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Initial Efforts of the Campaign

The NGO Campaign for the Ratification and Use of the Optional Protocol to CEDAW (OP-CEDAW) intends to foster the creation of an international network aimed at supporting and strengthening the work of partners around the ratification and use of the OP-CEDAW. The campaign seeks to facilitate exchanges of information and build capacity among network members.

• The following consultations on ratification strategies around the OP-CEDAW have already taken place:
  
  
  • One global consultation was held in New York in 2000;
    
    
  • A Latin American regional consultation was held in Costa Rica in 2001;
    
    
  • An African regional consultation was held in South Africa in 2003;
    
    
  • A follow-up to the global consultation held in 2000 is planned for 2005.
    
    
• Technical assistance has been provided to organisations coordinating national consultations and/or training on the OP-CEDAW in Bangladesh (2002) and Nepal (2003, forthcoming 2004);
  
  
• Campaign representatives will continue to be involved in the processes leading to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR);
  
  
• The Campaign will continue to develop materials and resources to be distributed widely;
  
  
• Strategies around the ratification and effective use of the OP-CEDAW will continue to be explored in on-going meetings and consultations with IWRAW Asia Pacific’s partners.