What is Effective Training: Advance Reading for Participants in Human Rights NGO Capacity Building Programme - Iraq

This publication presents practical checklists and tips for planning and organising a process of non-governmental organisation (NGO) training for human rights work - and identifies the role which workshops can play. It explains the key principles of what the author considers to be effective adult education (especially the need for training to be practice-oriented and participatory), and provides guidance for applying these principles. The aim is to stimulate participants to actively identify their own training needs and empower them to ensure their training is designed, delivered and followed-up with their effective participation.

This document is based on materials flowing from Towards Effective Training for Field Human Rights Work by Karen Kenny (1996) and those developed for Human Rights Monitoring: Training Manual for Russia produced by the Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre (2003).