LESSON
Lesson Learned: Human Rights Education for the Police
The Department for Educational and Methodological Matters of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kazakhstan – who were a partner of the grantee - submitted an application for approval of the new, mandatory, human rights training for police academies to the Ministry of Education upon completion of the Human Rights Training manual drafting process. At the time of the evaluation visit still no launch date had been secured and almost 2,600 training manual copies were on the shelf. With plans for future training, review and production of new training manuals yet to be confirmed - to keep pace with national legislative developments - there is a serious risk that knowledge will be lost and that existing course material becomes out of date.
Project Name
Project Partner
Kazakh International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law
Project Description
Aiming to improve human rights protection of citizens in Kazakhstan, the project developed a human rights education course for introduction into the curricula of Kazakh institutions training future police officers. The project involved training staff involved in educating police recruits. Outputs aimed to ensure that graduates from this human rights training programme exercise their functions taking into account international human rights standards. However, the project's ultimate impact - the mandatory introduction of human rights training into the police academies' curriculum - remained unachieved.
Report
Evaluation Date
May 2012
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