HREA’s Director Felisa Tibbitts traveled to Beijing in June 2002 to assist the National Children’s Center in the development of a training manual on children’s rights. UNICEF is supporting this effort.
The National Children’s Center has already been active in training UNICEF-affiliated project staff in the content of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The training involves a multi-step process and a fieldwork-based documentation and analyses of children’ rights in community settings throughout China. The existing manual will be revised with the assistance of HREA and will lead to additional support for preparing regionally based staff in the use of the manual.
“The Chinese team is very dedicated and we work very well together. I am very excited to see how the new manual will work in regional settings next year,” said Ms. Tibbitts.