a) Skills Training

The training helps HRDs and organisations throughout Kenya on issues such monitoring, documenting, socio-economic well being and reporting on human rights violations; how to mobilise resources, including through fund-raising; how to use information and communication technology for their human rights work; and how to use the national, regional and international human rights systems, including through litigation. All these trainings are offered on the basis of HRDs and organisation identifying themselves the need for training and approaching Defenders Coalition to provide for the same. More specifically, the following training are offered.

b) Issue-based Training

In conjunction with the other startegy areas, Defenders Coalition provides training on emerging issues that require rapid and widespread knowledge sharing and mobilization. Topical trainings complement skills trainings by providing HRDs with the opportunity to approach interpret and employ knowledge about specific issues by using a broader range of skills, such as communication and advocacy skills.

c) Security Management Training

Our security management training stems from the recognition that no one organisation can develop the capacity to fully provide for HRDs’ protection needs, and hence that HRDs must play an active role in ensuring their own security. To that end, Defenders Coalition provides both security management training on its own, and makes security management a cross-cutting issue in all the other trainings that it has. In the latter case, we aim to tailor security considerations specifically to the other topics being discussed.