AUSTRIA: Child Protection, Monitoring, and Rehabilitation

Aim & Content:

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 specialized 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), emphasising 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 backgrounds 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.

Basic 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 is required. Participants should also have a basic understanding of international human rights and humanitarian law.

During all specialisation course there will be a person from UN Volunteers (UNV) conducting job interviews with participants interested in joining UNV.

Cost of Participation
The course fee is 630 € / week including half-board accommodation

Further information on the programme and application form at: www.aspr.ac.at/

pdf: www.aspr.ac.at/ipt.htm

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