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.