SHORT COURSE
Refugees and Migrants, and a Rights-based Approach to Development
8–17 January 2007
Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (FMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC)

This ten day advanced course is designed for practitioners from government, inter-governmental non-governmental agencies, donors and community representatives in the Middle East and Africa with institutional responsibilities in the field of refugees and migration. The participants will explore the practical implications and challenges of applying the much-touted human rights approach to policy making in real situations. The course will be both theoretical and practical, drawing on the wealth of lessons arising from trial and error, to determine the best-possible development outcomes for hosts, refugees, and migrants. Participants will take away new skills and techniques to apply in their own context.

Course outline:
The Message of Human Rights
General and Specific Binding Sources and Standards
International and Comparative Guidance
Localizing and Indigenizing the Norms
Implementing, Monitoring, and Reporting
The Role(s) of Donors
Understanding “Integration”
Practicum: Applying the Human Rights Tools

Instructors include:
Dr. Amin Mekki Medani, Arab Organization for Human Rights
Joseph Schechla, Housing and Land Rights Network
Anthony Rutabanzibwa, ILO (Tanzania)
Dr. Lana Baydas, OHCHR
Michael Kagan, AMERA (Egypt)
Dr. Abrar Chowbury, The Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit--RMMRU (Bangladesh)
Dr. Barbara E. Harrell-Bond, FMRS/AUC

Selection criteria: This course is limited to 25 participants.

Apply Now: Send your curriculum vitae and a letter explaining your work and how the course will be relevant or to your studies by email to Sara Sadek, ssadek@aucegypt.edu or fax +20 (0)2 797–6629.

Costs: Tuition $200 (waivers are subject to application by senior persons otherwise unable to attend).

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2006.

Successful applicants will be notified by 10 November and information about visas and accommodation costs will be sent at that time.

Course Sponsors: Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), University of Sussex, and funded by DFiD. The Development Research Centre (DRC) on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty was established in June 2003, in recognition of the complex relationship between migration, forced migration, and poverty. The DRC examines migration flows in which poor people themselves are most represented and how migration impacts variously on their livelihoods, rights and levels of social protection. Migration DRC is a partnership between institutions in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. We undertake the research, capacity building and dialogue necessary for evidence-based and pro-poor migration policies. http://www.migrationdrc.org/partners/sussex.html