Dear members of AI London, Ana María and all my good friends, The problems that AI are facing in HRE are the same one that we have: if people do not use the skills immediately, then they tend to lose them; lack of funding; difficulties in sharing of materials etc. The question is what are the solutions. I fully agree that the Decade needs to continue because HRE is a long term process. However, in my opinion we should be much more precise on what we want to achieve in each region, in each country in the Second Decade. I have the feeling that we need to define our goals in much more precise terms, for example: how many teachers we will reach, how many governmental officers we will train, how many workshops we will run, how many materials we are going to produce and what should be the quality of the materials. What are the performance standards, indicators that will tell us that we have been successful during the Second Decade. Am I very ambitious or unrealistic? In this sense the recommendations that IIDH would like to make to strengthen HRE during the remainder of the Decade, and that Ana María has pointed out, are excellent, superb and very important. However, I might ask of how many states we want to ratify the international and regional instruments during the Decade? What are minimum standards relating to HRE? Can we write in much more operational way the recommendations in order to know in a much precise way, what does it mean: "progressively increase"; "to reformulate public policies, programs and plans related to HRE"; "to initiate awareness" etc. I do not want to be mean or nasty, neither to be pretentious or unrealistic. I might sound very "modern" and "globalistic". However, we are competing in a world (that we want to change) that requires to fix precise outcomes, to define indicators, to write down standards. Cariños Abraham Magendzo Chile new email: abrahamm@manquehue.net ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
[Reply to this message] [Start a new topic] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Author Index] [Subject Index] [List Home Page] [HREA Home Page]