Specialisation Training Course
Child Protection, Promotion & Response
6 March 2015 - 15 March 2015
Stadtschlaining, Austria
Conflicts disproportionately affect children. Many are subject to abductions, military recruitment, killing, maiming, and numerous forms of exploitation. Armed conflict denies children the opportunity to grow up in an environment where their fundamental rights to survival, participation, and development are respected and protected. They are never the cause of such conflicts, but nevertheless bear the worst consequences of each war fought.
The multiple track approach necessary to address the multiple distresses affecting children in armed conflicts gives room for various operational activities from monitoring and reporting to delivery of essential livelihoods support to technical assistance.
This course introduces child rights assessment and monitoring; strategies for the prevention of child rights violations; strategies to reduce the impact of armed conflict on children (child recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration); child rights-based and child-participatory approaches; involvement of children in rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts; instruments and actors for the implementation of strategies for child protection, monitoring, and rehabilitation.
Aim and Objective
This specialisation course equips participants with specialised knowledge and skills to become effectively involved in monitoring, advisory, and executive functions to protect children in crisis areas.
Target Group
People with relevant professional background who want to become experts for child protection, monitoring, and rehabilitation in crisis areas or who plan to intensively include child protection and rights of the child in future activities in their respective areas of competence. Basic knowledge of international human rights and humanitarian law is required.
Implementing Partners
Lead implementing body: Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), Austria.
Registration fee
This course is free of charge. Accommodation and board will be covered by ENTRi. Course participants will be responsible for covering their own travel to the course venue.
Please note that while ENTRi courses are primarily geared toward civilian personnel working in international crisis management missions, police and military candidates are welcome to apply. Please note that course participants from the military are required to cover their own expenses during the course, including accomodation, board, and travel costs.
ENTRi Certification
This course has been certified by ENTRi. For more information on the ENTRi certification process, please click here.
