I. Introduction
On
30 November 2011, Silaka and UN Women entered into a contract with the project
ID: 74770 Activity ID: DRF11, BCA-KHM-2011-002 “to engage Cambodia women
groups and ASEAN bodies (particularly Cambodian representatives to AICHR and
ACWC) to work together for better promotion and protection of women’s human
rights”. The project period is 13 months from 30 November2011 to 30
December 2012. This report covers 4 months period from 30 November 2011 to 31
March 2012. This project is called: “Strengthening Cambodia Contribution to
Promote and Protect Women’s Human Rights in ASEAN” or in short: “SCWHR” in ASEAN project.
SILAKA
commits to achieve project goal and outcomes; since we submitted the proposal
to UN Women, SILAKA facilitated 22 Women and children organizations to
organized 6 meetings to form Cambodian Working Group on the Rights of Women and
Children-CWRWC with Vision, Mission, Two year plan, Structure, and Role and
responsibility. And during this report period SILAKA worked hard and successes
in building solidarity of women and children NGOs to organize Cambodia Women
Caucus and launched the project among its members, mobilizing resources among
Cambodia Women Caucus as well as international NGOs to organize The Cambodia
Women Forum on 21-22 March 2012, as part of the activities planned for SCWHR in
ASEAN project.
The
following is the first quarter report implemented by SILAKA carried out with 3
core strategies to increase awareness on ASEAN process, procedure and
mechanisms women rights advocates, civil society organizations, and the general
public in advocacy with ASEAN to make ASEAN more responsive to the rights of
women and girls:
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Networking and
Partnership
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Establishing
and strengthening Cambodia NGOs Women Caucus include Cambodian Working Group on
Women and Children Rights in ASEAN (CWCR-ASEAN) and coordinate existing
sub-national and national levels both with the demand and supply sides to share
lessons learned and innovative ideas on how to strengthen participation of
women in the promotion and protection of women’s human right at the national
and regional level, ASEAN.
o
Coordinating
to build and maintain partnership among key stakeholders, including CNCW,
AICHR, and ACWC representatives in Cambodia, the Ministry of Women Affairs and
civil society organizations, especially women’s groups to share
responsibilities, joint actions, and collaborate closely to address women and
girls issues.
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Empowerment
o
Building
capacity of Cambodia young generation for future effective advocacy for
promotion and protection of women’s human right in sub-national, nation,
regional, and international level.
o
Building
capacity of Cambodia NGOs Women Caucus and its members, Young Women Activists,
and provincial NGOs to confidentially educate their respective CSOs, community
people including indigenous and minority groups to be able to exercise their
rights and to participate in the advocacy for promotion and protection of
women’s human right.
o
Building
ownership and commitment of social actors through media campaigns and Face book
on Legal framework of Women’s human Rights in Cambodia Vs ASEAN and its
obligation to response to CEDAW.
o
Facilitating
the Cambodian Women CSO Caucus to be operationalized to implement the
strategies and to further mobilize resources to support the implementation of
the strategy.
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Communication
o
Using
positive and action oriented (Non-Violent and Active Communication model) as the
core principle for advocacy with different stakeholders. The principles will be
the foundation for all communication of this project, with the aim to engage
them in positive and constructive dialogue to bring about desirable results to
the women as a whole. The techniques
contained with the teachings of Non-Violent and Active Communication and
establishment of communication mechanism enable individuals to build connection
based on what they share in common (universal human needs) and to work through
that recognition to arrive at greater understanding and a willingness to find
creative solutions to problems.
o
Maintaining
communication with national, regional and international civil society and
government entity to exchange best practices of advocacy ways and together
advocate for better promotion and protection of women’s human rights
o
Using
the easy and broadly communication system to share information on ASEAN women
activities, ASEAN women network in Cambodia, situation on women’s human rights
in Cambodia and ASEAN.
II. Expected Results
In order to respond to the project’s goal, SCWHR in ASEAN project has the
following outcomes and outputs:
Outcome
1- Cambodian
women’s NGO caucus is strengthened to effectively advocate for the promotion
and protection of women’s human’s rights to ASEAN bodies at local and regional
level.
Output.1.1-
Working group of Cambodia NGOs working on Women issue is
established with functional coordination
and communication mechanisms.
Output.1.2-
Young women activists are
empowered to effectively advocate for better promotion of women’s human rights
Output.1.3-
Information on ASEAN,
situation of women in Cambodia is prepared and disseminated to public and ASEAN
representatives
Output.1.4-
Women’s human rights and
concerns are reflected in the program of 2012 ASEAN People Forum
Outcome
2- Strengthened
relationship between women’s NGO caucus and ASEAN Human Rights bodies
Output 2.1-
Cambodian civil society’s inputs on the draft of the
ASEAN Human Rights Declaration are consolidated and submitted to Cambodia
representatives of AICHR and ACWC
Output
2.2-
dialogues conducted with AICHR and ACWC representatives
on thematic areas of AICHR and ACWC priority
Related Project Documents
1. SCWHR Project -PPT presentation-click here
