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Wageningen UR CDI Course: Rights based Approach to Food and Nutrition Security (5 February 2018 – 16 February 2018)
Deadline: 18 October 2017
The Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) is seeking applications for its short term course on “Rights based Approach to Food and Nutrition Security. The course duration is from 5 February 2018 – 16 February 2018 in the Netherlands.
This course aims at exploring the different concepts on rights-based approaches to food and nutrition security such as Right to Food and the Zero Hunger Challenge. It provides participants with knowledge and skills to strengthen the design and implementation of food and nutrition security programmes using a rights-based approach.
Course objectives
Upon completion of this course applicants will:
- have new insights about concepts and principles on human rights-based approach, Right to Food, Food and Nutrition Security and their interrelationships;
- understand the role of right holders, duty bearers and accountability agents and their main rights and obligations and responsibilities;
- have clear ideas for incorporating rights-based elements in interventions addressing food and nutrition insecurity;
- be better equipped to lobby and advocate for the Right to Food
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants should have a BSc or equivalent in the field of food and nutrition, home economics, agriculture, medicine or a related field, and have at least three years of professional experience related to the field of the course.
- Competence in the English language is necessary.
How to Apply
Applications can be accessed online through the website. Applicants must first have to create an account on the website and register themselves for the course.
Eligible Countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cuba, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Georgia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Zimbabwe.
For more information, please visit Rights based Approach to Food and Nutrition Security.