Sample training workshop formats & content
(courses are customized to clients' needs)
2 day course: Children's Rights: A Paradigm Shift
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“I finally understand the difference between taking a needs-based approach and a rights- based approach to policy making! This course was both informative and engaging.” |
This training workshop, developed by UNICEF-Canada, covers the fundamentals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Human Rights-Based Approaches to Programming, and how to apply them to legislation, policies, programs, practices, and advocacy. Participants learn concepts and use tools to design, plan and evaluate programming and policy using child rights based analysis. Optional modules include child participation, Child Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA), and Results-Based Management.
Governments and other actors in the 195 countries that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child have an ongoing responsibility to ensure that policy and program decisions give priority to the best interests of children and are consistent with the principles and provisions of the Convention. This workshop supports government professionals, child and youth advocates and other responsible actors to ensure that legislation, policy, programs and administrative decisions fully address the potential impacts on children, promote equity, ensure coordination, meet international legal standards, and improve results for children. |
3.5 day course: Integrating Children's Rights, Rights-Based Programming & Results-Based Management
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“I learned a lot on the fundamentals of Child Rights Based Approaches and Results-Based Management, along with effectively linking the two. I really needed this training on both areas to feel comfortable and properly represent my organization's work.” |
This training workshop, based on UNICEF best practice globally, covers the fundamentals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Human Rights-Based Approaches to Programming (HRBAP), and Results-Based Management (RBM), as complementary and synergistic frameworks and sets of skills and tools for project/program design and management. This includes learning to design and plan using a child-focused rights-based analysis and integrating that analysis into Results-Based Management frameworks and tools. The course focuses on the links between HRBAP and RBM, rather than focusing on RBM-related skills, and thus presupposes some familiarity with RBM.
This workshop is geared toward international development professionals directly involved in designing, implementing and monitoring projects, programs and policy. Throughout the workshop, participants apply the tools to their own real programming, thus supporting program planning while also building individual capacity. The course is ideally suited to personnel within a single organization, or to the primary stakeholders involved in planning or implementing a single project. |
4-5 days course: Results-Based Management & Theory of Change for Child-Focused Programming
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"This workshop/training was very timely for us to kick off our country planning process and to get everybody up to speed on applying RBM and Theory of Change." |
This training workshop covers the fundamentals of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Programming (HRBAP), Results-Based Management (RBM), and Theory of Change, as complementary and synergistic sets of skills and tools for child-focused program design and management. It is based on UNICEF best practice in HRBAP, and consistent with RBM guidance at Global Affairs Canada.
In this workshop, participants learn to design and plan using a child-focused rights-based analysis, and to use that analysis to formulate and test theories of change. They learn to integrate rights-based analysis into Results-Based Management frameworks and tools, including building results chains and logic models, selecting indicators, drafting Theory of Change narratives, creating monitoring plans, assessing and managing risks, and reporting on results. This workshop is geared toward international development professionals directly involved in designing, implementing and monitoring projects, programs and policy. |