UNDP Libya is honoured to host, in cooperation with the Watassemo Charity Society, a three day sub-regional workshop for Women’s Rights’ Institutions (WRI) and HIV/AIDS.  This workshop, entitled  ‘Arab Women Creating the Future’, is part of a UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Regional programme for Arab States (HARPAS) initiative undertaken in partnership with UNFPA and Japan’s Women’s Development Fund. 

The workshop is bringing together representatives of WRI’s from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.  Over the course of the workshop, UNDP and its partners aim to mobilize WRI’s towards a more effective response to the developmental and Human Rights challenges which HIV/AIDS poses to the fulfilment of women’s rights in the Arab region.

Through the sensitization of WRI’s to the growing challenges of the pandemic, as well as the highlighting some harmful traditional practices that contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS, UNDP hopes to work towards reversing HIV/AIDS infections in the Arab region, especially among women.

The training will be conducted by the regional experts of HARPAS and will utilize, among other techniques, modern leadership methodologies and breakthrough initiative skills and networking as well drawing on lessons learned and best practices with a view to strengthening regional response to HIV/AIDS.

For further information on this or any other HIV/Aids related project, please contact Mr Osama Matri of UNDP