Dear Friends and colleagues

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Applications for our Annual Global Linking & Learning Programme on Human Rights in Development is now open. Please help circulate this announcement.

What?
Annual Global Learning Programme on Human Rights in Development

When?
1-11 December 2006

Where?
Malaysia (Port Dickson and Kuala Lumpur)

Who?

Organisers:
Dignity International in partnership with Pusat Komas - a popular communication centre of Malaysia
Support from: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland and Oxfam Novib

Applicant profile:
Development actors from grassroots, national and international development NGOs that are beginning to integrate human rights in development work. Development NGOs beginning work on Human Rights Based Approaches are encouraged to apply. Applicants should be in key positions within their organisations and with solid experience and responsibility in a range of areas, including programming, advocacy and campaigning.

Summary of the programme:
Human rights and development worlds have run parallel to each other, each with its own history, its own constituency, with its own strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures. The more recent advances, such as the greater recognition of not only legal justice but also economic and social justice combined with increased work around economic, social and cultural rights by the human rights community on the one hand, and the recognition of poverty as a human rights issue by the development community on the other, have brought the two seemingly parallel worlds closer together.

A step in this direction are the Human Rights Based Approaches (HRBAs) which can be viewed as an attempt at a conversation between the two worlds of human rights and development.

The Learning programme will be based on the rich development experience of the participants themselves. Participants will be placed in a non-formal, participatory, people centred and process oriented learning framework. Participants will explore together the meaning of human rights in development work and how integration of human rights into development work translates into concrete strategies and development programming at the grassroots and international levels.

Language:
English

Financial information:
200 Euro participation fee (programme materials, lunches and coffee breaks), 510 Euros (single accommodation, breakfast and dinners) for 10 days. All selected paricipants are requested to cover their own travel, board, lodging and other incidental expenses. Please note that no one will be excluded for financial reasons and that limited scholarships will be available for those with no alternative financial means to participate especially those from the developing countries or from grassroots development organisations. Further details are provided in the information document.
For the Information Document, please see: http://www.dignityinternational.org/dg/RC/Dignitydocs/2006/2006_HRD_global.pdf

For the Application form, please see: http://www.dignityinternational.org/dg/RC/Dignitydocs/2006/2006_HRD_globalapplicationform.doc

If you have difficulties accessing the documents from the website and would like the documents to be sent via e-mail, please send a mail to: applications@dignityinternational.org

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 17 October 2006 (International Day for the Eradication of Poverty)

Thank you.
Dignity International - http://www.dignityinternational.org
Pusat Komas - http://www.komas.org/