Project profile — Achieving Equality through Human Right Education

• Haiti (15.20%)
• Tanzania (11.40%)
• Kenya (13.10%)
• Burkina Faso (11.50%)
• Senegal (11.90%)

• North of Sahara, regional (2.80%)
• South of Sahara, regional (18.80%)
• America, regional (4.00%)
• Middle East, regional (2.80%)
• Asia, regional (8.50%)

• Democratic participation and civil society:
Democratic participation and civil society (15150) (25.00%)
Human rights (15160) (50.00%)
Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (25.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project aims to empower women and girls for the advancement of gender equality in their communities. The project addresses key gender equality issues identified as barriers to the empowerment of women and girls and resulting in women being largely under-represented in leadership roles in organizations – of government, civil society and the private sector. To address this gap, the project aims to mobilize women and support them with enhanced knowledge skills and capacity to assume leadership roles at the community level, create opportunities for collaboration with broader movements and provide them with effective tools to influence duty bearers. Men and boys are also engaged in efforts to shift attitudes, behaviours and practices in order to advance gender equality at all levels. The project is implemented in Burkina Faso, Haiti, Kenya, Senegal, and Tanzania, as well as regionally in Anglophone and Francophone Africa, and globally through Equitas’ in-Canada annual International Human Rights Training Program involving participants from developing countries of all continents. Equitas also uses its online community as a key tool to share knowledge, lessons learned and best practices, promoting exchanges and collaboration amongst its alumni worldwide and in each region, as well as providing online training programs, all with a particular focus on advancing gender equality.

The expected outcomes for the project include: (1) Increased leadership of women in community mobilization activities that advance gender equality; (2) Enhanced collaboration among women’s organizations and human rights’ groups to advance human rights in their countries; and (3) Increased opportunities for women’s organizations to influence duty bearers in fulfilling better their human rights obligations related to gender equality.

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• Proactive disclosure