On 3rd May 2017, the first training round of the 2017-2018 Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research (CJ-FPAR) program organized by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) has started. There are 10 organizations participating in this program and ADC is the only participant from Vietnam.

The programme is rooted in movement building among these communities to solidify women’s rights, empower women, and provide women with the tools necessary to create a narrative that prioritises their struggles for justice in the face of climate change.

This training will last for 5 days with expected outputs:

1. Participants understand about the objective, approach, and time frame of Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research 2017-2018;
2. Training participants gain skills and capacity on the key concepts on framework feminist participatory approach, human rights based approach, international HRs framework, climate justice, current climate negotiations on mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage and climate financing;
3. Participating organisations have a more detailed research plans for research in their respective communities;
4. Training participants gain skills and capacity on the tools of Theory of Change, Power Mapping and Critical Pathway to be used together with the community to plan the research and the impact objectives.

Some pictures of the first day training: