Country: Spain
Registration deadline: 20 May 2019
Starting date: 07 Jul 2019
Ending date: 14 Jul 2019
The rationale for this course stems from reality, where several targeted (re)integration, resilience, self-reliance and community security projects usually occur in parallel, tend to create further divisions in the communities and are often not sustainable. Most programmes are highly centralised and thereby do not adequately respond to local contexts, or empower local actors to plan, execute, and own the processes.
This course proposes different means to build bridges between the different approaches, programmes and its target groups to foster durable solutions, stability, local economic development, and (re)integration of the different groups in their host- or receiving chosen communities. It explores responding to new realities, new practices and theories, including on (re)integration and prevention approaches in ongoing conflicts, recruitment and disengagement from extremist groups, sustainability of (re)integration, among others. As such, the course presents an innovative approach for more comprehensive context and community driven (re)integration, integration, resilience, and community security programming, named Community Based (Re)integration and Security (CBRS). The practitioner course will dive deep into the “how” of this approach, considering today´s complex realities.
Objectives
The training will allow participants to assess specificities of different programming contexts, develop informed and coherent programmatic responses, and coordinate and implement coherent and context-driven socio-economic (re)integration and community security programmes in partnership with communities. The overall objectives of the course are therefore to:
- Obtain a common understanding of the different approaches in (re)integration, release and (re)integration of children, resilience, community violence reduction, community security and youth in conflict programming, and build bridges between the participants coming from these different fields;
- Obtain the tools to effectively assess local context dynamics for programming in insecure areas;
- Learn how to design and adapt context driven CBRS-like interventions, in a participatory way;
- Obtain the tools to implement context driven CBRS programming including: information, counselling, and referral systems, targeted (re)integration assistance, local economic development, social support and development, and security and small arms and light weapons management;
- Learn how to address cross-cutting issues including public information, persons with disabilities, natural resource management, gender and age responsiveness, conflict sensitivity, and especially capacity development of local service providers;
- Explore how to work on (re)integration in contexts of radicalization and violent extremism; and
- Explore implementation modalities and innovative community-driven monitoring approaches.
The course is designed for government officials, civil society actors, UN staff, research institutes and other international organisations and donors in countries where (re)integration programming is relevant.
How to register:
To apply for the course, please submit your current Curriculum Vitae and the completed application form to Eva Lopez, course coordinator, at info@bcnpeacecenter.org with copy to natasha@transitioninternational.com.