The year 2016 presented a complex global economic, social, and environmental landscape which was challenging to navigate through. In order to successfully carry forward our key agenda of universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all, ARROW deliberated with partners and allies on a new strategic plan that will guide our […]

2015 was a critical one for the NGO community, marking the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the beginning of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (previously called post-2015 agenda). It was crucial that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) be recognised as a critical part of this new agenda, and that […]

ARROW truly came into her own as a Global South advocacy organisation in 2014, exerting her voice and influence in the world by advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). With the 20th anniversaries of ICPD and Beijing, as well as the post-2015 development agenda global events, there were ample opportunities and platforms […]

The title of this year’s ARROW Annual Report is indeed an apt and exciting one: cross-movement dialogue was an exceptionally stimulating part of our 2013 work. The work and the ensuing title reflects our feminist position that development occurs within a particular context and achieving women’s equality and women’s human rights, especially sexual and reproductive […]

The year 2012 was an extremely fulfilling year for the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) in many different ways. It was filled with many memorable and striking events. One of ARROW’s more outstanding moments was organising the meeting “Beyond ICPD & the MDGs: NGOs Strategising for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights […]

The global SRHR movement went into 2011 with renewed expectations of commitment from governments, NGOs, donors and UN agencies towards the Cairo agenda. In December 2010, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution that called for an extension of the Programme of Action (PoA) of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, also called […]

2010 has been a time of continued expansion for the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), following the trend for the previous three years. Several factors have driven this expansion, including the recognition of the strategic niche occupied by ARROW and its partners in linking local, national, regional and global advocacy on women’s […]

Throughout the last 17 years, one of ARROW’s key strategies has been to link the realities of marginalised, grassroots women with national-level advocacy interventions carried out by our civil society partners, as well as through joint engagements between ARROW and its partners at regional and international arenas. We do so because we have experienced the […]

For ARROW, 2008 was a year of growth. We grew in financial strength, in programmatic clarity, in the establishment and expansion of our partnerships in the region, and in the quality of monitoring and evaluation processes within the organisation. We also celebrated our 15th anniversary and moved into a larger office with ample room for […]

As we enter our fourteenth year of operations, ARROW’s strength continues to be our special niche in the region as a women’s health and rights programme which focuses on: i. The strategic dissemination of action-oriented information, materials and analytical tools; ii. Research, monitoring and evidence-based policy advocacy at national, regional and international levels; and iii. […]