Training for Effective Programming

Children's Rights, Rights-Based Programming
Results-Based Management & Theory of Change

For government, non-government and international development professionals
​working with policy or program strategy, design, management & evaluation
  • Implement change more effectively 
  • Manage for stronger results for children​
  • Design and implement rights-based policy and programs​
  • Improve collaboration & coordination

Sample workshop formats & content
(courses are customized to clients' needs and can be adapted for online delivery)

2 days:
Children's Rights
A Paradigm Shift
Training Workshop 

Photo credit: Plan International
Photo: Plan International
This course covers the 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. 

3.5 days:
Integrating Children's Rights,
Rights-Based Programming
​& Results-Based Management

Photo credit: UNICEF-Canada
Photo: UNICEF-Canada
Participants learn to design and plan using the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Human Rights-Based Analysis and then link that analysis into Results-Based Management frameworks and tools. 

4-5 days:
Results-Based Management
& Theory of Change
​for Child-Focused Programming

Photo credit: UNICEF
Photo: unicef.org
This course covers the fundamentals of Human Rights Approaches, Results-Based Management and Theory of Change, as complementary and synergistic sets of skills and tools for program design and management.
Arrange a training workshop for your team, organization or project

Methodology

The workshops are interactive, participatory, and hands-on, with a blend of:
  • Theory input and tools, and practical skill-building exercises
  • Use of relevant case studies to anchor learning
  • Small group work and plenary discussions  
  • Experiential learning cycles, each building on the previous:

What people are saying:

"Incredibly helpful, informative, encouraging and interesting course. One of the best workshop experiences I've ever had."
- Course participant, Public Health Agency of Canada
​"This workshop was very timely for us to kick off our country program planning process and to get everybody up to speed on applying Results-Based Management and Theory of Change. Opportunities like this to engage and discuss and battle with the issues are really precious. The atmosphere and team spirit right through to late Friday afternoon were exceptional and that says as much about the quality of the workshop and facilitation as any formal feedback."
- Petra Hoelscher, Chief of Social Policy, UNICEF Indonesia
"It brought the entire office together around key issues. This was never done before in the office and the impact was appreciated by everyone."
- Course participant, UNICEF Thailand

Trainers

Natalie Zend

Natalie Zend, MA (International Affairs) has extensive experience designing and delivering training in children's rights, Human Rights Approaches and  Results-Based Management. She is a Certified Training and Development Practitioner and a UNICEF RBM Master Trainer. Read more...

Kim Martens

Kim Martens, MA (Adult Education) is a well-recognized Lead Facilitator for the United Nations System Staff College. She is regularly called on to be the Team Lead for the Results-Based Management and Human Rights Based Approaches (HRBA) Training of Trainers. Read more... 

Francoise Coupal

Francoise Coupal, MA (International Development) has decades of experience providing training and technical advice in Results-Based Management (RBM) to United Nations agencies, Global Affairs Canada, and dozens of non-government agencies. Read more...

Clients and participating organizations: 

UNICEF (Headquarters, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, East Asia and Pacific region), UNICEF-Canada, Save the Children (Canada, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Kenya), Global Affairs Canada (corporate training in Child Rights), Inter-American Children's Institute, Plan Canada, Norwegian Refugee Council, Offices of Provincial Child and Youth Advocates across Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada, Citizenship & Immigration Canada, local non-government agencies and government ministries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. 

Related Resources

This article by Natalie Zend, published in OCIC's e-Magazine iAM (Ideas, Actions, Movements) Volume 8: Measure What Matters ​in March 2017, presents three challenges or areas of tension that lie in the way of meaningful RBM, along with ways to address them. 
This Reference Guide by Francoise Coupal and Natalie Zend, published by UNICEF's East Asia and Pacific Regional Office in October 2015, intends to offer a coherent set of tools for managing for results in upstream policy environments, from design to monitoring and evaluation.