Indicative advanced training menu

Annex 5: Indicative advanced training menu

Introduction
General training on human rights is discussed in Chapter 8.

This indicative training menu proposes advanced training in areas that would enhance an NHRI’s capacities to manage and implement its programmes beyond the areas covered in the Establishment Phase. Some suggested training initiatives are meant to enhance the knowledge and skills that staff should already possess. Others are meant to offer new skills that will benefit the Institutions as it expands its scope of operations.

Once again, a training program should always be based on needs assessment. By the Consolidation Phase, it will be possible to conduct an assessment of staff knowledge and understanding of their work to see where there are gaps and weak areas.

The main principles regarding training for NHRIs are set out in Chapter 8 and Annex 4 to that chapter and should be reviewed.

Advanced courses in Core Protection Issues, e.g.
Monitoring places of detention
Preventing torture and other violations
Protecting witnesses, complainants and human rights defenders

Advanced investigation techniques
Investigation planning
Interviewing witnesses
Planning and carrying out systemic investigations

Evidence
Techniques for collecting and preserving physical evidence
Chain of evidence
Documentary evidence
The law of evidence
Specific cases: discrimination; torture; forces disappearances; summary execution/ extrajudicial killings; and sexual assault,

Advanced monitoring and research methodologies
Understanding the principles of statistical analysis
Analyzing and synthesising data
Report writing

Policy Development in NHRIs
Linking case data to policy development
Research, analysis and report writing
How to conduct consultations
Policy processes: Case studies from successful NHRIs

Advanced Training in Alternative Dispute Resolution (consider a recognized certificate-level course)

Regional National Human Rights Institutions
Comparative analysis of NHRIs in region; best practices, case law.

Specialized Topics, e.g.
Internally displaced persons and refugees
Gender equality
Minority rights
Rights of Indigenous peoples
Rights of persons with disabilities, including HIV/AIDS
Rights of the Child
Labour law and human rights

Human-Rights Based Approaches to Development
Collecting and disaggregating data
Millennium Development Goals and other internationally-agreed goals
Tracking progress: monitoring and report-writings

Database Management (Case management)
Generating and interpreting User and Management Reports from database

How to Hold Public Inquiries

Communications and Promotion
Event planning and publicity
Adult education principles
Report writing
Developing reports that are accessible (different languages, accessibility to persons with disabilities, etc.
Advanced train-the trainer sessions for security forces, and police

Training on Strategic planning