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UNDP trains activists on integrating human rights based approach in their work

Odesa, 10 June 2016 – Over 30 civic activists from Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine advanced their skills and knowledge to effectively apply the human rights-based approach and gender mainstreaming to their organisations' everyday activities.


5039911950 70e799feb5 o The intensive 2.5-day workshop was interactive in nature and provided participants with sufficient hands-on experience to build and strengthen their capacities for integrating the HRBA and GM into their work.

The training sessions shed light on the main concepts, practical implications, international normative framework, and integration of these approaches at different stages of the programme development and implementation. The training methodology was based on interactive techniques and included discussions, case studies, mini-lectures, and various exercises. Presentations can be found here.

Participants identified challenges and opportunities for their organisations when applying the HRBA and GM, understood the strategies and success factors for the effective use of these approaches in daily work, as well as developed an individual roadmap with 5 priority steps to be undertaken to integrate the HRBA and GM to their organizations.
 
As a successful example of the HRBA implementation, Dmitrii Markushevski from Belarusian delegation spoke of introducing an institution of personal assistants for disabled people. Thanks to this institution, in Sweden, disabled people became 'visible' and active in all spheres of life, working for their country and themselves instead of fading in dependency.
 
Guided by the UNDP-proposed checklist participating CSOs learnt to internalise the HRBA as a foundational principle for planning, implementing, and assessing their activities, and to apply the principle of gender mainstreaming into their specific areas of work.

The workshop was organised by the Democratisation, Human Rights and Civil Society Development Programme in Ukraine, implemented by UNDP and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.