Evaluating Human Rights Training Activities: A Handbook for Human Rights Educators

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Montreal; Geneva: Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education; United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2011. — 294 p. — Professional Training Series No. 18. (Автор не указан)."The international community is increasingly promoting human rights education and training — through United Nations initiatives such as the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing) and the draft United Nations Declaration for human rights education and training — as a means to great ends: preventing human rights violations and violent conflicts, promoting equality and sustainable development, and enhancing people's participation in decision-making within democratic systems. However, human rights education can contribute to these noble goals only if it is methodologically sound and fully relevant to the learners, so as to have a genuine empowering or sensitizing effect. Ensuring and measuring such impact on the learners and their communities requires the use of evaluation approaches through all stages of education and training development — from design to delivery and follow-up. Aware of this challenge, my Office joined efforts with Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education to develop this Handbook, which aims to support the rigorous, systematic and continuous evaluation of human rights training activities for adult learners in a variety of settings. The Handbook builds on existing research and practice in educational evaluation; it equips human rights educators with basic knowledge in evaluation and with step-by-step guidance, including examples of tools and techniques adaptable to different contexts. As a practical guide for human rights educators wishing to improve their work and to measure and document their effectiveness, this Handbook will, I hope, nurture and fuel the transformative power of human rights education: from conflict to peace; from human rights violations to redress; from abuse to dignity; and from discrimination to respect, equality and social justice. I recommend its wide dissemination and practical use by all those who wish to make a difference through human rights education and training."