Community Action for Womens Health and Empowerment A Resource for Communitybased Activists

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Community Action for Womens Health and
EmpowermentA Resource for Community-based
Activists
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Hesperian

• Hesperians mission is to publish books and
  other educational materials that enable poor
  communities to take greater control over their
  health and their lives. Our manuals are used by
  millions of people worldwide who have little or
  no access to medical care.

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Where There Is No Doctor
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Helping Health Workers Learn
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Where Women Have No Doctor

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Community Action for Womens Health and
Empowerment

• An Action Guide for Womens Health, Empowerment
  and Advocacy
• A Womens Health and Empowerment interactive
  web-based tool

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Why this new resource now?

• A decade of experience using WWHND has generated
  a wealth of lessons that can empower others.

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Women and HIV

• Recognition of Womens right to health as a
  human right has generated innovative approaches
  to overcoming obstacles to realizing those
  rights.

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Safe Motherhood

• Global advocacy initiatives and grassroots
  activism must be reciprocally linked to enhance
  their effectiveness.
• Abdullahs Story

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Gender Equality
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Circumcision with Words

• Female Genital Cutting
• Tools to transform
• harmful cultural
• practices

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Collaborative Book Development Process

• Collaboration
• Mutual Learning
• Networking

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Global Steering Group

• 17 Global Partner
• Organizations

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How are we developing this?

• Outreach to grassroots womens groups

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What will the resource provide?
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Creative Training Activities

• Participatory games for low-literacy groups

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Strategies for Consciousness-Raising

• Using drama to show the importance of family
  interaction.

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Girls in School

• Keeping girls in schools is crucial to protecting
  them from sex trafficking.
• Girls in school have the ability to make
  different decisions about their lives.

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Why Community Action Now?

• New research strengthens the approach to health
  pioneered in WWHND.
• Global advocacy initiatives and grassroots
  activism must be reciprocally linked to enhance
  their effectiveness.

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Empowerment

• Local solutions to human rights issues
• Social justice
• Gender
• Equity
• Empowerment

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Mens Empowerment

• Men meeting about womens issues
• Sensitivity to cultural norms
• Domestic Violence
• Giving women the space to learn

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Men learning about women
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How are we developing this?

• Outreach to grassroots womens groups
• Draft of book and interactive website
• Community field testing
• Illustrations and design
• Community review
• Final production
• Translation into 15-20 language editions

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Community Mobilization

• How women can
• organize to
• Protest
• Violence
• Against
• Women

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The Global Community Says

• Access to information about health issues and
  accessible healthcare continues to be one of the
  biggest challenges that impedes the full
  realization of women's rights globally.  If a
  woman is unable to keep herself and her family
  healthy, it becomes next to impossible for her to
  be able to fully realize her rights and be
  empowered to influence the circumstances of her
  life.  Community Action for Women's Health and
  Empowerment is a critically needed resource to
  promote action through offering practical advice,
  strategies and strengthening collective efforts
  at the local level to ensure that women can
  creatively bring about systemic, transformative
  change to ensure health and well-being."
• Shalini Nataraj,Global Fund for Women

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