21- October

 

Afternoon

Registration and welcome

 

 

 

18:00

Optional dinner

 

 

Day 1, 22- October

 

 

9:00

Registration

 

 

9:15

Introductions

 

 

9:30

Situating this meeting

 

Jonathan Cohen

 

 

 

LAHI has a history of training lawyers and human rights advocates on specific health issues, and on strategies such as human rights documentation and strategic litigation

 

Examples include: Practitioners’ Guide project; work with law clinics; Health and Human Rights Resource Guide; integrating health and legal services; etc.

 

There is increasing demand to provide human rights training to health providers as a complement to this strategy

 

However, LAHI lacks the experience or expertise with reaching out to this audience or evaluating proposals to do so

 

For LAHI, the ultimate goal of such training must be a reduction of human rights abuses against specific patient groups, i.e. people living with HIV, people needing palliative care, LGBT communities, sex workers, IDUs, and Roma

 

 

 

Goals of the meeting

 

1. To be better prepared to evaluate funding proposals for human rights trainings of health providers and to design our own initiatives in this area

 

2. To expand our network of external experts who can assist us in these efforts

 

 

 

Overview of the agenda

 

Tamar Ezer

 

 

 

Plenary discussion: Can Training Change Practice?

 

 

 

Break-out groups: Mapping different approaches to “training”

 

 

 

Exercise I: Practicing evaluating a sample proposal

 

 

 

Exercise II: Designing the 2009 LAHI Salzburg Seminar

 

 

10:30

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00

Plenary Panel:  Can Training Change Practice?

 

Moderator: Jonathan Cohen

 

 

 

Session description: The goal of this session is to identify do’s and don’ts for ensuring that human-rights training actually changes the behavior and practice of health providers.  Panelists will answer the following questions in relation to human rights trainings they have conducted:

 

 

 

What change in behavior or practice did you seek through training?

 

How did you set about accomplishing this?

 

What sustained or derailed this effort?

 

If it did not work, why not?

 

What would you have done differently?

 

Any indications of success?

12:45

Lunch

 

 

14:00

Introduction to afternoon exercise

 

Jonathan Cohen

 

 

14:30

Break-outs:  Mapping “trainings” by audience and training type

 

 

 

Session description: The goal of this session is to produce a collection of successful models for training of health providers, according to two categories: (1) the audience being trained (health workers or health managers), and the type of training (awareness-raising, skills-building, or knowledge-development).  Using a grid, participants will discuss good models in break-out groups and then present them in plenary.  For each model, participants will discuss the following questions:

 

 

 

Where on the grid is this training best situated?

 

 

 

What was the goal of the training?

 

 

 

Who was the audience for the training, and why?

 

 

 

What were the learning objectives?  Did the training focus on raising awareness, imparting knowledge, or teaching skills?

 

 

 

What was the training methodology?  What materials did the training use?

 

 

 

What if any were the measurements of success for this training?

 

 

16:00

Coffee break

 

 

16:30

Reports backs and discussion

 

Joanna Erdman

 

 

17:30

Introduction to next day’s sample proposal exercise

 

Tamar Ezer

 

 

18:30

Group dinner

 

 

Day 2, 23- October

 

 

9:00

Overview of the Day

 

 

 

Jonathan Cohen, Tamar Ezer

 

 

9:15

Exercise I: Group review of sample proposal

 

 

 

Session description: The goal of this session is to develop and apply a framework for evaluating funding proposals for human rights training of health providers.  In two groups, participants will evaluate a sample proposal according to the questions below.  They will then compare their evaluations in plenary discussion.

 

 

 

Does the proposal identify a clear goal?  If so, what is the purpose behind the training?

 

What if any are the learning objectives?  Does the training focus on raising awareness, imparting knowledge, or teaching skills?

 

What if any is the training methodology?  What materials does the training use?

 

What if any are the measurements of success for this training?

 

What are the strengths of the proposal?

 

What are the weaknesses of the proposal?

 

Would you recommend funding this proposal?  Why or why not?

 

 

9:45

Report backs and discussion

 

Liesl Gerntholtz

 

 

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

10:45

Exercise II: Designing the 2009 LAHI Salzburg Seminar

 

 

 

Session description: The goal of this session is to practice designing a human rights training for health providers by designing, in small groups, three options for LAHI’s 2009 Salzburg Seminar.

 

 

 

Overview and description of Salzburg Seminar

 

Tamar Ezer

 

 

 

March 23-27, 2009 in Salzburg, Austria

 

 

 

Can have up to 35 participants:  5 country teams of up to 7 people

 

 

11:00

Groups to develop each Salzburg Seminar concept

 

 

 

For the identified training goal:

 

What audience might you target for the Salzburg Seminar?  What health providers would you involve?

 

What might be the learning objectives?

 

What methodologies might you use?  What materials might be necessary?

 

What might be the follow up?

 

What might be the measurements of success?

 

 

12:00

Report backs and discussion

 

Tamar Ezer

 

 

12:00

Closing remarks

 

Jonathan Cohen

 

 

13:00

Optional lunch

 

 

18:00

Optional buffet dinner