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This is a list that CWGL has independently compiled. Please note that program dates and application deadlines change every year. For current dates and deadlines, please contact the program directly. If you would like to correct, update, or add information to this page, please contact cwgl@rci.rutgers.edu.

This list of institutes and training programs is organized into the following regions:
Global
Africa
Asia and the Pacific
Europe
Latin America and the Caribbean
North America

GLOBAL

The Feminist Tech Exchange
Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP)
Website: http://www.apcwomen.org/en
http://ftx.apcwomen.org/
Description: Feminist Tech eXchanges (FTX) train women’s rights advocates in essential internet, audio and other technical skills to enable them to use technology to more effectively document abuses, build knowledge, disseminate information, mobilise support and amplify pressures for change. Through hands-on learning, sharing of experiences and strategies, organised discussion sessions and spaces for face-to-face and online reflections and conversations, FTX creates dynamic spaces to explore and deepen feminist practices and politics of technology. Trainings vary based on participants’ needs, examining essential internet skills, audio, video, mobile innovation, secure online communication or social media. Crucially, the FTX roots the exploring of new skills in a feminist practice of technology, looking at the politics and impact of technology on women’s lives. FTX is all about women training women, sharing experiences and learning together.

Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)
Contact information:
Block 5 Dover Crescent #01-22
Singapore 130005
Tel +65 6779 7137
Fax +65 6777 0318
Website: http://www.aware.org.sg/ati/
Description: The Aware Training Institute (ATI) develops and conducts proprietary programmes and also organises workshops and talks by other parties. The focus is on issues relevant to women, such as sexual harassment, self-esteem, body image, and financial planning. Programmes are gender-sensitive, taking into account the different demands and opportunities that society places on men and women. ATI also organises discussion groups where women can, in a supportive environment, share their experiences in dealing with issues such as body image, sex, dating, marriage, raising kids, and divorce.

Young Feminist Activist Program
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Email: awid@awid.org
Website: http://awid.org/eng/About-AWID/AWID-Initiatives/Young-Feminist-Activism-Program
Description: The goal of AWID's Young Feminist Activist Program, formerly the Young Women and Leadership Institutes (YWLIs), is to build young women's capacity to strategically work towards women's rights in their regions and globally. The Institutes bring together young women to focus on critical issues that impact on their lives and employ a methodology that aims to explore the linkages between the personal, structural and institutional challenges to developing young women's leadership.  Please check website regularly for updates on future institutes.

Training Workshops
Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
Email: training@cedpa.org
Website: http://www.cedpa.org/section/training
Description: CEDPA believes women can change the world. To that end, we hold training workshops to harness the energy and experience of women, men and youth from around the developing world who share our faith in the power of women. Our training programs build leadership abilities, technical expertise and program management skills on a range of critical issues. CEDPA creates a supportive and participatory learning environment for exchange of best practices and experiences, exposure to cutting edge technical and programmatic information, and enhanced leadership and management skill building.
Over the past 30 years, CEDPA has trained more than 5,000 women and men from Albania to Zambia. These individuals, our alumni, include the Vice President of Uganda, Kenya's Minister of Health, parliamentarians, leaders of non-governmental organizations and community activists.

Training
Human Rights Education Associates
Website: http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=273&language_id=1
Description: HREA organises trainings for a range of professionals groups, including human rights defenders, development workers, educators, legal professionals, law enforcement officials, social workers, health professionals, and journalists.
Training Materials: http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=107
List of Training Programmes: Click on Chapter 3 of the Human Rights Education Resourcebook for the HREA list of training programs and institutes http://www.hrea.org/pubs//HREresourcebook/2nd/

International Center for Research on Women
Building Capacity
Website: http://www.icrw.org/what-we-do/building-capacity
Description: ICRW strengthens the capabilities of organizations to understand and respond to the unique needs of women and men with gender strategies that work. Through skills development, training workshops and providing tools and other technical services, we help people and organizations deliver effective programs and services.

Women Peacemakers Program
International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Email: i.geuskens@ifor.org 
Website: http://www.ifor.org/WPP/education.htm
Description: The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) has a long history of organizing and developing nonviolence training. This history reflects IFOR members’ commitment to active nonviolence, both as a method of struggle for social change and as a personal life style. The values inherent in the theory and practice of active nonviolence are the same values necessary for building a culture of peace. Nonviolence training is a way of promoting these values, providing opportunities to pass on and improve the concrete skills that make for peace. One key area in building a culture of peace (as identified in the United Nations Declaration and Program of Action on a Culture of Peace, 1999, Resolution A/53/243) is ensuring equality between women and men. Such equality demands a gender-sensitive approach-an approach that is often lacking in nonviolence training. WPP offers international and regional nonviolence and leadership trainings with a clear gender perspective for both female and male activists from various social change movements.

Campaign Management and Social Innovators Workshops
International Women’s Democracy Center (IWDC)
Website: http://www.iwdc.org/programs/campaign-management.htm
Description: Campaign Management Workshops focus on training trainers how to train others to run for elected office and are conducted in partnership with local non-government organizations around the world. The workshops are designed to train women leaders in the technical skills of standing for elected office, managing campaigns and advocating for issues and include a component on the strategic use of technology. Workshop participants are established leaders representing all sectors of the economy with an interest in elected offices. Social Innovators Workshops are designed to build and strengthen civil society and the civic engagement skills of women leaders in new and emerging democracies. Partnering with local non-government organizations, IWDC works to train community-based leaders with tools in voter education, media, advocacy and transparency in government.

Community Advocate Mentor Program (CAMP)
International Women’s Democracy Center (IWDC)
Website: http://www.iwdc.org/programs/CAMP.htm
Description: The Community Advocate Mentor Program (CAMP), is designed to strengthen the public policy, lobbying and advocacy skills of recognized women leaders from regions moving from conflict to co-existence. CAMP began in 2000 with a 5 year program that trained female leaders from the Northern Ireland region. At the end of the program, CAMP had trained nealy 100 women leaders and had made a genuine impact on the Northern Ireland political landscape. Because of the overwhelming positive response from the CAMP-Ireland program, IWDC was approached to begin a new program for women leaders in Israel and Palestine, and so CAMP-Middle East was born. Beginning in 2007 and stretching over a five year period, IWDC will train women leaders from the Middle East how to effectively lobby their government and strengthen civil society. IWDC has now made a five year commitment to facilitate the Community Advocate Mentor Program with Palestinian and Israeli women leaders that began in the Spring 2007. Twelve established women leaders - 6 Israelis and 6 Palestinians - crossed borders into Washington and crossed barriers by becoming friends.

Human Rights Education Training Manuals
The People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning
http://www.pdhre.org/materials/index.html#manuals

Learning Center
Raising Voices
Website: http://www.raisingvoices.org/women/learning_center.php
Description: Primary prevention approaches to violence against women are relatively new in the region. Many organizations are reorienting traditional service delivery programs to include prevention activities and many others are seeking to strengthen community education, campaigns and training activities into a more holistic and systematic social change programs. Raising Voices in collaboration with the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention established and run a Learning Center for other organizations and individuals who are interested in building skills and learning first-hand how community mobilization for violence prevention can be done. Learning Center visits are tailor made according to the interests and needs of visiting colleagues. They can range from 2 or 3 days to several weeks. The Learning Center began in 2002 and has since hosted over 120 colleagues from Africa and around the world.
Training Materials: http://www.raisingvoices.org/staffskills.php Staff Skill Building Library

Women’s Campaign International
Website: http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/programs/#section-0
Description: Working in emerging democracies and post-conflict regions around the world, Women’s Campaign International advances opportunities for women to actively participate in public advocacy and political processes.  In providing the requisite skills, knowledge and culturally-sensitive support, we develop leaders who transform the lives of everyone they serve.

Immersion Trips
Women’s Global Connection
Email: WGCstaff@womensglobalconnection.org
Website: http://wgc.womensglobalconnection.org/connections_immersion_trips.html
Description: WGC immersion trips are designed to promote understanding of different cultures and provide education as a means of promoting women’s leadership and community development. Volunteers prepare for six months in advance and participate in a 14-16 day trip that includes workshops for teachers, health workers, care givers, and students. Participants actively contribute to WGC’s mission, utilizing their expertise to improve the lives of women and their families.

Summer Institute
Women’s Institute for Leadership Development
Email: info@wildlabor.org
Website: http://www.wildlabor.org/summer.html
Description: The WILD summer institute offers leadership workshops and skills workshops. Choose from two levels of leadership workshops.  Leadership A, for women new to leadership or to WILD, will explore the definition of leadership and the barriers women face in becoming leaders. Each participant will develop an assessment of her leadership skills, identify some personal leadership goals and learn tools to meet those goals. In Leadership B, for those who have attended Leadership A or are more experienced leaders, each participant will reflect on their own experiences as activists and leaders, apply lessons to developing leadership in others, and explore issues of accountability and power. New this year for 2010!  We're also offering Leadership B bilingually in Spanish and English.

A database compiled by University of Maryland Faculty
Women’s Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Centers
Website: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html#outside
Description: Here are links to more than 900 women's/gender/feminist studies programs, departments, and research centers around the world that have web sites. Programs and departments offering graduate degrees or concentrations have this fact noted in an annotation below the link. For a larger list of women's studies programs, including those without web sites, see the very useful searchable page on the National Women's Studies Association website (in cooperation with MS Magazine), the September issue of the Modern Language Association's journal PMLA, or Gerri Gribi's listing of Women's Studies programs in the U.S. For information about institutions offering Women's Studies graduate and undergraduate degrees online, see Online Degrees in Women's Studies.

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AFRICA

Peacebuilding Courses
The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
Email: info@accord.org.za
Website: http://www.accord.org.za/courses/peacebuilding.html
Description: The Peacebuilding Courses are conducted by the African Peacebuilding Coordination Programme (APCP) at ACCORD in its focus countries of Burundi, Sudan, Liberia and DRC. These trainings are focused on building the skill-sets and capacities of various stakeholders who are involved in the peacebuilding processes in these countries. The course content focuses on conflict analysis and management, communication skills, negotiation, mediation, and a variety of other subjects which are tailored to meet the needs on the ground in the various countries. The training courses are delivered in presentation style with a variety of interactive group sessions creating an atmosphere for rich and innovative learning.

Intensive three-week residential leadership-training
African Women’s Leadership Institute, Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA)
Contact Information:
East and Horn of Africa Office
Plot 30 Bukoto Street, Kamwokya
PO Bos 24310
Kampala, Uganda
Ph: +256-41-543681
Fax: +256-41-543683
Email: amwa@amwa-ea.org or info@amwauk.org
Website: http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/amwau.html
Description: The institute bases its program on the transfer of knowledge on an intergenerational level and also on a greater understanding of gender issues. Leadership skills are taught to strengthen the work of the participants and to encourage women to promote the African women’s development agenda.

BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights
Website: http://www.baobabwomen.org/programs.htm
Description: The objectives of this programme are to conduct research, document findings and build capacity in different areas, based on the identified needs of women in particular, and the society in general.

Fahamu Networks for Social Justice
Contact: http://www.fahamu.org/site/contact/
Website: http://www.fahamu.org/courses/
Description: As part of its mission to build the capacity of African human rights and social justice movements, Fahamu develops training materials and runs courses, including by distance learning. Fahamu provides training to strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations in Africa to promote and protect human rights and to help them become sustainable and effective organisations.

Exchange Institute
Isis International Women’s Cross-Cultural Exchange
Website: http://www.isis.or.ug/programmes/exchange/35-skillsbuilding and http://www.isis.or.ug/
Description: The Exchange Programme Institute is a unique yearly cross cultural  skills building programme, which started in 1984 in Geneva, Switzerland that involves a diverse number of women leaders and women human rights activists from different parts of the world who use the space to learn from one another, share information, exchange ideas and acquire cross-cultural strategies and solidarity actions for addressing a diverse range of women’s issues, from the human rights perspective. The opportunity enables the women to gain a broader understanding of the issues they are working on and to get exposed to new ideas for action.  The trained women acquire new skills that enable them to be more effective change agents in their communities. Since Isis-WICCE’s relocation to Africa in 1993, the International Exchange Programme Institutes have been held to address Violence against Women in Situations of Armed Conflict, as well as Peace Building and Conflict Transformation.

Just Associates
Email: info@justassociates.org
Website: http://www.justassociates.org
Description: Building on the 2006 recommendations from the African Feminist Forum and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa’s project to “Renovate Women’s Movements in Southern Africa,” this institute was the first phase of a long-term process that aims to strengthen the leadership, strategies and collective power of African women living with and working on HIV/AIDS in order for their voices and demands to be visible and influential at all levels of decision-making. This effort began with an institute in November 2007 and over time, aims to make African women living with HIV visible, influential and at the top of the agenda for the next Global AIDS conference in Mexico in 2008. A group of young women from Indonesia and Timor Leste were invited to the first JASS movement-building institute in Southeast Asia (in Bogor, Indonesia, June 2007). Here, they shared a common language – Indonesian – and a common commitment to social justice, but also the complicated history of their two countries, as colonized and colonizer.

Moremi Initiative for Women's Leadership in Africa
Email: info@moremiinitiative.org
Website: http://www.moremiinitiative.org/programs.php
Description: Moremi Initiative for Women's Leadership in Africa strives to engage, inspire and equip young women and girls to become the next generation of leading politicians, activists, social entrepreneurs and change agents: Leaders who can transform and change institutions that legitimize and perpetuate discrimination against women.

West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI)
West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP)
Contact Information:
PO Box CT 4434
Cantonments, Accra
Ghana
Ph: +233-21-221318
Fax: +233-21-221735         
Email: edzathor@wanep.org
Website: http://www.wanep.org/wanep/wapi-peacebuilding-institute.html
Description: Inadequate practice, knowledge and skills in peacebuilding in the sub-region prompted WANEP to institutionalize its capacity building component by establishing the West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI). WAPI offers the platform and the opportunity for CSOs, policy makers and individuals involved in relief, development, and peacebuilding activities as well as those involved in human rights and advocacy work in West Africa and beyond. It provides access to advanced training in peacebuilding rooted in their respective context and reality. WAPI has become a reputable regional training program that awards certificates to trainees.

Women Peacemakers Program (WPP): Training of Trainers
West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP)
Contact Information:
PO Box CT 4434
Cantonments, Accra
Ghana
Ph: +233-21-221318
Fax: +233-21-221735         
Email: edzathor@wanep.org
Website: http://www.ifor.org/WPP/education_regionalskills.htm
Description: The Africa WPP intends to hold a Training of Trainers (ToT) to deepen participants’ skills in gender and nonviolence training and education, in order strengthen their capacities to spread the work of WPP through empowering women at the grassroots.

Capacity Building
Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF)
Website: http://www.wildaf.org/index1.php?linkid=246&page=2&sectionid=168
Description: WiLDAF is involved in the training of members as resource persons in skills such as: Programme design, planning and implementation, popular legal education methods and techniques, developing simple legal literacy materials, leadership building and organisational strengthening including fund raising/management skills, law reform, advocacy and lobbying. The training of volunteers has been embraced by other organizations, using the training module developed by WiLDAF resource persons. These training programmes have been carried out for Associates in Development (ASSID) in the Upper West Region, The Hunger Project in Mfantsiman and Kwahu South Districts and the Dangbe West District under its Women Empowerment Project as part of its poverty alleviation activities. WiLDAF-Ghana has also trained judicial and non-judicial actors in the promotion and protection of the rights of women under a three-year European Union funded project that ended in 2004. Training workshops held for Judges, Lawyers, the Police, Medical Personnel and Traditional Leaders under the project yielded positive results.

Legal Awareness Programme (LAP)
Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF)
Website: http://www.wildaf.org/index1.php?linkid=244
Description: The primary goal of LAP is to have sustainable legal education and rights awareness within the various communities in the Volta and Western Regions. The specific objectives are: To provide training for legal literacy volunteers (LLVs); To provide back-up support to the educational activities of the LLVs; To offer legal counseling services to needy women and men; To undertake research and gather data which could be used in developing training material. WiLDAF’s key area of work can simply be described as awareness creation and protection of the rights of women in Ghana. In the twelve years of our existence, WiLDAF has successfully established three offices: in Accra, Takoradi, and Ho. The Takoradi and Ho offices are primarily responsible for the Legal Awareness Programmes. The primary goal of LAP is to have a sustainable legal education and rights awareness within the various communities in the Western and Volta regions.

Young Women Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI)
African Women's Millennium Initiative (AWOMI)
Contact Information:
PO Box 5409
Dakar-Fann, Senegal
Ph: +221-33836-6487
Email: awomi@awomi.org
Website: http://www.awomi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=18
Description: The Young Women’s Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI) is one of the two flagship programs of  AWOMI.  The other flagship program is the African Women Empowerment Fund (WEFU). YOWLI was set up to enable young women and men of African descent to widen their leadership horizons, enhance their knowledge base and actively engage in monitoring and fighting for social justice. YOWLI is a space that supports innovative ideas that challenge anti human rights strategies and propel organizing for social transformation.

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ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

CAPWIP Institute for Gender, Governance and Leadership (CIGGL)
Center for Asia - Pacific Women in Politics
Contact Information:
4227-4229 Tomas Claudio Street
Baclaran, Paranaque City 1700
Philippines
Tel: +63-2-8516934
Telefax: + 63-2-8322112
email: capwip@capwip.org
website: http://www.capwip.org/ciggl.htm
Description: MGGR is a course for women and men to take part in from different countries in Asia-Pacific. Following the training program participants will have a stronger understanding of gender and development, be able to identify gender biases, and be able to take action within and outside the government. CAPWIP was established to ensure that women’s political empowerment within politics would increase by having more women in leadership positions and by developing an effective women electorate.

Gender Training Institute
Centre for Social Research (India)
Website: http://www.csrindia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=76
Description: The Institute endeavors to facilitate CSR's mission through capacity building and training-related activities. The widespread provision of gender training is a logical and cohesive step towards an equitable society; a society that ensures the empowerment of women and restructures relationships towards gender justice.Grounded in the realities of the existing social fabric, GTI's trainings explore the gendered interactions taking place in broader areas of life such as culture, economy, and politics; and more specific areas such as in the workplace, in management, policing, developmental activities, industry and media. GTI believes that training is not an end in itself, but part of a larger process of learning and change. GTI hopes to equip members of society to achieve empowerment through a change in relationships between men and women from the household decision-making level right through to policy.

Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA)
Contact Information:
2/14, Shantiniketan, Second Floor
New Delhi-110021, India
Phone: 91-11-24107983, 26874733
Telefax: 91-11-26883209
Email: crea@vsnl.net
Website: http://web.creaworld.org/newleaders.asp#Basictraining and http://web.creaworld.org/newleaders.asp
Description: CREA has institutes that focus at the regional and national levels. The institutes range from working on community-based leadership development programs to building leadership through women’s rights and empowerment.

Women Peacemakers Program: Training of Trainers
Cultural Academy for Peace

Email: office@culturalacademy.org
Website: http://www.ifor.org/WPP/networking_regionaldesks.htm
http://culturalacademy.org/projects/asian.php
Description: The Asia Regional Desk became operational in August 2007 and has developed a three year Strategic plan. On March 14 2008, The Asia Regional Desk was officially launched in Kochi, India. The event was co-organized together with The Cultural Academy for Peace, the host organization of the Desk and the women’s wing of FOR India. The Asian Regional ToT took place from 26 November to 7 December 2007 at Kochi, India, where currently the Asia Regional Office is located. Its goal was to strengthen the skills of Asian women in gender sensitive active nonviolence training and education and strengthen their ability to impart training back home.

Feminist Advocacy Training Programme
Development Alternatives for a New Era (DAWN)
c/o Women and Gender Institute, Miriam College
Katipunan Road, Loyola Heights
Quezon City 1108 Philippines
Contact Information:
Telefax: 63-2-434-6440
Email: info@dawnnet.org
Website: http://www.dawnnet.org/training-institutes.php
Description: The broad aim of this training course will be to teach young feminist activists the linkages between diverse issues and advocacy. The institute will challenge its participants who are working for gender justice in the present day context.

Just Associates
Email: info@justassociates.org
Website: http://www.justassociates.org
Description: Building on the 2006 recommendations from the African Feminist Forum and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa’s project to “Renovate Women’s Movements in Southern Africa,” this institute was the first phase of a long-term process that aims to strengthen the leadership, strategies and collective power of African women living with and working on HIV/AIDS in order for their voices and demands to be visible and influential at all levels of decision-making. This effort began with an institute in November 2007 and over time, aims to make African women living with HIV visible, influential and at the top of the agenda for the next Global AIDS conference in Mexico in 2008. A group of young women from Indonesia and Timor Leste were invited to the first JASS movement-building institute in Southeast Asia (in Bogor, Indonesia, June 2007). Here, they shared a common language – Indonesian – and a common commitment to social justice, but also the complicated history of their two countries, as colonized and colonizer.

Tibetan Women Leadership Program
Tibetan Women’s Association
Email: twa@tibetanwomen.org
Website: http://www.tibetanwomen.org/projects/twlp/
Description: In most areas of the world, indeed in all, a cloak of invisibility has, for the most part, shaded the achievements of women. Most Tibetan women find themselves underneath this cloak, struggling to become visible. To address this need, the Tibetan Women’s Association (TWA) held, from December 21st-25th, 2007, its annual Tibetan Women’s Leadership Program in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India. The twenty seven Tibetan participants came from all over India to attend the workshops lead by four prominent guest speakers (Lenny Matthews, Doris Hargrave, Youdon Aukatsang and Mr. Vishwanathan) and facilitated by B. Tsering Yeshi (President of TWA), Esa Aldegheri and Tenzin Palkyi. The women’s voice is a passionate voice and it is speaking always. Let us listen to it so we can fail together, get up together and succeed and excel. Let us never give up.

International Women's Human Rights (IWHR) course
Women and Gender Institute (WAGI), Miriam College
Contact Information:
Email: wagi@mc.edu.ph
Website: http://www.mc.edu.ph/centers/womengenderinstitute.html?ref=HadiZayifla.Com
Quezon City, Philippines
WAGI annually offers a summer course on international women's human rights. It is the first academic-based women's human rights course offered in the Philippines. It examines the use of international human rights instruments from both gender and Asian perspectives. The training is designed for educators, NGO workers, technical staff of legislators and mid-level public servants from national agencies and other professionals who seek to deepen their understanding of women's human rights issues and challenges and endeavor to work on the practical application of human rights instruments in their respective professions.

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EUROPE

Women’s Rights Workshop in Russia
European Roma Rights Centre
Contact Information:
1386 Budapest 62
PO Box 906/93
Hungary
Fax: +36-1-413- 2201
Email: olgach@errc.org
Website: http://www.errc.org/en-human-rights-education-training-activities.php
Description: The workshop hopes to engage and develop Romani women activists in Russia, as well as Russian- speaking Romani women from other countries of the former Soviet Union. They will make use of a variety of international, regional and domestic human rights mechanisms to further the rights of Roma.
Training Materials: http://www.errc.org/en-human-rights-education-training-materials.php

Feminist Institute
Global Center for Women's Studies and Politics (GLOW)
Contact information:
Feministisches Institut in the Heinrich Boell Foundation
Hackesche Hoefe, Rosenthaler Straße 40/41
D - 10178 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 - 30-28534-122, Fax: +49 – 30 -28534-109
E-Mail: Feministisches-Institut@boell.de
Website: http://glow-boell.de/en/rubrik_1/811_941.htm
Description: The institute is an experimental workshop focused on current women’s policy issues that reflects on traditional issues in a new way and on novel issues from an unconventional angle. It sets up a number of interdisciplinary and global networks linking future-oriented research approaches with current debates and provides an environment where women from academia, the arts, the public and the private sectors can exchange information and find orientation and support. The institute questions political (power) strategies and plans of action to give impulses to sustainable gender-sensitive policies from a feminist perspective and encourages the next generation of feminists and supports women from all origins.

Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP)
Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) – NEW WAYS
Website: http://www.wwhr.org/hrep.php
Description: The Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) was developed in 1995 by WWHR-New Ways to meet the needs outlined in this context as a non-formal holistic human rights training to equip women with necessary knowledge and skills towards the full enjoyment of their human rights and mobilization around their own needs towards social change and democratization as free and equal individuals. HREP has been implemented in the field on an on-going basis since 1995, and as a result of this uninterrupted implementation has nation-wide outreach reached over 7500 women in 42 provinces located throughout all seven geographical regions of Turkey up to date. The actual outreach, however, is much wider than the number of participants, considering that each participant becomes a resource person within her community on women’s human rights, and also given the concerted focus of the program on facilitating the emergence of grassroots organisations working to advocate women’s human rights at the local level.

Meetings, Conferences, Workshops and Institutes
Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) – NEW WAYS
Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies
Website: http://www.wwhr.org/meetings_confs_workshops.php
Description: As a Coalition actively working to promote sexual, reproductive and bodily health and rights in Muslim societies, the experience of CSBR has revealed that the limited erudition and expertise on sexuality issues in our contexts constitute an obstacle to advancements in this field. Given the current debates and polarizations, it is more pertinent than ever to strengthen critical insight into historical and contemporary aspects of the power struggles around sexuality, enhance knowledge and capacity on sexual health and rights, and build an inclusive and affirmative discourse on sexuality in Muslim societies. As such, the CSBR Sexuality Institute provides a unique opportunity to create a better understanding of sexuality in Muslim societies and further the efforts to advance sexual, reproductive and bodily health and rights.

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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

International Program for Training and Capacity Building in Women’s Human Rights
Citizen, Study, Research, Information, and Action (CEPIA)
Contact Information:
Rua do Russel 694/201 Gloria
Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil 22210-010
Ph: 21-25586115 & 21-22052136
Email: mariaelvira@cepia.org.br
Website: http://www.cepia.org.br/en/programas.asp#formacao
Description: This program educates on specific social justices to promote the implementation of women’s human rights.

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NORTH AMERICA

Programs and Events
Center for the Education of Women (University of Michigan)
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~cew/services/programs.html
Description: Originally called the Center for Continuing Education of Women, it was the nation's first comprehensive, university-based women's center of its kind, and from the beginning had a commitment to helping women further their educational and employment goals, as well as focusing on research and advocacy for women.

Emerging Leaders Network
National Council for Research on Women (NCRW)
Website: http://www.ncrw.org/programs/2087/emerging-leaders-network
Description: The Emerging Leaders Network supports entry to mid-level professionals in their efforts to develop leadership skills and build partnerships. The Network is currently developing programs relevant to both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. Programs and goals includes: Professional Development and Leadership Training; Networking opportunities across sectors and companies; Support from peers who have faced or are facing similar challenges because of the sectors we work in and our stage in life; and Resource exchange.

New Faces, More Voices Leadership Training Institute
National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO)
Website: http://www.womensorganizations.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=51
Description: New Faces, More Voices is a leadership training institute of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO). Launched during summer 1999, the purpose of this program is to strengthen the women's movement by providing leadership training and skill building for interns of NCWO member organizations. As a complement to their internship policy work, this program provides NCWO member organization interns with the training they need to engage in effective advocacy and organizing around feminist social justice issues. Through seminars and workshops, New Faces, More Voices fosters communication and collaboration among NCWO interns, feminist policymakers, and other organizations with compatible social and economic goals. Through generous funding from Lifetime Television and the Ms. Foundation, this unique opportunity for broad-based training and cross-generational dialogue provides interns with the skills they need for advocating for women's equity beyond their internships in Washington, D.C.

Women’s Leadership/Economic Literacy Program
Tewa Women United
Email: kathy@tewawomenunited.org
Website: http://www.tewawomenunited.org/aboutwomenleaders.htm#wmnleadrprogramgoals
Description: Aims to strengthen, encourage, and build upon women’s natural leadership and entrepreneurial ability in order to help indigenous women fight the pervasive poverty in our communities. Poverty impacts our capacity to make health choices in matters of nutrition and other aspects of daily life. The goals of the program include providing indigenous women with tools for critical analysis of the root causes of poverty, supporting pathways which provide financial self-sustainability, and promoting leadership development and capacity building among indigenous women to create and strengthen women’s leadership opportunities within our community. TWU has offered retreats, classes and support groups for young people. The program has helped Tewa women, many of them artists, to receive training and classes to further their won business goals. TWU’s involvement with US Women Connect and other national networks and activities has opened an avenue for influencing federal policy change on economic issues for women and low income people.

Women’s Leadership Scholarship Program
Email: info@nativeleaders.org
Website: http://www.nativeleaders.org
Description: The Women's Leadership Scholarship (WLS) program (formerly the Native Leadership Scholarship) creates educational opportunities for women activists, grassroots leaders, and organizers from the Global South and/or from indigenous groups. WLS invests in women's leadership by supporting non-doctoral graduate education in human rights, sustainable development, and public health in many places around the world. The WLS awards four to six scholarships per year, up to US$25,000 per academic year for a maximum of two years. The awards help the recipients meet the costs of tuition, fees, books, educational supplies, housing, maintenance, and travel to and from the home country and the educational institution. Awards are paid directly to the institution in a student's account. Due to losses caused by the global financial crisis, and uncertainty about the timing of recovery, the Channel Foundation regrets that it will not be operating its Women’s Leadership Scholarship Program in 2009 or 2010 and will not be accepting applications for 2010-11.

Women’s Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights (WILD for Human Rights)
Contact Information:
Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
2850 Telegraph Avenue Suite 500, Berkeley, CA 94705-7220
510-643-5774 (phone)
510-643-7095 (fax)
Email: Allison Davenport, Director: adavenport@law.berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/8227.htm
Description: WILD's mission is to promote human rights through the conscious leadership and action of women and girls, especially young women of color. With a vision of social and political change, it strives to improve the conditions of women and girls and their communities. WILD provides human rights education and training, engages in research and public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the United States and globally.

Leadership Program
Women’s Learning Partnership
Contact Information:
4343 Montgomery Avenue, Suite 201
Bethesday, MD 20814, USA
Ph: 301-654-2774
Fax: 301-654-2775
Email: wlp@learningpartnership.org
Website: http://www.learningpartnership.org/en/programs/leadership
Description: WLP holds leadership-training workshops in many parts of the world. The workshops encourage coalition building and finding differences between one another’s gender, ethnicity, class, age, religion, and education. The individuals involved in the workshop work closely together to promote social change.
Training Materials: http://www.learningpartnership.org/en/publications/training/ltc

A database compiled by University of Maryland Faculty
Women’s Studies Programs, Departments, and Research Centers
Website: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html
Description: Here are links excerpted from a database of more than 900 women's/gender/feminist studies programs, departments, and research centers around the world—these particular links within the United States, that have web sites. Programs and departments offering graduate degrees or concentrations have this fact noted in an annotation below the link. For a larger list of women's studies programs, including those without web sites, see the very useful searchable page on the National Women's Studies Association website (in cooperation with MS Magazine), the September issue of the Modern Language Association's journal PMLA, or Gerri Gribi's listing of Women's Studies programs in the U.S. For information about institutions offering Women's Studies graduate and undergraduate degrees online, see Online Degrees in Women's Studies.

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