PATH - Programme Guide

INTRODUCTION

I.	Acknowledgements
II.	Objectives
III.	Target audience
IV.	Selection of participants
V.	Language

FACILITATION

I.	Profile of the training team
II.	Use of resource persons
III.	How to facilitate this programme
IV.	Basic trainer suggestions

ORGANIZATION

I.	Pre-workshop questionnaire
II.	Pre-workshop activity
III.	Training materials and equipment
IV.	Adapting the design and timing
V.	Methodology
VI.	Lunchtime workshops
VII.	Evaluation and certification

ANNEXES

A:	Agenda
B:	Checklist for PATH training workshops
C:	Overview of PATH materials and resource persons
D:	PATH acronym guide
E:	Pre-workshop questionnaire
F:	Pre-workshop quiz
G:	Pre-workshop quiz answer key
H:	Sample certificate
I:	Evaluation form

I. Objectives

The four main objectives of the workshop are to enable participants to:

Understand UNICEF’s mission, role, and priorities in complex emergencies, including how UNICEF applies its rights based approach to programming in these contexts;
Become familiar with the international legal and ethical standards (normative framework) which provide protection to children and women affected by conflict
Understand how the normative framework provides the foundation for UNICEF’s assistance, protection and advocacy work in complex emergencies
Learn about the challenges of applying the normative framework and humanitarian principles to practical dilemmas facing UNICEF staff and partners working in complex emergencies. Challenges include negotiating humanitarian access, protection of internally displaced persons, prevention of the recruitment and use of child soldiers, engaging with non-state entities; and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.
The workshop design assumes that participants already have knowledge and experience of UNICEF’s human rights-based approach to programming, or of working in emergency situations. The focus here is the integration of a child rights approach to complex emergencies in accordance with international legal and ethical standards and humanitarian principles.

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II. Target audience

This training programme is targeted at both UNICEF and partner agencies working to protect and assist children and women affected by conflict. Within UNICEF, the materials are targeted at a broad audience. They would be suitable for both national and international staff, at HQ, Regional Office and Country Office levels. At field level, the programme would particularly benefit programme and project officers in all sectors, particularly child protection officers, communication officers, and monitoring and evaluation officers. Programme coordinators and other senior managers would also benefit from the skills and knowledge to be gained from this package.

Participants should be drawn from both emergency and non-emergency duty stations. However, many workshop activities are based on actual country situations and case studies, therefore, participants with prior knowledge and experience of complex emergencies may find it easier to relate the workshop content to their own experience, as will those currently working in unstable environments. Participants without emergency experience will learn from those with such experience. Participants who have substantial emergency experience will have the opportunity to analyse their experience, share it, and view it through new eyes.

The training is also suitable for partners whose mandate is to protect children and women and who are working to implement the same international legal standards, and in many cases the same ethical standards. These may include local counterparts, UN agencies, NGOs, civil society as well as donors. We encourage UNICEF staff to invite relevant partners to participate in these workshops, and to share the materials where needed.

The training programme can be held at HQ, regional, sub-regional or country level.

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III. Number and Selection of Participants

The recommended number of participants for a PATH training workshop is around 25.

Participants should ideally have already gone through:

UNICEF Programme Process Training and/or the Programme Process Course on CD-ROM; and
UNICEF Core Course: Human Rights Principles for Programming.
PATH e-learning course – once it is made available at the end of 2004. This self-directed CD-ROM should become a pre-requisite for all participants prior to participating in a PATH training workshop.

The PATH training programme along with UNICEF’s Emergency Preparedness and Response training programme represent UNICEF’s core emergency training initiatives. (For additional information on other emergency training programmes, see UNICEF’s Pocketbook of Emergency Resources).

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IV. Language

The PATH training programme is available in English and ../../french/path/index.htm, and will shortly be available in Spanish. All necessary materials for the programme have been translated. However, some of the books and non-UNICEF resource materials suggested for use in this training may not be available in all three languages.

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