LITE-Africa's VPs Program Updates

[Fatima Barry]

Dear All,

Please find below a few updates on LITE-Africa's work around the VPs. It would be great to hear some of the work that others are doing or plan on doing. Looking forward to reading from all of you.

Best regards,

Fatima Barry
Adviser, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships
LITE-Africa
fat...@nidprodev.org
www.lite-africa.org

LITE-Africa's VPs  Program Updates

LITE-Africa commences a training program on VPs for Security Forces (Police and Military) CSOs and Community Vigilantes in the Niger Delta.

With funding from National Endowment for Democracy (NED), LITE Africa is implementing a one-year human rights project targeting security sector forces, community vigilantes, and CSOs in the Niger Delta region. This intervention seeks to incorporate a human rights perspective in the current quest for national security by providing members of the JTF with a comprehensive understanding of both their rights and responsibilities as they relate to human rights.  This training witnessed the participation of members of the Military Joint Task Force (JTF), the police and community vigilantes from oil producing communities.  The participants are expected to be introduced to sessions on Human Rights, Voluntary Principles, relevant local and international Human Rights treaties, constitutional provisions on Human Rights to enable them to perform their duties, while respecting human dignity.   A total of 30 participants are expected be certified as Human Rights trainers at the end of the training and they are expected to share what they have learned with their colleagues and community members. One of the outcomes of this project is to establish a Human Rights Desk across three law enforcement commands- 31 Battalion, Effurun Barracks, Police Area Command, Warri and Divisional Police Headquarters in Koko, Warri North LGA.

 

LITE-Africa partners with Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) on Pipeline Facilities Surveillance Program- PFSP

The PFSP is a capacity building programme focusing on educating community members who provide security on oil pipelines in CNL facilities as well security forces in areas such as Leadership, Conflict Management, the Voluntary Principle on Security and Human Rights, and various local and international frameworks on Human Rights and Business such as the UN Global Compact, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.  The first phase of this training which ends on December, 13, 2012 in Warri, Delta State will equip 249 participants with VPs skills and it is expected that a new group of participants will be trained next year. This project is being sponsored by Chevron Nigeria Ltd.

[Abiodun Baiyewu]

Tunde,

 

Please discuss with me.  Think of how this will be useful to our project.

 

Thanks.

 

Abi

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