Welcome to WARI
WARI is an independent,
secular, non-profit organization based in Bangkok. It is devoted to
the issues of socio-economic development in general, and
specifically to as development process relates to women and gender
concerns. The main goal is to promote gender sensitivity and
capacity building. We carry out research, education and training
programs, and are developing ourselves as a regional resource
center.
Two
coordinators of the group come from academic backgrounds. Their
experiences of evaluating many GOs and NGOs projects showed that
invariably organizations lack capacity to carry out programs
effectively and also lack familiarity with gender issues. Both
coordinators left their jobs and started the group WARI to meet
these needs of capacity building and gender sensitivity in Thailand,
Indochina, and Southeast Asia.We carry out research so that policies
are based on informed choices, and discussion are deepened. We often
carry out program collaboratively with GOs and NGOs to enhance their
networking and investigation skills. We are developing short term
training program and also planning to grow as a resource center for
print, audio-video,and computer media. We have been organizing
annual Gender course and Gender conference for the last seven years.
This
web site provides details about our activities. It lists some of our
publicatons and current research projects. Details are also provided
for the annual gender training course followed by a regional Gender
conference. We hope to add more material to the resource page of oue
website so that our website may grow as a discussion forum and
resource center on women's issues in Southeast Asia. Let us know
your feedback as how to make it more useful. We welcome visitors and
volunteers to work with us.Our location map is included in the satff
and contact us
section.