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Ms. Sivananthi Thanenthira:
Perspectives from Asia on new burden of diseases with specific emphasis on SRHR
Ms Thanenthira joined ARROW in November 2006. She holds a First Class Honours degree in English Literature and an MA in Critical and Cultural Theory. She has explored different career choices in her life including teaching at university, running a magazine across Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) Malaysia
countries and working for the UN.
Ms Thanenthira's first experience with ARROW was as a consultant to edit and publish the IRRMA project findings titled ‘Rights & Realities' and it gave her a wide exposure to the issues that ARROW deals with and the range of partners and researchers and activists which ARROW works with. This experience drew her close to the ARROW circle and finding much consonance with ARROW's ideals and her own, she decided to stay as Programme Manager, Information & Communications.
She soon was deeply involved in innovating and conceptualizing the ICPD+15 project, and her role expanded to include ‘Research'. She also currently manages the ICPD+15 project - which spans 22 partners in 12 countries and she co-wrote 'Reclaiming & Redefining Rights - ICPD+15: Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Asia.' She has presented the findings of this report to Asian women parliamentarians, the U.S. State Department and to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
She also co-wrote and edited ‘Cities, Chaos & Creativity: A Sourcebook for Communicators' and conceptualised, compiled & edited ‘Cities, Citizens & Civilisations: Frequently Asked Questions on Good Urban Governance‘ and ‘Agenda for Action: Action for Better Cities' as part of her work with The Urban Governance Initiative (TUGI) a regional project of UNDP. She also occassionally writes for local newspapers on issues that she thinks are of crucial importance in Malaysia and views this as her contribution to the society in which she lives.