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ICESCR Training Guide - Getting Started / Introductions

Facilitator Overview

Introduction

  1. When participants arrive, introduce yourself briefly and provide them with prepared name cards.
  2. When it is time to start, introduce yourself more fully explaining: your background, how you became involved in the project and what made you want to become engaged in this area.
  3. Review housekeeping items including the location of washrooms, elevators and stairways, parking areas and transit locations.
  4. Give the training guides to participants. Explain how the guide and materials will be used during the training as well as the format of the guide and any accommodations that will be provided.

Description

  • Training Schedule: Show participants the training schedule briefly reviewing the activities of the next two days and answering any questions people might have.
  • Introductory Information: Use the information provided to introduce what D.R.P.I. is and why human rights are central to improving the lives of people with disabilities.
  • Program Goals and Objectives: Outline the goals and objectives of this two day training as provided.
  • Individual Introductions: Using the questions provided ask participants to introduce themselves to the group.

Time: 60 minutes

Participant Overview: Getting Started / Introductions

Objectives

To introduce everyone to each other and find out what will happen over the two days of the training.

Description

  • Training Schedule: A training schedule briefly outlining the activities of the next two days
  • Introductory Information: An introduction to DRPI and why human rights are central to improving the lives of people with disabilities
  • Program Goals and Objectives: The goals and objectives of this two day training
  • Individual Introductions

Time: 60 minutes

Training Schedule

Dates:

Day 1 Activities and the time associated with each
Time Activity
60 min Getting Started / Introductions
60 min Human Rights and Disability
45 min International Human Rights Instruments
60 min Lunch Break
15 min Introduction to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
90 min Social Rights
20 min Break
80 min Economic Rights
80 min Dinner
Day 2 Activities and time associated with each
Time Activity
80 min Cultural Rights
60 min Human Rights Monitoring
60 min Domestic and International Monitoring Mechanisms
60 min Lunch Break
60 min Break-out Group Activity and Reporting
60 min Final Discussion

Note
These timelines are only suggestions. You can change them based on the knowledge of the group and other factors.

Introductory Information

This guide was prepared by Disability Rights Promotion International Canada (DRPI Canada.). DRPI is a project working with people with disabilities, their organizations and allies, to build a sustainable global disability rights monitoring system.

The lives of people with disabilities are changing. Around the world, people are beginning to understand that disability is a human rights issue. People with disabilities and their families should enjoy the same rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural – as everyone else.

Governments of countries around the world are signing on to and ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is now time to make sure that the rights guaranteed to people with disabilities on paper are enjoyed in reality. Understanding the individual human rights of people with disabilities will help to secure that goal. This guide, along with the training program it supports, will help to provide the tools needed to influence social change and raise awareness in these areas. Participants will be able to review their own roles in the promotion of Economic, Social and Cultural rights and work towards developing strategies to put these rights to use.

South Asian people stand shoulder to shoulder and hold hands with their arms raised over their heads

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history…
- Mahatma Gandhi

Program Goals and Objectives

Goals

The goal of this training program is to give participants the opportunity to share and build knowledge and skills surrounding economic, social and cultural rights for people with disabilities. Based on this training, Canadians, with and without disabilities, will have the tools to influence social change, to raise awareness about human rights issues and to make informed decisions in their own lives.

Objectives

To enable participants to:

  • Understand disability as a human rights issue
  • Address issues of disadvantage and inequality for people with disabilities based on economic, social and cultural rights
  • Look at why these rights are important to people with disabilities
  • Create effective knowledge in the community to be passed on, working towards a culture where rights are understood, valued and upheld by all citizens
  • Gain the skills to respond sensitively to the experiences and living conditions of people with disabilities
  • Build solidarity with other participants and people in the community who are interested in disability rights

Individual Introductions

As part of the introductions, you will be asked to share your answers to the following questions with the group:

  1. What is your name?
  2. What has brought you to this training? What you hope to get out of the training?
  3. Who is someone in your life who has inspired you? Why?
  4. What do human rights mean to you?

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