Kenya: Training of Trainers in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

The Coalition for Peace in Africa (COPA) will in the period 23^rd to 27^th November 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya facilitate a training for trainers course in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Preference will be given to those already doing actual trainings, practitioners who are keen to become trainers and persons who have undergone some training in peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

Specific areas of focus;

1. Understanding needs assessments of organizations
2. Introduction to Adult learning
3. Exploring the roles of a facilitator/trainer
4. Communication skills that enhance inclusion and respect
5. Designing a training curriculum
6. Facilitation skills and techniques
7. Exploring how learning for change takes place /Evaluating a training programme

The expectations are that the training will enhance participants skills and knowledge to design coherent trainings, engage in actual facilitation and later assess to determine if they have resulted in desired change.

The training will be facilitated by Simon Fisher of the United Kingdom and Tecla Wanjala of Kenya. Simon is a widely respected conflict transformation specialist and academic with extensive global experience. He is a facilitator, writer, educator and trainer who has worked in over 40 countries over the past 25 years. He has spent many years living and working in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia supporting action for change. In 1991 he founded Responding to Conflict (RTC), an internationally renowned education and training organization based in Birmingham, UK, which continues to train policy makers, academics and practitioners from all over the world. Simon has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford and holds a PhD from Oxford Brookes University, where he currently lectures in the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP). He also teaches at universities in Zimbabwe and Cambodia.

Tecla is the former Vice Chair of Kenya’s Truth, Justice & Reconciliation Commission (2008-2012). Her peacebuilding career in the continent spans over a period of 20 years. In 2005, she was among the 1000 PeaceWomen around the Globe who were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.She has a Ph. D. In Peace & Conflict Studies from Masinde Muliro University in Kenya and an MA in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 2003. During her career Tecla has participated in negotiations and trainings in Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia.

The training charges are US$1500 to cover tuition, full board accommodation, certificate of participation and airport pickups and drop offs(where applicable). Those wishing to make their own accommodation arrangements will be charged $1000.

Kindly find attached the training prospectus and application form. If you need further clarification, please write to copa@copafrica.org /martha@copafrica.org

Filled in applications should be sent by email to martha@copafrica.org or to copa@copafrica.org