Training Practitioners
UN Staff
We have frequently trained the staff of UN agencies. This has included working with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the UN Conference on Trade and Development and UNDP.
UNDP
We have frequently undertaken training for the UN Development Programme. For example, for its Resident Representatives - in charge of UNDP’s country programmes around the world – conducting course in:
• Windhoek, Namibia, 6 - 8 October 1999, for UNDP Resident Representatives of the Southern and Eastern Africa Region
• Almaty, Kazakhstan, November 1999, for the East and Central Europe Region Amman, Jordan, 14 - 19 November 2000, for the Arab Region.
DFID
Rights and Humanity has undertaken a number of training sessions for the UK Government’s Department for International Development, particularly on the human rights approach to development and gender equality. For example
• in June 1997 we taught a course for DFID’s Health Department
• in September 1997, our President was invited to speak at a residential retreat for DFID’s Government and Institutions Division.
Our book A Human Rights Approach to Development, published at DFID’s request in early 1998, was in part designed as a training tool for DFID staff. At the time they were predominantly economists or social scientists and were unfamiliar with human rights.
NGOs and Public Sector
In the summer of 1999, Rights and Humanity joined forces with the Commonwealth Secretariat to run a four-week series of lectures on Human Rights and Development.
Rights and Humanity is frequently invited to speak at NGO and public sector events, including for the British Council, Amnesty International, the Overseas Development Institute, BOND (the UK network of development NGOs) and WaterAid.