Trainings being held in seven cities for mentees within the framework of the project «Mentor-3. Peace and Trust: equal access to law enforcement agencies and Justice»

From February 16-25, 2016, the second training for mentees is being held in seven cities under The “Initiative of Roza Otunbayeva” IPF project “Mentor-3. Peace and Trust: equal access to law enforcement agencies and justice” with the support of the UNODC in partnership with the Ministry of Interior (MI) and the Kyrgyz Republic Association of Female Police Officers.

 

On February 16, 17, and 18, trainings took place in the southern region in the cities of Batken, Jalal-Abad and Osh. The trainings were attended by selected mentees who are upper class girls and boys of ethnic minorities, and project mentors who are female employees of the MI.

 

On February 19, 2016, a training will be held in Bishkek for the project beneficiaries, and on February 24 and 25 in Naryn and Karakol cities.

 

The trainers are Dogdurkul Kendirbaeva and Elmira Arapova who are experienced trainers on gender education, mediation, the interaction of the MI and civil society, human rights education of schoolchildren, critical thinking and other topics.

 

The purpose of the training is to improve critical thinking skills, and to develop self-reliance, leadership and communication skills of upper class students for future work in police departments and admission to the Police Academy.

 

Namely, it is planned that after the training, mentees will acquire basic presentation skills, learn to think critically, debate cogently and present positions, find common ground and establish and maintain relationships with people, and gain skills in teamwork and decision making.

 

The mentees will learn the concept of "gender" and common stereotypes of education for boys and girls; "law-abiding" and "law"; personal, social, and political rights; and the mechanisms of the origin of stereotypes and prejudices and their role in the event of intolerance.