(CARICOM Today) Guyana is one of five countries in CARIFORUM to benefit from an initiative to enhance its education sector to respond to school-based crime and violence at the primary level, through the institutionalisation of structured and coordinated after school activity clubs, titled Champions for Change Clubs (CCC).
At a workshop to be held from 23 to 27 September, in Georgetown, participants will benefit from necessary training for establishing and managing CCCs, including human resource management, CCC programme design, marketing, financing and budgeting, among other issues.
The training is a deliverable of the Crime and Violence Prevention component of the CARIFORUM–EU Crime and Security Programme under the Tenth European Development Fund. This programme’s approach to tackling crime and security focuses on drug demand and supply reduction, crime prevention, and social development, and capacity-building of law enforcement and security agencies.
The intervention is part of an overall strategy to reduce the incidence of violence in and out of school through engaging students and youth in the community in after-school programmes and building their capacity to effectively address youth crime and violence from a social perspective. The training programme covers life skills development, mentoring and parenting skills conducted by expert facilitators.
According to Project Manager, Louis Dodson, “the training will build the capacity of…
