TRAINING ACTIVITIES

The African Human Rights Camp (AHRC) is a two-week long intensive training course in human rights, designed for people working in the field of human rights education and advocacy in Africa. The Camps has been held annually since 1995 in countries like South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Morocco, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt and Nigeria. The eleventh Camp was held in Namibia from 24 September to 6 October 2006.

Children's Rights Training in rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces. Training on children's rights is provided to learners, educators and community representatives responsible for the care of children (parents, social, health and religious workers).

Human Rights Documentation and Information Handling. The training is aimed at building the internal capacity of organisations involved with human rights. The training uses internationally recognised and applicable methods to record and exchange information about specific human rights violations.

Socio-Economic Rights Advocacy for Rural Women. This project focuses on empowering rural women in advocating for their own socio-economic rights. Training of trainers from community based organisations is undertaken and they in turn impart their knowledge and expertise to women in rural communities.

Economic and Social Rights training for Local Councillors. Training on the obligations of municipalities and in particular local councillors on socio-economic rights and their social responsibility towards service delivery.

Local councillors bear tremendous responsibilities in the implementation of social and economic rights especially in the delivery of essential services to their communities. They are also responsible for articulating the needs of their communities to the provincial and national governments and developing budgets to address social and economic issues.

The objectives of the training would be to make local government councillors aware of their mandate within a human rights framework as provided for in the South African constitution. Focus is placed on the human rights issues facing their communities such as access to social and economic rights and their obligations in this regard. The training provides a platform for local councillors to voice their concerns and difficulties relating the implementation of these rights.

The training is conducted in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Western Cape provinces.

The African System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Training has been provided to a select number of representatives of organisations from the nine provinces.

Youth Development Programme: conduct skills development and capacity building training to a group of youths in marginalised communities and then provide them with support to undertake training of their peers within their own communities over a period of six months.