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Poland Peacebuilding in Development Trainings February 2010 |
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Partners Poland Foundation, in cooperation with PDCI, conducted two 3-day trainings on “Mainstreaming Peacebuilding into Development Cooperation” in Warsaw in February 2010. The trainings were designed to introduce the concept and practice of peacebuilding and conflict-sensitive development work to development actors and practitioners within the framework of the international development cooperation of Poland and the EU. The trainings also addressed the issues of transitional justice, mediation, gender and human security, as cross-cutting themes that are increasingly important to understand and consider when developing, implementing and evaluating development interventions. The first training consisted of development students interested in learning more about how to become development practitioners. The training focused on developing greater cultural and conflict-sensitivity through interactive exercises and modules focused on conflict analysis from peacebuilding, gender, human security, mediation and transitional justice perspectives. The second training was aimed at development practitioners, and focused on knowledge sharing of development experiences and developing a more conflict-sensitive approach to development work by taking into consideration how development interventions are affected by, and can affect, conflict dynamics. Partners Poland also held a roundtable on February 26 in Warsaw with development and science NGOs and representatives of the Ministry of Development. The roundtable participants discussed Poland’s international development cooperation programme and specifically the relationship between the government and NGOs as implementing partners. Presentations were also held on defining “poverty” and development cooperation, and what this means in a changing world.
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