TRAINING ON THE UNDROP – SESSION 3 “CONCRETE CASES” AND 4 “TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTATION”

La Via Campesina and CETIM have organized a training course for La Via Campesina members in August 2023, and are now making training materials available to all. This material is also available in PDF version here for session 3 and here for session 4.

Following the first two individual and self-training sessions, interactive sessions 3 and 4 are designed to give concrete form to the theoretical context that has been discussed previously. Session 3 will involve collective discussion of concrete cases of violations of peasants’ rights presented by the participants. In session 4, the discussions will focus on how rural organisations can work to put an end to violations, on the implementation of UNDROP and on the tools they can use. Existing and future promotion and implementation efforts and strategies will also be discussed.

Objectives of Session 3 Concrete cases of violations”: During this session, participants will present cases of violations of their rights in their countries/regions and collectively identify the rights that have been violated.

Methodology: Division into working groups (4-5 people maximum). After presenting the cases, the participants will discuss them collectively with the aim of identifying the rights in the Declaration affected by the violations in each case. After these presentations and discussions, they will return to the plenary to present the different cases and discuss them with everyone.

Guiding questions: What problems do you encounter in your daily life? What kind of violatations are you confronted to? Who committed these violations? How did it happen? What are you doing about it?

Objectives of Session 4 “Tools and Implementation“: Development of training, monitoring and advocacy tools to support activities and strategies at national, regional and international levels. Elaboration of an implementation action plan for countries/regions, developed by and for the participants and their respective organizations.

Methodology: Watch the videos and read the training sheets in order to start elaborating a strategy plan for the implementation of UNDROP in your context.

Training videos

• Aspects and general elements of an implementation process (Raffaele Morgantini, CETIM).
  

• Presentation of a fundamental tool for the promotion and implementation of the UNDROP: The website “Defending Peasant Rights” (Coline Hubert, coordinator and editor of the website)

Training sheets

• Cetim’s training sheet n°12 Strategies for implementation
• Research brief of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights “The implementation of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas”