En tant que membre de The Commonwealth Equality Network, nous avons eu la chance de renforcer nos capacités en bénéficiant de sessions de formations sur diverses thématiques. Et pour certaines, de les faire partager à nos partenaires de la société civile.

Post-Legislative Scrutiny (Mars 2021. Depuis 2022 et 2023), by Grazia Careccia

Grazia Careccia is a senior international legal expert with 20 years of professional experience, a human rights defender and an activist. She has extensive experience in promoting and protecting human rights; Grazia’s legal knowledge covers both international human right law, in particular anti-discrimination, equality and LGBTQI+ rights, and international humanitarian law. As the lead consultant for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy’s Global Equality Project, she co-authored the report Post-Legislative Scrutiny: From a Model for Parliamentarians to a CSO Strategic and Operational Tool and piloted the toolkit in several Commonwealth countries. Grazia currently works for Amnesty International as Deputy Regional Director, MENA. She is also an academic visiting lecturer, advises several local and international organisations and is on the Board of Directors of Women for Peace, Justice & Equality.

Post-Legislative Scrutiny “PLS”

PLS is the practice used to monitor and evaluate the implementation of legislation, ensuring laws benefit constituents in the way originally intended by lawmakers. PLS is often carried out by parliamentary committees. During 2017-2018, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) started to explore how parliaments monitor the implementation of, and review, existing legislation through a series of programme activities around the world. WFD also developed a PLS guide for Parliaments to roll out PLS. A piloting session was organised with the KDI in March 2021 to explain PLS and the tools developed for CSOs with a view to gaining better understanding of PLS, its relevance for CSOs and the capacity and resource needed to integrate it in the programmes and strategies of CSOs.

Ongoing PLS sessions (2022 onwards) is being conducted with KDI in regards to using the PLS methodology and the developing a toolkit.

Trainers:
Marlon Thompson is a Technical Programme Officer at the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition. Marlon has more than 10 years of experience in the field of gender and development in various capacities and sits on the board of several community-based organisations and provided technical assistance to civil society throughout the Caribbean.

Joel Simpson is the Founder and Managing Director of SASOD Guyana – a leading LGBTIQ+ organisation in Guyana and the Caribbean. He is a renowned Guyanese and Caribbean expert in sexuality, gender, human rights, and health, with over 18 years of experience working in organisational leadership and management. He served as the UNESCO Human Rights Researcher at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago, and Human Rights Associate at the UNDP office in Guyana.

Trainers:
Akani Shimange has an expansive experience in research both academic and applied that has informed their advocacy for better protection and promotion of LGBT+ rights in South Africa and the broader advocacy in the African Continent. As a black, trans and nonbinary individual they are very intentional in doing research that encompasses all these identities. They worked/collaborated with such organisations as the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, Pan Africa ILGA, Gender DynamiX, among others.

Immaculate Mugo has over 8 years of experience working on HIV, SRHR and access to services for the most marginalised. She has an impressive practical and academic experience in research, advocacy, programme management, and monitoring, learning and evaluation (MEL). She worked/collaborated with various civil society organisations across Southern Africa, including with Accountability International, Gender DynamiX, and the Southern Africa Trans Forum.

Trainer:

Christa Soleyn is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 5 years’ experience in psychotherapy, education, and project management. She is skilled in diagnostic assessments, trauma informed therapy and individualised intervention design and has significant experience working with marginalised populations including survivors of domestic and sexual violence, teenage mothers, people in the LGBT+ community, persons living with HIV/AIDS, and sex workers. She currently serves as the Lead Psychologist for Student Support Services at The American University of Barbados and as the Chair of the Board of The United Youth Leaders of Barbados.

16 participants in Mauritius, benefited from the session.

Trainer:

Eric Gitari is a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at Harvard Law School and was a member of the International Bar Association LGBT Committee. He worked at the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Kenya and contributed to the adoption of the Resolution on the Protection of Persons based on their SOGI by the African Commission. He worked with the UN IE SOGI and the OHCHR on the human rights of LGBT persons.
Anthony Oluoch is a member of the Board of Directors for House of Rainbow and the IDAHOT Committee and works as a Policy Specialist: African LGBTI Networks at the UNDP. In the past, he worked at Pan Africa ILGA, the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, and was the Executive Director of Gay Kenya Trust. He also sat on the Queen’s Young Leaders Award advisory panel and assisted the Pan Africa ILGA and the East African Trans Health Advocacy Network with strategic planning.
6 participants benefited from their expertise in Mauritius.