Housing Rights Training in Ghana
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Housing Rights Training
COHRE's training programmes are designed to empower individuals and groups, on
their own, to more effectively protect and promote economic, social and cultural rights
generally and the right to adequate housing in particular. The programmes emphasise
how to enforce the right to adequate housing and how to resist forced evictions using
international law.
Our training programmes are designed for a wide audience including community-based
groups, people in the legal sector or those in government. Non-governmental
organisations, housing rights activists, lawyers and judges, the homeless and public and
private sector tenants have all benefited from COHRE's training sessions.
The focus of the training programmes can change, depending on the background of the
audience or their particular needs. For example, training can be used to build the
capacity of participants to conduct their own training activities, as a means of promoting
awareness on housing rights or as the basis for pursuing legislative reform or judicial
remedies in support of housing rights.
There has been a growing demand for training on housing rights around the world,
spurred by the growing legal resources available allowing people to pursue their right to
adequate housing. Many participants in COHRE's training sessions have recognised the
gap between the housing rights obligations held by their governments and the scale of
housing deprivation in their countries, and use housing rights training to attempt to
reverse these trends.
COHRE's experienced training teams are recognised international experts in their fields
and have held training sessions throughout the world, including Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Finland, The Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, The Philippines, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, the Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, Uruguay, USA and Zambia.
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