Women's leadership in designing social innovation: mutual learning in the Asia-Pacific

这一后续项目扩大并加强了通过AHRC网络赠款“社会创新研究网络设计：连接英国和亚太地区的做法”（AH/N 004736/1）产生的影响。其主要目标是为24名女性（12名导师，12名学员和更多[x]人）提供以领导力为重点的对等指导计划，致力于在泰国，马来西亚，日本和澳大利亚产生社会影响。为期15个月的计划将通过尊重，响应和互惠的点对点学习，重点关注企业复原力，社区凝聚力和社会影响。一个对等的同伴指导模式将影响扩展到参与者之外，因为他们将得到支持，指导其组织中的其他妇女。辅导方案将得到两项公共活动的支持，一项是圆桌讨论在线论坛，另一项是在曼谷举行的公共专题讨论会，我们将与支持性别平等议程的决策者、政府、非政府组织和智囊团进行接触。该提案利用了与该地区在支持创意部门社会创新方面具有良好记录的主要合作伙伴的密切合作。AWSEN、KOGEI-Net和英国理事会将协助参与和传播会议成果。该项目建立在亚太地区社会创新设计（Designing Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific，简称CANAP）网络的基础上，该网络由2016年AHRC网络基金支持。在此支持下，CANAP已发展成为亚太地区充满活力和活跃的创意和社会创新实践者社区。通过参加人数众多的活动、经同行审查的出版物和一个访问量很大的网站，在亚太区域和更广泛的范围内传播了社会创新的框架和工具。从以往亚太经社会亚洲人权委员会网络和后续活动中获得的见解发现，整个亚太区域缺乏对妇女的领导能力培训支持。妇女往往是社区社会倡议的推动力，但由于其性别，她们遭受的社会文化和经济不平等最多。根深蒂固的信念和性别偏见导致了所有四个国家持续存在的性别薪酬差距和妇女担任领导职务的人数不足，无论是在泰国和马来西亚这两个经济转型国家，还是在日本和澳大利亚这两个经合组织国家，持续存在的基于性别的歧视和其他形式的歧视限制了妇女在创意经济和其他部门担任领导职务。联合国大会关于2021创意经济促进可持续发展国际年的声明指出，创意部门是推动发展中国家向更高生产力和更高收入经济活动转变的关键驱动力。增加妇女的参与和促进两性平等被认为是这一转变的关键。该提案通过提供无障碍和性别包容的发展来加强企业复原力和社区凝聚力，从而加深了亚太经合组织亚洲人权委员会网络的国际影响。它涉及两个可持续发展目标：5。性别平等，8。体面工作和经济增长。一个量身定制的、同行领导的专业发展方案，利用通过人权理事会资助的亚太经社会研究产生的知识，可以提高参与者的领导能力，使他们能够使其他人受益。计划开展的活动侧重于以区域为重点的相互学习和知识交流，以培养领导技能，增加社会资本，并提供更广泛的机会来深化其影响。该项目以通过亚太经合组织亚洲人权委员会网络开发的模式为基础，并加以推广，通过相互的同侪指导，增强从事社会创新的妇女的权能，以提高她们的领导能力，旨在提高这些国家创意经济的公平性、多样性和包容性。

This follow-on project extends and reinforces impact generated through the AHRC Network grant 'Design for Social Innovation Research Network: Bridging the UK and Asia-Pacific Practices' (AH/N004736/1). Its primary aim is to deliver a leadership-focused reciprocal peer mentoring programme for 24x women [12 mentors, 12 mentees and more [x] beyond) working to deliver social impact in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and Australia. The 15 month programme will focus on business resilience, community cohesion and social impact, through respectful, responsive and reciprocal peer-to-peer learning. A reciprocal model of peer mentoring extends the impact beyond participants as they will be supported to mentor other women in their organisations. The mentoring programme will be supported by two public events, a Roundtable Discussion online forum and a Public Symposium in Bangkok, where we will engage with policy makers, governments, NGOs and think tanks supporting the gender equality agenda. This proposal leverages close collaborations with key partners with strong track records in the region in supporting social innovation in the creative sector. AWSEN, KOGEI-Net and the British Council will assist in participation and dissemination of the outcomes. The project builds on Designing Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific (DESIAP) network supported by an 2016 AHRC Network Fund. With this support, DESIAP has developed into a vibrant and active community of creative and social innovation practitioners across the Asia-Pacific region. Frameworks and tools for social innovation, within the Asia-Pacific and more widely, have been disseminated through well-attended events, peer-reviewed publications and a popularly-accessed website. Insights from the previous DESIAP AHRC Network and follow-on activities identified a lack of leadership training support for women across the Asia-Pacific region. Women are often the driving force of social initiatives in communities, yet suffer most from socio-cultural and economical inequalities due to their gender. Entrenched beliefs and gender bias have led to continuing gender pay gaps and under-representation of women in leadership positions across all four countries, whether in Thailand and Malaysia, two countries undergoing economic transition, or in Japan and Australia, OECD countries where persistent gender-based and other forms of discrimination limit women's access to leadership in the creative economy and other sectors. The UN General Assembly statement on the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development 2021, identifies the creative sectors as key drivers, particularly for developing countries, to shift towards higher-productivity and higher-income economic activity. Increasing women's participation and promoting gender equality has been identified as crucial to this shift. This proposal deepens the international impact of the DESIAP AHRC Network by offering accessible and gender-inclusive development to improve business resilience and community cohesion. It addresses two SDGs: 5. Gender Equality and 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth. A tailored, peer-led professional development programme implementing knowledge generated through the AHRC-funded DESIAP research can accelerate participants' leadership abilities, empowering them to enable others. Planned activities centred on regionally focused mutual learning and knowledge exchange to build leadership skills, increase social capital and offer broader opportunities to deepen their impact. By empowering women working in social innovation to increase their leadership capacity through reciprocal peer-mentoring, built on and extending models developed through the DESIAP AHRC Network, the project aims to increase equity, diversity and inclusion in the creative economy of these respective countries.