HOUSING RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE TRAINER’S FILE
HOUSING RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE TRAINER'S FILE
CENTRE ON HOUSING RIGHTS AND EVICTIONS
TIPS FOR TRAINERS
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Legal Rights and Citizen Education Programs: lessons learned
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Learning for human rights, as well as about them
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The main tasks of the facilitator/trainer
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Using common teaching aids
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Planning a training session
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Producing an Agenda
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Language issues
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Checklist for planning a training workshop
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Adult learning in a nutshell
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THE INTRODUCTORY SESSION
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Topic A :Introducing everyone
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Topic B : Expectation sharing
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Topic C: Setting House-Rules
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FRAMING THE DISCUSSION ABOUT HOUSING RIGHTS
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Topic A : What do we mean when we say the Right to ADEQUATE Housing?
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Topic B : Facts and Fiction - What do you think about housing rights?
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Topic C : What is the Housing Rights Situation in your Country?
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Topic D : Why Take a Rights-Based Approach to Housing Rights?
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HOUSING RIGHTS ARE ESC RIGHTS
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Topic A : Foundation Documents and the Interdependence and Indivisibility of Human
Rights
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BENFICIARIES OF HOUSING RIGHTS
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HOUSING RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
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Topic A : Key Legal Sources on International Housing Rights Law
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Topic B : The contents of housing rights
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OBLIGATIONS OF THE STATE
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THE JUSTICABILITY OF HOUSING RIGHTS
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VIOLATIONS OF HOUSING RIGHTS
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Topic A: Who are Housing Rights Violators?
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Topic B : Acts of Omission and Commission
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FORCED EVICTIONS
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Topic A: Understanding forced evictions
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Topic B : Strategising around forced evictions
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NON-JUDICIAL STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING HOUSING RIGHTS
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Topic A: Housing rights strategies that work
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TOPIC B: Monitoring and fact-finding
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USING THE UN COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS 70
Topic A : Overview of how the committee can be used
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Topic B : Using the Committee
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EVALUATING THE TRAINING PROGRAMME
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Daily evaluation of the programme
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Improving your own training skills
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Recording the process you use
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EVALUATION OF COHRE HOUSING RIGHTS TRAINING PROGRAMME
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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING HOUSING RIGHTS ISSUES
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A process for a one-day workshop, based on one case study
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Miscellaneous activities
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A short and simple way to cover the right to housing (2 hours)
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TIPS FOR TRAINERS
Legal Rights and Citizen Education Programs: lessons learned
From: VeneKlasen, L and Miller, V A New Weave of Power, People and Politics, Pact, 2002, pg 86
A wide variety of legal and civic education programs exist worldwide with mixed impact. The low success rate of many of these programs often has to do with the program's emphasis on information as the key to empowerment. Such programs typically provide pamphlets, leaflets, flyers and brief talks that simplify legal information or describe how the political process works. While information is essential for people to exercise their rights and participate effectively, it is not only lack of information that keeps women, poor people and other marginalised groups from exercising their rights. Information alone will not make people feel they have rights.
Some of the reasons that information-centred education programmes fail to reach people who need them are: ? There is no clear link between the information about laws, rights and government
procedures and the concrete problems people face daily ? Delivery of information that treats citizens as passive recipients can reinforce the
perception that the law, rights and government are too complicated and not intended for people like them. In places with low literacy levels, written materials reach very few people.
Making expert information simple is not enough. The more important task is making knowledge relevant to people's needs and experience so it can help them solve problems and improve their lives. Most people do not see the world through a legal or human rights lens. Making rights and citizenship real means starting with everyday problems and then making the connection to rights.
Tips for developing effective citizenship and legal rights education programs include: ? Know your audience: Assess their needs, talents, knowledge and interests before
designing materials and workshops ? Be problem-centred, not information centred. For example, instead of starting by
explaining laws and rights, begin by having people analyse common problems. Only then, introduce discussion of the laws and rights linked to those problems... ? Let learners define concepts in their own terms. What is democratic governance? What are rights? What is citizenship?... ? Link new information to problem-solving and daily experience. The format of discussion can begin with analysis of problems, and continue with new information prior to deciding on action. ? Distribute written materials at discussions, street theatre, or other media programmes to give people something to help them remember ? Incorporate action planning as the final step of legal and civic education. "What are we as a group going to do with this information? "What are individuals going to do next?" "How can we use this information to address this problem and exercise our basic rights?
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