SENEGAL TRAINING ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS FOR SECURITY FORCES

BRIEF PROJECT HISTORY: Police officers and constables in Senegal were provided with training on children’s rights and child protection in the hopes that these courses will be permanently included into the programmes offered by the country’s various police schools. In 2012, joint efforts between UNICEF, Save the Children International, and police and constable schools, along with technical support from the IBCR, enabled the assessment of current security forces training on children’s rights. In addition, two training toolkits – one for the basic training of new recruits and the other for specialised training – were developed for staff that will be working directly with children.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Provided training to instructors on the basic elements of the specialised training toolkit in 2015 The purpose of this 12day workshop was to create a group of certified instructors and reinforce the capabilities of police and constable schools so that they can subsequently hold the course on children’s rights in an autonomous and permanent way

PARTNERS: Save the Children International, UNICEF, Department of the Interior and Public Security, Department of Armed Forces, Senegalese police and constable training schools .

Our Committed Partners

“Between February 1 and February 12, 2016, a seminar was held in Saly to build upon the capacities of security forces with regards to children’s rights For two weeks, the International Bureau for Children’s Rights and Save the Children enabled us to increase our knowledge, be better equipped to interact with children, specifically during hearings that are part of our police and constable procedures, should these children be in danger, be victims, witnesses or in conflict with the law In short, this seminar will help us take into account the child’s best interests during our proceedings ”