45 3 PROMOTION STRATEGIES • Provide grants to community organizations and NGOs; • Include community organizations in NHRI training sessions on substantive human rights issues related to women’s rights and gender equality. NHRIs also provide training on gender equality and women’s rights to their own staff. More information about staff training can be found in Section 7.7: Human Resources Management. ODIHR Recommendations promotional activity developed by the NHRI → Any should be tailored to the audience to be reached. NHRIs should make efforts to reach diverse audiences, including members of minority or migrant groups, persons with disabilities, illiterate persons and others. should develop human rights promotion pro→ NHRIs grammes in a way that responds to the particular needs of their country. Awareness of women’s rights and gender-based discrimination should be part of such programmes. In addition to explaining rights, NHRI promotional → activities should promote wide awareness of complaints mechanisms available to victims of violence against women and gender-based discrimination. should allocate sufficient financial and human → NHRIs resources to human rights promotion, to ensure that the immediate urgencies of protection work do not unduly limit promotional activities. staff should receive media and outreach train→ NHRI ing on how to communicate messages related to SURVEY RESULTS The ODIHR survey revealed that training and capacity-building programmes are the least-used promotional strategies reported by NHRIs.