Arrow

What it reported doing in 2025

The year 2025 was a significant year at arrow given that we focused on the development of out 5 year long term strategic plan 2026-2030. This new strategic plan called for dialogue with partners from the region to discuss the context, emerging priorities around the sexual and reproductive health and rights landscape. The new strategic plan 2026-2030 envisions, an equal, just and equitable world where women and young people in all our diversities enjoy our full sexual and reproductive rights in the asia pacific region. In order to realise our vision, arrow will be working on transforming systems, changing the fundamental unequal structures and power dynamics of existing systems by shifting narratives, norms and power. (continued on schedule o)some significant arrow actions in 2025 are presented in this narrative.in keeping with arrow's key strategy to monitor international commitments pertaining to women's health, such as the international conference on population and development (icpd) programme of action (poa), the beijing platform for action (bpfa), and agenda 2030 for sustainable development , arrow developed national monitoring reports and regional policy briefs. The key goals under review for 2025 were sdg 5 (gender equality), sdg 3 (good health and well-being), sdg 8 (decent work and economic growth), sdg 14 (life below water), and sdg 17 (partnerships for the goals) at the high-level political forum 2025, arrow brought together 11 national partners to review progress made towards srhr for the asia pacific region in the face of intersecting crises, both within the sdg framework, but also incorporating a reproductive justice framework, to document community and lived experiences of women and girls in all their diversities, from the region. Seven (7) of the eleven (11) partners also held national level validation and advocacy meetings while all the partners engaged in advocacy efforts and dissemination to policy makers and their governments at different levels. In 2025, arrow and its partners, young feminist fellows and scholars maintained a strong presence and strengthened our engagements in key regional and global advocacy spaces despite the shrinking civic spaces and rising anti-rights trends globally. These included the apfsd 2025, human rights council (hrc) sessions, 63rd session of the commission for social development (csocd63), 69th session of the commission on the status of women (csw69), 58th session of commission on population and development (cpd58), fourth international conference on financing for development (ffd4), high level political forum 2025, 80th session of the united nations general assembly (unga80), second world summit for social development (wssd2) and 30th meeting of the conference of the parties (cop30).arrow website garnered 210,733 pageviews and secured 115,262 visitors. We also secured 1,454,390 organic views on facebook and instagram and 267,645 organic impression on linkedin. The most popular publication of 2025 was the apfsd call to action. In february, 2025, arrow organised the apfsd youth forum together with co-conveners, youth lead, y-peer asia pacific center, and the major group for children and youth, in partnership with the right here right now global partnership, youth empowerment in climate action platform (yecap), united nations development programme (undp), and the united nations economic and social commission for asia and the pacific (un escap), and in co-collaboration with the children and youth major group to united nations environment programme (cymg-unep). A total of 549 young people from 34 countries across asia pacific in all their diversities came together during the apfsd youth forum 2025 to discuss the sdgs under review (sdg 3, sdg 5, sdg 8, sdg 14, and sdg 17) for the year 2025. Further to this, in september, the 'regional forum on transforming teachers and teaching for adolescent health, well-being and gender equality' was jointly co-organised by arrow along with unesc

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
• Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Pass
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 20.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 29.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings