亚洲促进会技术支持项目—-社区研究与倡导

Call for Applications: 

Asia Catalyst Technical Assistance Program — Community Research and Advocacy

 2013-2014年，亚洲促进会将面向中国的性工作者社区组织提供技术支持。我们欢迎那些希望记录社区问题，并开展倡导的性工作者机构进行申请。我们将提供培训和辅导，帮助机构开展社区研究，并一道合作推动问题的解决。

In 2013-14, Asia Catalyst will provide technical assistance to sex worker community organizations in China. We welcome sex worker organizations, that want to document community issues and conduct advocacy, to apply. We will provide training and coaching to assist selected organizations to conduct community research, and work together to conduct advocacy on the issue. 

本项目计划挑选两家性工作者社区组织，并在2013年12月至2014年7月之间提供三次面对面的培训。在这些培训的间隔，我们将通过电话和网络跟进。培训和辅导的内容包括：选择一个社区问题并确定倡导目标，社区研究和记录的基本技巧，制定和实施倡导计划。培训和辅导计划将根据社区组织的具体情况而定制。作为项目的一部分，这两家组织将在2014年7月份之前完成一份倡导计划和简短的社区问题报告。此外，亚洲促进会可能将选择其中一个组织参加于2014年7月在澳大利亚墨尔本召开的世界艾滋病大会，以分享其记录的社区问题和所开展的倡导。这将取决于奖学金申请及基金筹集的状况。

For this project Asia Catalyst will select two sex worker community organizations, and provide three face-to-face workshops by Asia Catalyst between December 2013 and July 2014. In between these trainings, we will provide coaching through telephone and internet. The skills the program aims to develop are: selecting a community issue and determining an advocacy goal; basics of community research and documentation; developing and implementing an advocacy plan. The training and coaching plan will be tailor-made based on the needs of the organization. As part of the project, the two organizations will develop an advocacy plan and a short report on the community issue before July 2014. In addition, Asia Catalyst may select one representative of the two organizations to attend the International AIDS Conference held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2014. This will depend on result of fundraising and scholarship application. 

      请注意，亚洲促进会承担所有培训和辅导的开支，并提供有限的访谈费用用于社区研究项目。除此之外，本项目不提供任何其他的拨款或补贴。项目进行过程中所有收集到的材料及报告均归该性工作者机构所有。在征得机构同意的情况下，亚洲促进会可能会使用这些材料和报告开展倡导。

Please note that Asia Catalyst will cover all the cost for the training, provide limited support for transportation allowance for interviewees as part of the community research project, and one scholarship for attending the International AIDS Conference. This program does not provide any other grant funds or compensation. All materials gathered by the sex worker organization will be the sole property of that organization. With the permission of the organization, Asia Catalyst may use these materials for the purpose of advocacy.

请感兴趣的组织填写申请表，并于2013年11月22日之前发送电子邮件到tshen@asiacatalyst.org。申请表已附加在邮件中，也可以在线获得：AdvoCoachingChinaSWapplicationNov2013.doc

Interested groups should fill out and email the application form in Chinese to tshen@asiacatalyst.org by November 22, 2013.  Download the application here: AdvoCoachingChinaSWapplicationNov2013.doc.

Asia Catalyst is now accepting applications from nonprofit grassroots organizations in China working on health rights for the new Nonprofit Leadership Cohort Program of the year 2013-2014. The Nonprofit Leadership Cohort is an intensive one-year capacity-building program aimed at building skills in organizational management through hands-on workshops, peer support and individualized coaching.

亚洲促进会现正在接受中国的健康权益草根非营利组织针对”中国非营利组织发展能力团队培训”的2013-2014学年提出申请。非营利组织发展能力团队培训是为期一年的密集型培训计划方案，旨在通过培训过程中的实际操作，学员的相互合作以及个别的辅导增强组织或机构的管理技能。

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By Annika Schaefer

From November 18th to 22nd Asia Catalyst staff and delegates from four Chinese partner organizations will gather with other advocates from the region at the 11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICCAP). Delegates will present their work, meet with advocacy targets, and attend community and scientific sessions.  The congress, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, is the largest forum on HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region.

Among the expected 4,000 delegates from 22 countries across Asia and the Pacific engaging in ICAAP11, Asia Catalyst staff and partners will each have the opportunity to share best practices and present on their organization’s work, program results, and lessons learned for the future, in the form of abstract presentations, poster presentations, roundtables, and other side events.

Asia Catalyst is supporting members from the four selected Chinese partner organizations with English translation, scholarship assistance, and the coordination of meetings, roundtables and presentations.

Delegates receiving our support were selected by an open application process from organizations we have worked with in the past.  Three members of the delegation are graduate organizations of the Asia Catalyst NGO Leadership Cohort, a year-long organizational management training program for grassroots health rights advocates in China, and several have been working with Asia Catalyst’s Advocacy program.

Asia Catalyst will have a booth in the Asia Pacific Village, an area of the conference that is open to the public for free, and which is geared toward networking, information sharing and joint actions for community based organizations.  The booth will showcase advocacy projects
from partner organizations around the region, including several from the Rights Training Program’s regional network.  It will also showcase Asia Catalyst materials and training programs, and serve as a platform for expanding our network in the region.

Over the coming weeks, we will feature profiles of advocates and their projects on the blog.

Please support our efforts to bring advocates together by making a tax-deductible donation  to Asia Catalyst.