Call for Applications: Training ahead of the African Commission’s 89th Session – YOA

Deadline: July 26, 2026

Are you a civil society actor, a consultant from an African civil society organisation or a world organisation from or engaged on Africa? If so, apply for the Training ahead of the African Commission’s 89th session. DefendDefenders, Front Line Defenders and ISHR are organising an in-individual coaching to equip African defenders with the information and expertise to combine the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights into their current work at the nationwide degree in a strategic method.

The coaching goals to offer an OPPORTUNITY for contributors to arrange for and have interaction in advocacy actions at the ACHPR in an effort to push for change again home at the nationwide degree. The coaching might be preceded by two necessary preparatory classes on-line. The coaching consists of two and a half days of studying classes and workshops, and consists of lively attendance to the three-day NGO Forum, organised by the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) and to the first day of the ACHPR’s 89th session.

During this coaching contributors will:

• Learn extra about the work of the ACHPR and easy methods to have interaction strategically with the Commission and its mechanisms (State periodic evaluate, Special Rapporteurs, communications, nation visits and many others.).
• Strengthen their sensible information in advocacy with the ACHPR by means of case research.
• Meet and study from defenders from throughout Africa engaged on a spread of human rights points by means of the NGO Forum.
• Advocate on their subject towards a variety of coverage-makers, resolution-makers and different stakeholders.

Costs

• Organisers will cowl the value of participation of all chosen candidates, which incorporates flights, lodging, and meals. They will discover the risk, topic to funding, to increase participation to extra folks and extra days for the session, however can’t assure it, so that they extremely advocate you to safe extra sponsorship.

Eligibility

• This coaching is directed at skilled African human rights defenders – from all the sub-areas – with an advocacy expertise of a minimum of 5 years at the nationwide degree, and who need to have interaction extra with regional human rights mechanisms.
• A selected focus might be given to contributors from the following international locations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cap Vert, Côte d’Ivoire, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Application

Each applicant should submit a accomplished application type, together with a reference letter completely different out of your present organisation and a CV. Only full functions might be thought of.

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For extra info, go to Training ahead of the African Commission’s 89th Session.