Six-week Women’s Human Rights Education Institute (WHRI) – APPLICATION INFORMATION
PRELIMINARY APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 28, 2012 <Though acceptances will be ongoing only until 20 confirmed participants>
Apply before this time to receive full visa application support. We will continue to accept applications after this date if there are still open spaces, but cannot guarantee financial assistance.
$1000 DEPOSIT DUE: Mar 15, 2012
Please note: We require a completed application form in order to issue invitations or other supporting documents for visas. The application need not be accompanied by a deposit for visa purposes, but be aware that this course is limited to TWENTY (20) participants so do get your deposit in as soon as possible. Please apply early to ensure that your application is considered. If you require an extension on payment deadlines, please write to us and let us know your situation.
HOW TO APPLY:
In order to apply for the six-week WHRI, we require two initial submissions from you:
a) Fill in and submit the online registration form found on the website. If you have difficulty with the online form, you can also download the application in Word format and submit by email.
b) After submitting the online application form, please submit a 200-300 word statement outlining your post-institute project implementation plan by email to info@learnwhr.org. Your application will not be complete until we receive this statement. This step is explained in more detail below.
About the post-institute project plan:
As part of your application, you must submit a 200-300 word statement on your plan for implementing your learning post-WHRI.
Note that you will be asked to submit a report of your post-institute project implementation six to eight months after the end of the WHRI. The best among these reports will become part of an online database of information available for others, and will be a testament to your learning as well as the impact of the program itself.
If you are already working in the field of women’s human rights and plan to use the institute to augment your work, your plan can reflect how you plan to apply your learning in your existing work/project/programs.
**note: this aspect of the course will be very helpful in applying for funding, so be sure to include your project plan with any funding applications you submit on your own
The two recommended areas for project-planning are:
a) Development and execution of a women’s human rights training course/workshop for your colleagues/associates/target audience in your work
b) Project to promote and support implementation of the CEDAW committee’s concluding observations for the most recent report for the State Party (country) in which you live/work
In either case, it would be helpful to familiarize yourself with the most recent concluding observations of the CEDAW committee for the State Party in which you live/work. You will find a link to these on our website, or here: http://www.bayefsky.com/docs.php/area/conclobs/node/2/treaty/cedaw/opt/0
We also recommend reading both official country reports and any Alternative or Shadow reports submitted by NGOs to the CEDAW committee. Some of the latter can be found on IWRAW-APs website: http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/shadow_reports.htm
Again, if you are already working in the field, you can use this as an opportunity to plan how to integrate the learning from the WHRI into your existing work.
If you need ideas, take a look at the “testimonies” section on our website for some ways in which past participants have implemented their learning in their work. This project could be as simple as going into a school or community centre to do a women’s human rights training workshop for students, or if you work within an organization, implementing a campaign to promote CEDAW and your government’s obligations for CEDAW implementation. Other ideas? Training judges/lawyers, training development organizations on a gender sensitive rights-based approach to development, lobbying government to comply with CEDAW committee recommendations, developing materials for an Alternative or Shadow report for the CEDAW committee, training unionists on how to work within a gender sensitive rights-based framework, preparing a submission to the CEDAW Optional Protocol, creating an art exhibit or theatre piece that educates about principles of WHR and the CEDAW convention. The type of project you decide to implement will be directly linked to your own work, your own area of expertise, the organization(s) you work with, the needs of your particular context.
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