CAPACITY BUILDING FOR PROTECTION

The ProCap (Standby Protection Capacity) initiative has been developed to address a critical need for qualified, experienced standby protection personnel. ProCap seeks to strengthen existing standby arrangements by increasing the number of qualified protection personnel available for short-term missions, enhance the protection capacity within NGO standby rosters, expand the linguistic and cultural diversity of roster members, and improve the quality of temporary protection personnel through additional and comprehensive training. The value of ProCap lies in enhancing protection work at field level by contributing to an inter-agency approach and protection competencies within partner agencies.

ProCap Online provides senior protection officers, standby experts and the entire community of practice with an added opportunity to build on capacity, offering access to a wide range of protection practitioners' resources in the online library. The senior ProCap officers and the standby protection experts will have access to a private discussion forum, or ProForum, where these protection officers can benefit from each others' experience.

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP FOR SENIOR PROTECTION OFFICERS, John Knox Centre, Geneva, 22 September - 25 September 2008

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TRAINING

Standby Protection Experts
In affiliation with IASC partners, OCHA delivers an intensive training programme for Standby or Tier II protection experts on the partners' rosters. The standby training includes three sessions per year, each for roughly 20 participants. The principal components of the training package revolve around the concept and purpose of protection, and the activities protection and human rights monitoring often entails. Future ProCap personnel are introduced to recognized principles and experience-based methodologies for human rights monitoring and reporting in the field, child-specific human rights instruments and the particular challenges related to child protection in emergencies. Simulation exercises and case studies underline the practical requirements of Tier II protection officers.
Agency-specific induction will be included in the course to increase familiarity with the internal procedures and structures of the UN system.

In future, participants in the Standby Protection Training programme who successfully complete the course will be issued with a ProCap Training Certificate. In conjunction with the UN Staff College in Turin ProCap is developing a Certification process whereby successful participants in the Standby Protection Training programme will receive a qualification beyond a simple certificate of attendance and Agencies taking on these experts will have a clear indication of the level of competence of ProCap standby protection officers.

Senior Protection Officers
Technical Workshop: a facilitated review process with senior protection officers will take place in Nairobi in November 2006 in advance of the Standby Protection Experts' training event. This 2-day consultative workshop will enable SPOs to share experience, lessons learned and best practices. It may be complemented with training elements that further enhance the capacity of core team personnel. It is hoped that conclusions drawn at the technical workshop will further inform ongoing analysis and policy development at global level. Selected Core Team personnel will, furthermore, bring their experience and knowledge to the planned training workshops for Protection Standby Experts (Tier II).

Additional facilities which could be developed on this page:

Registration

• E-mail notification of course dates
• Online individual participant registration, with forms signed by seconding agency as confirmation of eligibility/or only involve standby partner managers in application process, rather than individuals.
  

Background materials

• Curricula or course outline for regular and upcoming courses, workshops.
• Summary of purpose of any meetings posted.
• Course materials, documents for reading prior to workshops, meetings.
  

E-learning

• Eventually, provide online training modules where suitable.