We all know the power of one. But to effect real, lasting, fundamental change, you need others.
By joining with young people equally committed to progressive social change, HRA Network leverages power, giving, and influence.
Draw from and contribute to our collective well of wisdom, support and inspiration.
Together we can combine our skills and resources and gain strength as peers, while we share the lessons, challenges and rewards of our work.
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Become part of a larger force for change!
By becoming a member of HRA Network, you are stating that you recognise that only by joining together will we achieve our vision of making Europe a place in which human rights are respected and protected and all people are loved, valued and able to fulfil their potential.
Membership of the HRA Network demonstrates your commitment to helping us make a difference in the field of human rights protection; citizenship education and youth work as a tool to promote and stimulate all people`s active citizenship and participatory democracy.
Benefits of membership
- Networking Opportunities
HRA Network facilitates an active and regular collaboration between members of our NGO Network members and partner organisations, in cooperation with our Individual Experts network as appropriate. An important part of the HRA Network is the bi-annual all-members General Assembly that provides a forum for all HRA member organisations to evaluate the work of the Network; present past and future projects, discuss developments and new trends in their focus areas and explore new areas for collaboration.
- Access to information and training
HRA Network members administers a variety of training and capacity building programs, funded by the European Commission, the Council of Europe, International development agencies such as USAID, the IFC and the World Bank. We anticipate that there will be opportunities for institutional partnerships based on such projects. We believe that HRA Network members would be an invaluable resource in crafting proposals and effectively carrying out programs.
- Learning Opportunities
Our donors offer a limited number of scholarships to attend different highly rated European training programs held in various locations in Europe and the Mediterranean. Active HRA Network members will be given priority for these scholarships.
- Professional growth in the HRA Working Groups
Take part in an HRA WG, working with problems of your field of expertise and share information with professionals and experts from those fields. HRA Network ‘s involvement in facilitating those profiled working groups leads to a synergetic interaction with and among member organisations; expected outcomes of HRA Network‘s involvement can be defined; the Secretariat receives, or has access to, unique information, in particular field-based information and perspectives.
- Information-sharing
One of HRA Network‘s key functions is to share timely and accurate information on educational events, campaigns and trainings, humanitarian affairs with, and among, its members to better enable them to take informed decisions with regards to their operations and/or advocacy. HRA Network‘s information tools are well-known: a website www.humanrightsaction.eu with members’ only section; an electronic newsletter, HRA-RC; meeting reports; and regular notes for the file or updates.
- Access to member-only database
HRA Network maintains a dynamic database with a number of research papers and presentations, related to youth CRIN issues. It also builds an HRA Pool of Established Scholars and Experts on European partnership for promotion youth creativity for inclusive growth that members can contact, consult and invite for their training events, international seminars, research projects.
- Access and NGO representation to forums where NGO participation is limited
Various governmental and intergovernmental forums and decisions-making bodies are often not entirely open to NGOs, or there are limits imposed on NGO participation. In fact, some humanitarian bodies, such as the Fundamental Rights Agency`s EU NGO Network and Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) or UNHCR’s Executive Committee, require that NGOs consolidate their input so members can use the HRA as a vehicle or channel for their NGO views and ideas for change in Europe.
- Advocacy
With the adoption of HRA Network‘s Mission Statement in 2023 at the HRA Network General Assembly, the membership decided to give the HRA Network a particular role in the field of human rights education and human rights advocacy for more adequate European and national human rights policies. Earlier in 2023, the Executive Committee adopted a policy, which formulates the criteria for HRA‘s advocacy activities. HRA Network‘s involvement is expected to bring an added value to those activities in the sense that no one single agency can individually achieve similar results, compared to those of a large pan-European network.