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First of the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) training workshops on Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) Protection was held in Ankara on 8-9 June 2006 with 35 participants from 25 NGOs. The participating NGOs are working in the field of human rights, legal issues and service-delivery for the IDPs. UNHCR also participated in the workshop as observer. The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation working group on IDPs was also represented at the workshop and shared insights on the recent developments in national IDP response. Conducted by the facilitation of two trainers from the Norwegian Refugee Council/Internally Displaced Monitoring Center (NRC/IDMC), namely Christophe Beau and Kim Mancini, the training covered the following topics:
• Who is an Internally Displaced Person?
• Testimonies: Who is an IDP?
• The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: General Presentation
• The Guiding Principles: Legal Origins and International Obligations
• Protection from displacement
• Protection during displacement
The next step in these trainings will be a training of trainer workshop which will be followed by the preparation of a one-day training module on IDP protection.
Global experience on internal displacement highlights that ensuring a voice for civil society and active engagement by NGOs in IDP return and integration processes is vital for rights-based durable solutions to the problems of IDPs... The UNDP’s work on supporting the development of a national IDP response program is therefore equally focused on capacity building for the civil society and on supporting platforms for the voice of civil society to impact government policy.
For more information, please click: http://www.undp.org.tr/undp/IDP.asp
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