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Training programmes

TRAINING PROGRAMMES
IDE's expertise in the field of juvenile justice is widely recognized. Many countries or private and public institutions deal with the IDE to set up juvenile justice training courses based on a restorative approach and addressed to all juvenile justice sector actors. 
Moreover, the IDE has also developed a "Juvenile Justice Trainer's Guide", which aims at offering a practical tool adapted to the context of professional trainers in the field of juvenile justice in Senegal. 

CAS JUVENILE JUSTICE

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): Interfaculty Centre for Children's Rights of UNIGE

 

Target group: Professionals working with children and adolescents in conflict or in contact with the law: police officers, prosecutors, judges, lawyers, staff of public and prison institutions, educators, psychologists, doctors (paediatricians, child psychiatrists, etc.), criminologists, migration professionals, actors of non-governmental and international organizations, researchers.

 

Objectives:

- To train professionals in the understanding and implementation of juvenile justice based on a restorative approach;

- To know the different tools and methods of intervention centred on the rights of the child;

- To develop projects and interventions with children in conflict or in contact with the law while respecting the rights of the child.

Language: Spanish

 

Format: Distance learning

 

Diploma obtained: Certificate of Advanced Studies Continuing (CAS) in Juvenile Justice

 

Remarks: More info at:

https://www.unige.ch/cide/fr/formations/formations-distance/cas-en-justice-juvenile/

 

CAS CHILD VICTIMS, CHILD WITNESSES: CHILD'S VOICE IN JUSTICE

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): Interfaculty Centre for Children’s Rights of UNIGE

 

Target group: Professional staff working in the field of the judiciary (members of civil and criminal juvenile courts, specialized prosecutors' offices, specialized registry staff), the bar (lawyers and trainee lawyers), the police (members of police forces, in particular juvenile brigades), child protection (child protection workers, psychologists attached to protection services, protection service lawyers, mediators).

 

Objectives:

- To strengthen the skills of professionals working with children and adolescents, especially children and adolescents who, for various reasons, are involved in the justice or protection system;

- To understand and evaluate the impact of children's rights on professional practices and judicial/administrative interventions;

- To acquire new knowledge in the field of child hearing in the light of the progress made, the protocols put in place and multidisciplinary research;

- To create a network of expertise. 

Language: French

 

Location: Interfaculty Centre for Children’s Rights (CIDE), University of Geneva (Valais Campus), Sion-Bramois, Switzerland

 

Format: Face-to-face

 

Diploma obtained:  Certificate of Advanced Studies Continuing (CAS) Child Victims, Child Witnesses: The Word of the Child in Justice

TRAINING OF TRAINERS IN JUVENILE JUSTICE

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): Directorate of Human Security of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs by the Embassy of Switzerland in Dakar and Centre de formation judiciaire in Dakar (Senegal)

 

Target group: 64 juvenile justice professionals (magistrates, police officers, prison officers, specialized educators, lawyers) from all regions of Senegal

 

Objectives: The general objective of the programme is to improve the training of professionals, taking into account their needs. The specific objectives are:

- The specialization of professionals;

- Learning to "work better together";

- The valorisation of professions related to juvenile justice intervention. 

Language: French

 

Location: Dakar (Senegal) et Sion (Switzerland)

 

Format: Face-to-face, 4 modules of 5 days

 

Diploma obtained: Certificate of attendance

 

Remarks: The project, which started in 2012, covers all regions of Senegal.

TRAINING MODULES ON THE THEME OF JUVENILE JUSTICE

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): Swiss-Bulgarian Cooperation Programme and Minister of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria

 

Target group: actors in the penal chain (magistrates, mediators, lawyers, police officers, social workers, psychologists)

 

Objectives:

- To consolidate the competences of juvenile justice actors,

- To develop knowledge in the field of children's rights and juvenile justice,

- To propose tools for professionals. 

Language: French or English and translated into Bulgarian 

 

Location: Bulgaria and Switzerland 

 

Format: Face-to-face: three modules on juvenile justice, a visit to Switzerland, a specialisation module for lawyers, a module for trainers in juvenile justice, a module on penal mediation of minors and a module on hearing the child

 

Diploma obtained: Certificate of attendance

 

Remarks: The programme started in 2014 with an analysis of the Bulgarian juvenile justice system. 

CAS PROTECTION AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

*Active training 

 

Partner(s): Interfaculty Centre for Children’s Rights of UNIGE and the Institut des droits de l’homme et de la paix de l’UCAD, in Dakar (Senegal)

 

Target group: Professionals in West and Central Africa who work with and for children or who are involved in the defence of children's rights.

 

Objectives: 

- To acquire interdisciplinary, scientifically based theoretical and practical knowledge of children's rights in the fields of law, sociology, pedagogy, psychology, social work, education, public health and ethics;

- To be familiar with tools for assessing the best interests of the child and taking into account his or her views;

- To develop skills to apprehend difficult situations with an approach based on the rights of the child taking into account the economic and socio-cultural context;

- To develop critical reflection on one's own practice, ethics and professional duties and acquire a working methodology;

- To acquire new skills, including networking with an interdisciplinary and interprofessional approach.

Language: French

 

Location: Dakar (Senegal)

 

Format: in attendance and Distance Learning, 4 modules of 5 days each

 

Diploma obtained: Certificate of Continuing Education (CAS) in Child Protection and Children's Rights

 

Remarks: More info at: https://www.unige.ch/formcont/cours/protection-droits-enfant

ACADEMIC TRAINING OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTRE FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS (CIDE) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA (UNIGE)

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): International Child Rights Institute 

 

Target group: Professionals working in the field of children's rights (lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, judges, social workers, state representatives, journalists, researchers).

TRAINING IN PENAL AND CIVIL MEDIATION IN BURKINA FASO

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): Terre des hommes – Helping children wolrdwide

 

Target group:Customary chiefs from the traditional chiefdoms of Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso

 

Objectives:

- To deepen a preliminary training in penal mediation for minors;

- To cross-reference views and practices between prosecutors and mediators in the referral of cases to mediation;

- To analyse, exchange and discuss the implementation of the collaboration mechanism between judicial and community actors as an opportunity to improve juvenile justice.

Language: French, Jula and Mossi

 

Location: Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

 

Format: face-to-face, plenary and workshops

 

Diploma obtained: Attendance certificate

 

Remarks: Report and more information on the website of Terre des hommes - Helping children worldwide 

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO HIGH CONFLICT FAMILY TRANSITIONS

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): Groupement Pro Médiation, Astural, Fédération Genevoise MédiationS, Haute École de Travail Social Geneva

 

Target group: Judicial authorities and child protection professionals

 

Objectives:

- To present interdisciplinary court-managed care arrangements for separating families;

- To reflect on the benefits of interdisciplinary care of family situations involving child protection measures;

- To analyse the different professional postures at play in interdisciplinary systems;

- To strengthen the skills of professionals on the place and well-being of children at the heart of family separations.

Language: French

 

Date & location: 24, 25 and 26 November 2020 in Geneva, Haute école de travail social

 

Format: face-to-face : one conference and two days of training

 

Diploma obtained: see above

 

Remarks: argumentation, programme and GPM registration

REGIONAL ROUND TABLE ON CRIMINAL AND CIVIL MEDIATION PRACTICES FOR CHILDREN

*Inactive training

 

Partner(s): Terre des hommes - Helping children worldwide, Child Relief Foundation and the Mediator of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire

 

Target group: actors of the West African judicial systems and traditional justice actors

 

Objectives:

- To identify, in the national legislations of the participating countries, the mechanisms allowing the implementation of penal and family mediation measures in favour of minors;

- To share experiences and identify good practices in the field of mediation carried out by traditional justice actors (such as traditional chiefs, customary chiefs, religious leaders, heads of families and neighbourhood chiefs) and official justice actors, and to exchange on the relevance of strengthening collaboration between official and traditional mechanisms;

- To identify the limits faced by justice actors in the implementation of mediation measures;

- To stimulate the "rights of the child" reflex, in particular the right to be heard and to have one's opinion duly taken into account, in the implementation of mediation processes;

- To discuss strategies that support the improvement of coordination between the actors of the formal and traditional justice systems in the field of mediation for juveniles;

- To reflect on the establishment of a monitoring mechanism for this new regional community of practice and to promote regular exchanges between the actors present at this round table.

 

 

Language: French

 

 

Location: Grand-Bassam (Ivory Coast)

 

 

Format: Face-to-face

 

 

Diploma obtained: Attendance certificate

 

 

Remarks: Report produced during the regional round table