Building Collective Power
Across Borders
The Counterdocket shifts power and authority away from institutions and toward communities. It puts conventional approaches to development on trial, treating lived experience as evidence, centering women and affected communities as knowledge holders, and connecting local struggles to the global systems that shape them.
By creating a collective record rooted in people’s realities—not institutional narratives—it reimagines accountability as grounded in community knowledge, experiences, and decision making
Lived experience is evidence and affected communities, and women at the heart of them, are the experts.
For too long international institutions have decided whose experiences count as evidence. By building this living resource of testimonies, we are flipping that script. Lived experience is evidence and affected communities, and women at the heart of them, are the experts.
Instead of waiting for governments and international institutions to respond and act, we will document our own histories, the harm caused by extraction, connect from local struggles to global systems of power, and imagine the future that we deserve.
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A living resource of community testimonies documenting the impacts of extractive projects while highlighting community-led initiatives that demonstrate alternative models and visions of development.
This microsite is hosted by JASS (Just Associates) on behalf of participating organisations and groups. The knowledge, experiences, and perspectives shared here belong to the people and communities making contributions. JASS holds and amplifies these contributions, without claiming ownership or responsibility for the content of individual submissions.
JASS (Just Associates)
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD)
International Accountability Project
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
Aksi! for gender, social and ecological justice
Aliansi Masyarakat Rempang Galang Bersatu (AMAR-GB)
Amihan - National Federation of Peasant Women
Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
Cambodia Indigenous People's Organization (CIPO)
Cambodia Indigenous Women Association (CIWA)
Coalition of Human Rights in Development (CHRD)
Congolese Center for the Law of Sustainable Development (CODED)
Comissão das Comunidades Quilombolas do Vale do Jequitinhonha (COQUIVALE Brazil)
Earthlife Africa
Focus on the Global South
Forum Aktivis Perempuan Muda Indonesia (FAMM Indonesia)
Fundación Acue
Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN)
IBON International
Indigenous People's Rights International
Indonesia for Global Justice (IGJ)
Inisiasi Masyarakat Adat (IMA)
Instituto Maira - Brazil
International Rivers
International Women's Alliance
Just Economy and Labor Institute Thailand
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)
Yayasan Lingkar Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Anak (LAPPAN Maluku)
Lawyers Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP)
Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG)
MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice
Narasha Community Development Group
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT)
Persekutuan Perempuan Adat Nusantara (PEREMPUAN AMAN)
Perempuan Mahardhika
Recourse
Rivers and Rights
Roots for Equity
Serikat Perempuan Indonesia (SERUNI)
Solidarity of Trade Union Myanmar (STUM)
Southern Thailand Riders Foundation
Suriya Women's Development Centre
The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
Trend Asia
We Women Lanka
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat (PUSAKA)
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