In training these leaders, human rights must be introduced as a holistic framework that provides a guideline for their work on specific issues. People must learn to make the connection and develop a systemic analysis before taking actions to claim their human rights. There is very little knowledge and understanding of its value to people's lives and their future or as an imperative for human and social development. It has been our experience that leaders of people in struggle, many of them women, once introduced to human rights education understand its value and are ready to make a commitment to implement the holistic learning about human rights in their communist with great zeal. Every region has by now good trainers who can assume the task.
Many community activists can become excellent trainers.
Once introduced to HRE they can develop excellent materials and learn to adopt existing ones. However, having learned from the ongoing success that started with the Decade of women, it seems quite clear that it was the NGO community that built the human rights movement amongst women. This cannot happened for HRE unless national and local NGOs, other then human rights NGOs, learn of the value of human rights to their work as a proactive strategy for action. We propose that all funding agencies and foundation should learn about HRE to understand the value added to development projects and programs which they fund. They must then request those receiving the funds to integrate HRE in their programs for viability and sustainability.