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HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION FORUM
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION FORUM OF THE IHRC RFT AFRICA

The Human Rights Education Forum of the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is the apex higher education unit established by the IHRC. The unit has entered into agreements that facilitates building synergies and amplifying the contribution to SDGs in higher education training courses towards the award of Advanced Diploma, Bachelor’s Degree and Post Graduate Diploma in several courses that are geared towards socio-economic development in pursuit of the SDG agenda.

This Human Rights Education Forum works together with Educational institutions on academic mobility, commissioned joint research, staff and institutional capacity building, resource mobilization, and infrastructural development. The partner institutions of the forum undertakes various research projects and disseminate educational information and scientific research findings through workshops, conferences, seminars, multimedia channels and other dissemination avenues on mutually agreed terms. The partners have also agreed to work together to develop mutually acceptable proposals for the benefit of their stakeholders in Africa.

IHRC’s African countries Executive Council charged the Human Rights Education Forum to develop partner networks and strategic partnerships with Academic institutions of higher learning in African countries and overseas. Accordingly, the outfit is using method driven approaches in Human Rights Education to drive results through partnerships. The activities of the outfit has been endorsed as successful in the following areas:

  • Developing and implementing a partnership strategy to increase the reach and impact of our ongoing efforts in advancing IHRC’s Education programmes especially in diplomacy and other focus areas
  • Coordinating the management of ongoing relationships with existing partners and where relevant, leverage those relationships to greater collective impact
  • Conceptualizing new strategic initiatives that could be built around or benefit from corporate, foundation, government, bilateral organizations or other partnerships.
    In conjunction with members of the IHRC Africa Region HQ Executive Team and the broader IHRC Team, expand and diversify the funding base/pipeline to increase IHRC’s major initiatives and existing collaborations in Education
  • Driving a relationship management program to support partners and Government agencies
  • Developing and managing events in support of IHRC’s strategic initiatives in Human Rights Education
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to structure and execute academic initiatives, lead analysis and develop and communicate final recommendations for growing partner relationships
  • Developing systems and procedures in support of the identification, engagement and development of strategic partnerships.
  • Analyzing and tracking key metrics to identify trends and highlight issues in students needs and funding in the near to medium term time horizon (one to five years)
  • Projecting and promoting IHRC’s Education initiatives to new audiences and partners
  • Developing and manage reporting and financial tracking of strategic partnership activities
  • Provide timely and accurate reporting of strategic partnerships and management activities.

With the fore-stated commitment between the partners and this IHRC’s outfit, standard online academical courses based on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) are organized in the courses listed hereunder.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations in the World

Understanding International Relations Theory

International Organizations Management

Global Health and Management

Conflicts Resolution and Management

Human Rights and the Environment

Gender Matters

Integrated Planning for Climate Change and Biodiversity

Child Health and Wellness

Natural Disasters/Disaster Prevention Science

Medical Sciences and Surgery Assistance

Policy Development and Policy Implementation

Marine Biology and Water Resources Governance

Wrongful Conviction Prevention

and others…

The IHRC Africa Region HQ invites interested persons who see education as a key to the door of all dreams, to contact +234 803 596 3429. If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

NgIMUN (International Model United Nations) in Africa

NgIMUN is initiated to host several delegates from the the 5 continents in an insightful annual conference in an African city with both university level and secondary schools students participating in order to create and maintain a wider relationship with the Model United Nations community. Indeed the main aim is having a conference consisting of two equally large and prestigious parts – universities/secondary schools.

The Africa Region HQ of the IHRC RFT attracts partners and together with these partners ensure a primary focus on providing the most richest scale of committees during the NgIMUN sessions. Various strategies are applied to have some special commissions aside from the regular ones such as the International Criminal Court or the Historical Security Council during the NgIMUN conference.

In addition to the professional parts NgIMUN is designed therefore to highlight the semi-formal and the spare-time activities during the conference. The definite aim is to be sure that the delegations have every opportunity to get to know the host African destination, to get relaxed after the hardworking sessions and to have fun during building relations with other delegates. For this purpose many social events will take place during the NgIMUN.

The NgIMUN conference is consciously implemented under agreements entered into by the Human Rights Education Forum of the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC), the NgEducators Ltd and the Crown University International Chartered inc. IHRC RFT Africa Region HQ promotes this event on annual basis in Africa as it’s educational simulation in which students learn about diplomacy, international relations, and the United Nations. At an MUN conferences, students work as the representative of a country, organization, or person, and must solve a problem with other delegates from around the world.

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