JASS Annual Report 2011
Check out some highlights from 2011 in our Annual Report. We hope that the stories in this report shed light on the deep and immeasurable work of the JASS community.
Transforming Economic Power
Worldwide, soaring food prices, mounting unemployment, Wall Street scandals, and countries on the brink of financial default have given rise to protests that have brought down entire governments. Citizens everywhere are mobilizing to demand accountability for the global financial crisis.…
Economic Literacy Tools
For many people around the world, economic policy is shrouded in the mystique of “expertise" that tends to obscure the politics behind the economics and prevents citizens from participating fully and openly in economic policy making.There is therefore an urgent need to shift decision making power to the larger public especially women.
Women are part of the 99%: JASS Weighs In on Occupy
Women involved in JASS’ movement-building everywhere are connecting with and buzzing about the US-driven Occupy Movements. Inspired by and learning lessons from the tactics and strategies the organizers are using, JASS nevertheless looks for the voices and inequality agendas of…
What is Theory of Change (TOC) thinking and its added value for social change movements?
Within the past five years “theory of change” has been promoted and popularized by some of the world’s largest charitable foundations as a way for social change organizations to describe and evaluate their work. Look around, and you’ll find social…
What is Theory of Change (TOC) Thinking and its Added Value for Social Change Movements? (document)
By: Alia Khan Having had multiple opportunities to develop and articulate theories of change, I have come to understand it as a technical term for making visible and explicit the assumptions, motivations, rationale behind what we do and why. Within…
Citizen action and the perverse confluence of opposing agendas
When opposing political interests are using the same terms and tactics in diametrically opposed agendas, Lisa Veneklasen asks how we can transform the power of citizen action into sustained change for justice and equality.What with claims of “Facebook revolutions” in…
JASS Annual Report 2010
Check out some highlights from 2010 in our Annual Report. We hope that the stories in this report shed light on the deep and immeasurable work of the JASS community.
Paths are Made by Walking: JASS Crossregional Dialogue 2011
Brighton, England – February 2011In February 2011, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton, England and JASS co-convened 25 JASS colleagues from 13 countries and 6 IDS scholars to learn and plot the future of women’s rights, development and…
