Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI) workshop

From 13-16 October 2009 Aim for human rights and Fida Kenya, Federation of Women Lawyers will organize a Short version workshop of the Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI). This instrument was developed in cooperation with several organisations, among them FIDA Kenya and published by Aim in 2004. Since then it has been introduced worldwide to over 200 organizations, who can use HeRWAI to strengthen the advocacy capacity and work within their organizations. In order to increase the outreach of HeRWAI Aim developed a program to do HeRWAI in a shorter workshop process. One of the main challenges of HeRWAI is the amount of time necessary to do an analysis. By pooling resources in a short amount of time and bringing knowledge of the different organizations together, we hope to realize a basic analysis during the workshop that can be used as input for the CEDAW shadow reporting process and/or the UN mechanisms such as Universal Periodic Review and Special Proceducres.