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MITRA Training

Over the years MASUM has developed as a credible training resource in the areas of women's health care, gender sensitisation and mainstreaming of gender issues, violence against women, human rights, reproductive and sexual rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR).

MASUM has functioned as the training unit for the Maharashtra Women and Health Programme (MAH-WAH). WAH was a multiregional collaborative effort, working for comprehensive, gender-sensitive and sustainable holistic healthcare, with a special concern for women, girl children and other disadvantaged persons through training and advocacy. MASUM coordinated training of 26 middle-level health functionaries from 18 NGOs over 11 districts of Maharashtra between April 1998 and April 2000.

MASUM in partnership with IWRAW-Asia Pacific has conducted intensive training programmes for NGOs in Maharashtra as well as from other states of India on CEDAW. This process began in December 2001 and continued with training of trainers in December 2003 with participants from Gujarat, Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

MASUM Institute for Training in Rights Based Activism (MITRA)

MASUM's work has always centered around rights. Right to health care through public health services, right to credit, vocational training and employment, right to minorities in the community and women's rights within and outside the home have been the focus of MASUM's programmes.

MASUM initiated MASUM's Institute of Training in Rights-based Activism (MITRA) in October 2003 to train people in a rights-based perspective and framework. The training is designed for NGO and community-based organisation workers across diverse issues such as women's rights, child rights, health, HIV-AIDS, micro-credit and rural development in urban, rural and tribal areas.

So far, intensive and specialised trainings of 10-12 days each have been organised on Women's Empowerment, Health Rights, Child Rights and Right to Natural Resources. Potential trainers were identified and further trained through a Training of Trainers model to build a national pool of rights-based trainers.

For more details, see the legacy references: brochure and Publication section.