The West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), in collaboration with Rights Co-Lab, Peace Direct and the Ringo social lab members, with support from Wilde Ganzen under the Giving for Change programme, is piloting and testing a transformative Ringo prototype: "Decolonizing Advisory Platform" to shift the INGO system and respond to the areas where the global civil society sector is stuck. The prototype seeks to establish a knowledge advisory service or centre made up of activists and advisors from the Global South who would be willing and able to offer their services to stakeholders in the Global North to ‘Decolonize’ their practice and thinking. WACSI is therefore seeking input from a wide range of actors in the Global North, to identify and map out the level of interest among INGOs for a service of this kind and to determine whether a social enterprise is a right structure for this venture.
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The IAWG ASRHR Sub-Working Group is pleased to announce our 2022/2023 young person co-chairs. After receiving more than 300 applications, the sub-working group’s selection committee, comprised of majority young people, finished its reviews and interviews to select four outstanding young people to serve the ASRHR Sub-Working Group over the next year. Descriptions of each of the young people selected are included below. Alex Mavuti and Liz Lum will serve together from July 2022 until January 2023, while Elezer Berhanu and Shukti Anantha will serve from January 2023 until July 2023. Thank you to everyone who applied and congratulations again to the four finalists.
In light of World Refugee Day 2022, the Executive Director of PMNCH, Helga Fogstad, featured IAWG and its work to improve policies, strengthen practice, mobilize resources, and improve accountability.
As the war intensifies in Ukraine, Women on Web, an international online abortion service, is receiving more and more requests for abortion pills from Ukrainian refugees arriving in neighboring countries. Therefore, Women on Web is providing free services to anyone who has fled the war and who wants to terminate their pregnancy. We are in the process of adding more Ukrainian resources and information on our website, scaling up our service delivery and our online consultation is now available in Ukrainian language. Please support our work and help us continue to provide free services for Ukrainian refugees by donating.