Annual Report - Palestinian Center for Human Rights

Activities as Set out in 2005 Annual Plan
1) Provision of training courses on human rights, democracy, the rule of law and the
independence of the judiciary.
2) Training PCHR staff members on human rights and democracy.
3) Maintaining contacts with trainees and establishing an alumni organization.
4) Maintaining relations with civil society organizations through training activities.
1) Provision of Training Courses on Human Rights, Democracy, the Rule of
Law and the Independence of the Judiciary
This activity includes a number of sub-activities that target different groups. The unit
made slight changes to these sub-activities to meet the new political, security and field
developments in 2005.
In 2005, the unit organized 27 training courses instead of 18 as set out in the plan for
this activity. The number of participants in these courses was 758, 49% of whom
were women.
The unit adopted a number of means to evaluate the effectiveness of training courses:
• Holding meetings with participants at the beginning of each course in order to
identify their expectations and meetings at the end of each course in order to
measure to what extent these expectations are realized and to allow participants to
make suggestions.
• Preparing a questionnaire for each lecture at training courses.
• Notes of the unit head on the behavior of participants during each course which
last for 5-7 days.
• The participants' initiatives at the end of a training course.
Effects of training were similar for the first three means of verification, but differed in
the fourth means of verification. Similar effects are shown together in the table
below, while the fourth indicator will be detailed separately for each sub-activity.
Similar Effects of Training
No. Means of Verification Effect
1. Comparison between the
participants' expectations at the
beginning of training courses
and the outcome and
suggestions and at the end of
the courses
The participants identified the following
expectations at the beginning of the course:
• Acquiring new information on human
rights and international humanitarian law.
• Acquiring knowledge about the role of
religions, particularly Islam, in the
modern human rights system.
• Acquiring information on human rights
teaching methods at schools.
• Making new contacts.
• Comparing the status of Palestinian
women with CEDAW.
• Acquiring information on the role of
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