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Call
for applicants - PEPETA Africa Regional Course on Movement Building
and Leadership Development for SRHR Advocacy, Southern Africa
Katswe Sistahood
Application
Deadline: 15 May 2013
Course dates:
July 2013
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It is important
to acknowledge commitments African heads of state and governments
have made through regional and international agreements; on women’s
health and human rights. The Convention on Elimination of all Forms
of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (1979); Vienna Declaration
on Human Rights (1993); International Conference on Population and
Development (ICPD Plan of Action (1994); Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action (1995); All the African Regional Conferences
on Women; The Millennium Declaration (2000); Protocol to the African
Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003); Solemn Declaration
on Gender Equality in Africa (2004), Maputo Plan of Action (2006),
and recently, CARMMA, amongst others, hold the promise of sav¬ing
millions of lives; empowering women; addressing the scourge of illiteracy,
hunger and malnutrition; and ensuring that Afri¬ca’s children,
women and girls have access to high-quality education and good health
to lead produc¬tive lives. However, agreements, declarations
and laws are not self implementing. There is need for concerted
efforts to ensure governments shift from paper to practice, in order
to facilitate environments where women and girls can attain and
enjoy unfettered access to their sexual and reproductive rights.
Katswe Sistahood
has set out a mission to advocate for and promote a society where
young women freely access their SRHR, and where sexual and reproductive
healthcare services are available, accessible, and affordable.
From the stark
realization that our silences have not protected us, Katswe launched
a strategy to build leadership skills among young women to enable
them to effectively promote a social environment where women and
girls, regardless of race, class, sexual orientation, religion,
and disabilities can participate fully in the social, economic and
political spheres, just like their male counterparts. This entails
creation of platforms for capacity building- i.e. the Pepeta Training
Institute (PTI) which is a spring board for networking and movement
building- to mobilize a critical mass of young African women who
are able to organize and articulate their needs and aspirations
in respect of rights to sexual and reproductive health education,
services and protection, and to communicate these to policy-makers
and service providers.
The intention
is to create a strong network of strong SRHR activists in Southern
Africa (through the PTI), who can advocate effectively for the review
and implementation of SRHR policies in line with the SADC protocol
on Gender, the Maputo Plan of Action on SRHR, the CEDAW; and other
(sub) regional instruments
We are building
the capacities of young women SRHR activists to analyse and influence
policy formulation and review, advocate for full implementation
of existing policies and continuously demand accountability from
governments.
The PTI is supported
through funding from the Ford Foundation office for Southern Africa.
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