The Altus
Global Alliance and CLEEN Foundation are organizing a week long capacity building
regional training on “Tools for Monitoring and
Advocacy on Security Sector Governance in West Africa”.
The training is designed for civil society organizations in West Africa to
respond to the rising trend of violent conflicts and its attendant threats to
regional security and security sector governance within the sub-region.
Currently,
the sub-region still presents singular combination of some of the poorest
states in the world with widespread security challenges in the form of
recurring violent conflicts (Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea), long-standing
authoritarian regimes (Gambia, Burkina Faso and Guinea) and several types of
illegal activities including proliferation of small weapons (Niger, Chad,
Nigeria, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone), terrorism, trafficking in persons,
money laundering and drug trafficking (Nigeria, Togo, Equatorial Guinea and
Mali) which thrive on the conflict situations, making it more challenging to
address. As part of efforts to increase civil society involvement, oversight
and monitoring of security sector governance across the sub-region; this
training is developed to provide tools for monitoring and advocacy on
governance of security for civil society groups and NGOs in West Africa. The
training is intended to:
- - Increase beneficiaries’ knowledge on concepts, issues, strategies and good practices in Human Rights monitoring of security institutions, advocacy and reporting;
- - Enhance the depth of their knowledge in governance, security sector reform, conflict prevention and management, demilitarization in West Africa and;
- - Network them with civil society actors and other strategic partners in supporting governance, security sector reform, monitoring and advocacy activities in West Africa.
Participants
at the training draw from experts and civil society knowledgeable on the issues
in discourse within the continent. Specifically, trainees comprise of program
officers and other senior personnel from civil society groups involved in
conflict management, human rights advocacy, conflicts and violence prevention,
security sector governance reform and demilitarization in Africa.
At
the end of the training, participants will develop action plan on how they
intend to use lessons learnt at the training in their respective countries to
monitor and advocate on security sector governance.
The
training and other activities under the Altus Regional Project titled
“Responding to Conflicts and Security Governance in West Africa” are carried
out with the funding support of Ford Foundation.
Altus
works to improve public safety, security and justice in countries around the
world, bringing empirical and multi-cultural perspectives to that work and
promoting greater participation of civil society in security and justice
reform. Altus places emphasis on accountability of security forces in domestic
and regional justice systems.
Signed
Kemi Okenyodo
Director
Altus/CLEEN Foundation
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