At the university, approximately 600 influential people with a background in school and education issues have been trained in how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) can be implemented in daily school work. The participants come from 16 different networks in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
- The networks have been extremely important in allowing the work with the CRC to continue to develop after the four weeks of the course in Lund were over, says Per Wickenberg, one of the initiators of the Child Rights Institute.
Supported by the funding from SIDA and experts from Lund University, participants in the networks will receive specialised training to pursue their development work. While they are in Lund, they will develop a learning platform to facilitate the networks’ CRC work. The money will also be used to enable participants to conduct national workshops and make business trips within the network.
- Last spring we asked the networks for ways in which Lund University could continue to support them in their work and it was the participants themselves who thought that this was a good way, says Per Wickenberg.
Text: Ulrika Oredsson
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