Monitoring and evaluation of human rights education – piloting of a toolkit
Monitoring and evaluation are indispensable to all human rights education initiatives. It helps us understand our human rights education work and what impact it has. To make this work easier the International Human Rights Education Centre (IHREC) is piloting a new toolkit.
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29. nov 2011, kl. 15:09
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16. des 2011, kl. 10:37
To systematically assess the impact of human rights education work, it is necessary to have tools for monitoring and evaluation on the field. These tools need to be accessible and easy to adapt and implement.
In this context, a toolkit titled ‘Learning from our Experience’ for human rights education monitoring and evaluation was produced as a practical resource for anyone undertaking Amnesty International human rights education projects and programmes.
The IHREC project is concentrating on piloting this toolkit in three different projects. These projects are in AI Ireland (formal education and teacher training), the Education for Human Dignity project and in particular AI Italy (development-testing of educational materials), and four countries of the Africa human rights education project (micro projects in non formal education).
Education for Human Dignity workshop
In September 2011, the IHREC attended and supported a monitoring and evaluation workshop of the Education for Human Dignity project in Palermo, Italy. The workshop brought together the project partners from AI Italy, AI Slovenia and AI Poland together with multipliers from each of these countries and the International Secretariat (IS) Human Rights Education Team.
Within the meeting, a monitoring and evaluation plan of the overall project was drafted and concrete tools were developed to support the plan. The Learning from our Experience toolkit was used in the development of the workshop and more specifically with the concrete tools that were developed there. Consequent feedback concerning the usefulness of the toolkit will be expected from each of the project partners as the project continues.
Human rights education with teachers
AI Ireland has already started the piloting of the toolkit and the IHREC visited them in October, 2011 to support the process and gather feedback. The visit enabled the human rights education team in AI Ireland to address the question of evaluation in their human rights education programmes more thoroughly.
Going through a process of detailing – ‘Why, What, When, How and Who’ evaluates, brought about an opportunity to create a plan for the continued monitoring and evaluation of their teacher training programme. The key learning from the visit was to try and simplify evaluation tools and methods as much as possible in order to gather only the information that is necessary and useful.
Africa human rights education project – micro projects in non formal education
The toolkit is currently being used and tested in four countries as part of the Africa human rights education project. County coordinators in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Uganda Burkina, Ghana are adapting the concepts and tools available to micro projects that are being implemented in non formal education.
Feedback from all the micro projects are being collated at the National Coordinators Meeting in Dakar, Senegal, at the beginning of December 2011.
In this context, a toolkit titled ‘Learning from our Experience’ for human rights education monitoring and evaluation was produced as a practical resource for anyone undertaking Amnesty International human rights education projects and programmes.
The IHREC project is concentrating on piloting this toolkit in three different projects. These projects are in AI Ireland (formal education and teacher training), the Education for Human Dignity project and in particular AI Italy (development-testing of educational materials), and four countries of the Africa human rights education project (micro projects in non formal education).
Education for Human Dignity workshop
In September 2011, the IHREC attended and supported a monitoring and evaluation workshop of the Education for Human Dignity project in Palermo, Italy. The workshop brought together the project partners from AI Italy, AI Slovenia and AI Poland together with multipliers from each of these countries and the International Secretariat (IS) Human Rights Education Team.
Within the meeting, a monitoring and evaluation plan of the overall project was drafted and concrete tools were developed to support the plan. The Learning from our Experience toolkit was used in the development of the workshop and more specifically with the concrete tools that were developed there. Consequent feedback concerning the usefulness of the toolkit will be expected from each of the project partners as the project continues.
Human rights education with teachers
AI Ireland has already started the piloting of the toolkit and the IHREC visited them in October, 2011 to support the process and gather feedback. The visit enabled the human rights education team in AI Ireland to address the question of evaluation in their human rights education programmes more thoroughly.
Going through a process of detailing – ‘Why, What, When, How and Who’ evaluates, brought about an opportunity to create a plan for the continued monitoring and evaluation of their teacher training programme. The key learning from the visit was to try and simplify evaluation tools and methods as much as possible in order to gather only the information that is necessary and useful.
Africa human rights education project – micro projects in non formal education
The toolkit is currently being used and tested in four countries as part of the Africa human rights education project. County coordinators in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Uganda Burkina, Ghana are adapting the concepts and tools available to micro projects that are being implemented in non formal education.
Feedback from all the micro projects are being collated at the National Coordinators Meeting in Dakar, Senegal, at the beginning of December 2011.