A/HRC/27/20 36. OHCHR has used the example of maternal mortality in its staff training on human rights budgeting, using the technical guidance as a tool. Bringing together about 30 OHCHR staff members, the training included a session that examined the budget chapter of the technical guidance and considered the application of these principles in the national context. 37. The International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics considers the adoption of a human rights-based approach to be very important in improving women’s health and has reported that the technical guidance has been a useful tool for its work in this area. In particular, the technical guidance has provided input into the work of its Committee for Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights, which has developed a curriculum on women’s rights to reproductive and sexual health. The curriculum will be introduced at the executive board meeting being held in Tokyo in July 2014, and will also feature at other upcoming Federation conferences at the national, regional and international levels. The Federation is also examining the possibility of introducing the curriculum in medical schools. The aim of the curriculum is to raise awareness among gynaecologists and obstetricians around the world of the importance of women’s human right to health. The curriculum highlights case studies where women’s rights have been jeopardized. It addresses the questions of access to facilities and services, the treatment of health-care providers, and quality of care, among many other aspects. 38. In South Africa, the Equinet network, together with the Society of Midwives of South Africa, is working to build the capacity of midwives to apply rights-based approaches, focusing strategically on educators. In KwaZulu Natal province, a task team has been established to examine the midwifery curriculum and integrate a human rightsbased approach, drawing on the technical guidance. Discussions are also under way with midwifery colleges in Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Free State, as well as at the national level, to expand these efforts to incorporate a rights-based approach into the curriculum. 39. Uganda’s Center for Health, Human Rights and Development has reported that the technical guidance has been a useful tool in the development of an action research project on community participation in the realization of the right to health, which was implemented in partnership with the Learning Network for Health and Human Rights at the School of Public Health and Family Medicine of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The project explores the experiences of community members in the Kiboga and Kyankwanzi districts of Uganda with regard to the health unit management committees — the institutional structures established by the Government for community members to participate in health governance. 40. In Peru, CARE Peru is working together with PAHO to engage national health authorities and policymakers on dissemination and capacity-building with regard to the implementation of the technical guidance. In that connection, CARE Peru is producing a publication entitled Methodology for Training Citizens for Local Citizen Monitoring: Legislative and National Norms Framework to Promote Citizen Monitoring for Health Rights. 41. At the Harvard University School of Public Health, the technical guidance was studied in a course entitled “The right to health in resource-poor settings: maternal health in Tanzania”. The course examined the implications of adopting a rights-based approach to maternal health for multiple actors across the policymaking, implementation and review cycle, as well as with respect to enforcement mechanisms and international assistance and cooperation. The students undertook interviews with a wide range of stakeholders, such as government officials, donors, representatives both of United Nations agencies and of civil society organizations, and patients, and visited facilities, in order to explore the obstacles to, and the implications of, implementing rights-based approaches. 11