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DAWN ANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORT
APRIL 2008 TO MARCH 2009
 
The report covers the period April 01, 2008 to March 31, 2009. For the first six months, the outgoing global secretariat was in the process of closing down in Calabar, Nigeria while in the second half, the new secretariat was starting up in Manila. In the midst of this inter-regional secretariat transition, the network also continued to pursue its organizational re-structuring and re-staffing. Moreover, start-up activities were undertaken while on-stream projects and programs were adjusted to re-direct the network toward its stated goals in the four Key Result Areas of the DAWN Strategic Plan.
 
Former Steering Committee Members
 
 The first year of the new plan for a major organizational transition was by no means an uncomplicated process. And as the global financial and economic crisis played out in dramatic proportions, DAWN increasingly found its work in this area taking on a more strategic focus, thus compounding pressures on internal capacities and timeliness of action.

Gigi Francisco accepts the DAWN seal from Bene Madunagu
In this moment, DAWN was fortunate to have a newly formed and energized DAWN Executive Committee (EC) that guided and shared the work of the global secretariat in responding to the simultaneous internal and external challenges. Through the EC’s leadership, the network’s secretariat had quickly become stabilized in its new location while its externally radiated projects and programs started to move as planned. 
 
KRA 1: Global Feminist Research and Analysis
 
Overall goal: By 2012, DAWN has renewed capacity and dynamism in producing timely and ground-breaking research and analyses through sharper south feminist inter-linkages lens on global development, social justice and democracy processes and issues.

As DAWN steers into a new strategic plan, it has also began to reconstitute its Analysis Team and reactivated its research platform engaging in two major research projects in 2008-2009. 
 
1. Implementing on a rolling basis global research projects in the four thematic areas of DAWN’s inter-linkages analyses
 
Two research projects, one global and the other regional, were implemented during this period. The first was DAWN’s Global Research and on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and the Millennium Development Agenda. This is a three-year project funded by the MacArthur Foundation the aim of which is to assess the policy relevance and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and poverty eradication, giving particular attention to the content of the MDG agenda that directly derived from the ICPD and Beijing Agendas: gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights. The project has two components—an advocacy campaign, particularly within the UN Human Rights Council and a global research component.
 
The research was developed involving three Southern countries—Nigeria in Africa, India in South Asia and Mexico in Latin America. From 2007 to the first semester of 2008, systematic investments were made towards the identification of qualified researchers for this global policy research, particularly in identifying younger committed feminists who would be able to operate as DAWN’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) country research team members, under the guidance of the SRHR Research Coordinator. By July 2008, the full research team was completed and by September, country research activities began. In March 2009, a second research meeting took place in Rio de Janeiro that reviewed and improved the research guidelines after the sharing of the preliminary findings. As well, a web-based communication portal was created in March 2008 that now serves as the virtual site for communication and information exchange among the members of the research team.
 
Key Collaborators: Sonia Correa, DAWN’s SRHR Coordinator (Brazil); Alessandra Chacham, Brazil; Ngukwase Surma and Mary Okpe (Nigeria); Rennu Khanna and Ranjani Murthy (India) and Erika Troncoso Saavedra (Mexico).
 
DAWN’s work on women and peace-making in the context of political restructuring and social transformation was conceptualized through a series of consultations in South and Southeast Asia. This regional project took the place of the planned global research project on “Recasting Power and Transforming Governance: Women’s Struggles for Citizenship” that had been put on hold pending negotiations with partners.

The first phase of the project was an initial meeting held in January 2008, among members of a reference group that developed the consultative process which led to the country case studies by women activists who were directly engaged in conflict related initiatives. The second phase of the project saw the presentation of these case studies from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India at a consultation meeting in Kathmandu in March 2009. Eighteen (18) case studies are in varying degrees of completion had been produced. From India, the case studies focused on Shravasthi District, UP; Azamgarh; use of theatre in North East India; and Kashmir. In Nepal, there were 2 case studies on Siraha District; a case study of a woman Maoist leader turned village organizer for peace; the murder of Laxmi Bohara. In Sri Lanka, there is a case study on the rape and murder of Krisanthy Kumaraswamy; another on Eastern Sri Lanka; a study on Jaffna; and one on inter-generational perceptions of the long-running conflict. Finally, in Indonesia, there are case studies on: Aceh; Maluku; Poso; remaining East Timur refugees in East Nusa Tenggara; and inter-generational perceptions in the midst of impunity.
 
Key accomplishments have been (1) an inter-generational learning community on impunity and reparations, using human rights standards and transitional justice framework, and linked to the agenda of political restructuring and social transformation; and (2) the creation and use of creative methodology of reflection and analysis with younger women/feminists. As well, the project has lead to the exploration of global advocacy with some entities working on conflict such as the UN Working Group on Women, Peace and Security; the International Women’s Tribune Centre; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; and International Women’s Rights Action Watch- Asia Pacific.  
 
Key Collaborators: Kumudini Samuel, PRST Co-Coordinator (Sri Lanka); Cecilia Ng (Malaysia); Kamala Chandrakirana (Indonesia); Jostna Maskay (Nepal).
 
2. Reconstituting DAWN’s Analysis Team
 
The year saw the assumption to DAWN of new research coordinators and co-coordinators, including new research associates. They were drawn from DAWN's circle of younger feminists within the DTI/RTI alumna as well as from the more experienced group of colleagues and associates / affiliates / collaborators with whom DAWN has worked in the past. The co-optation of fresh and exciting members and collaborators will continue to take place throughout the strategic planning period, with care given to complementation of thematic focus and regional balance across the global south. At the end of one year, spaces for new people have yet to be filled. As planned, a modest honorarium for members of the Analysis Team had been introduced. This had certainly generated more regular attention and focused participation among the current members. Admittedly, however, the amount given is low and is not able to satisfy the desire for viable income among bright and promising feminist researchers. This is one challenge that DAWN needs to address in a creative but also more decisive way as it endeavors to keep its activist and collective spirit alive while adjusting to the need of many women to earn enough for their keep.

DAWN Analysis Team: Gita Sen (India), Sonia Correa (Brazil), Vivienne Taylor (South Africa), Anita Nayar (India/USA), Angela Collet (Brazil), Marina Durano (Philippines), Zo Randriamaro (Madagascar) and Gigi Francisco (Philippines)
 
KRA 2: Global Feminist Advocacies
 
Overall goal: By 2012, DAWN has systematized engagement and strengthened impact as a key civil society actor in global inter-movement and multilateral policy arenas and development agenda setting.
 
1. Engaging with the UN in New York & relevant spaces, with special focus on the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development

One of the more visible and high impact global advocacy efforts of DAWN during this period is its collaboration with other women’s/feminist networks in the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG). DAWN took the lead in convening the WWG consultation meeting (June 16-17 2008) that produced the WWG advocacy statement which was read at the UN Hearings with CSO on Financing for Development on 18 June. Thirty-four organizations signed on to the statement that now appears on the official FFD website. Linked to this was the interest generated by the WWG and other CSOs on the newly initiated ECOSOC-Development Cooperation Forum.

 

Some members of the Women's Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) including Marina DUrano, Zo Randriamaro & Gigi Francisco

 

 
DAWN and the other women’s networks warned against the use of positive conditionalities in development cooperation and instead strengthen mutual responsibility, accountability and transparency of donors and recipient countries. Moreover, DAWN/WWG called for stronger national, regional and international regulatory mechanisms and policies that would effectively shield economies from the effects of risk-taking practices of banks and other financial institutions (DAWN Informs June 2008, pp. 3-5).
 
The DAWN/WWG remained actively engaged in advocacy during the Review Conference on the FfD held in Doha in November-December 2008. The WWG held a session at the NGO Forum held just before the inter-governmental meeting. DAWN also spoke at the Side Event on Gender-Equitable Public Policy: Best Practices and New Options that was convened by the Friedrich Ehbert Foundation. At the end of the conference, although the outcome document contained references to gender which everyone recognized was quite an achievement, DAWN/WWG released a statement ”Good but Not Enough: Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Doha 2008,” endorsed and signed by a number of women’s organizations and networks (DAWN Informs, December 2008). 
 
In the following year at the 53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the WWG, in cooperation with UNIFEM and the UNGLS organized a number of side/parallel events where DAWN presented at the “Financial Crisis Workshop: Policy Issues and Priorities.” The text was also distributed to government delegates at the CSW’s “Interactive Expert Panel on the Emerging Issue: The Gender Perspectives of the Financial Crisis. DAWN/WWG was one of the first women’s networks that swiftly raised the need for a new financial architecture and bold policy reforms and alternatives meant to address systemic issues. This was its response to the financial crisis that at that time was already affecting developed and developing economies and bringing devastating consequences especially for the poor that did not have access to adequate social protection.
 
By March 24, 2009, DAWN had put out a letter of invitation to close to 300 individuals and networks to join the listserv gender-in-ffd@googlegroups.com. This now acts as an important source of information on such processes as the FFD, ECOSOC, DCF, and CSW-related events. Earlier in March 17, 2009, the wwg-core-group@ggoglegroups.com was created and which to this day continues to serve as a means of communication and strategizing for the key members of the FFD.
 
DAWN Task Force on the FFD: Marina Durano (Philippines), Magda Lanuza (Nicaragua), Gita Sen (India), Anita Nayar (India/USA), & Zo Randriamaro (Madagascar).
 
Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development: FEMNET, FTF-GCAP, AWID, ANND, GPF, IGTN, ITUC, NETRIGHT, REPEM, WEDO, WIDE
 
2. Participating in advocacy in and monitoring of the Human Rights Council (Geneva)
 
Sonia Correa & Gita Sen
DAWN sustained its joint civil society advocacy and lobby efforts with groups working on sexual rights in the Human Rights Council. Speaking on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, DAWN joined others in calling for fulfilling the aspirations for rights of many marginalized groups (DAWN Informs, p.2). Moreover, These and other earlier actions led to a significant victory on 18 December 2009 when 66 nations at the UN General Assembly supported a groundbreaking statement confirming that international human rights protections include sexual orientation and gender identity. It is the first time that a statement condemning rights abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people has been presented in the General Assembly.
 
At a panel-debate on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the work of the UN Human Rights Perspective in the work of the UN HRC and its Special Procedures (12 September 2008), DAWN unequivocally called for the stronger integration of a gender perspective in areas covered by the Special Procedures. Some of these areas include the special mandates on critical ecological concerns such as toxic and dangerous produces and wastes; the right to food; access to safe drinking water and sanitation.                                                                                   
 
In parallel, DAWN worked on the intersectional issues of maternal mortality and human rights. At the 8th Session of the HRC held in June 2008, DAWN representatives expressed support for a resolution on maternal mortality and human rights. Since then, DAWN has also linked up with other CSOs and has worked in close partnership with partner States and relevant UN agencies in strategizing towards the collective development and promotion of a resolution on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights, which will be presented and tabled for adoption at the 11th Session of the HRC in June 2009 where DAWN seeks to present a panel on “Maternal morbidity and mortality in the framework of human rights.”  
 
Angela Collet
Also part of DAWN’s SRHR work in Geneva is its engagement with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). The network was present at the UNRISD NGO Consultation last 12-13 January 2009 where DAWN, represented by Angela Collet, delivered a presentation emphasizing the need to incorporate sexuality issues in development agenda. According to her: “Doing so will open opportunities for development workers to expand their conceptual frameworks and thereby moving away from the ‘victimization approach’ that has dominated human rights discourses and practices as well as development thinking.   In her intervention, Collet urged for a more systematic and continuous conversations and debates about the intersection of sexuality and development, using a perspective where sexuality is not limited to biological sex but is seen as one domain of human life that is deeply connected with social and cultural norms, economic structures and religious ideologies.
 
DAWN Task Force on SRHR: Sonia Correa (Brazil), Angela Collet (Brazil)  and Gita Sen
(India)

DAWN collaborates with organizations in the Sexual Rights Caucus at the HRC
 
3. Getting connected with ICPD and Beijing Plus Fifteen Processes
 
The network also continues to be involved in the Fifteen Year Review of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD +15). DAWN was present at the 42nd Session of the Commission on Population and Development held last 30 March-3 April 2009 and participated in a strategy preparatory meeting in reviewing, revisiting and enhancing the resolution on maternal morbidity and mortality in which particular attention was placed on re-framing and offering alternative discourse and language on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
 
At around this time too, DAWN had been invited to put together a plenary session at the Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing Plus Fifteen that will be held in Miriam College in the Philippines, on October 22-24, 2009. Moreover, a workshop by young women who participated in the two DAWN-South and Southeast Asia Regional Training Institutes, is being mulled.
 
DAWN collaborates with the following for the ICPD Resolution on Maternal Mortality: Action Canada for Population & Development, Amnesty International, Center for Reproductive Rights, Center for Women’s global Leadership, Federation for Women & Family Planning, International Alliance for Women, International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific.
 
DAWN collaborates with the associated groups of the Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) for the AP NGO Forum on B+15, together with the Asia-Pacific alumni of the DAWN Training Institute (DTI) and Regional Training Institutes (RTIs)
 
4. Contributing to joint feminist efforts around the GEAR Campaign
 
DAWN continues to be one of the global focal points for the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign that is co-led by the Women’s Global Leadership and Women’s Environment and Development Organization. This year, DAWN actively engaged in pushing for a revised modalities and advocacy paper emphasizing on increased funding commitments from donor governments and for the strengthening of country level presence, in addition to what many others have been calling for such as the creation of an Under-Secretary General to lead the new body and clear civil society participation. As well, through the Linkage Caucus, a petition on behalf of GEAR was signed by several women’s organizations and networks and submitted to the 53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2009.
DAWN also attended the strategy meetings on Gender Equality Architecture Reform held last March 1st and March 7th, 2009 in New York. The meeting was an opportunity to share information and ideas on the implementation of the High Level Panel’s recommendations to strengthen the gender equality architecture at the United Nations since last year’s CSW-52 and official launch of the GEAR Campaign. At these meetings, DAWN once again raised the need to get firm commitments from donor governments for a sizable fund for the new entity.
 
DAWN Working Group on GEAR: Anita Nayar (India/USA), Gita Sen (India), Gigi Francisco (Philippines), Zo Randriamaro (Madagascar), and Marina Durano (Philippines)
 
KRA 3: Sustaining Feminist Activisms
 
Overall goal: By 2012, DAWN has trained young women from the economic south and collaborated with regional focal points around south feminist inter-linkages analyses and activisms that contribute to the sustainability of women’s movements and feminist political actions. 
 
1. Increasing the capacity of young women from the south to engage in critical feminist analysis of global trends for political action.
 
In 2007, the 1st Regional Training Institute (RTI) for South and Southeast Asia was held in Chiangmai, Thailand. By the time this report was being written, the 2nd RTI for South and Southeast Asia was being planned to be held in Miriam College in Quezon City, Philippines. The training coordinators, Kumudini Samuel and Gigi Francisco, are currently in the process of selecting 30 participants from a number of recommendations from past RTI graduates and network partners. Nominations from outside the South and Southeast Asia regions including those from Iran, Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea are also being considered. Gita Sen, Marina Durano and Cecilia Ng make up this edition’s resource persons. The program for the training has been strengthened to further highlight DAWN’s inter-linkages approach. It will continue to feature two interactive panels on strengthening the women’s movement inter-generationally and in terms of inter-linking with other social movements.
 
Some alumnae of the DAWN Training Institute (DTI) organized a very successful panel at the annual forum of the Association of Women in Development (AWID) that was held on 14-17 November 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. Their workshop entitled “Do We Really Have a Feminist Family? Plural Notions of Family and Marriage,” was one of the well attended events at the said conference. During the preparations, the DTI alums reflected on the power relations and conflicts within their own families, deconstructed ideas of marriage, singlehood, polygamy, love and other forms of relationships, and reflected on how fundamentalist notions are being challenged in everyday life.
 
At the same AWID Forum, DAWN together with the Women’s Global Network on Reproductive Rights joined the young women of ISIS International-Manila for the workshop “Global Feminist Critical Collaboration: Confronting the Realities of the South.” This was also the occasion when the newly hired young feminist coordinator of ISIS International-Manila was publicly introduced. DAWN women beamed proudly at the young feminist from China who was a DAWN alumna from the 1st RTI in South and Southeast Asia.
                                                                                                                                         
Moreover, two Malaysian participants of the same RTI delivered a joint paper entitled “Feminist Organizing in Malaysia: Creating Social Change” at the 8th ASEAN Inter-University Conference on Social Development held in May 2008 in Manila.
 
Alumnae of the DTIs and the RTIs continue their debates and information sharing through the DTI and RTI listservs that are managed by DAWN’s Info-Com Officer.
 
DAWN supports its network of young feminists linked to the DTIs and the RTIs
 
2. Participating in various conferences, seminars and workshops and actively networking and collaborating with various organizations and social movements toward a satellite of regional focal points and strategic partners across the global south.
 
DAWNees had their own plenary session at the AWID Forum entitled “Debating Feminisms in the Women’s Movement,” featuring Viviene Taylor, Mariama Williams, Celita Echer, Angela Collet and Yvonne Underhill-Sem. DAWN was also represented at the panel on “Climate Change and Gender Equality,” where Yvonne Underhill-Sem delivered a presentation, “Follow the Money and Participate: Women and the Politics of Climate Change.”
 
DAWN continued its collaboration with the Latin American based secretariat of the International Council on Adult Education. In June 2008, representing DAWN in the ICAE Seminar on Women in Motion for the Right to Education, Gita Sen delivered a speech, “Walk the Talk on Feminist Advocacy,” and shared about DAWN’s experience in advocacy at the global, regional and national levels. As well, Gigi Francisco represented DAWN as a resource person at the ICAE’s International Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy (IALLA) held last 27 October -12 November 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. 
 
DAWN sustained its long-running relationship with the Women in Development Europe (WIDE) whose annual conference was held last 9-11 October 2008 at the Hague, Netherlands. In keeping with the conference theme, “Feminist Visions for a Just Europe,” Gigi Francisco spoke about the links between women’s rights in Europe and the necessity of working with partners from the South.
 
DAWN was also present at the World Social Forum in Belem where it co-organized with IGTN and AWID, a session on South Alternatives. DAWN, however, did not participate in the holding the Feminist Dialogues/Dialogo Feministas as it was in the midst of assessing its network relations in particular, where best to put its limited energies in.
  
Members of the Executive Committee also represented DAWN in various events maintaining the network’s visibility in various spaces. Gita Sen represented DAWN at the Fourth Annual South Asia Conference on Trade and Development organized by the Center for Trade and Development in New Delhi, India on 17-18 December 2008, where she spoke in a panel on “Achieving Equity and Sustainability and Livelihoods: The Impact of Trade and Domestic Polices.” DAWN’s participation in the conference opened up opportunities for the network to engage in advocacy work with CENTAD and other similar organizations also present at the said event.
 
Gita Sen likewise spoke as a resource person at the Reunion Internacional sobre Pobreza, Genero y Diversidad Cultural: Alcances y Limitacions en su Medicion and gave the keynote address at the Seminario Internacional sobre Pobreza, Genero y Diversidad Cultural both held in Guatemala, on 18-19 February 2009. Both events were part of the ongoing work of the UNIFEM Regional Office for Central America in reintegrating policies and advocacy to address poverty, gender equality and cultural diversity where DAWN’s work in inter-linking economic justice work with other issues were proven valuable. 
 
Similarly creating possible links with women’s studies programs is DAWN’s attendance in a symposium organized by the Women and Gender Studies Institute of the University of Toronto. Sharing and reflecting about DAWN’s history and work for the past 25 years, Gita spoke at the closing plenary of “Interdisciplinarity in Feminist State Theory,” where she was joined by women political scientists from a variety of national and disciplinary locations reflecting and re-conceptualizing concepts of sovereignty, security and welfare. DAWN’s inter-linkages approach also proved to be an invaluable contribution to this event.   
 
In collaboration with several networks - ETC Group (Action group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration), BEDE (Biodiversity: Exchange and Diffusion of Experiences), Citizen Science Foundation and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation's 'What Next?' Project - DAWN co-convened a strategy meeting, including a feminist analysis, on threats from BANG technologies (manipulation of Bits, Atoms, Neurons and Genes at the nano scale, including for example nanotechnology, synthetic biology, geo-engineering, and neuro manipulation) as a response to the climate, food and fuel crises. The meeting was held in Montpellier, France from November 23-25, 2008 and attended by over 35 environment, development, food sovereignty, women's, farmers, and indigenous rights organizations from across the world. Anita Nayar co-facilitated the meeting and writing of the outcome declaration.
 
DAWN Analyses Team & Former Steering Committee Members: Gita Sen (India), Sonia Correa (Brazil), Vivienne Taylor (South Africa), Mariama Williams (Jamaica/USA), Yvonne Underhill-Sem (New Zealand), Anita Nayar (India/USA), Marina Durano (Philippines), Kumudini Samuel (Sri Lanka), Angela Collet (Brazil) & Zo Randriamaro (Madagascar) and Peggy Antrobus (Barbados)
 
KRA 4: Organizational Development
 
Overall goal: By 2012, DAWN is strongly positioned to solidify its comparative advantage in south feminist leadership in the global women’s movements for the next 20-25 years.
 
1. Setting up of a new organizational structure and a secretariat with improved capacities
 
This year saw DAWN transitioning into a new organizational structure. From a steering committee composed of regional focal persons, DAWN’s governance is now shared between an Executive Committee and an International Board of Trustees. The shared leadership and each of the duties and responsibilities of both bodies are clearly outlined and explained in three organizational documents—the DAWN Statutes, Operating Guidelines and Financial Regulations—all of which have been revised, finalized and adopted during this fiscal year. 
 
The Executive Committee is composed of Gita Sen and Anita Nayar from India, Sonia Correa and Angela Collet from Brazil, Kumudini Samuel from Sri Lanka, Zo Randriamaro from Madagascar, Marina Durano and Gigi Francisco from the Philippines. Claire Slatter from Fiji, Margareth Arilha from Brazil and Pregs Govinder from South Africa make up the initial members of the DAWN Board.
 
The DAWN Secretariat has been moving across regions of the economic South. Its first secretariat was based in India. From here it moved to Brazil, then to Barbados, Fiji, and Nigeria. Since November 2008, the Secretariat has been hosted in the Philippines, with Gigi Francisco as the new General Coordinator. DAWN has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with Miriam College, where DAWN will be based for the next four years as a project of its Women and Gender Institute. The new Secretariat is registered as a non-stock, non-profit organization (as Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era Secretariat, Inc.) with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines and the Bureau of Internal Revenues.
 
The secretariat is now more centrally located and has access to infrastructure that contributed to an efficient and consistent coordination and administrative support work. Guiding the financial administration and performing monitoring work are an internal auditor and a DAWN Finance Committee. DAWN also benefits from the legal opinion of an international lawyer and a Philippine-based lawyer.
 
DAWN Secretariat & Finance Committee: Remedios Gamboa, Anna Dinglasan, Sharan Lateef, Gracie Fong, Cedrick Caperal, Gita Sen, Claire Slatter & Gigi Francisco
 
2. Initiating changes that contribute to the institutionalization of a new coherent and effective media, communications and information dissemination strategy for DAWN

 

Anita Nayar & Kumi Samuel

 

  
While ensuring that communications between and among DAWN members remain intact, initiatives to enhance its info-com infrastructure were also pursued enabling the network to share its advocacies to the wider public more effectively. A major effort during this period went into the creative re-design and improvement in the content of DAWN Informs, to make it attractive not only to the older and long-time readers but also to newer and younger feminists. As well, there was the introduction of a DAWN Informs distribution system via a mailing list of close to 1000 individuals and organizations worldwide. This enabled the more effective broadcast of DAWN analyses and activities as well as the lowering of costs. The two issues released this year were widely circulated by email while hard copies were brought to the World Social Forum in  Belem, Brazil and the 53rd Session of the CSW, where DAWN had actively engaged.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                        
The other major accomplishment was the creation of several listservs that improved freeway communication for advocacy and networking as well as upped the presence of DAWN in the cyberworld. The listservs that were created in support of the work of DAWN in the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development was especially useful in this regard. At the moment, the secretariat through the Info-Com Officer maintains 5 email groups and manages a database of individuals and organizations linked to DAWN activities, events and programs.
 
Steps have also been taken to begin discussions with the current service providers on a full transfer of the of the web administration to Manila-based technical people for more ease in supervision and monitoring. An interactive DAWN website using Content Management System (CMS) and a new look for the DAWN, will be implemented in the following fiscal year.
 
DAWN Secretariat & Task Force: Sarah Domingo, Cezar Tigno, Gigi Francisco, Anita Nayar, Marina Durano, Kumudini Samuel

 

 

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