ICWEA is one of the five partners who are to benefit from an 18 months grant by ARASA (AIDS Rights Alliance for Southern Africa) Partners in Uganda. The grant will be used to implement the ARASA HIV, TB and human rights training and advocacy programme” to be implemented from May 2018. The programme will be implemented by ICWEA, UGANET, CEHURD, UHRN and Tororo Forum of People Living with HIV who are ARASA Partners in Uganda.
Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) will host the programme while other partners mentioned above will participate in the implementation process. The programme will be implemented in Kampala, Mbarara, Gulu, Wakiso, Tororo and Buikwe for district level activities. The programme has the following as the overall goal and objective respectively;
- To build a cadre of knowledgeable civil society leaders across the region as the basis of a broader social mobilization around the right to Health and accountability of governments and other institutions to their international, regional and national legal obligation for health and human rights
- To support strengthening human rights based responses to HIV and TB, to create an enabling environment where HIV related stigma and discrimination is eradicated and people living with and at higher risk of HIV have access to affordable quality health care services.
Already, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) – the host organization has organized two meetings i.e. consultative meeting and Partners meeting on 3rd and 4th May 2018 at Hotel Africana and CEHURD Offices respectively. The consultative meeting was aimed at stakeholders’ buy-in and input into the implementation plan while the partners’ meeting was aimed at consolidating the outcomes of the consultative meeting and agreeing on the implementation plan including the areas of operation. ICWEA as a partner participated in both meetings; and particularly chaired as session titled “Enabling legal environment for health service delivery/care for communities; Giving a human face to perspectives of Human Rights, HIV & TB”.
