Specialisation Training Course
Child Protection
14 November 2011 - 23 November 2011
Stadtschlaining, Austria
The overall objective of the Course is to prepare experts who would like to become involved in monitoring, advisory, and executive functions related to children in crisis areas. It does not duplicate already on-going training efforts which mainstream the topic, but rather trains experts in topics related to become specialised in child protection, monitoring and rehabilitation.
Participants will become acquainted with:
- child rights assessment and monitoring
- strategies for prevention of child rights violations and strategies to reduce the impact of armed conflict on children (child recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration), emphasizing the relevance of child rights-based and child-participatory approaches as well as the direct involvement of children in rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts
- methods, instruments and actors for the implementation of strategies for child protection, monitoring and rehabilitation
Target Group: People with relevant professional background in working with children who want to become experts for child protection, monitoring and rehabilitation in crisis areas (e.g. child protection officers). People who come from diverse professional backgrounds but plan to intensively include the children's rights topic in future activities in their respective areas of competence.
Knowledge on peace and conflict related topics, organisational and management skills, monitoring techniques, situation assessment and analytical skills, documentation as well as communication and networking skills are required. Particiapnts should also have a basic understanding of international human rights and humanitarian law.
Implementing Partners
Lead implementing body: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), Austria
Other partner implementing bodies: Royal Institute for International Relations (Egmont Institute), Belgium
ENTRi Certification
This course has been certified by ENTRi. For more information on the ENTRi certification process, please click here.
