Acknowledgements

As we celebrate our 21st anniversary, we are immensely proud, and grateful to publish this collaborative document developed together with women's rights activists and partner organisations that comprise the ARROW family.

This publication, the ARROW Resource Kit on Leadership and Management (ARK), was developed, with input from ARROW and ARK Steering Committee members, by Susanna George, a staunch women's rights activist, former Board member and supporter of ARROW's work.

We thank the ARROW Board of Directors and the ARK Steering Committee for conceptualising the ARK. We also thank Rashidah Abdullah, co-founder and Board Member of ARROW, and the Chair of the ARK Steering Committee for being the driving force behind the development of this resource kit. We also thank Di Surgey, who has been instrumental to ARROW's growth in her various capacities, including as member of the Programme Advisory Committee, Board and Infocom Task Force, for developing the initial concept note for this publication and presenting this to the ARROW Board during the initial stages of the project, and being such a resource when she joined the Steering Committee.

We are extremely grateful for all the time, effort, and patience they and the rest of the ARK Steering Committee members—Indu Capoor, Khawar Mumtaz, Maria Melinda Flores (Malyn) Ando, M. Prakasamma, and Sivananthi Thanenthiran—have dedicated to the realisation of this project. We also thank Di Surgey, Indu Capoor, Malyn Ando, Nalini Singh, Rashidah Abdullah, Saira Shameem, and Sivananthi Thanenthiran for supporting the ARK by either providing additional information, writing and/or editing the main text.

We appreciate all the time and effort put into this publication by our many colleagues, allies, board members, programme advisory committee members, partners, and friends from within the movement. Thanks to those who allowed us their valuable time and agreed to interviews or contribute stories: Di Surgey, Indu Capoor, Jashodara Dasgupta, Junice Melgar, Naureen Tawakal, Ninuk Widyantoro, Ouk Vong Vathiny, Saira Shameem, Samia Afrin, Shireen Huq, and Zhang Kaining. Among ARROW staff, these included Malyn Ando, Nalini Singh, Nor Azurah Zakaria, Rishita Nandagiri, Rosnani Hitam, Sai Jyothirmai Racherla, Shama Dossa, Shubha Kayastha, Sivananthi Thanenthiran, Suloshini Jahanath, and Uma Thiruvengadam.

We also thank the external reviewers for their valuable feedback and constructive comments: Betty Yeoh, Ivy Josiah, Loh Cheng Kooi, Maria Chin Abdullah and Yock Lin. We also acknowledge the ARROW staff for internally reviewing the ARK and providing feedback: Gaayathri Nair, Marisna Yulianti, Nadia Nantheni, Nalini Singh, Nor Azurah Zakaria, Paremela Naidu, Rishita Nandagiri, Shubha Kayastha, Susan Chin, Uma Thiruvengadam, Yap Bee Khim, and Yukari Horii.

We appreciate Malyn Ando and Rishita Nandagiri for their support in the production of the ARK, as well as Rosnani Hitam's support to the project in general. Ambika Varma also provided support to the project when she was with ARROW. We are grateful to Cezar Repuyan Tigno for copy-editing the resource kit. The design and layout of the ARK is the work of TM Ali Basir; Politeia Kody helped out with an earlier version.

Finally, this publication is made possible with the support of the Global Fund for Women, Nina Raj who donated funds, and ARROW's institutional donors, Sida and the Ford Foundation, who share with us our vision of SRHR for women in the Asia-Pacific region and globally.