The main aims of the project are:

• Exchanging, analysing and comparing among the partners good examples of policy practices and means concerning education system, career guiding and mentoring throughout the “key figure” of the multicultural consultant.
• Sharing, enhancing and further promoting among the partners some successful models, strategies and knowledge in order to prevent the immigrant school drop-out phenomenon.

In this project, that is possible thanks to the support of the European Executive Agency on Education, Audiovisual and Culture under the Leonardo da Vinci Life Long Learning Programme, we will collaborate together with other three European organisations: Slovo 21 (Czech Republic), Salon Strategies (UK) and Rinova (UK).

PICTURES FROM OUR MEETINGS

Barcelona, Spain (28-29 November 2011)

Together with our partners, CEIPES (Italy), “AUR” – Asociatia Nationala a Specialistilor in Resurse Umane(Romania), IHAD Insan Haklari Arastirmalari Dernegi (Turkey), Klaipedos apskrities teisininky klubas (Lithuania), IMIR Institut für Migrations – und Rassismusforschung E.V. (Germany), AOF Randers (Denmark), Stowarzyszenie Obszary Kultury (Poland) and Svenska kyrkan, Örkelljunga församling (Sweden), RESPECT Refugiados will produce a training manual for social workers and professionals working with refugee children and unaccompanied minors.

The objectives of this partnership are:

• Improve the knowledge of members of partner organisations on the subject of social integration and rights of refugee children
• Raise awareness on social integration of refugee children and unaccompanied minors
• Share experiences, activities, methods and know-how
• Encourage tolerance and respect for other people and cultures
• Create opportunities for international exchange, mobility and cooperation of staff, educators, and learners from vulnerable groups
• Promote informal and non-formal learning methods
• Compare different pedagogical methods

PICTURES FROM OUR MEETINGS

Palermo, Italy (9-12 November 2011)

The aim of it was to provide a training on human rights for members and volunteers of youth organisations, help them improve their knowledge and awareness on this issue and related fields (gender issues, social integration, democratic citizenship, children’s rights, refugees, immigrants, peace education, etc.).

The training course is available in English and Spanish and can be downloaded free of charge from the project’s website: Training on Human Rights for Youth. It is also available, together with the promotional materials, under the Publications section of our website.

Designed to provide answers to basic questions professionals and volunteers have when approaching refugee-related issues, this course is a introduction to the complex subject of refugees and IDPs. It covers a wide range of topics from building a refugee camp, common psychological and medical problems, different case studies, to the causes of displacement, or globalization and forced migration.

CONTENT

BASICS ABOUT REFUGEES AND IDPS

• Introduction
• A few words on UNHCR
• International law aspects
• Boat people
• In summary

REFUGEES & EXILES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

• The Origins of Asylum
• UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
• The refugee movement in Europe
• Refugee movements in Asia
• Refugee movements in Africa
• Case Study: Historical Perspectives on Refugees in Canada

CAUSES OF CONFLICT AND POPULATION DISPLACEMENT

• Introduction
• What causes conflict and population displacement?
• Why do people flee?
• How are people affected by wars?
• How do people flee?

INTERNATIONAL HELP FOR REFUGEE POPULATIONS

• Have these organizations been successful?

NATIONAL BORDERS AND SECURITY POLICIES

GLOBALIZATION AND FORCED MIGRATION

• Negative effects of globalization

REPATRIATION AND POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION

PHYCOLOGICAL CARE AND MEDICAL PROBLEMS AMONG REFUGEE POPULATIONS

• Common psychological problems in refugees
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Depression
• Exacerbation of pre existing disorders like psychoses and personality disorder
• Complicated Bereavement
• Consequence of mental illness
• Interventions

CASE STUDIES

• Colombia’s Displaced Civilians
• Human rights atrocities in Sudan
• The 1991 Kurdish mass exodus
• Timor Exodus

REFUGEE CAMPS

• Building a Refugee camp
• Practical example: The Red Cross Camp at Tréguine
• Examples of other refugee camps

TRAFFICKING, SMUGGLING, ORGANIZED CRIME

• External Military Attacks
• External/Internal Civilian Threats

METHODOLOGY

This training is being prepared on a self-study basis. This means you can take the course at your own rhythm and pace, lesson by lesson. Once you register for the course, you do not have a deadline to submit the final exam. You can do it when you are ready for it.

During all this time you can email your questions, doubts or suggestions to our teaching department at respect(at)respectrefugiados.org. Once you have completed the full course, please write the exam and send it to us at the same email address. Once corrected, we will deliver a certificate of completion, which will prove both your participation and successful completion of the training. Should you have any questions, we will be more than happy to assist you.

TRAINING ENROLLMENT

Course fee: 70 Euros

In order to register, please submit your information below, you will be redirected later to the payment page via credit card or Paypal. Once done, you will automatically receive an email with the training material ready to be downloaded to your computer.

For many volunteers and professionals from NGOs and international organisations working to ease the situation of the millions of refugees in the world implies as well understanding the solutions proposed and carried out by countries, governments and international bodies, such as UNHCR, to repatriate or resettle the displaced populations. This course gives an overview of the repatriation policies from international bodies, the repatriation history from the last decades, current practices, resettlement and examines the case of former Yugoslavia.

CONTENT

• Refugees and Repatriation: Overview
• World War II and the Crisis of Mass Displacement
• International Protection: The Refugee Conventions
• UNHCR and the ‘Voluntary’ Character of Repatriation
• Displacement in the Post-1989 Period: The Former Yugoslavia
• UNHCR in the former Yugoslavia: Obstacles to Return
• UNHCR and the Failures of ‘Voluntary’ Repatriation
• Resettlement: An Alternative Durable Solution
• From Resettlement to Repatriation: The Limits of Asylum
• Misrepresented: Refugees and the International Press
• Conclusions
• Glossary of definitions

METHODOLOGY

This training is being prepared on a self-study basis. This means you can take the course at your own rhythm and pace, lesson by lesson. Once you register for the course, you do not have a deadline to submit the final exam. You can do it when you are ready for it.

During all this time you can email your questions, doubts or suggestions to our teaching department at respect(at)respectrefugiados.org. Once you have completed the full course, please write the exam and send it to us at the same email address. Once corrected, we will deliver a certificate of completion, which will prove both your participation and successful completion of the training. Should you have any questions, we will be more than happy to assist you.

TRAINING ENROLLMENT

Course fee: 40 Euros

In order to register, please submit your information below, you will be redirected later to the payment page via credit card or Paypal. Once done, you will automatically receive an email with the training material ready to be downloaded to your computer.

The course seeks to analyze and explain how the international humanitarian system has to improve the coordination and cooperation between major humanitarian relief agents during complex humanitarian emergencies in these days and what has been done in the past to achieve it. We will describe how the way coordination among organizations is managed has an impact in the overall response to complex humanitarian emergencies. To do that an analysis is undertaken of milestone events and projects aimed at increasing cooperation and coordination within international organizations and the international non-governmental sector. Following this, a historical comparative analysis of Rwanda (April to July/August 1994) and Kosovo (March to mid August 1999) is used as case studies to show the improvements done.

CONTENT

Coordination and Cooperation within the Intergovernmental Sphere

• Within the United Nations
• Outside of the UN
  • ECHO
  • IOM

Coordination and Cooperation within the International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) Sphere

• Information Sharing Initiatives
• Principals and Standards Initiatives
• Coordination and Cooperation Initiatives

Coordination and Cooperation between Intergovernmental and International Organizations

• Institutional Relationships
  • IASC/OCHA
  • Partners In Action
  • ECHO
• Information Sharing
• Principles and Standards

Case studies

• Rwanda
  • Coordination
  • Early Warning, Need Assessments, Contingency Planning, and Preparedness
  • Information Sharing
  • Appropriateness, Standards and Coverage
  • Cost Effectiveness
• The Former Yugoslav Republic: Kosovo
  • Early Warning, Need Assessments, Contingency Planning, and Preparedness
  • Coordination and Management
  • Information Sharing and Coordination Meetings
  • Coverage and Standards
  • Cost Effectiveness

Conclusions

• The UN System.
• NGOs and Standards
• Humanitarian Will

METHODOLOGY

This training is being prepared on a self-study basis. This means you can take the course at your own rhythm and pace, lesson by lesson. Once you register for the course, you do not have a deadline to submit the final exam. You can do it when you are ready for it.

During all this time you can email your questions, doubts or suggestions to our teaching department at respect(at)respectrefugiados.org. Once you have completed the full course, please write the exam and send it to us at the same email address. Once corrected, we will deliver a certificate of completion, which will prove both your participation and successful completion of the training. Should you have any questions, we will be more than happy to assist you.

TRAINING ENROLLMENT

Course fee: 40 Euros

In order to register, please submit your information below, you will be redirected later to the payment page via credit card or Paypal. Once done, you will automatically receive an email with the training material ready to be downloaded to your computer.

• Yaounde RESPECT Club

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Afrika/Makobola Refugee Schools

• Ase’Eci Primary Refugee School

• Bangwe Primary School

• Kakamba-Kalunda Primary School

• Kawizi Primary Refugee School

• La Perfection Refugee Schools

Egypt

• Saint Charles Lwanga Center For Basic Education

Ghana

• All Souls Early Childhood

• Assembly of God School

• Buduburam Refugee Community School

• Dominion Christian Academy

• Refuge Baptist School

Guinea

• Conakry Refugee School

• Laine Refugee School

• Mohomou Refugee School

Kenya

• Saphalo Community School

• Saint Kizito Socio-Cultural Center

Nepal

• New Horizon Academy

Sierra Leone

• Children’s Welfare Primary School

• D.E.C. Primary School

• Fergussion Memorial Secondary School

• Harford Secondary School

• Huntington Secondary School

• I.C.S. Primary School Moyamba

• June Harftrout Primary School

• Kulafai Rashideen Islamic Secondary School

• Saint Columbia’s Primary School

• Saint Joseph Primary School

• Saint Joseph’s Secondary School

• Saint Micheal’s Primary School

• Saint Micheal’s Secondary School

• United Methodist Central Primary School

• United Methodist Primary School Salina

• Waterloo Refugee Camp

• West African Methodist Technical Vocational Training Centre

Somalia

• Alnawawi School

• Bassaso Secondary School

• Shafie Primary and Secondary School

Uganda

• Fr. Gale Secondary School

• Kasonga Primary School

• Kinakyeitaka Primary School

• Kyangwali Secondary School

• Lama Parents Secondary School

• Rwenyawawa Secondary School

The objectives of this project have been:

• Improving the professional skills of human rights activists who work in the field of psycho-social needs of refugees
• Sharing experiences and knowledge on psycho-social needs of refugees
• Exchanging strategies and ways of learning
• Awareness raising on psycho-social needs of refugees
• Sharing experiences on problems which NGOs that are working with refugees have
• Sharing experiences on evaluation methods of activities for refugees

The project created in collaboration with other three European organisations: IHAD (Turkey), IMIR (Germany) and CEIPES (Italy), has been supported by the European Comission under the Life Long Learning Programme Grundtvig. Over the project life cycle, we have been participating and organising several workshops,  meetings and awareness raising campaigns.

With this project, RESPECT Refugiados re-affirms once more its initiatives to raise awareness among the civil society and to increase the knowledge about other reality.

TRAINING MATERIAL

Download here the full version (pdf)

The training material is also available for free download from the project´s website:                             http://www.tpsnr.ceipes.org/

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS

Leaflet:             Spanish Version – English Version
Poster:              Spanish Version – English Version

PICTURES FROM OUR MEETINGS

Ankara, Turkey (16-18 January 2009)

Barcelona, Spain (18-21 June 2009)

Hamburg, Germany (14-17 January 2010)

Palermo, Italy (6-8 May 2010)

People of different cultures that have to coexist constitute today’s societies.  This situation has generated and is still generating fear, rejection and problems of coexistence which is expressed through racism and xenophobic acts and intolerance against refugees and asylum seekers.  The latter need to adapt themselves to their new environment/community or country during their stay whether this is for short or long term but this is only possible if they don’t experience rejection from the people of the asylum countries and get their support.  To achieve it, people – children, teenagers, adults – living in the asylum countries have to make an effort to build social relationships that base itself on the cultural diversity of nowadays’ society and on equality in rights and democracy and we think that educating these people and inform them about refugees/asylum seekers’ situation through awareness campaign can help eradicate ignorance that mostly causes rejection of the “others” and promote solidarity and activism.  Our campaign was mainly aimed at youth as they can influence the present and future situation and constitutes citizens of the future.

The main goals of the project were:

• Spread awareness on refugee and refugee issues among youth aged between 12 and 25 years old
• Make available a material that will help spread awareness on refugees in the long term among youth and adult
• Promote a multicultural society, tolerance and activism among youth

We have prepared a comic book dealing with different aspects of a refugee/asylum seeker’s life (such as living in a refugee camp, resettlement, fleeing their own country, etc.). The comic was printed out in eight different languages and distributed through our partners to schools, student associations, universities, NGOs working with children, etc. of eight different countries (Switzerland, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Slovenia, Portugal and Spain).  The purpose of this project was to spread awareness in a fun way about refugees and refugee issues amongst European children, teenagers, young adults and adults.

Specially focused on professionals and volunteers working in the field of development, humanitarian aid and related topics that demand and need something more than the formal training, given by their organizations, in the practical subjects they are working with. The development of all soft-skills that could maximize the effectiveness of our work is becoming more and more demanded and critical when hiring someone in the highly difficult field of assisting others.

The ability to coordinate a project, to manage a meeting, to do a presentation, to lead a team or to solve a dispute among co-workers is even more important that all your specialised knowledge in one single field.

We have developed this online course explaining and teaching about all soft-skills that anyone, either working in the field or in the headquarters, should have in order to achieve more easily the goals of their organizations. We will cover those abilities and competences you will be require to have when working on the humanitarian area.

These course main areas are:

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
DEFINING A PROJECT
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
INTRODUCTION TO TEAM MANAGEMENT
TEAM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
TEAMBUILDING EXERCISES
BASIC COMMUNICATION MODEL
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
THE ROLE OF THE LEADER
HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR TEAM
ADAPT TO YOUR TEAM
LEARNING TO DELEGATE
CONFLICT HANDLING SKILLS
HOW TO SOLVE CRISES
EFFECTIVE MEETINGS:  HOW TO DESIGN & SET UP A MEETING FOR SUCCESS
HOW TO MANAGE THE PROCESS FOR RESULTS
HANDLING INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
TIME MANAGEMENT
NEGOTIATION TECHNIQUES

METHODOLOGY

This training is being prepared on a self-study basis. This means you can take the course at your own rhythm and pace, lesson by lesson. Once you register for the course, you do not have a deadline to submit the final exam. You can do it when you are ready for it.

During all this time you can email your questions, doubts or suggestions to our teaching department at respect(at)respectrefugiados.org. Once you have completed the full course, please write the exam and send it to us at the same email address. Once corrected, we will deliver a certificate of completion, which will prove both your participation and successful completion of the training. Should you have any questions, we will be more than happy to assist you.

TRAINING ENROLLMENT

Course fee: 85  euros

In order to register, please submit your information below, you will be redirected later to the payment page via credit card or Paypal. Once done, you will automatically receive an email with the training material ready to be downloaded to your computer.