Kenya: Regional livelihoods workshop announcement
The Women's Refugee Commission and the SEEP Network are holding a four-day highly participatory workshop designed to bring practitioners from throughout the region to learn new techniques, share experiences, and collect tools designed to improve practice on the ground. Participants should be able and willing to read the Minimum Standards for Economic Recovery after Crisis. A participatory discussion will be held before the workshops on the scope and concepts presented in the aforementioned publication.
Regional Livelihoods Workshop Announcement
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WHAT: A workshop for UN, international and local NGO staff working on economic and gender-based violence programs (enterprise development, vocational training, skills development, micro-finance, agriculture, cash and food for work programs, etc) with displaced and returning populations.
WHEN: June 23-26, 2009
WHERE: Nairobi, Kenya
WHO: UN and NGO economic programming managers and practitioners from throughout the West Africa region working with displaced and returning populations. The workshop will be limited to 35 participants.
The Women's Refugee Commission and the SEEP Network are holding a four-day highly participatory workshop designed to bring practitioners from throughout the region to learn new techniques, share experiences, and collect tools designed to improve practice on the ground. Participants should be able and willing to read the Minimum Standards for Economic Recovery after Crisis. A participatory discussion will be held before the workshops on the scope and concepts presented in the aforementioned publication. Two days of the workshop will focus on findings from the Women’s Refugee Commission’s three-year research project on livelihoods in refugee, IDP, and returnee settings and will include practice sessions on usage of the newly released Livelihoods Field Manual. A third day of the workshop will cover findings on the Commission’s project on livelihoods as a tool of protection against gender-based violence and how GBV and livelihood programs should complement each other to better protect women. The SEEP Network will conduct the final day of the workshop to introduce practitioners to SEEP’s Minimum Standards for Economic Recovery after Crisis, developed as a potential companion to the SPHERE Minimum Standards handbook. This workshop will familiarize participants with and collect in-depth feedback on the Standards.
Deadline for application: May 30, 2009
For participant criteria please see attached. Participants will be required to cover their own travel expenses. Meals and materials will be provided. Participants attending from local NGOs can apply for financial assistance for partial coverage of travel and hotel expenses. Please ask for a Financial Assistance Request Form.
To request an application or for any questions, please contact Sonali at
[email][email protected]