About WHRAP-SEA

Women’s Health and Rights Advocacy Partnership South East Asia (WHRAP-SEA) is a project initiative by the Asian Pacific Research and Resource Centre for Women (ARROW), addressing the issues of young people’s SRHR and HIV/AIDS. In July 2010, the WHRAP SEA strategic planning meeting was held, culminating in the creation of this project. Partners from 7 countries across South East Asia (Burma, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Laos and Vietnam), have agreed to promote young people’s rights by utilizing 3 core strategies: Capacity Building, Evidence Generation and Partnership. Moreover, the partners also have agreed to conduct a parallel activity between local-based evidence generation with regional capacity building and advocacy.

WHRAP-SEA Priority Issues

The intended results of WHRAP-SEA: 

• Increased knowledge amongst marginalized young people and empowerment that enables them to act on that knowledge;
• Improved young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights;
• Increased desire to share lessons learned with other communities of young people while at the same time motivating others to replicate the approach;
• Showcase to stakeholders effective strategies to address the challenges of young people’s risk for HIV/AIDS through comprehensive SRHR programmes;
• Young people are enabled to achieve the agency to represent their demands within previously closed arena’s of decision-making at the national level;
• Youth leaders emerge from and are grounded within grassroots communities; and
• Increased public awareness and therefore, political will, for the importance of connecting young people with the development of genuine mechanisms to redress power imbalances in households and communities, full access to SRHR information, education, training and services, and consequently, the potential to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDs among young people.

Youth Internship Programme

The internship programme will target young people from participating partner organizations and the marginalized communities in which they work. This programme will enhance the capacity building component of the ARROW WHRAP-SEA project by investing in an internship programme for participants from the seven (7) project countries (Burma, Cambodia, China, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam).The selected interns would be youth activists that have displayed a level of leadership on SRHR issues and who could benefit from the time and space to invest in their personal development as leaders of the next generation of activists.The programme would enable in-depth immersion programme in different contexts and settings, so that they are able to share and learn diverse strategies to address the multiple levels of discrimination faced by young people’s in accessing SRHR information and services. The internship will last a year, and they will be based within one of the WHRAP-SEA partner organisations.The internship programme aims to foster intergenerational exchange of experience in leadership, which not only focuses on theoretical knowledge sharing, but also on deepening understanding of the role of young leaders in creating accountable and sustainable movements. At the end of the internship, the intern will produce a draft funding proposal for continuing the internship programme on a longer term basis, informed by their experiences and lessons learned. The intern’s experiences will be compiled into a report at the end of the project.

With the vision of improved SRHR for young people, it is also hoped that through this project youth leaders emerge from and are grounded within grassroots communities. This internship aims to increase knowledge amongst marginalized young people and empower them to act on that knowledge. Young people will also be enabled to achieve the agency to represent their demands within previously closed arenas of decision-making at the national level.

For more information about this project, please write to Rachel Arinii ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or please visit www.srhr4youth.org. 

  WHRAP SEA Constituencies 

 National Partner Activities