Women’s Rights Advocacy Programme (WRAP)
The purpose of Women's Righs advocacy Program (WRAP) is to sustain the capacities of women to articulate and claim their rights
Women’s Rights Advocacy Programme (WRAP) is committed to building women’s leadership to monitor implementation of laws, policies and international instruments that safeguard women’s rights. Uganda has a gender sensitive constitution and has passed several laws and policies (Gender Policy, Domestic Violence Act, Female Genital Mutilation Act, Penal Code Amendment Act) and ratified many international instruments on women’s rights (CEDAW, Beijing Plat form for Action, UNSCR 1325, 1820, Goma Declaration, African charter on human and people’s rights of women of Africa). However, proper implementation of these laws and policies that would have had great impact on women’s lives is still lacking. These laws must translate into actions if we are to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Objectives of the programme
- Advocate for gender responsive laws, policies and programmes.
- Monitor implemention of laws, policies and international instruments that promote gender equality and women's empowerment.
- Strengthen institutional and community capacity for effective response to sexual and Gender based Violence (SGBV)
Target group
WRAP works with women in civil society, parliament, men and women in the local government, police, army, schools as well as grassroots women.
Programme components
1. Monitoring implementation of Laws, Policies and International instruments
WRAP is committed to building women’s capacity to monitor the implementation of Laws, Policies and International instruments that promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment through advocacy, sensitization, and research. For instance in May 2010, CEWIGO carried out a monitoring exercise to assess progress Uganda has made in implementing provisions of UNSCR 1325. It is through monitoring that we can point out gaps, bottlenecks and challenges in implementation and demand actions to address the gaps.
2. Ensuring a gender responsive Peace Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP)
The Women’s Rights Advocacy Programme (WRAP) works to advocate for a gender responsive PRDP and to strengthen women’s voices to ensure that their specific needs and priorities are addressed. CEWIGO is a member of the Task force for a gender responsive PRDP and in 2008 it was involved in the review of PRDP from a gender equality and women’s rights perspective. This was done to examine how far gender equality and women’s rights concerns had been included in the PRDP frame work. The purpose of the review was to identify the main gender gaps, opportunities and challenges that the PRDP implementation process offered to advance gender equality and women’s rights in Northern Uganda.
