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Empowering Communities to Empower Girls

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ICRW collaborated with the Nike Foundation, Tostan and the Centre for Research in Human Development to improve the well-being of adolescent girls in 55 communities in Kaolack and Thiès, Senegal. This project is part of Tostan's Community Empowerment Program (CEP), which provides communities with the skills and knowledge to improve their living conditions in a sustainable way. The project involved adolescent girls in CEP program activities that included modules on democracy, human rights, problem solving, hygiene, health, literacy and management skills.

ICRW conducted an evaluation of the project and provided support to Tostan to integrate gender throughout the life of the project. ICRW also worked with Tostan to build its capacity to conduct future evaluations to measure the effects of its programs on social change and gender equity.

Duration: 
2009 - 2012
Location(s): 
Senegal

Advancing Women's Leadership

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ICRW is working to equip a group of women from around the world with the skills they need to lead the global response to HIV and AIDS. The initiative provides women leaders, including women living with HIV, with training sessions to hone leadership and advocacy skills, exchange best practices and learn about innovative responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. By empowering women with these skills, they will be able to develop and advocate for more effective HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support.

ICRW will design, conduct and evaluate the leadership training programs, which will be implemented by a consortium led by the Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA). In order to encourage a holistic response to HIV/AIDS, ICRW also will build the capacity of women leaders to conduct gender analyses of HIV programs as well as to recognize and address HIV-related stigma and gender-based violence. ICRW will evaluate the impact of the trainings through a series of in-depth case studies of select women leaders.

Duration: 
2006 - 2011
Location(s): 
Mexico
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Kenya
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Nigeria
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Nepal
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Redistributing Power

HIV Stigma Reduction in Cambodia

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HIV-related stigma and discrimination hampers the effective prevention, treatment and care of people living with the virus. ICRW worked with Pact Cambodia’s REACH project to customize a toolkit for communities designed to combat HIV stigma and discrimination and adapted to reflect local realities. ICRW and Pact also created two new toolkits to address stigma and discrimination against entertainment workers and men who have sex with men. Material for the new modules was developed through participatory workshops with local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders. These local NGOs field-tested the toolkits, providing feedback for finalization of the materials before widely distributing the toolkits.

Duration: 
2009 - 2010
Location(s): 
Cambodia
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A Rights-Based Approach to Realizing the Economic and Social Rights of Poor and Marginalized Women

A Rights-Based Approach to Realizing the Economic and Social Rights of Poor and Marginalized Women

Aanchal Kapur, Nata Duvvury
2006

To improve the international development community's understanding of the value of a rights-based development approach, ICRW provided technical support to six projects in India from 2003-2005 to help identify both the process of and challenges involved in implementing this approach. This report presents a conceptual and operational framework on the rights-based approach to development, with a particular emphasis on realizing the economic and social rights of poor and marginalized women and girls.

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