PHA-Exch> Introduction to Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Marije Nederveen m.nederveen at aimforhumanrights.nl



I would like to introduce to you the Health Rights of Women Assessment
Instrument, in short HeRWAI. This is a newly developed, practical tool for
organizations that want to bring a human rights approach into practice.
Through a HeRWAI analysis, organizations can explore what the impact of a
policy is in terms of women's health rights and build up arguments to
improve the policy. The analysis includes local, national and international
influences and is based on the norms set by Convention on the Elimintation
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and International Convention on
Economic Social and Cultural Rights. The electronic version of HeRWAI is
available at:



http://www.humanrightsimpact.org/fileadmin/hria_resources/HeRWAI_Centre/HeRWAI.pdf



*Aim for human rights* developed and tested HeRWAI in close cooperation with
organizations from different parts of the world. Results of organizations
that have worked with HeRWAI can be found at the same HeRWAI space, listed
under ‘case studies’ .

With HeRWAI, organisations can critically analyse policies of different
scope and nature. To give some examples: organizations used it to look at
maternity leave regulations, measures to reduce maternal mortality, access
to mental health care, violence against women and possibilities to educate
youth about reproductive health. The results of the analysis will strengthen
the lobby of organisations for a better implementation of women's health
rights.

Currently we are introducing HeRWAI to NGO's in different parts of the world
as a way to apply the rights based approach in the daily activities of the
organisation. The tool is mostly self explanatory, but it is possible to
contact one of our HeRWAI trainers to provide a presentation on the tool and
it’s specific focus on Women’s Health Rights, if they are available in your
country.

Please click on the following link to find a list of available HeRWAI
trainers and their contact details.

http://www.humanrightsimpact.org/themes/womens-human-rights/herwai/users-space/trainers-list/

The tool is available in English, Spanish, Russian, Indonesian and Nepali.

If you have any questions regarding HeRWAI or would be interested in a
presentation by one of our local trainers, please do not hesitate to contact
me at m.nederveen at aimforhumanrights.org.

Marije Nederveen

*Aim for Human Rights, **Program officer Women's human rights*

 Utrecht, The Netherlands

*Please have a look at our recently launched: *
www.enforceddisappearances.org and www.humanrightsimpact.org
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