Regional training for AI staff members across West-Africa in Dakar

Since 2013, Amnesty International has been undergoing a major process of reform to adapt to the dramatic changes in the world we operate in, and to increase the impact of our human rights work. A major element of this process is a shift from the International Secretariat in London as the base for research to a distributed centre and Regional Hubs of research, campaigns and communications. As a result, the PHRP also reviewed its current format of training and conducted in March 2014 a policing training for the first time in a newly created regional Hub – Dakar – not only for staff members from the Hub, but also for invited sections from the Western African Region. Eight Amnesty International sections participated in this francophone training: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and Tunisia. Beyond the learning exercise, the training also served to strengthen regional exchange, cooperation, and coordination within the Amnesty International movement.