APWLD is a member of the Women’s Major Group and we have contributed through the process globally and regionally.We aim to engage in all intersessional meetings and provide analysis of the various drafts. We will promote the centrality of rural and indigenous women to the document, their key content demands and argue for strong accountability mechanisms that include accountability to women.

Approximately 25 women from national and regional organisations in Asia Pacific will join APWLD for a two-day key regional preparatory event for Rio+20.

Regional Workshop:

APWLD held a workshop with women from Southeast Asia in Bangkok in January. During this workshop the Rio process was introduced to rural and indigenous women’s groups and discussions were held around their plans (or possibilities) to engage with the Rio process. Participants identified the key focus that they wanted to bring to Rio (and to CSW).
This next workshop will extend beyond Southeast Asia and will involve more focused strategising around targets, key messages and activities. It will provide the women who attend the workshop to share the analysis on the ongoing debates on the development architecture, envision the feminist development framework and strategise their advocacy.

Workshop Objectives:

• Build capacity of women’s organizations around development architecture;
• Facilitate the discussion on a just and sustainable development model (updating the current skeleton with inputs from participants);
• Strategise feminist advocacy towards, during and post Rio+20 Conference at national, regional and international levels;
• Map the various plans of women’s organizations to engage with Rio and also to continue with work on development cooperation and the post Busan policy implementation.

The workshop will enable participants to:

• Deepen their understanding on the issues and process of international development architecture;
• Have clearer and detailed advocacy plan towards Rio+20
• Work in solidarity to shift development models

Building on the achievements made in the areas of development effectiveness and sustainable development, and addressing the systemic and emerging issues, APWLD will facilitate discussion and development of the feminist model for sustainable development.  Diverse voices of women in the region will be consolidated, which will inform the on-going discussion on sustainable development and global development architecture.

Please click here to learn more about the key preparatory event.