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About Womens Health West
Health Promotion
Family Violence Service
Our approach
Social model of health
Gender equity, health promotion and community
development
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Background and
development
Why do we need a projectcentred on human rights,
advocacy and civic
participation?
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Women need to know their rights so they can bring about change.
Rumia Abbas, Ethiopian Community Leader, 2011
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Examples of heath and human rights linkages
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If we know our rights, we will have
confidence; when we dont know our rights
we feel scared and stressed.
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To make progress on the social determinants of health for
refugee and migrant women:
Build understanding of human rights;
Enable women to undertake advocacy around their
rights; and
Enable participation in community life.
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Goal:To deliver advocacy training within a human rightsframework to enable women to participate in civil society and
to facilitate change.
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Our approach:
Gender equity
Community development
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Background and development
Expert Advisory Group
Choosing the population group
Community Consultations
Funding applications
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Designing the model:
Series of capacity-building
workshops;
Support for women to implement
their own advocacy projects.
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Evaluation
Human rights
Advocacy
Civic participation
Participant projects
Evidence base
Partnerships
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Workshops
Introduction to human rights
Racism and discrimination
Health
Employment
Education
Violence against women Tenancy and consumer issues
Advocacy and project planning
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Project Planning
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A human rights-based approach to
addressing the social determinants ofhealth means supporting the collective
action of disadvantaged groups to
analyse, resist and change social
structures and policies, assert their
shared power and alter socialhierarchies towards greater equity.
(WHO, 2002)
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Project Planning
Human rights issue important to
your community Providing support andfostering
independence
Grants process
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Project Planning
Hope for a New Beginning
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Stories of change
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It gave me the confidence to change issues in this countrythrough knowledge of how the law and our rights work, especially
because I come from a country where people dont have rights
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Most Significant
Change stories:
findings fromiteration one
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Where to now?
Continue evaluation
Continue workshops
Support women in
development of projects
Identify 2014 community
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Questions?
Contact:
Shifrah Blustein
Health Promotion Worker
Women's Health West
Phone: (03) 9689 9588
Email: [email protected]
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mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]