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AF Organized Capacity Enhancement Training for Child Reform Home Staff
Participants in the training programme included child reform home chiefs, wardens, psychosocial counsellors, support staff, and AF's lawyers.
On the first day, AF's Director Bikash Basnet presented an overview of the organization's activities and delved into the details of juvenile justice and support to Child Reform Homes (CRH) across the country.
AF's Prevention of Torture Department Coordinator Kumar Prasad Thapaliya shared AF's works and achievements in the juvenile justice sector.
Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens Spokesperson Indu Ghimire gave a presentation on the Role of Government and departments concerned in managing child reform homes. She talked in detail about the existing practices, challenges, and way forward in CRH management. During this interactive session, Ghimire fielded the questions raised by the participants and gave them updates about the initiatives taken by the ministry to facilitate the smooth management of child reform homes across the country.
In the first session of the second day of the training, Joint Attorney at the Kathmandu District Attorney Office Chief Sandesh Shrestha gave a presentation on "Existing Laws, Practices, Challenges and Opportunities in Prosecuting the Cases of Juveniles". He talked in detail about case diversion and explained about the sensitivity to be adopted while prosecuting the case of juveniles.
In the second session, Dr. Mandira Sharma presented "Global Standards in Child Reform Home and Prison Management: International Laws and Practices under Juvenile and Prisoners' Rights". She also communicated about the observations she had made during her visits to certain CRHs across the country. In this interactive session, participants talked about the best practices being followed and the challenges encountered in the management of the respective CRHs.
The third session of the second day featured the presentation of Bidhan Khaniya, Programme Manager at the Secretariat of the Central Juvenile Coordination Committee (SCJCC). Khaniya talked about the "Role of SCJCC and other stakeholders concerned in Monitoring and Protecting the Rights of Juveniles". He informed that the SCJCC has proposed several progressive amendments to the Act Relating to Children to serve the best interest of the juveniles.
In the first session of the third day, Kamal Prasad Pandey, Director and Spokesperson at the Department of Prison Management gave a Google Meet presentation on the "Management, Logistics, and Security Concerns at CRHs: Current Problems and Ways to Mitigate Them". He especially focused on the need to manage CRHs in hostel model instead of the current practice of treating them as prisons.
The second and final session of the event featured group work under the supervision of AF's Director Bikash Basnet in which three different groups carried out discussion on actors mapping in the field of CRHs, problems in CRHs and the ways to solve them and participants' expectation from AF in supporting for the smooth facilitation of the CRHs. Each group leader presented their conclusions and an interaction followed afterwards.
Towards the end of the event, Birgunj CRH Chief Tika Krishna Kafle and Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens staff Kalpana Khanal Bhattarai talked about their impressions regarding the programme and urged AF to keep supporting the CRH.
The programme concluded with the filling out of the M & E form and the taking of a group picture.
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