the 2030 Agenda utilising ICPD+20/Beijing standards, frameworks and principles; creation of an evidence-based monitoring system rooted in rights-based indicators that chart national, regional and global progress on universal access to SRHR and mainstreaming SRHR via existing human rights frameworks (such as CEDAW/ICESCR/UHC), and their monitoring and implementation at the national, regional and global levels to affirm the commitments of Member States to sexual and reproductive rights.
Domain of Change 2
In Domain 2, key outcomes expected include for decision makers and targeted duty-bearers to increasingly approve, adopt and implement laws, policies, standards and norms that respect and protect the SRHR of women and young people in all their diversities and endorse and expand civic space and meaningful engagement of women, and young people in all their diversities in political spaces that concern SRR.
ARROW hopes for civic spaces to be protected and expanded for regular, effective and meaningful participation of women and young people in all their diversities in all established national, regional and global mechanisms pertaining to SRHR, for reporting and follow up on the implementation of state obligation under international human rights law and sustainable development processes; for decision-makers to be informed of SRR issues of women, and young people in all their diversities from a human rights, gender-just and feminist lens.
ARROW is strategically positioned as a leading women’s organisation to advocate, reorient, support and improve policies and programmes at regional and global spaces that concern SRR through alliances and new civic space creation, and together with its partners, are able to effectively demand accountability to SRR and human rights standards at national, regional and international levels through participation, preparation and knowledge and skills strengthening; have the capacity, influence and visibility at the regional and global levels to advocate for progressive outcomes and commitments of inter-governmental negotiations, and to push for progressive language on SRR as a result of the advocacy.
The main strategies and implementation mechanisms for Domain 2 include building perspectives and developing knowledge products from a rights-based, gender-just, intersectional, Global South perspective on emerging issues; strengthening knowledge and skills and providing opportunities for partner organisations to effectively participate in physical and virtual advocacy spaces; creating and maintaining new civic spaces for women, young people and gender diverse organisations to participate and engage in (youth forums, women’s forums, NGO forums) ahead of inter-governmental convenings such as the APFSD, HLPF, APPC, ICPD, and Beijing reviews at the regional level.
Key interventions will be implemented in six areas, which include Information and Communications for Change; Regional and Sub-Regional Advocacy ; International Advocacy; Protection and Expansion of Civic Space ; National Advocacy and Policy Dialogues and Build and Enable Advocacy Platforms and Alliances.
Domain of Change 3
In Domain 3, key outcomes expected include for key community groups, media and stakeholders to play an active role in raising awareness and understanding to increase public support and shape public opinion in favour of SRHR; strengthened health system governance and accountability mechanisms to respect, protect, guarantee and advance access to SRHR for women and young people in all their diversities; for young people, the disadvantaged and marginalised members of the community to avail sexual and reproductive health services, and information that is accessible, affordable and of the highest quality within communities and health systems for strengthened public support around women and young people’s SRHR to limit the influence of opposition.
ARROW will build a resilient community grounded in values that are progressive, diverse, inclusive and ingrained in human rights and feminism, equality and fairness so that they are able to voice their needs, claim their rights and affirm their agency around SRHR for their SRR to be recognised, protected, respected and fulfilled with a focus on freedom from stigma, judgment, violence and discrimination. This means for women and young people, including women and girls with disabilities, to hold duty bearers to account in communities and at health systems level for access to comprehensive CSE and SRH services and to have an amplified voice around provision of CSE and SRH services, through capacity strengthening on advocacy and communication skills and creating public support through campaigns and community mobilisation.
The main strategies and implementation mechanisms for Domain 3 include providing capacity strengthening to increase the influence of women and young people, including women and girls with disabilities, to amplify their voice around provision of SRHR information and education; facilitation of linking and learning, to empower the partner organisations to become actors for change; creating public support through campaigns and community mobilisation so that public support contributes to the legitimacy of CSOs in their lobbying and advocacy and to limiting the influence of opposition to SRHR; creating an enabling environment so that feminists and young people in the region can meaningfully engage in dedicated spaces and strengthening community-based accountability and monitoring to ground recommendations from regional and international levels to improve access to CSE and SRH services to women and young people.
Key interventions will be implemented in four areas, namely: Capacity Strengthening; Linking and Learning; Public Support, Monitoring and Awareness Raising and Accountability for CSE and SRH Services.
Domain of Change 4
In Domain 4, key outcomes are for ARROW’s partner organisations and CSOs across movements to express solidarity for SRR and gender equality; for other social movements and alliances tp acknowledge universal access to SRR as human rights and are open to integrate intersections with SRR as part of their movements and alliances and for ARROW’s partner organisations to build strong alliances with other social movements such as but not limited to climate justice, disability justice, women peace and security, access to medicine, and universal health coverage.
ARROW also hopes to build and strengthen 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 such as but not limited to climate change, disability, women peace and security, access to medicine and Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
The main strategies for this Domain include Knowledge Production and Knowledge Sharing; Capacity Strengthening and Constituency Mobilisation.
There are five key interventions for this domain, namely: Perspective Building; Capacity Strengthening; Constituency Mobilisation at the National/Local Level; Solidarity Actions and Joint Advocacy at the National/Regional/ Global Spaces and Organisational Development.
