The Asia Safe Abortion Partnership has been engaged in advocacy, capacity building, and movement building for 15 years with members from over 23 countries across South Asia, South West Asia, South East Asia, and Oceania.

Our flagship Youth Advocacy Institutes and Youth Advocacy Refresher Institutes have been a space for learning, unlearning, and relearning for hundreds of young people and activists from across the region.

We believe that the work we do as safe abortion rights advocates brings with it the responsibility to be fully aware of the ground realities, facts, and myths and also the basic technical and clinical issues involved so as to do justice to our roles and to truly speak for those who cannot.

In order to be effective, sensitive and appropriately seen and heard in our advocacy, we need to bring to our work accuracy, politics, discernment, and inspiration. We need to be confident and we need to be credible.

In order to ensure that the learnings and knowledge creation from our work of over 12 years is consolidated in a space that can also be accessed by advocates and activists from outside our region, we have set up The ASAP Academy.

Our vision

To contribute to the global safe abortion rights movement with a space that offers self-paced as well as guided capacity building so that everyone who wants to speak up for safe abortion rights does so in a manner that is informed by clinical evidence, an understanding of the politics with the underpinning of feminist ideology and social justice.