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Prague Process Targeted Initiative

Pilot Project 4

Quality and Training in the Asylum Process

Sweden and Germany

The project is funded by the European Union

The project is funded by the European Union

Targeted initiative

• Four pilot projects 2012-14

• Now a top up from EC

• 600 000 euros

• Three new pilot projects

• 1 Nov 2014-31 Dec 2015

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Asylum & Int’l Protection

• Leading states

– Sweden and Germany

– ICMPD secretariat and Project logistics

– PP4 partners EASO & UNHCR

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Who

• 7 participating states

– Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgystan,

Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey

– Observing states: Russia, Western Balkans

– Peer partners from EU MS

• France, Belgium, UK,

Hungary, Poland, Germany

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Activity based project

• Inclusion module (in Russian + Turkish)

• Study visits

• Expert mission (TR)

• Country Specific Road map

– National training programme (’receipt’)

• PP Guidelines

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Training

• Inclusion module (in Russian + Turkish)

• TtT of 2 national trainers

• National training –

– By the 2 national trainers

– Coached by EU Expert trainers (SE, DE, PL)

• Participants varied, longer agenda in some

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Results

• Road maps on national future training

– Needs assessment of training needs

– Topics

– Format

• Very important reflection!

– For example: Professional development day

– Including also other actors (to have dynamic

group discussions)

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Road maps

• Draft Country specific road maps for mid-

term workshop

• Presented and discussed

• Redrafted for Final conference

= a ’receipt’

• tackling the issues and responsibilities

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Results – short version

• National trainers trained

• National Training programs (Road maps)

• Guidelines on Training in the Asylum

Process – Approaches to Achieve Quality

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Results

• Empowering thru national trainers

– Sustainable + multiplying effect

– Reflections from training + study visits =

Road map on training programme

• Guidelines on Training in the Asylum Process – Approaches to Achieve Quality

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Prague Process Guidelines on Training in the Asylum Process –

Approaches to Achieve Quality

Pilot Project 4

Quality and Training in the Asylum Process

Sweden and Germany

The project is funded by the European Union

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Why guidelines (the short answer)

• We have to process asylum applications

• Training on how to do this is a good idea

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Purpose of Guidelines

• Focus on the role of training

– in the work on quality and standards of a

national asylum process

• How training could be handled

– In long-term and sustainable manner

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National ownership

• National ownership of training program is

the important feature

• Active involvement of state authorities

– with possibility to cooperate with

organisations, other states, regional

cooperation etc

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Why training

• All countries that receive asylum seekers

in their territory

– Should ensure that staff in the asylum

process will be trained in the core elements

– To uphold national law and also international

obligations

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Purpose cont.

• How to develop training programs

– National program

– Responsibility of the authorities to develop

• Guide to assist the administration

– In developing training programs

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A training curriculum

– Enables the authority to be able to give each

staff member training

– Ensures repeated and same content of

training also to new staff members

– Ensures sustainability

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Continuous training

• Also for existing staff – why?

• Asylum claims change fast

– Ability to assess them correctly also needs to

be updated

– New reports of Country of Origin Information

(COI)

– Jurisprudence also evolving

• evolving standards of evidentiary assessment

including what constitutes a real risk of serious

harm

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Why training

• Well trained staff

– Able to work both fast and carefully

– Quality in decision making

– Added value for asylum seeker and staff

member and the administration per se

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Next pilot project – PP7

Quality in the Decision-making in the

Asylum Process

- Focus on Evidentiary Assessment, Due

Process and Jurisprudence

Leading states SE, DE

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Next pilot project PP7

• Concept of continuous training

– A product incl tools

– How to do it

– How to update

– Note for Facilitators

– In sum: Guidelines (on how to do continuous

training, needs based)

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Why

• Interactive seminars – the focus

• Experts =presenters + facilitators

• Approach of training-of-trainers

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Guidelines –Tools developed

• Interactive advanced seminars – to recycle

– Note for Facilitators of case studies sessions

• How - increasingly complex case studies

– Note on updating

• How to update on jurisprudence, and case law

• How draft new case studies

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Next pilot project PP7

• Active advanced seminars

– Short presentations on jurisprudence

Luxemburg and Strasbourg ++

Case studies sessions

– short in plenary – stages of assessment

– Longer cases in break-out sessions +

facilitators

– Plenary long discussion (1,5-2 hrs)

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