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Building a movement: Human Rights Impact Assessment and

Women’s Rights

AWID conferenceBy Aim for human rights

From theory to practice

• We all know about human rights standards, but how do you apply them in practice?

• Especially women’s human rights?

Human Rights Impact Assessment• Purpose HRIA: Develop methods and instruments that

measure the impact of policies, programmes, projects and interventions on human rights

• Based on: International Human Rights Treaties• Characteristics HRIA

– Means to make an analysis – Resource for lobby and/or

monitoring– Can be done before/during or after

Aim works on…

• Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument

• Human Rights Compliance Instrument on Domestic Violence

• Assessing Human Rights compliance of Anti-trafficking measures

Human rights impact assessment• More knowledge on the effects of activities

and policies

• Better focusing of human rights efforts of governments, NGOs and businesses

• Evidence based advocacy

• Democratic control; accountability

Aim for human rights @ [location]@ [date]

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Where (bad) policies hit the hardest…

HeRWAI

Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument

OrHer Way!

Challenges & successes

• Development & roll out• Time & resources• Language of the instruments

• Worldwide application• Leads to change • User friendly

Movement building

• Potential to exchange and compare and learn from each other

• Training of trainers• Multiplier effect

– user’s motivate user’s – user’s become co-developers

Questions?

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More information…

Marije NederveenProgram officer Women’s Human RightsFocal point HeRWAI

e-mail: m.nederveen@aimforhumanrights.nl

Loeky DroesenProgram officer Women’s Human RightsFocal point Domestic Violence e-mail: l.droesen@aimforhumanrights.nl