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DAWN TRAINING INSTITUTE (DTI)
 The DAWN Training Institute (DTI) is a formal arena through which DAWN's women share with younger feminists from the South, the accumulated knowledge, analyses, debates and experiences of DAWN in the past years and to also provide DAWN a way of regeneration through the recruitment of the graduates into DAWN's global and regional work.
Since 2003, DAWN has held three DAWN Training Institutes (DTIs). The first one took place in Bangalore, India (2003), the second one in Montevideo, Uruguay (2005) and the third one in Cape Town, South Africa (2007). DTIs are held for three weeks, where young feminists are exposed to theory, discussions and inter-active processes related to feminism, feminist movements, women’s rights, and local and global strategies to achieve social justice. DAWN’s objectives for the institutes are to share the experiences of the organization with the next generation of young activists and to contribute towards building a sustainable movement who sees the world from a feminist perspective.
Altogether, 89 young women from across the regions of the global South have graduated from the DTI, twenty eight (28) of whom attended the first DTI in Bangalore, twenty six (26) in Montevideo, and thirty five (35) in Cape Town. The DTIs are a generation of young feminists who have been engaged in some form of activism already in their own contexts (nationally, regionally or globally) and the DAWN Training Institute itself was a moment at which they were able to ground that activism on a strong theoretical basis on the one hand and to locate it in the local, regional and global context.
After their training on DAWN inter-linkages approach to analysis and advocacy, DTI graduates remain active in non-governmental women’s organizations or in mixed NGOs, and many are visible in regional and global advocacy and lobby work. Their areas of work span across the four major global thematic concerns of DAWN, namely, (a) Political Economy of Globalization and Trade; (b) Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; (c) Political Restructuring and Social Transformation; and (d) Political Ecology and Sustainability. Indicators pointing to the success of the DTI include: (a) a 2005 publication by young feminists that was launched at the AWID Forum in October; (b) the participation of some of the DTI graduates in DAWN’s global advocacy around the United Nations; (c) the participation of some of the DTI graduates in the Feminist Dialogues at the World Social Forum; (d) leadership of some DTI alumnae in the gender work of some international organizations.
REGIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE (RTI)
 The regionalization of the DTI was a decision reached soon after the first global DTI was held for which the number of applicants surpassed expectations. Strategically, it was a response to the growing importance of advocacy work at regional platforms that have emerged as part of ongoing regional or subregional processes of multi-scalar integration. Methodologically, Regional Training Institutes (RTIs) enable young feminist leaders from the national level to join learning groups around common concerns and in more familiar advocacy grounds. As compressed versions of the global program, the regional DTIs are carefully crafted so that the original intent and learning processes of the global DTIs are approximated as closely as possible. Moreover, creating synergy in the follow-through phase is deemed to be more realistic and manageable among a group of RTI alumnae.
Training Coordinator: Zo Randriamaro
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