Training Materials for Use in Your Organisation

Resource person: Marina Sharpe

Reach Out Refugee Protection Training Project (Arabic, French, Spanish and English)

www.icva.ch/doc00001527.html

The Reach Out Refugee Protection Training Project was initiated in 2001 by NGOs and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement in collaboration with UNHCR in order to train humanitarian staff in the basics of refugee protection. The Project grew out of the Reach Out process initiated by UNHCR in 1997. The Project developed materials around the Protecting Refugees: A Field Guide for NGOs (1999) and, subsequently, trainings have been delivered around the world to field-based humanitarian staff.

The Reach Out Refugee Protection Training Kit provides a solid set of training materials on basic refugee protection, as well as providing an option module on internally displaced persons (IDPs). The materials have been improved in 2005, building on the experience gained over the life of this inter-agency project (2001-2005). The debates on protection have evolved considerably since the creation of Reach Out. This revised set of training materials reflects many of those debates and includes additions of new modules to better serve humanitarian staff. The Training Kit was developed in consultation with a wide range of humanitarian actors and will provide an important contribution to the humanitarian community's ability to better protect refugees.

The Project itself closed on 30 November 2005, leaving behind materials for use by humanitarian and human rights agencies to use and incorporate into their own training programmes and work.